Learning to Love You More is a project currently running at the Baltic in Gateshead until the 8th of March. The idea is that visitors to the Baltic (or the website www.learningtoloveyoumore.com) choose from a list of 70 assignments given by the artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. The list differs from the simple and obscure (assignment 12-Get a temporary tattoo of one of Morgan Rozacky's neighbours) to the extreme (assignment 31. Spend time with a dying person)
Each assignment requires the public to send in a report, be it a photo or written piece, to show they have accomplished the assignment and it is these reports that are placed on the website or at one of the many exhibitions worldwide.
The idea is that each person who takes part in these assignments has their own unique experiences in realising how simple creating something that can make you think can be if they think about their own lives.
It is my intention to complete as many of these assignments as possible, write about my experience of this and regularly update my blog depending on what assignments I completed. The main challenges that I can see is that a) I absolutely cannot draw or create anything which these assignments ask me to do and b) some assignments will be just too hard. For example assignment no 39. Take a picture of your parents kissing, my parents have been divorced for over ten years now and can't imagine they can be persuaded to kiss each other all in the name of 'art'.
The full list of assignments can be found on the website and will keep blogging any future assignments I complete from here on out.
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16 years ago
Evan, Evan, Evan,
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to get through all the assignments you must learn to think outside the box. Where in the assignment does it say they must be kissing each other?
Stretch your imagination and your assignments take on whole new light, meaning and dimension.
-Carol
Hey thanks, thanks a lot for the advice and I really am trying but Im not trying to complete all the assignments (I have a deadline its a university project, a bit of a cop out I know). On the subject of my parents, not only are they divorced but now live over 100 miles away from me since I left for uni. So you can see the added problems I have in completing that assignment, but do keep checking my progress and any further comments would be grateful.
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