Peripathetic
Cher Tan
10.07.24 - 10.07.24
PERIPATHETIC: "WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT"
BOOK TOUR (NAARM)
Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t online. About knowing a language four times. About living on the interstices. About thievery. About wanting. About the hyperreal. About weirdness.
Cher Tan’s essays are as non-linear as her life, as she travels across borders that are simultaneously tightening and blurring. In luminous and inventive prose, they look beyond the performance of everyday life, seeking answers that continually elude.
Paying homage to the many outsider artists, punks, drop-outs and rogue philosophers who came before, this book is about the resistance of orthodoxies — even when it feels impossible.
More about the book here: https://unsw.press/books/peripathetic/
Readings by Fjorn Bastos, Angelita Biscotti, Amelia C. Winter and Yudhistira Agato (IND)
Cher Tan is an essayist, critic and editor living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land (so-called “Melbourne”). She previously lived in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore, where she was born and raised.
Her work has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite, Gusher magazine, Catapult, The Guardian, Art Guide Australia and The Age, among many others.
She is the reviews editor at Meanjin and an editor at LIMINAL magazine. In 2023 she was a book columnist at the ABC. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is out now with NewSouth Publishing.
Cher’s work thinks through technology, late capitalism, borders and boundaries, power and complicity, and the construction of identity, self, and culture in a hyper-real world.