In the future, Miranda July, who is a filmmaker, performance artist, musician, and writer, Aquarius, webmaster and blogger, would like to be better at not making things. "I've been such a like, worker bee since I was 16 that I'm starting to realize that oh, it's not like this stops at some point, especially if you don't know how to do anything else, so I'm feeling like that gets to happen soon, or I'm working towards that." It's not going to be easy.Lately, she's been busy promoting her second remarkable film, The Future, in interviews with people like us, at festivals, and on the busiest place of all, the Internet. The latter is a familiar – and sometimes uncanny – space for July: she purchased mirandajuly.com in the late 90s (and festooned it with "artistic scribbles"), launched a wonderful collaborative art project-turned-website, Learning to Love You More, in 2002, and, through her artwork and films, explored the peculiar intimacies and estrangements that come with life online. In Me You and Everyone We Know, an affair between a haughty museum curator and an imaginative 10-year-old begins in a sex chat room; in The Future, the web looks more like a pressure cooker, a discomforting window on the world and a burden for the artist."The obvious negative is that it makes it harder to make art, harder to have new ideas, because the new ideas come out of kind of the unknown and the spaces where you don't know what to do with yourself," says the real-life July. "And now I tend to just go online when I don't know what to do with myself instead of enduring not knowing. So that impact on art is pretty much bad."Read the full article on Motherboard.tv.
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