A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

December 27, 2020

Some sentences from my past year

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. The technology and narrative we call “money” transforms the finite number of things a person can claim to possess into a seemingly inf...
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December 22, 2020

Every two years versus every four years...

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. I've been thinking about this a lot the past few weeks. I had been complaining - mostly to myself but also  occasionally online -...
December 7, 2020

Six quotations on pessimism

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. No one ever needs pessimism, in the way that one needs optimism to inspire one to great heights and to pick oneself up, in the way one...
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December 6, 2020

2020-2030 (There's something I like about it being a calendar decade.)

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. Last night I was lying awake. I couldn't sleep. And I realized something that might be kind of stupid but felt like a revelation t...
December 4, 2020

Some favourite things from my 2020

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. [So it seems like I now do this list more or less every year . I really do love lists . As with previous years, this list is in no partic...
December 2, 2020

Songs Between Works

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. [A edited version of this text appears in the exhibition catalogue for La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux .] 1. I am ...
November 23, 2020

Douglas A. Martin Quote

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. We will go on from here, in this essayistic work, of which Acker’s fantastic, crudely philosophical letters are only one part of what ...
October 29, 2020

Three Trilogies

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. Unrehearsed Beauty (1998) Families Are Formed Through Copulation (2007) Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed (2010) Po...
October 24, 2020

Michael Eddy Quote

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. One could argue, like Maus above, that the antidote to irony is actually authenticity. If the self-reflexivity I called for above mean...
October 20, 2020

Karen Tei Yamashita Quote

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. By now we understood the joke about the Red Block on Kearny and swimming around in radical alphabet soup – KDP, IWK, WMS, KSW, IHTA, C...
October 14, 2020

Six Paul Valéry Quotes

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. The path that leads from a confused idea to a clear idea is not made of ideas. God made everything out of nothing, but the nothing...
September 27, 2020

Some passages from M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Some passages from M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs: * it hurt to move. it hurt to breathe. the food d...
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...
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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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