A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

October 28, 2009

I see now the problem...

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. 1. I see now the problem is that I am a complete ideologue when it comes to theatre: always fighting for a certain, extremely specifi...
October 20, 2009

When I had my time as a poet, I was continuously appalled...

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. When I had my time as a poet, I was continuously appalled by how marginal and irrelevant poetry was. I couldn’t appreciate the actuali...
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October 19, 2009

Evolutionary accomplishments that no longer have anything to do with survival

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. Art is evolutionary, in the sense that it coincides with and harnesses evolutionary accomplishments into avenues of expression that no...
October 17, 2009

Religion is too important to be left to fundamentalists, indeed, it is too important to be left to believers alone

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. In one way or another, most recent religious controversies revolve around images – some of them highly dramatic and violent. They rang...
October 12, 2009

Atheism is the continuation of monotheism with other means.

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. Since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, there has been no shortage of events that have been milked by the Is...
October 9, 2009

I DON'T THINK I'M THE FUTURE OF ART: Excerpt from an interview with Tal R

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. The possibilities of painting? Painting is a zombie medium. As a painter you are a little bit like a guy showing up in a tiger suit ...
October 8, 2009

Theatre

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. My best work is behind me. In the future, all that awaits is mediocrity and suicide. I see no particular reason to do anything. ...
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October 3, 2009

Mark Fisher on Capitalist Realism

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. Getting to this real abstraction entails an analysis of what I call capitalist realism. Capitalist realism – which by no means collaps...
September 28, 2009

Excerpt from The Seven Madmen

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. I’m telling you honestly – I don’t know if our society would be Bolshevik or fascist. Sometimes I think the best thing would be to con...
September 27, 2009

Passive-Psychotic

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. Could there be a term for some very extreme form of passive-aggressive behavior, something like: passive-psychotic. .

Art / Therapy

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. To tell someone that their art is ‘therapy’ is generally seen as an insult, it is a way of saying their work is self-indulgent, that i...
September 24, 2009

Sylvère Lotringer Quote

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. Nina Power: Do you think art has become indeterminate as well? Sylvère Lotringer: Absolutely. This has little to do with individual ...
September 20, 2009

Excerpt from the script of Stalin By Picasso Or Portrait of Woman With Moustache by Lene Berg

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. Scene 1: Ingredients Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso did not have very much in common – perhaps. Except that they were both communis...
September 16, 2009

One possible approach to a new art movement

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. One possible approach to a new art movement: A pragmatically oriented group without a shared philosophy. .
August 18, 2009

Second guess

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. The more you attempt to second-guess the reactions of the audience or reader, the more it becomes “theatre”, the harder it becomes to ...
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August 7, 2009

Twenty-five Titles of Lithuanian Folk Songs

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. Oh forest, forest I was feeding my steed I am lost, dear mother A birch-tree once stood here Get up, dear daughter Orphan The dawn is brea...
August 6, 2009

Theatre Reminds Me Of Politics

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. It makes me sad that there is no convincing term to describe the kinds of theatre I love. Over the years there have been many attempts...
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July 23, 2009

Hampton Fancher Story

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. Have you read Castaneda’s books at all? The first two are really interesting. That guy Don Juan, he’s one of these Mexicans. Uneducate...
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July 11, 2009

Notes on Literature (Unfinished Manifesto)

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. - Vulnerable Writing, moments of jarring tenderness, that something (but what exactly?) is at risk, that in the writing itself there i...
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July 5, 2009

Writing can be more than good. (Ariana Reines quotes, pt 2)

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. I am speaking clearly because I am going to explain why sometimes THE COW speaks clearly and why sometimes it is a voluptuary, a vat o...
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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 director 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 whose first album is forthcoming in 2026. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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