A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

August 28, 2020

Dana Inkster Quote

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. I disagreed with the producers’ throughout the production process. I disagreed with the producers’ often reiterated belief that the au...
August 22, 2020

Authenticity Was A Feeling: A conversation between Claudia La Rocco and Jacob Wren

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. Authenticity Was A Feeling: A conversation between Claudia La Rocco and Jacob Wren Monday August 24th, 8:30 Berlin Time Online at Ta...
July 17, 2020

Richard Beck Quote

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. The great historian Ellen Meiksins Wood has described America’s odd investment in what she calls “surplus” imperialism, the belief amo...
July 1, 2020

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Quote

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. We can’t win with the idea that only black people can fight for black people, white people should fight for working class white people...
June 18, 2020

Enters performing at Suoni Per Il Popolo

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Enters [Alexei Perry Cox · Jacob Wren · Radwan Ghazi Moumneh] live at Montréal's Hotel2Tango on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 as part of ...
May 20, 2020

Vulnerable Paradoxes / May 27-31

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. We've been working on Vulnerable Paradoxes for so long and now it's finally going to happen. When we started it was a live ev...
May 10, 2020

A pushing into the mainstream of something that wasn't quite there before.

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. Over the last week or two I've been listening to a lot of John Prine, Tony Allen, Kraftwerk and Little Richard. I'm not sure t...
May 8, 2020

Ama Ata Aidoo Quote

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. Do I think it must always be so? Certainly not. It can be changed. It can be better. Life on earth need not always be some humans bein...
May 4, 2020

the joy of using less

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. I've been trying to come up with an environmental slogan along the lines of: the joy of using less. About how when we consume less...
May 1, 2020

Some Bandcamp Suggestions

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. [As you may already know, today (May 1), as well as on June 5, and July 3 (the first Friday of each month), Bandcamp is waiving their r...
April 23, 2020

"so fierce that the phrase buggy-whip maker became a business simile for loser"

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. I've been thinking about this quote regularly since I first read it in 2015: "In 1915, as the American economy boomed, the...
April 19, 2020

"Those are really my people."

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. "I often say I don’t necessarily relate to people who make art, performance, or literature, but I do relate to people who make ar...
April 13, 2020

And it's the exact same virus.

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. There's something I've been thinking about a lot. In Germany the fatality rate is estimated to be around 1%. And in Italy the ...
April 9, 2020

Last night I couldn't sleep...

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. Last night I couldn't sleep. And I started thinking about how, in the early months of 2020, before the lockdown, I went to a serie...
March 23, 2020

Boycott

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. Boycott Amazon. They are pandemic profiteers. .
March 21, 2020

Ideas for Pandemic Short Stories

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. A large number of healthy young people volunteer to contract the virus and live together in a luxury quarantine hotel in order to, ove...
March 20, 2020

Rob Horning Quote

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. When Gene Simmons insists that he wants to “rock and roll all night and party everyday,” we should understand that as an admission tha...
March 18, 2020

Bernadette Mayer Quote

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. Something shifts and as Wittgenstein would say, and anybody else not normal, to take some pleasure in being obsessively careful, to qu...
March 17, 2020

One of my first thoughts in the early days of the pandemic...

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. One of my first thoughts in the early days of the pandemic was: social distancing and closing borders, those are things dictators like...
March 16, 2020

Momus: Oblivion

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Sometimes the speed at which Momus produces songs makes them really effective:
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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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