Learning To Love You More
Yesterday I posted about one of my favorite films of all time, “You And Me And Everyone We Know
As mentioned previously, July is a multi-talented artist and one of her most public pieces of work is a website called Learning To Love You More (www.LearningToLoveYouMore.com)
It is difficult to describe exactly what the site is an how it works, so let me take the description straight from the source:
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 5000 people have participated in the project.
The best way to get a feel for the site is to visit it and search around. At first you may think it a little strange, but as you delve deeper into it’s content, you’ll begin to realize just how special this website truely is.
The website is so popular that July has taken it around the world, exhibiting the site and its many artifacts in museums of all shapes and sizes.
Just recently the best of the material from the website was comprised in a book with the same name - Learning To Love You More
Check out the website and let me know what you think!
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