Learning to love you more
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Learning to Love You More (abbreviated LTLYM) is a crowdsourcing
project created in 2002 by Miranda July
and Harrell Fletcher
and website created by Yuri Ono as an artistic piece where participants adhere to assignments posted and upload their work. Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc.), and see their work posted on-line. It is a series of museum exhibitions, radio broadcasts and a web blog "intended to guide people towards their own experience." It is an ever changing piece of art spanning the physical, digital and emotional ranges of everyday people.
There is no permanent exhibition of Learning to Love You More. Passed presentations have been at The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Unfortunately, the authors of the project have discontinued their work with and ending assignment of "Goodbye". It lasted from 2002-2010. Since the beginning of the project, over 8,000 people have contributed.
The contributions to Learning to Love You More were not edited, and very few were rejected, leading to a wide variety of different approaches to the assignments and an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant's documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. This participatory approach to art that invites one to experience it in ways other than merely observing it is similar to the message of Augusto Boal
in his Theater of the Oppressed.
Andrea Grover
, practitioner in crowdsourced art, participated in Learning to Love You More because she "wanted to be a part of that community." The appeal of LTLYM, and crowdsourced art in general, according to Grover, is the satisfaction that is attained through working in a community.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
project created in 2002 by Miranda July
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
and Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher is an American artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects.-Early work:While completing his degree at California College of Arts and Crafts, Fletcher began collaborating with artist Jon Rubin...
and website created by Yuri Ono as an artistic piece where participants adhere to assignments posted and upload their work. Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc.), and see their work posted on-line. It is a series of museum exhibitions, radio broadcasts and a web blog "intended to guide people towards their own experience." It is an ever changing piece of art spanning the physical, digital and emotional ranges of everyday people.
There is no permanent exhibition of Learning to Love You More. Passed presentations have been at The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Unfortunately, the authors of the project have discontinued their work with and ending assignment of "Goodbye". It lasted from 2002-2010. Since the beginning of the project, over 8,000 people have contributed.
The contributions to Learning to Love You More were not edited, and very few were rejected, leading to a wide variety of different approaches to the assignments and an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant's documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. This participatory approach to art that invites one to experience it in ways other than merely observing it is similar to the message of Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements...
in his Theater of the Oppressed.
Andrea Grover
Andrea Grover
Andrea Grover is a migrant curator, artist, and writer. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Syracuse University and was a Core Fellow in residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston...
, practitioner in crowdsourced art, participated in Learning to Love You More because she "wanted to be a part of that community." The appeal of LTLYM, and crowdsourced art in general, according to Grover, is the satisfaction that is attained through working in a community.