34 — I like interviews that slip away, the escapees: Clare Elson in conversation with Jeremy Fernando
In this interview for Snaps Art & Artists, Clare Elson and Jeremy Fernando converse about his approach to reading, writing, making, thinking; alongside what led him to thinking, making, writing, reading, in this — perhaps even his — particular way (without ever needing to rely on the fantasy of origins, auctor, authority).
They also chat about Delere Press as a space, site, place, where thinking, writing, mark making — where visual and written texts — come into conversation with each other, without taking precedence over each other, and without becoming one with the other; where each book is the site of a conversation where both texts are responding to and with each other while maintain their radical singularities; a conversation where each has their own place and space and are never told to take their place.
And as they twirl-alongside each other in a dance of thoughts, words, and worlds, Clare — in playing her role as interviewer (oh there is always play involved) — very generously opens, hosts, the space for Jeremy to meander, to play … allowing for the possibility that this might well end up being — without ending nor being — an infinite conversation …