PERIPATHETIC: NOTES ON UNBELONGING

Presented by Cher Tan

Hosted by Incinerator
03/10/2020
Talk #96

Image courtesy of Cher Tan

CHER TAN presents: ‘Peripathetic: Notes on Unbelonging'

Presented in collaboration with Incinerator Gallery, and the incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change

The presentation will delve into what Tan is currently working on: ‘Peripathetic: Notes on Unbelonging’, a book about non-white globalised identities that are always in flux. The essay collection centres Tan's lived experience as a first-generation migrant who has resisted a linear life narrative: a queer, working-class, non-uni-educated autodidact schooled by subculture, namely Punk & DIY in both Asia & so-called Australia since the 2000s.

CHER TAN is an essayist, critic and editor in Birraranga/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide & Singapore. Her work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, Swampland Magazine, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books & Kill Your Darlings, among others. She is the reviews editor at Meanjin, an editor at Liminal Magazine, a commissioning editor at the Feminist Writers Festival.