Miranda July
Miranda July is an American filmmaker, performance artist, actress, screenwriter, and author born on 15 February 1974, whose practice spans an unusually wide range of creative forms.
Educated at The College Preparatory School and later at the University of California, Santa Cruz, July has worked across film, fiction, video art, music, and live performance. Her work in cinematography adds yet another dimension to a practice that resists easy categorization. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her creative output, and was included in Time magazine's Time 100 list.
July's body of work encompasses film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations, and live performance art — forms that she moves between with apparent fluency. The recurring throughlines across these modes are the personal and the performative: the monologue as a unit of expression, the live event as a site of meaning, and digital presentation as an extension of both. Her output in English draws fiction and performance into close proximity, treating each as a way of inhabiting a voice or a situation rather than simply describing one.
Quotes by Miranda July
Miranda July's insights on:
Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.
I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.
I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'
I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I'm not alone. I think that's the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself - some sort of context of other women making things.
