A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

May 26, 2016

World Stage Scholars-in-Residence Matt, Julia and Denise discuss the song Literature

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As part of Every Song I've Ever Written at World Stage / Harbourfront (June 9th and 11th), World Stage Scholars-in-Residence Matt, J...
May 12, 2016

Two Videos - Every Song I've Ever Written at World Stage 2016

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Every Song I've Ever Written will be at World Stage / Harbourfront on June 9 & 11   Solo Performance / Thursday, June 9th a...
May 11, 2016

"I’ve often wondered what it might be like to live in a world without money."

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. "I’ve often wondered what it might be like to live in a world without money. How completely everything might or might not change....
April 28, 2016

Hannah Black Quote

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. Down in Atlantis the curator showed me around the space, gesturing to invisible artworks that will soon be expensively shipped from fa...
April 24, 2016

Hannah Black Quote

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. From Los Angeles I write, “Perhaps getting to know a person is like getting to know a city.” The plate glass windows of downtown, the ...
April 23, 2016

work that dares to remind us

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. " Rich and Poor is art in resistance, a work that dares to remind us of our capacity for revolutionary love..." - Jade Co...
April 15, 2016

The Stopping Number

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. I feel five books is the perfect number of books for a writer to publish I have published five books I want to stop at this perfec...
March 15, 2016

Rich and Poor launches and events

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. I will be presenting my new book Rich and Poor at these fine events: April 16, Ottawa: Ottawa Writers Festival BookThug Spring L...
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March 10, 2016

To be a beast and still be happy: An introduction to The Seagull

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. [This text was written as an introduction to the production Une Mouette et autres cas d’espèces created by Hubert Colas/ Diphtong Cie ...
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February 25, 2016

The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information (Monthly Rework)

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. PME-ART will be presenting a The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information (Monthly Rework) twice at La Vitrola: March 28th April 25th ...
February 24, 2016

Always Closer to a Satire

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. A few weeks ago I posted on Facebook that I was seriously terrified that Trump had a real chance to win, and mentioned the history of ...
February 23, 2016

What Pleasure Is (Unfinished Fragment)

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. 1. There are two short quotes from Jean Genet that continue to haunt me: Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal d...
February 12, 2016

Introduction to Taking Care

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. [This text was originally published as an introduction to the Taking Care section of Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strateg...

We need a different...

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. We need a different vision of the world. A vision in which our survival depends on our symbiotic interdependence with other living thi...
February 1, 2016

Allison Hargreaves and David Jefferess Quote

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. How might we begin to imagine reconciliation beyond inclusion or loss – and instead as a transformed order of social relations? How mi...
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Sandra Semchuk Quote

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. You knew James [Nicholas], my late husband, a Cree writer, actor and government liaison for the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation. None of t...
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...
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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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