Learning to Love You More
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The best of the groundbreaking website learningtoloveyoumore.com, which asks ordinary people to complete out-of-the-ordinary assignments--with extraordinary results. In a world obsessed with "reality" programming, the...
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The best of the groundbreaking website learningtoloveyoumore.com, which asks ordinary people to complete out-of-the-ordinary assignments--with extraordinary results. In a world obsessed with "reality" programming, the collaborative public art project known as "Learning to Love You More" offers a refreshing take on how actual people think, act, and love. Created by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, the web-based project, begun in 2002, offers more than sixty "assignments" that can be completed by anyone: "Write the phone conversation you wish you could have"; "Photograph two strangers holding hands"; "Draw a constellation from someone's freckles"; "Take a flash photo under your bed." Completed assignments are posted on the web site; to date, more than 5,000 people have participated in the project--artists and non-artists of all ages, from New York to Cullowhee, North Carolina, and from Tel-Aviv to Rio de Janeiro. For this book July and Fletcher have carefully curated a provocative selection of the most memorable submissions. These written and visual responses range from shocking and moving to hilarious and oddly brilliant. Together they create a pop culture collage that tells a larger story about life today. The result is an engaging, heartwarming, idea-sparking book sure to inspire, teach, and entertain. About the Author Miranda July is a filmmaker, performance artist, actress and writer. Her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know received a special jury prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. July's short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, and Zoetrope. Her first book of short fiction, No One Belongs Here More than You, was published in spring 2007. Harrell Fletcher's work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center in New York City, the Seattle Art Museum, the Royal College of Art in London, and at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher is currently associate professor of art at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
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