(please watch the video of the installation The Hallway by Miranda July first)
Me, You, and Everyone We Know writer/director/star Miranda July created a 125 foot hallway art installation for the 2008 International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, Japan. The Hallway is a meditation, the expectations, hopes and realities of life. If you haven’t seen any of July’s prior art work or films, be warned, Miranda’s work is an acquired taste.
The installation; The Hallway is melancholy at it best. Some might consider it the visual soundtrack to their life, others will dismiss it as mindfuckery for the intellectual hipsters. I found it quite confrontational, awkward at a few moments. Yet, I was hypnotized and after five minutes and some, all I could murmur was…yes, she’s right. Perhaps, her next 300 ft installation should explore ‘how to free oneself out of the hallway’, maybe then I might not feel like it is time to visit a life coach :).