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.
Publication Studio: Uncertain Times and Alternative Economies (The Secret Ingredient – 03/12/14)
The Secret Ingredient
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Publication Studio: Uncertain Times and Alternative Economies (The Secret Ingredient – 03/12/14)
Making books fresh like pour-over coffee? Publication Studio (www.publicationstudio.biz) is a network of 13 tiny publishing houses in which books are made one at a time by hand, envisioning the productive work of bookbinding to be more like a bakery or coffee shop than a factory. Hear PS co-founder (with Patricia No) Matthew Stadler talk about the art of economies, multi-scalar assemblages, plus N.E. Thing Co., and Anne Focke as precedents for PS. Think through the nature of hegemony with Jean Beaudrillard, the shared imagination a book creates over time and space, Fuse Magazine and the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society, and learn about how you can visit Guelph’s very own Publication Studio at Silence (46 Essex St.), on any given Saturday afternoon.
Baudrillard, Jean. The Agony of Power. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2010. (December 3, 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.
