Jeremy Fernando, 'art & writing; or the whispers of sand...' (17 February 2017)
Channel: Philosophy USM
Date: 2017-03-22

In this talk, I will attempt to attend to the notion of writing and
its relation to movement, openings, and the possibility of openness to the other, through a meditation on the very movement that I was unable to write – an instant that occurred when I was trying to inscribe my thoughts on, my responses to, the magnificent oil paintings made by the artist, Ruben Pang. And here – keeping in mind that this inscription is done, can only be done, in memory of that writing, the writhing, that has happened – I will posit the possibility that the inscriptions only started to occur when I began to listen to the matter or Ruben’s work, to its materiality; and that what was written, my remarks, were the marks, what remains, of sand; or even, the transformation of the whispers of the sand – the movement of forms being nothing other than another name for art itself.