here & now

Miranda July’s work is often funny, but it is a dark, gallows humor, unafraid to confront death, perversion, loneliness, alienation, and emptiness. (In the first scene of her brilliant film Me and You and Everyone We Know, a man sets his own hand on fire.). In 2008, she created a 125 foot hallway art installation for last year’s International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, Japan. The Hallway (courtesy of Hara Museum) – a 125 foot hallway, English in one direction and Japanese in the other – is a “meditation exercise” about the expectations, hopes and realities of life. Enjoy the documentation and also our mono.kultur issue #16 with this really unique and fascinating artist.