including in a few frames of the artist’s 2018 video work THE ANTI ECSTATIC MACHINES
which she appropriated as scenarios
All monsters need feeding
Drawing on an archive of suicide notes
As the artist states in the introduction: “This book as a finished product will have a material permanence that contradicts the actual impermanence of the art-work
Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy including in a few framesPilot Press, 2025, softcover, 355 pages, 13 x 19 cm Practicing Dying is a literary anti memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental illness. Broken and severely unwell, our protagonist arrives at the monastery from London: starving, drug addicted and disillusioned, having exhausted every conventional treatment route