OBJECT LESSONS Sunday Afternoons 3-5pm February—May 2014 34 Avenue A, 3rd FL. NYC. Jarrett Earnest Object Lessons is a hybrid seminar/reading group/lecture series. You will be asked to read in advance, sometimes an entire book, and expected to delight, challenge and contribute to the group dynamic with your presence. Every week will have a different visitor to discuss a text or object important to them. We will discuss painting, sculpture, performance, literature, poetry and music as interconnected ways of thinking and being in the world. As such, participants should be interested in larger interdisciplinary issues of art. All meetings will be available as podcasts via the class website BHQFU.org. ——————————————————————————————————————— BOOKS PDF versions will be available for free download via the class website but it is recommended you buy copies for yourself. There will also be a classroom set available onsite: Berkson, Bill & Bernadette Mayer. What's Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977-1985 Flusser, Villem. Vampyrotheuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite) Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture * Plato. Phaedo * Rabelais, Francois. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel Watkins, Glenn. Gesualdo: The Man and His Music * Williams, Tennessee. Streetcar Named Desire *these books can be easily found in any book store, all others must be specially ordered ——————————————————————————————————————— SCHEDULE Week 1 — (26th February) — Jarrett Earnest — Read the first chapter of Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens.

Week 2 — (February 2nd) — Juliana Huxtable — Read Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite), forward by Michel Foucault. Week 3 — (February 9th) — Dorothea Rockburne — Read Gesualdo: The Man and His Music by Glenn Watkins. Week 4 — (February 16th) — Sam McKinniss — Read McKinniss essay on Murder She Wrote and Oscar Wilde excerpt. Week 5 — (February 23rd) — Thyrza Nichols Goodeve — Read Plato's Phaedo. Watch Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amor (1959) (there will be a screening at noon on the 23rd before class.) Week 6 —(March 2nd) — Leigha Mason — Read the Rabelais' Pantagruel (1535). Watch Mason's films Spit Banquet (2013) and Marnie Year Zero (2013). (These will be available via a password link to be sent to the class.) Week 7 — (March 9th) — Nancy Goldring — Read Goldring's essays "Bellini and Gandahara" and "The Long View". Week 8 — (March 16th) — Martha Schwendener — Read Flusser's Vampyrotheuthis Infernalis. Week 9 — (March 23rd) — Aliza Shvarts — Listen to Sunn's "Black Wedding (Lament for a Nordic Vision Buried by Time and Dust)" from the album The Grimmrobe Demos (2005). 19 minutes. (mp3 will be posted on class site.) Week 10 — (March 30th) — Geo Wyeth — TBA Week 11 — (April 6th) — Justin Sayre — Read Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and excerpts of Sayre's plays The Click of the Lock and The Boy Sonata. Week 12 — (April 13th) — Bill Berkson — Read What's Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977-1985 by Bill Berkson and Bernadette Mayer. Week 13 — (April 20th) — John Newman — TBA Week 14 — (April 27th) — Roni Horn — TBA