(Credit: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall)
Ever wish you could peek inside someone else’s e-mail inbox? Say, your boss’? Your girlfriend’s? Lena Dunham’s?
Actually, you can (well, Dunham’s, at least).
For the next several months, performance artist, actor, and director Miranda July is giving the world a look at private e-mails written by celebrities, including the star of “Girls”; NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; actress Kirsten Dunst; and Israeli writer Etgar Keret.
The project, called “We Think Alone,” aims to explore the way people present themselves in online communication and how that may or may not differ from their non-digital personae.
“I’m always trying to get my friends to forward me e-mails they’ve sent to other people — to their mom, their boyfriend, their agent — the more mundane the better,” July — who’s probably best known for directing and starring in the film “Me and You and Everyone We Know” — writes on the project page. “How they comport themselves in e-mail is so intimate, almost obscene — a glimpse of them from their own point of view.”
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