5 24 10
Planning on posing this summer? A little recreational posing? Why not do it with the support of props designed just for this purpose. It might be a relief to have a some help in this department, after years of free-form (and let’s face it, often inaccurate) posing. For your convenience, eleven professional props will be installed in Union Square Park in New York, all summer. If you fill a little posing coming on, hurry over.
Eleven Heavy Things
Miranda July
May 29 - October 3, 2010
Center Lawn, Union Square Park
PRESENTED BY DEITCH PROJECTS AS ITS FINAL PUBLIC PROJECT.
THE WORK IS EXHIBITED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP AND NYC PARKS & RECREATION.
Label your photos “Eleven Heavy Things” and post them online so we can all see.
4 28 10
I’m sure you have read about Carl Jung’s Red Book. Jung (who invented Jungian psychology) wrote it 100 years ago, but think of it less like a book and more like your diary during the part of your life when you were going through such darkness you thought it would never end. Remember that?! You wrote in your diary a lot during that time because on some level you knew that each demon, each nightmare you survived was transforming you in a way that would always matter. The book is about how Jung recovers his soul, recovers meaning in his life through enabling the rebirth of the image of God in his soul. There are other red books (for example, I see that Enough is Enough by Karen Finley is also red) but this one was hidden away in a bank vault in Switzerland for the last quarter of century. And so we, Leonard Nimoy, Helen Hunt and I (What? You didn’t realize the three of us were a team?) are celebrating by having conversations with Jungian psychologists. I’m talking with John Beebe, next Wednesday at 7 the Hammer Museum. It’s free, and you should be too. See you there!
Which book is Jung’s Red Book? The one on top obviously!
2 3 10
Does Everyone Know About Crap Hound?
It’s a magazine made by Sean Tejaratchi. Each page of each issue is filled with high-contrast, public-domain images on a theme, like, for example, sex, or death, or telphones, or scissors. Sean’s home is filled with intricate file systems of all his amazing original source materials - ancient catalogs, obscure books, found things, etc . This stuff isn’t on the web; craphound both pre-dates and post-dates the internet. It’s larger and more profound than that. You can use it as clip art, or study it to try to understand who we are as a people. I especially like the introductions and credits pages. Sean has also designed zillions of album covers and books and posters - including this one:
And this one:
Anyway, the point being, now is a good time to discover Crap Hound. If you order it later you are just an ordinary person, but if you order it within the next 10 days, you become a HERO. (Also, let’s get real here, you probably can’t afford one of Jim Drain’s sweaters.)
1 20 10
I first heard of Jim Drain when my best friend, a waitress at the time, showed me a crazy present that one of her co-workers had given her. It was a 3D light-up heart made in the medium of CEREAL. I said, Woah, you should totally go out with this guy! Unforgivably, she didn’t. But that didn’t stop Jim Drain. He kept expressing his feelings and sending them in to the world:
These days we never think about the cerealheart, in fact he and I have never even discussed it and it may come as a surprise for him to read about it here.
But it comes to mind today, as I consider the many strange ways that Jim Drain has entered my life over the last decade (for example, what are Jim and I doing in this picture?)
Today we can all have a Jim Drain cerealheart, in the form of an amazing sweater. Actually, only thirty of us - I think he only made
thirty of these sweaters, but the point being, you don’t have to be a cute waitress working at the same restaurant as him because he’s not even working there anymore, obviously, since he’s a famous artist, and also because you can just get one of these sweaters, which are better, in a way, because you become the cerealheart when you put the Jim Drain sweater on. You become vulnerable and hilarious and lit from within.
Available now at www.openingceremony.us.
7 14 09
What was Joanie 4 Jackie? Shauna McGarry answers this question.
6 5 09
European holiday? Or perhaps you happen to live in Venice?
Come visit Eleven Heavy Things at the Venice Biennale.
It is eleven outdoor sculptures that I made for you to pose with — pedestals to stand on, tablets with holes for body parts, and free-standing headdresses.
Take a picture of yourself with a Heavy Thing and post it on your blog so the rest of us can see.
4 14 09
A 125 foot hallway - English in one direction / Japanese in the other.
From the Yokohama Triennale 2008.
(courtesy of Hara Museum)
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lolking on April 14, 2009:
Love this! Miranda July rulz!
meato5 on April 14, 2009:
This is what’s wrong with the world. I hate every fucking thing about her, I hate her hair.
brooklynhottie on April 14, 2009:
I don’t get it. Is this supposed to be funny?
mom1 on April 14, 2009:
That was just lovely honey, very moving. Hope it’s ok that i’m commenting on here!
thefonzerator on April 14, 2009:
Is that really Miranda July’s mom before me?! You’re daughter is pretentious scum, ho!
kelly on on April 14, 2009:
I saw this in Japan. It was one of the best things in the show, for definite.
milkfire on April 14, 2009:
message to thefonzerator, that is really rude talking to miranda july’s mom that way. think how you would feel if someone talked to your mom that way? you are the total opposite of miranda and could never understand her.
thefonzerator on April 14, 2009:
hey milkfire, you’re mom’s a ho too, and so are you! ever hear of freedom of speech??suck m0 ass.
jessup on April 14, 2009:
hey guys! if you like miranda jily you might want to check out my website www.girlzfilmbirdz.com! we’ll be at the santa barbara film festival june 19th! stop by!
stanknines on April 14, 2009:
anyone know when Where The Wild Thing Are is supposed to be released?
claymation on April 14, 2009:
I herd it was in october ( my cousin’s dad is a assistant voice-over editor on it.)
missydots on April 14, 2009:
i wish i could have walked down the hallway myself. art never translates in video, in my humble freakin’ opinion.
firenze on April 14, 2009:
I knew miranda july in high school when she was miranda grossinger. i don’t want to say her success is undeserved, but, uh, it’s undeserved.
queerone on April 14, 2009:
what’s up with all the haters?! why are you even on miranda july’s website if you hate her so much?! get a life!
