Jacob Wren's guest appearances

Jacob Wren

The Secret Ingredient 

Momus: The Podcast

Sheila Heti

Ben Davis

Léuli Eshrāghi

Eleanor Nairne

Sophia Al Maria

Jinn Bronwen Lee

Dushko Petrovich

Jeanne Randolph

Catherine G. Wagley

Nora Khan

Julia Halperin

Katerina Gregos

Francis McKee

Jarrett Earnest

Isabel Lewis

OwlTail

For this episode of our Criticism in Conversation series, a writer and collaborative performer, Jacob Wren, speaks with artist Dayna Danger, about the line between empowerment and objectification and the meaning of community in both their work. Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, Metis/Saulteaux/Polish artist whose images highlight and queer power dynamics, kinship, representation, and sexuality. Wren makes collaborative performances, exhibitions and literature, including 2014’s Polyamorous Love Song and this year’s Authenticity is a Feeling, a hybrid of history, performance theory, and memoir. Together they cover a lot of ground, from personal narratives and community relationships to speaking against silence and apathy. We also receive a set of strategies for working and living in capitalist and colonial society, including creating your own rituals and adopting an ethics of abundance. This episode is edited by Jacob Irish, features original music by Kyle McCrea and production assistance by Mitra Shreeram. It’s brought to you with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts “New Chapter” grant, and is syndicated by NTS Radio.

For this episode of our <a href="https://momus.ca/momus-the-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Criticism in Conversation</a> series, a writer and collaborative performer, <a href="http://radicalcut.blogspot.com/" rel="external noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Jacob Wren</a>, speaks with artist <a href="http://www.daynadanger.com/about/" rel="external noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Dayna Danger</a>, about the line between empowerment and objectification and the meaning of community in both their work. Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, Metis/Saulteaux/Polish artist whose images highlight and queer power dynamics, kinship, representation, and sexuality. Wren makes collaborative performances, exhibitions and literature, including 2014’s Polyamorous Love Song and this year’s Authenticity is a Feeling, a hybrid of history, performance theory, and memoir. Together they cover a lot of ground, from personal narratives and community relationships to speaking against silence and apathy. We also receive a set of strategies for working and living in capitalist and colonial society, including creating your own rituals and adopting an ethics of abundance. This episode is edited by Jacob Irish, features original music by Kyle McCrea and production assistance by Mitra Shreeram. It’s brought to you with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts “New Chapter” grant, and is syndicated by <a href="https://www.nts.live/shows/momus" rel="external noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">NTS Radio</a>.

An Ethics of Abundance with Jacob Wren and Dayna Danger – Ep. 06

What possibilities for political transformation can be opened up through imagination, fantasy, and art? Can the left create instrumental change or is the game rigged? This week artist and writer Jacob Wren considers these questions, as well as ideas about the artist as political activist and the balance between egoism and conciliation in collaborative projects. “Sometimes I think that the secret ingredient in art is art. Another thing that has come to the forefront of my mind over the years is how little room for art there is in art; how much of the structural and institutional ways of thinking in and around art keep out what I think of as art. For me art has to be something where you don’t know everything about it when you start. What I’m trying to do when I make work […] is discover something that I’m not entirely able to articulate.”  – Jacob WrenWren, Jacob, Polyamorous Love Song, Toronto: Book Thug, 2014.

What possibilities for political transformation can be opened up through imagination, fantasy, and art? Can the left create instrumental change or is the game rigged? This week artist and writer Jacob Wren considers these questions, as well as ideas about the artist as political activist and the balance between egoism and conciliation in collaborative projects. “Sometimes I think that the secret ingredient in art is art. Another thing that has come to the forefront of my mind over the years is how little room for art there is in art; how much of the structural and institutional ways of thinking in and around art keep out what I think of as art. For me art has to be something where you don’t know everything about it when you start. What I’m trying to do when I make work […] is discover something that I’m not entirely able to articulate.” – Jacob Wren Wren, Jacob, Polyamorous Love Song, Toronto: Book Thug, 2014.

Jacob Wren: Critical Optimism and the Never Ending Struggle (The Secret Ingredient - 17/06/15)