Björk Shares Her Personal Emails With Philosopher Timothy Morton

Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Björk Shares Her Personal Emails With Philosopher Timothy Morton

Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Following the disintegration of her long-term romantic relationship with Matthew Barney, Björk opened up her heart to the world through her new album Vulnicura, a MOMA museum exhibit, and several visual works and videos. These pieces filtered her agony and grief through audio and visual lenses, but now she’s shared a series of more philosophical emails between herself and philosopher Timothy Morton. You can read a selection from the cycle of correspondence over at Dazed, who also got a statement from Björk about the exchange:

last year i reached out to the philosopher timothy morton to see if he would be interested to start a dialogue with me, to search for a definition of me and my friends’ stance in this world, which i felt his writing came very close to already. of course i’m still searching but this email chat of ours got pretty close and we shared a couple of coordinates trying to define what “ism” a pop musician from iceland would be …..

The emails will also be published in a separate booklet as part of the Bjork: Archives series.

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