NARRATOR: 

Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry, take a picture of your parents kissing, make an encouraging banner… 

HARRELL FLETCHER: 

The website is a series of assignments that Miranda and I came up with.  

NARRATOR: 

Artist Harrell Fletcher on his collaboration with Miranda July.  

FLETCHER: 

Over this seven-year period, we came up with a total of seventy assignments. All of the assignments were made available to the general public who had access to the internet, to respond to by following the instructions of the assignment, and then turning back into the website what we referred to as a report.  

One of the things that was so amazing about it to me was that we got almost instant feedback. So we could come up with an idea that we thought would be interesting, like, What would happen if we asked people to take a picture of their parents kissing? You know. Like, wouldn’t that be interesting to see an archive of that? But it was just an idea. 

And then we would put it on the website, and a week later the archive would exist, you know, because people were responding to it.  

MIRANDA JULY: 

And I think for me, it was one of the— my most favorite things I ever did…  

NARRATOR: 

Miranda July. 

JULY: 

…because It was like, in the simplest sense, all I really wanna do as an artist is put something out and get something back, you know? And like, have a real feeling of connection. And like, you come up— I mean, gosh, the— the complicated ways I come up with to do that, laborious and complicated. And this was, in fact, the simplest thing I’d ever thought of, you know?