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.
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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.
Crazy Quilt: Feminist Killjoys and the Queer Art of Failure (The Secret Ingredient – 19/11/14)
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Crazy Quilt: Feminist Killjoys and the Queer Art of Failure (The Secret Ingredient – 19/11/14)
This show combines threads of different spools to affect a powerful audio wake-up call. Chock-full of rad new music that will shake out the cob webs out of the attic, in this episode we talk about failing as a style and way of life, as the orbital path of creativity itself. We talk about power imbalances as a human sickness, feminist killjoys, the burden of proof on marginalized voices, the loss of memory as a power outage. We spin a few hat tricks of transcendent tracks (and did you know that the expression “hat trick” originates with Guelph’s former junior hockey team, the Biltmore Mad Hatters?).
Davis, Lydia. Almost No Memory. Farrar, Straus & Girous, 1997. (Nov. 19, 2014)
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1995. (Dec 3, 2015)
Doyle, Jennifer. Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. Duke University Press, 2013. (January 14, 2015)
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. (November 19, 2014)
Queyras, Sina. M x T. Toronto: Coach House Printing, 2014. (January 14, 2015)
The Secret Ingredient
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.
