People Younger Than Me Explaining How To Do Things began in 2013 as a project with images sourced from YouTube clips featuring teens and young adults setting us straight with their version of “how-to” videos: anything from creating more cleavage, hair and makeup tutorials, to advice on relationships and confidence building. Jenny Odell’s art practice often involves encounters with archives or the creation of new ones that come together at the intersection of research and aesthetics. Odell’s work is a general argument for the rewards of close observation as a way to participate in one’s physical environment.

Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California.