I’m a bit late to the Miranda July train. I saw her amazing movie “Me, You and Everyone We Know”. I am eagerly anticipating the moment I have a job and can purchase for myself her delightful collection of short stories. I just received the book that goes along with her phenomenal earlier work “Learning to Love You More”. Please see the site.
What Ms. July has done is compiled a list of simple assignments and offered them to the world. She collected her findings on the site above and then trotted the results around the world to various museums and other venues. I saw this first at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The book just came out and it is beautiful. There’s a lot of trite crap I could say about it and a lot of studenty I’ve-taken-an-art-crit-class-and-now-I’m-smart things I could say as well. I will avoid all those cliches. I am not nearly as knowledgeable about art as I could be and my musings will be nothing more than regurgitations of what others have said about Miranda July and about the kind of work she does. I simply ask you to look at the website. Do one of the assignments. She is really great. She is really fucking great.
I think I’m going to do this. I’m going to do some of these assignments, the little ones, the ones that I have time for and I will send them in to the site and I will also cross-post them here. I’ve got to do something with myself. I’ve cried twice looking at the book. This can only be a good thing.
Misadventures. 