3 24 09
A new and beautiful book of work by my favorite person.
Fri., March 27, 7:00pm
The Strand Bookstore, NY
Mike Mills in conversation with Tim Barber
10 16 08
You are really going to want to see this one, and now you finally can.
9 23 08
These are harrowing, inspirational days; I’m not sleeping well and neither is my friend Carrie Brownstein. So we got up, turned on the light and made a little website. Please share it.
9 6 08
YOKOHAMA 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art
Featuring many of our all time favorite artists, and a new art installation by Miranda July.
13 September - 30 November 2008 Central and Waterfront sites in Yokohama, Japan
Ticket Information
5 1 08
I made this for truck drivers and the blind, but you might enjoy it too. I tried to read it in a way that would make it impossible for you to not get me.
The new MGMT album, Oracular Spectacular, is also pretty enjoyable.
Which is the better album, mine or theirs? Well, if we are judging by length, mine is 5 hours long, so mine wins - but we might not have been judging by length. If judged by yellowness, I also win. But if judging by number of young men in feathers and scarves on the cover, I lose. (Unless you think of the word “Unabridged” as a young man?) I also lose on danceability.
It’s a tie. Go to iTunes and get them both.
4 20 08
3 30 08
What was Joanie 4 Jackie? Who was Big Miss Moviola?
These questions answered for the FIRST TIME in a brief, explanatory video and display of related materials, only at:
The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics
Yerba Buena Center for The Arts
Mar 29 – Jun 29, 2008
701 Mission St. at Third
San Francisco, CA
Also on view, work by: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrea Bowers, Nao Bustamante, Tammy Rae Carland, Vaginal Davis, Eve Fowler with Math Bass, Deborah Grant, MK Guth, Taraneh Hemami, LTTR, Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy, Aleksandra Mir, Laurel Nakadate, Shinique Smith, and more.
3 20 08
2 4 08
And While We’re On The Topic, I Am Voting For Barack Obama.
I’d like to think all the people who follow my work are radical, political firecrackers. But those of you who are don’t need any encouragement from me. Instead I will focus my efforts on the demographic who, like me in 1996, feels completely disconnected from life, nevermind their country. I’m hoping that there aren’t very many of you, in this day and age. You people are hard to encourage, because all the political arguments will mean nothing to you. I just spent the last hour typing up my case for Obama, but you won’t even read it, you’ll skip ahead to something that seems subtler or less cliche, I know you. (And those of you who will read it, who are perhaps torn between Obama and Clinton, are well tended to by better writers.) So nevermind all that.
Here’s why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to look at all the weird school-art and feel the eerie vibe of hundreds of kids living their endless kid lives right nearby. Then you follow the arrows to the voting room and look at the faces of the volunteers - who are these people? There is a hush of secrecy, the voting booth is clunky, the whole thing seems fake somehow. You consider filling in all the bubbles, like you did on the SATs. But you don’t. You vote. You walk back outside feeling like you just gave blood or something, lightheaded from citizenry. You are wearing a sticker that says “I Voted” and you wish you could continue to get stickers like this throughout the day: I Ate Dinner, I Went To Sleep, I Got Out Of Bed, I Went To Work.
But alas, it is just this one thing that we all do together, savor it.
I tried to find an easy link for you to locate your polling place, but the best thing to do is just type the name of your city + “where do I vote” into google. If you’re not registered, then you might not be able to vote in the primaries, but register right now so you can vote in November.
pps: non-american readers: sorry. for everything. we are working on it.
11 29 07
Parisians, our time has come.
Les Éditions Flammarion et colette vous invitent à rencontrer Miranda July à l’occasion de la parution d’“Un bref instant de romantisme”, avec la participation d’Audrey Diwan, le 13 décembre de 18 h à 20 heures. Cocktail le 13 décembre 2007 de 18 h à 20 h chez colette 213, rue Saint-Honoré 75001 Paris
www.colette.fr
Réservations : Charlotte Ajame
01 40 51 33 85 - cajame@flammarion.fr
(Everyone else: this is just the same yellow book of stories that maybe you already have. But wouldn’t it be cool if i had written a whole new book? In French no less!)
09 29 07
Please come to our very small celebration of the new book!
Learning To Love You More
Curated by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher
Book Launch and Exhibition
October 6th - 26th
Opening Saturday, October 6th, 6-9pm
the journal Gallery
168 North 1st St.
Brooklyn, NY
11211
www.thejrnl.com
www.learningtoloveyoumore.com
Drawing by Cindy Rehm of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in response to Learning To Love You More assignment #18: Recreate a poster you had as a teenager.
9 14 07
The New Yorker Festival
Miranda July and A. M. Homes have a conversation about Deviants
Friday, October 5, 9:30 P.M.
Anthology Film Archives ($25)
And lots and lots of other writers talking about other things.
Tickets will go on sale at noon on September 15th through Ticketmaster.
(And if it’s sold out, remember that 10 percent of the seats to all events will be sold on October 5, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues).
MJ will sign books on Saturday, October 6 at 2pm at Festival Headquarters.
(above photo: Monnica Lewis, a fan of A.M. Homes)
