Nayland Blake is an artist, curator, and Co-director of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College. They are coeditor of In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice. Jarrett Earnest is an artist, writer, and author of What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics.
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List of Acknowledgments xi Acknowledgments xiii A Fan Writes . . .: An Introduction by Jarrett Earnest 1 The Difficulties That Afflict Us in Art School 15 Assessing My Work 18 Tom of Finland: An Appreciation 21 The ABCs of Art Institutions 32 Performance Script 37 The Saddest Story I Know 49 Schreber, Roussel, Duchamp 58 Performance Script 64 The Secret Square 71 One Hand Clapping: Porn Reviews 85 Bay Area Conceptualism: Two Generations 102 Queer Mysteries 109 Interview by John Grange and Stephen Johnstone 114 City of Hares: A Proposal 133 Curating "In a Different Light" 136 The Story of H. (Excerpt) 165 Hare Follies 169 Jack Smith: The Message from Atlantis 190 Ray Johnson: Correspondences 205 Top Ten 210 James Gobel 214 Matthew Benedict: Shroud of Truro 219 Judie Bamber: Further Horizons 225 Seven Quick Notes on Writing an Artist's Statement 230 Kathy Acker: "Because I Want to Live Forever in Wonder" 233 Jim Hodges: Theme from Mantrip 245 Interview with Jesse Pearson 250 Nancy Grossman: Misrecognized 260 Free! Love! Tool! Box! Workbook 265 Anthony Friedkin: "And I'm Carmen Miranda"-What Liberation Looks Like 267 Queer at CAA 274 Samwise Gamgee Cries, with Padding 280 Interview with TIna Horn 284 100 Assignments: Toward a Curriculum 289 Shambling Monstrosity Seeks Mad Scientist 297 Embarrass, Humiliate, Degrade, Objectify: Basics of Psychological Status Play 300 In My Dream Body: For Jorge Zontal and General Idea 307 Yummy Slurp! The Pippa Garner Story 312 My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio 319 Contributors 335 Index