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Learning To Love You More
Hello,
Sometimes it is a relief to be told what to do. We are two artists who are trying to come up with new ideas every day. But our most joyful and even profound experiences often come when we are following other people´s intructions. When we are making crepes from a recipe, attempting to do a handstand in yoga class, or singing someone else´s song. Sometimes it seems like the moment we let go of trying to be original, we actually feel something new - which was the whole point of being artists in the first place. With this revelation in mind we founded the website Learning To Love You More in 2002. Visitors to the website are invited to accept an assignment, complete it by following the instructions, and send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc.). The report is then posted online by our collaborator, Yuri Ono. (you can read all the assignments and instructions in the back of this book) We tried to come up with assignments that we would want to do ourselves; often they came directly out of our personal lives or art practice. Five years later there are more than five thousand reports on the site.
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Harrel Fletcher & Miranda July
May 2007
(taken from the book Learning To Love You More by Harrel Fletcher & Miranda July)
Sometimes it is a relief to be told what to do. We are two artists who are trying to come up with new ideas every day. But our most joyful and even profound experiences often come when we are following other people´s intructions. When we are making crepes from a recipe, attempting to do a handstand in yoga class, or singing someone else´s song. Sometimes it seems like the moment we let go of trying to be original, we actually feel something new - which was the whole point of being artists in the first place. With this revelation in mind we founded the website Learning To Love You More in 2002. Visitors to the website are invited to accept an assignment, complete it by following the instructions, and send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc.). The report is then posted online by our collaborator, Yuri Ono. (you can read all the assignments and instructions in the back of this book) We tried to come up with assignments that we would want to do ourselves; often they came directly out of our personal lives or art practice. Five years later there are more than five thousand reports on the site.
(...)
Harrel Fletcher & Miranda July
May 2007
(taken from the book Learning To Love You More by Harrel Fletcher & Miranda July)
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