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30/6/2013

For On the Tip of My Tongue

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

We Think Alone
A project by Miranda July

20 e-mails over
20 weeks from the
Sent mail folders of:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lena Dunham
Kirsten Dunst
Sheila Heti
Etgar Keret
Kate and Laura Mulleavy
Catherine Opie
Lee Smolin
Danh Vo

I’m always trying to get my friends to forward me emails they’ve sent to other people — to their mom, their boyfriend, their agent — the more mundane the better. How they comport themselves in email is so intimate, almost obscene — a glimpse of them from their own point of view. WE THINK ALONE has given me the excuse to read my friends’ emails and the emails of some people I wish I was friends with and for better or worse it’s changed the way I see all of them. I think I really know them now. But our inner life is not actually the same thing as our life on the computer — a quiet person might !!!! a lot. A person with a busy mind might write almost nothing. And of course while none of these emails were originally intended to be read by me (much less you*) they were all carefully selected by their authors in response to my list of email genres — so self-portraiture is quietly at work here. Privacy, the art of it, is evolving. Radical self-exposure and classically manicured discretion can both be powerful, both be elegant. And email itself is changing, none of us use it exactly the same way we did ten years ago; in another ten years we might not use it at all. Thank you to Kareem, Kirsten, Sheila, Danh, Lee, Etgar, Kate, Laura, Lena and Catherine for their daring and diligence.

– Miranda July

*All emails were written prior to the start of this project.

WE THINK ALONE was comissioned by Magasin 3 for a show called On The Tip of My Tongue. It only exists in your inbox, where a themed compendium of ten emails will arrive each Monday, from July 1 – November 11, 2013.

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.

On the Tip of My Tongue
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
July 1, Aug 8, Sep 13

On the Tip of My Tongue is a series of events and unique projects as well as an exhibition in the usual sense. It includes artworks that point away from the site of the exhibition itself, towards other virtual or parallel existences and experiences. Its intention is to actively expand the structures that surround the usual exhibition situation, and deliberately work with the artworks included, so as to unfix or destabilize the categories of time and space. It aims to trigger situations and experiences that linger as if “just out of reach,” to generate encounters that keep growing – in thought and through conversation – long after each actual event has ended.

Curators:
Richard Julin is Deputy Director and chief curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall.
Tessa Praun is curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall.

Press contact
Lisa Boström Ph +46 8 545 680 40, Cell +46 70 772 87 22, bostrom@magasin3.com

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Frihamnen SE – 115 56 Stockholm Sweden
Opening hours:
Thursday 11am–7pm
Friday–Sunday 11am–5pm
Closed: Monday – Wednesday.
Admission: SEK 60
Students and seniors: SEK 40

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