Somebody – Miranda July

It’s a sad fact of modern life that all this time spent staring at screens in order to communicate has the adverse effect of stopping us from actually communicating at all. Fortunately Miranda July has found a solution; an app which allows other people to deliver your messages face-to-face on your behalf. Sponsored by Miu Miu the app allows you to choose the deliverer of your message and to suggest the manner in which they should do so, for example, “confidently,” “longingly,” or with air quotes. Even better the actor, writer and artist also created a short film to illustrate just how effectively the app can work, and true to form it’s chic, hilarious and actually very touching. The whole process has a hint of that 1990s board game Dream Phone about it too, which is a vibe I’m always delighted to channel. –It’s Nice That 

 

Takeaway: Miranda July often explores themes on human relationships in her works. Somebody makes use of other people to deliver messages that would be to difficult for you to say it in person. Instead of letting whatsapp do the job for you – which could lead to further miscommunication as we often overlook on a person’s tone of voice or we assume the person’s feelings, all based on text we see on screen, this app allows you to deliver the message, in your desired tone of voice while still retaining the human aspect of communication that we don’t often get at this day and age – talking face to face.