to play, perchance to...
Published on 21. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
122 pages
978-981-14-5739-5 (ISBN)
Description
to drift —
perchance to dream.
In which one can never quite tell if a thought that comes to one came from one, had arrived onto one, or if one might have merely slid to it, drifted into it.
Where, one can never quite know if one is responding to works — to the beautiful pieces brought forth by Priyageetha Dia, Anne Dufourmantelle, Gabriela Golder, Mariela Yeregui, Jacques Tati — or if one is writing onto them, speaking over them.
Or, if the works might have written themselves onto me, into me, have been guiding the hand (manus) which thinks it is, have been leading the scribe who imagines he is, inscribing onto the manuscript.
Where, the very notion of having a thought might well only be thought teasing one. And where, teasing out a thought always already opens one self to being teased.
But perhaps we are always only — can only ever be — playing.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
156 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-14-5739-5 (9789811457395)
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Jeremy Fernando reads, writes, and makes things.He works in the intersections of literature, philosophy, and art; and his, more than thirty, books include Reading Blindly, Living with Art, Writing Death, in fidelity, Tómate un paseo por el lado oscuro del camino, resisting art, Writing Skin, A Ghost Never Dies, The feather of Ma'at, un oeil d'or, I wish we were lovers, and Jeremy Fernando by Jeremy Fernando. His writing has also been featured in magazines and journals such as Arte al Límite, Berfrois, CTheory, Cenobio, Entropy, Full Bleed, Poiesis, Philosophy World Democracy, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qui Parle, RIC Journal, Testo e Senso, TimeOut, and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, amongst others; and has been translated into the Brazilian-Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Serbian. Exploring other media has led him to film, music, performance-readings, and the visual arts; and his work has been exhibited in Seoul, Vienna, Hong Kong, Lisbon, and Singapore. He has been invited to read at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in September 2016; and to deliver a series of performance-readings at the 2018, 2020, and 2022 editions of the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires, the latter at which he also curated a filmic omnibus entitled reading dreaming malaya. He is the general editor of Delere Press; curates the thematic magazine One Imperative; is the Jean Baudrillard Fellow at The European Graduate School; co-creator of the private dining experience, People Table Tales; and the writer-in-residence at Appetite, the sensorial laboratory exploring the cross-roads of food, music, and art.