performance
The whole time I’ve been building my audience I’ve also been trying to unbuild the walls that come with having an audience, with having power. The whole point is to be able to feel more, to connect more, and yet in some ways having power runs at cross-purposes to this. Maybe I feel more just by sitting with a friend. And can I make a career, as a filmmaker and performer, that makes this sitting-with-a-friend feeling more possible, for each member of the audience and for myself? Yes! I say yes.
“Miranda July,” interviewed by Rachel Kushner, BOMB magazine, Issue 92, Summer 2005.
My first big gigs were opening a show for Frank Zappa and I think that was difficult. I was kind of like the rectal thermometer for the audience.
Interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, NPR, originally aired May 21, 2002.
I have been performing a long time, and I can tell when the audience’s attention is straying. I do not need a note.
“The Art of Interruption,” The New York Times, December 4, 2010.