Notes from Immediate Irreality 1/4
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INSTRUCTOR: Will Scarlett
PROGRAM: Transdisciplinary Studies, Art & Curatorial Practice
CREDIT(S): 1
DATE: July 30, August 6th, 13th, 20th
TIME: 14:00-16:30 ET
DESCRIPTION: Written from a hospital bed on the outskirts of Romania, Max Blecher’s Adventures in Immediate Irreality is a note from another world – one that becomes ours. Although it has taken almost ninety years to reach us, the immediate irreality that the text emerges from and that is intensified through its descriptions remains there for us to inhabit and expand upon. This Seminar explores variations on the unique fusion of presence and projection that opens a space of immediate irreality, both immediately perceptible to the senses and moving beyond the presumed limits of the real. We will trace passages into the hallucinatory, the virtual, the elemental, the animal, and the spiritual in order to seek out and intensify their stirrings. And we will do so especially through perhaps the most humble, ubiquitous, and least likely medium: the note. While notes (written, voiced, sounded, sketched, imaged, performed…) imply distance, separation, boundaries, and abbreviations, they also depend on unspoken affinities and are carried by open-ended and shared ephemerality. Notes from immediate irreality are evocations from elsewhere, inviting us to enter a space of collective fascination where our outlines and those of the world begin to blur.
Session 1. Imaginary–Presence
–Max Blecher, The Lighted Burrow (selections)
–Reinaldo Arenas, The Color of Summer (letters)
Session 2. Sensory–Movement
–Alphonso Lingis, Abuses (selections)
–Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (selections)
Session 3. Metamorphic–Flicker
–Bruno Schulz, Selected Letters
–Fred Moten, The Touring Machine (pt. 2)
Session 4. Inhuman–Vision
–Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild (selections)
–Ernst Jünger, Sicilian Letter to the Man in the Moon
IMAGE: Josef Albers, Repetition Against Blue 1943.