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MIRANDA JULY PRESENTATION, FILM

FEATURED AT CC’S CORNERSTONE ARTS WEEK

Autobiographical ‘Lost Child!’ is Keynote Event

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Jan. 11, 2017 –Acclaimed filmmaker, artist and writer Miranda July will be the keynote speaker at Colorado College’s Cornerstone Arts Initiative, an annual event that features a week of thematically related art, performances, lectures, films and discussions. Started in 2002, Colorado College’s Cornerstone Arts Initiative examines a theme —posed in the form of a question — and explores that theme through a variety of artistic media. This year’s theme, “Is it Me, For a Moment?” explores interdisciplinary connections during a weeklong series of events, which run Jan. 30 through Feb. 3.

July will present “Lost Child!”, an autobiographical talk in which she discusses the making of books, shoes, friends, movies, performances and personal protection devices at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1 at the Celeste Theatre in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave. With moments of interactive performance, video clips and short readings, “Lost Child!” explores the inner world of one of today’s most original artists, from her earliest work as a fledgling artist in Portland, Oregon, to her current successes and tribulations. July’s presentation is free and open to the public.

The week’s events also include a screening of “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” July’s first feature-length film (2005) which she wrote, directed and stars in. The film won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or.
Events kick off on Monday, Jan. 30 with an opening reception for “After Before,” a photo exhibit by JoAnn Verburg that addresses the perils and seductions of consumerism, using the canals of Venice as a locus. Verburg investigates a global issue — the pollution of the world’s water systems — through a close examination of detritus found in a single location.

New to the Cornerstone Arts Week line-up this year is a student-curated event titled “Moment to Moment: A Student Art Experience.” The one-night exhibition, curated by Sophie Capp, a senior majoring in Film and Media Studies, includes student artwork ranging from installation to performance to photography.

July joins a long line of renowned Cornerstone Arts Initiative keynote speakers, including Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Pinsky, Art Spiegelman, Maz Jobrani, Camille Paglia, Sandra Bernhard, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Jane Krakowski, Toni Morrison and Amy Tan.

July’s videos, performances and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. Her most recent film is “The Future,” which she wrote, directed and stars in. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, “No One Belongs Here More Than You,”won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in 20 countries. Her latest book, “It Chooses You,” was published in2011 and her novel, “The First Bad Man,”published in January 2015, became an immediate New York Times bestseller.

In 2000 July created the seminal participatory website, “Learning to Love You More,” with artist Harrell Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007; the work is now in collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She designed Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden, for the 2009 Venice Biennale; it also was presented in New York and Los Angeles. Her email-based artwork, “We Think Alone,” was launched in July 2013 with nearly 100,000 subscribers.

The complete 2017 Cornerstone Arts Week schedule:

Monday, Jan. 30

  • 5:30-7 p.m., Opening Reception for “After Before” featuring a panel discussion with artist JoAnn Verburg in conversation with CC faculty members. IDEA Space and Cornerstone Arts Center Main Space, 825 N. Cascade Ave. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Jan. 31

  • 12:15-1:30 p.m., Lunch and Conversation with JoAnn Verburg, featuring a conversation with acclaimed photographer Verburg, IDEA Curator Jessica Hunter-Larsen and Professor of Philosophy Jonathan Lee. Lunch provided; reservations required at Gaylord Hall, first floor of the Worner Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave.; $15.
  • 5:30-7 p.m., “Moment to Moment: A Student Art Experience” curated by Sophie Capp, a Colorado College senior. This is a one-night event featuring installation, time-based and other works by CC student artists. All works and experiences will be housed in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave.; free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Feb. 1

  • 12:15-1 p.m., Music-at-Midday featuring “Moments Musicales.” Packard Hall, 5 W. Cache La Poudre St.; free and open to the public.
  • 7:30 p.m., Keynote event with Miranda July presenting “Lost Child!” Celeste Theatre, Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave.; free and open to the public.

Thursday, Feb. 2

  • 7:00-8:45 p.m.,Film screening of “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” directed, written by and starring Miranda July. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room, 825 N. Cascade Ave.; free and open to the public.

Friday, Feb. 3

  • 5:30-7 p.m., Critical Karaoke, “The Who, Quadrophenia, and Others: Is It Me For A Moment?” featuring CC professors Ryan Banagale (music), Idris Goodwin (theatre) and Steven Hayward (English) with music, insight and banter. Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room, 825 N. Cascade Ave., free and open to the public.

About Colorado College

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