Miranda July with Jay Benedicto: Services ’s latest book was conceived are as unique as a lunar eclipse, or some other celestial phenomenon requiring an unlikely and impossibly elaborate set of events to be perfectly aligned. While July’s entire body of work is suffused with an extraordinary and, at times, surreal magic – including her debut novel,[2020] – this latest project by the acclaimed filmmaker, artist and writer is hung on a uniquely unexpected architecture.
The whole time I’m paying her, like I would pay anyone for their labour, but also a relationship is growing – such that we became vulnerable to each other and sometimes pissed each other off and then recovered, through conversation. But this was built into the project. To collaborate, we would each have to contend with a reality that was completely unfamiliar to us, and so biases were unavoidable.
ED: When you began corresponding with her over message, did you have any idea of this becoming a book? How did you see it evolving?to create a new work for their. Each year, they invite an artist to do this, and past artists include Sophie Calle and Maurizio Cattelan. MJ: It’s not like everything and everyone interests me, but I guess I’m generally willing to go out on a limb when my instincts suggest it. And a certain amount of time this is rewarding and I learn something and then after many, many years of living like this I find I’ve sort of cultivated it as a practice. But see, I don’t love being tied to any particular way, so even this self-assessment feels like a trap. Which maybe indicates that I’m driven by a need for freedom more than curiosity.
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