Bjork remains fascinating in part because she is so undefinable.
A cultural curator with stunning insight, the Icelandic singer's ability to veer from sound to sound within the overarching narrative of her career marks her out as one of the finest artists of her generation.
New York's MoMA ran a full retrospective last year, and published a series of pamphlets which built up into Bjork: Archives.
Dazed Digital are able to share the contents of one such booklet – correspondence between Bjork and the philosopher Timothy Morton. The pair aim to uncover what 'ism' can define Bjork's career – the observations both make are truly fascinating.
Bjork: “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 …..“
Check out the emails HERE.
