Would you like to read an email by someone you wish you were friends with? Or whom you may admire? Stalk on twitter?
Writer, actor and performance artist, Miranda July, has started an art project called WE THINK ALONE. What it involves is Miranda forwarding emails from a selected few influential and well-known creatives, right to your personal inbox. Each email is a private window into the inboxes of those you may never have thought you would encounter. There is no promise of juicy topics or sneakpeaks into upcoming Girls episodes…actually, the emails are more likely to center on the mundane, every-day communications of people you don’t know. But that’s one of the focuses of the art project, that is, to show “How they comport themselves in email is so intimate, almost obscene — a glimpse of them from their own point of view.”
You can sign up here to receive the first round of emails on the 1st of July, 2013.
The emails will belong to the following collaborators:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American writer, filmmaker, and the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
Lena Dunham is an American filmmaker, writer and actress. Her HBO series, Girls, begins its third season next year.
Kirsten Dunst is an American actress. She won the Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival for her role in Melancholia in 2011.
Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer. Her most recent book, How Should a Person Be?, was called by Time “among the most-talked-about books of 2012.
Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer and filmmaker and a recipient of the Chevalier Medallion of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent book is Suddenly, a Knock on the Door.
Kate and Laura Mulleavy, sisters, are American fashion and costume designers. They founded Rodarte in 2005.
Catherine Opie is an American photographer and a Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the 2013 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute’s Excellence in Photography Award.
Lee Smolin is a Canadian/American theoretical physicist. His book, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to The Future of the Universe, was published earlier this year.
Danh Vo is a Danish-Vietnamese contemporary artist and the latest recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize. He currently has a solo exhibition at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and participates in this year’s Venice Biennale.
