A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

January 29, 2016

About Something Fragment

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. I know there is something I’m searching for in art but when I try to identify it, it seems almost impossible to do so accurately. I id...
January 27, 2016

Monomaniacal: A Confession

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. Twice in the past month someone has called me monomaniacal. I believe it was the first two times I ever even heard the word. I barely ...
January 25, 2016

David Garneau Quote

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. Prior to this gathering, I was not optimistic about the social engineering called Truth and Reconciliation. When first asked to work i...
January 7, 2016

Contradictions and Paradoxes: Lene Berg and Jacob Wren

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.   [This text was originally published in Fillip 19 .] In 2008, shortly after discovering her work, I wrote a text about Lene Berg f...
December 28, 2015

A long and short playlist for 2015 (with commentary)

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I said I wasn't going to do this anymore, because YouTube now has too many commercials, but it seems I can't stop. I've now...
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December 21, 2015

Internet Addiction

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. I have decided to try to stay off the internet during the weekends. (I just managed my first weekend in more or less ever.) I will mos...
December 18, 2015

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril / Curating the North

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. Curating the North: Documentary Screening Ethics and Inuit Representation in (Festival) Cinema - an interview with Alethea Arnaquq-Bar...
December 14, 2015

Rashayla Marie Brown: "Especially to the radiant child and the wunderkind, I ask you to open your hands and release your anxiety."

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. I’m not going to lie to you. There are rewards for this amnesia – people will call you avant-garde or controversial, you don’t seem hi...
December 13, 2015

Karissa Chen: "It’s simply that you cannot imagine you could be wrong, and so you cannot see."

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. The thing I want to tell that male journalist with the Asian wife, or even to Michael Derrick Hudson with his stolen name, is that the...
December 12, 2015

Stories...

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.   The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are not necessarily true. .
December 11, 2015

Zoe S.C. Todd Quote

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. e) Listen to people without MFAs or PhDs. Listen to people who have lived experience. Listen to people who are angry. Listen to people...
December 9, 2015

Jesse B. Staniforth on “of the North” – Quebec filmmaker uses YouTube and unauthorized music to portray the Inuit

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. I highly recommend this piece by Jesse B. Staniforth: “of the North” – Quebec filmmaker uses YouTube and unauthorized music to port...
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December 8, 2015

Some favourite things from my 2015

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. (It seems I really do love lists . As is often the case with me, many of these things were released prior to 2015. I have listed them mo...
December 6, 2015

Raymond Boisjoly tweet

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. Still thinking about this tweet from Raymond Boisjoly: "...as if art was more important than our responsibility to one another...
December 3, 2015

Centre Bang in Chicoutimi

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. A video of my residency at Centre Bang in Chicoutimi .
November 30, 2015

Tania Canas Quote

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. We are not a resource to feed into your next artistic project. You may be talented at your particular craft but do not assume that thi...
November 29, 2015

Patricia Boushel Facebook post concerning of the North

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. "Many of us watched the of the North controversy billow up over the course of the past week. It’s fascinating to witness somethi...
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When people hear the word racist...

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. When people hear the word racist their first impulse is to become defensive, to say that they're not racist, etc. But we were all ...
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November 27, 2015

In the interview...

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. In the interview he says "it's not a racist film." But for me this isn't possible. If we are both reasonable people,...
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November 25, 2015

Art and Politics

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. Every time I have an argument about art and politics it strikes me anew: how weak I am at engaging with people I disagree with. And ho...
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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 The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes is forthcoming in November 2026. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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