A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. [Here in Zurich, at the Gessnerallee dance Laboratoire, we made Artist's Pledges . This is mine.} I pledge to complain less, or...

. Most of my favorite artists follow a fairly standard trajectory. They start out okay or good, have a period of getting better and bett...

. Vollmann reports that suicide rates drop dramatically in people older than forty. Because, as he rightly surmises, the absurdity of do...

. Some police play the protesters while other police play the police. Be the elephant you wish to see in the room. And free love mad...

. [This text was originally published in the catalog Disappearing Things by Gwen MacGregor , published by Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock...

. The beauty of non-History came about; all homage to captains, generals, litigators, and governors was abolished – not a single recolle...

. [This text was written when I was in residency at Passa Porta, Brussels in January 2011.] Part One: Ondine versus The Unionists I...

. If there is one abiding purpose to psychoanalysis, it is to make bourgeois lives seem fascinating, at least to those who live them. Th...

. Perverse Curating is a tentative idea for a group show that would attempt to use the juxtoposition of conflicting works of art in a ‘...

. Someone becomes an artist because at some point in their life someone, implicitly or explicitly, gave them permission to make art. ...

. So much of my life, like so many artists in the early 21st century, circles around projects. When asked what I’m working on, invariabl...

. Jacob Wren makes collaborative performances, exhibitions and literature. His books include: Unrehearsed Beauty (1998),  Families Ar...

. I found these two sentences in Ricardo Piglia's "Short Forms" in a chapter with the title "Borges' Last Story...

. Loneliness is the deal. Loneliness is the last great taboo. If we don’t accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because ca...

. Each of my previous books took me approximately four years to write, but I didn’t decide beforehand they would take four years. I star...

. It’s very subtle and patient work, getting quit of the self, disrupting interiors and identities. In all my writing I’ve only achieved...

. William says, While stapling MISSING DOG signs to a telephone pole on Jade St., I saw a little boy toting a saucer of milk. He knelt b...

. But should the Left be coming up with ‘new’ ideas all the time? Politics is not fashion – and, in any case, even fashion is more cycli...

. The idea that follows is that in a “normal” society, various strata would get along independently of one another: large corporations w...

. I posted the following quote: “Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fa...