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In a Friendster profile from some exciting looking stranger in (I think it was) France I read “I have a nasty habit of avoiding things that make me feel” and I thought it was rather elegant and wanted to write it down so I reached for my notebook and wrote “I have a compulsive habit of avoiding things that make me feel,” in less than a second misremembering the word ‘nasty’ as ‘compulsive,’ perhaps implying that I don’t find anything particularly nasty about it, or perhaps only stressing how (for me) all such endeavors are fundamentally obsessive.
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- Jacob Wren
- Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. His books include Polyamorous Love Song, Rich and Poor, Authenticity is a Feeling and Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim. As artistic codirector of the interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created performances such as: En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize, Individualism Was A Mistake, The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information, Every Song I’ve Ever Written and Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la répétition. PME-ART also presented the online conference Vulnerable Paradoxes and the related free PDF publication In response to Vulnerable Paradoxes. He is co-founder of the orchestra The Air Contains Honey who are currently working on their first album. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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- A video and four texts on my collaboration with Tori Kudo while in residency at The Museum of Art, Kochi
- Jacob Wren + Raphaëlle de Groot / MIXOFF 2
- Paul Thek’s Teaching Notes
2 comments:
I, too, appreciate anonymous's quote because it poetically (gracefully, succinctly, and implicitly) expresses a human condition from which springs something that brings profound pain and complication to everyone's life at one point or another, and that is so often clinically and artlessly described: addiction. 'A nasty habit.'I think it significant that the writer chose such an adjective to describe the condition of yearning to be free of feeling that underlies all addictions, which, whatever their apparent objects, are in essence compulsivities. Your accidental insight extends the original to reveal another truth: compulsivities are things in themselves. By the time they can be noticed as such they have somehow taken on intractable and mysterious lives of their own, to the point where it is no longer possible to discern where host ends and parasite begins. The defining feature of neurosis is its repetitive nature. A neurotic is one stuck in a groove, who must enact the same rituals of mind or body over and over again, who has somehow lost awareness of their choice as to what organizing principles govern their lives. It does indeed take a radical cut in the nature of reality to free them again. This cut doesn't often happen but when it does it really is no overstatement to call it a miracle.
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