Event Listing - Literary Arts
Wed Nov 7, 2007

Celebrating the release of Learning to Love You More:

Miranda July

with Harrell Fletcher

Location
Date and Time
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133 map
cross street: Broadway
district: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

Wed Nov 7, 2007 (7pm)

Description
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.