Hasta La Ideas

If you’ve been in New York’s Union Square Park anytime since this past long weekend, undoubtedly you’ve noticed the installation that’s recently gone up. It’s “Eleven Heavy Things,” the artist/writer/filmmaker Miranda July‘s sculpture project that she made for last year’s Venice Biennale as part of the group show “Making Worlds.” The now Deitch-less Deitch Projects helped organize an effort to bring it to New York, where it just went up late last week. The sculptures feature heavy things, of course, with writing on them, as well as objects to step into, to rise just above your head (they’re difficult to describe, but because it’s Miranda July, you’re probably already guessing that they’re all slightly cute and cartoonish). Art Info got the opportunity to sit down with July and ask her a bit about bringing it to New York. Here’s a bit:

Were other venues discussed?

Washington Square in New York was first discussed. Which, actually, has a graveyard underneath it. You can’t dig very easily. There are bones. A number of other parks were presented and this seemed clearly like the best one. The great fear is that you’re going to make a park worse. A park’s pretty good to begin with — you don’t want to mess it up. Luckily, I think the installation is pretty delicate. It doesn’t overtake the park.

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