A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

November 5, 2017

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Quote

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. Kinetics, the act of doing, isn’t just praxis; it also generates and animates theory within Indigenous contexts, and it is the crucial...
October 29, 2017

Three Fragments

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. 1. When the new generation arrive with their energy and ambition and you become the previous generation and of course you have their ...
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October 20, 2017

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Quote

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. Coming to know also requires complex, committed, consensual engagement. Relationships within Nishnaabewin are based upon the consent ...
October 18, 2017

"I sometimes say I’m too much of an artist for my own good."

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. There are so many different ways of looking at this question. The world seems to be in quite bad shape these days – though this might ...
October 17, 2017

that we bear responsibility

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. We were all raised in a sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic culture. No one is immune from it's influence. We all have these t...
October 4, 2017

Jacob Wren / PME-ART in Stavanger, Bergen and Oslo

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. Stavanger Every Song I've Ever Written - Solo Thursday, October 19th, 2017 / 6pm-11pm at RIMI/IMIR Facebook Event Bergen...
September 27, 2017

Trophies Are the First to Go: A fiction

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. [This story was originally published in Raphaëlle de Groot: Rencontres au sommet / The Summit Meetings ] There are things I still...
September 22, 2017

First draft of the Authenticity is a Feeling short description

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. Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir and performance theory. It tells the story of...
September 4, 2017

"And whose work has no impact on their lives or the lives of the people around them."

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. This manual encourages us to find out what happens if we don't deliver. If we don't give students the standard slide show, but...
August 26, 2017

Rich and Poor - The Single

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Rich and Poor: The Single Chaos & Star Records Why Toronto publisher BookThug is getting into the record business in The Globe and...
August 20, 2017

Three Montreal Events in September

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. I will be doing three events in Montreal in September as follows:  Tuesday, September 5th at 8:30pm: Resonance Reading Series: Se...
August 17, 2017

Stuart Hall Quote

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. Contrary to common-sense understanding, the transformations of self-identity are not just a personal matter. Historical shifts out the...
August 13, 2017

“If the Soviet Union could dissolve, why not the United States?”

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. In this spirit Cherríe Moraga remains “passionately committed to an art of resistance to domination by Anglo-America.” And what is her...
August 12, 2017

The music of Jenifa Mayanja

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I just discovered the music of Jenifa Mayanja who is playing tonight in Montreal . Above are a few of my favourite tracks. Better yet, c...
August 11, 2017

“It might be nice to be a girl, ‘cause then I wouldn’t have to be emotionless.”

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. "One avenue into understanding men’s loneliness is to consider how children are socialized. In an interview, Niobe Way, a lecture...
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August 10, 2017

Excerpt from a Tori Kudo interview

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. Keith Connolly: What then, would you say, is the state of Maher Shalal Hash Baz today? Tori Kudo: That’s a difficult question. It’s ...
July 17, 2017

Do you know the work of the Montreal writer Jacob Wren?

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. Luther Konadu: So knowing that as a writer, how do you carry on and continue to sustain a writing career knowing that maybe no one mig...
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Dr. Ahmet Yusuf Quote

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. The world experienced a revolution in 1492. In 1498 it experienced another. The results were hardly beneficial but they have come to b...
July 10, 2017

Barbara Browning Quote

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. Maybe you're thinking I should take everything my friend Lun-Yu tells me with a grain of salt. She also told me that day one of he...
May 2, 2017

J. C. Sutcliffe review of Rich and Poor in The Times Literary Supplement

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. Jacob Wren explores the boundaries and overlap between art, politics and fiction in his writing and filmmaking. On his blog, “A Radica...
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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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