A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

July 30, 2026

Michael Eddy on Authenticity is a Feeling

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. " Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART , by Jacob Wren Wren's book is a sort of biography of his performance art g...
July 27, 2026

My Terrains Vacants Brief Summary

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[I was recently invited by Écotone - Espace d'expérimentation to be part of their Terrains Vacants residency . I was also asked to writ...
July 25, 2026

Does aging make you impatient?

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. I don't remember being this impatient when I was younger. Does aging make you impatient? Two things on their way to being finished ...
July 11, 2026

Olivia Laing Quote

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. “The plants themselves encoded something utopian for me, a vision of how the world ought to be. At the same time I had a disinclinatio...
July 9, 2026

"...even more immediacy, connection, and public life in art and in performance."

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. "And I’ve always had such a difficult, conflicted relationship with performing. All of the things you say are true: I do like the ...
June 28, 2026

one big project per year

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. Somehow my life has organized itself into one big project per year: 2026: The very first record by The Air Contains Honey   2027: M...
June 27, 2026

Keep doing the same thing versus Try doing something new.

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. Keep doing the same thing versus Try doing something new . I wrote this down after seeing The Ex play a few nights ago. I had this ...
June 24, 2026

Kawai Shen Quote

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. “Despite the suspension of norms in the mosh pit and the lifting of prohibitions on exercising aggression and violence, moshing was nev...
June 23, 2026

Things haven't gone quite how I planned...

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. An update on my attempt to start a Patreon (and the book I'm writing to procrastinate working on the other book that I'm suppo...
June 17, 2026

Some favourite records of 2026 (so far)

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. [I do a list at the end of every year . And sometimes I also do a shorter list in the middle. Not all of these records were released th...
June 14, 2026

Some favourite books of 2026 (so far)

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. [I do a list at the end of every year . And sometimes I also do a shorter list in the middle. Not all of these books were published thi...
May 28, 2026

Ten years of Rich and Poor

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. Thinking about how my novel Rich and Poor came out in 2016, which is now ten years ago. (And, thanks to Luigi Mangione, it has even s...
May 24, 2026

Oliver Fugler Quote

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. “Many of our biggest blunders have occurred when trying to keep pace with the industry, when applying pressure that one or many of us c...
May 16, 2026

Some passages from Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell

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Some passages from Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell : * “Friendship has been a form of poison to me, I thought as I tri...
April 28, 2026

Elle Barbara's ‘One Man Show’ / May 22, 2026

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The legendary underground musician Elle Barbara presents ‘One Man Show’ on May 22, 2026 at Montreal’s iconic Theatre Outremont. More than a ...
April 24, 2026

May 2027

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I've never had one of these before. My new novel Desire Without Expectation - the middle book of what I'm calling my final trilogy ...
April 14, 2026

set the stage

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. Occupy set the sage for Bernie and Luigi. Bernie set the stage for Mamdani, who set the stage for waves of DSA candidates hopefully swe...
March 13, 2026

PME-ART's How Does Change Happen? Call for Participants

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. Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART is looking for 4 participants to co-create and perform our next show How Does Change Hap...

the internet has rotted my brain

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. For the past five or six months I haven’t especially liked any of the books I’ve read and, perhaps subconsciously, this has led to a cu...
March 10, 2026

the hubris that glows

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. A house of cards. A paper tiger. A palace built on sand. A machine for telling lies that will someday be brought to light. A race to th...
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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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