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eating being well
— shaping space for hospitalities
by Jeremy Fernando
To eat is to enter into relationship. With others, with place, with memory, with the unseen and the unspoken. In this rich and reflective text, Jeremy Fernando invites us to rethink eating as more than nourishment. It becomes an act of communion, of risk, of shaping space through gestures of hospitality and care.
Drawing on philosophy, literature, and lived experience, the piece unfolds as a meditation on what it means to eat well, to live well, and to be with. What happens when a meal becomes a threshold? Who do we become when we taste, when we touch, when we welcome?
A version of this paper was first presented at the Shaping Gastronomy congress, organised by the International Society for Gastronomic Sciences and Studies at L’università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, 26 to 28 September 2024.
We are honoured to share it as part of Transmissions, a space within Pup and Tiger for writing, interviews, and reflections that carry creative thought across disciplines, borders, and ways of being.
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Transmissions is an ongoing series from Pup and Tiger, spotlighting voices across queer art and cultural practice. We publish interviews, essays, and experimental texts that offer space for artists to speak in their own words and on their own terms.
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About the Artist
Jeremy Fernando
Jeremy Fernando is a writer, thinker, and maker working at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and art. The author of over thirty books—including Reading Blindly, Writing Death, A Ghost Never Dies, and I Wish We Were Lovers—his work spans disciplines and has appeared in international journals such as Berfrois, Entropy, CTheory, and Qui Parle, with translations in multiple languages. His practice extends into film, music, performance, and visual arts, with exhibitions in Seoul, Vienna, Lisbon, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has read and performed globally, including at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires), where he also curated reading dreaming malaya. He is the general editor of Delere Press, curator of One Imperative, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at The European Graduate School, co-creator of People Table Tales, and writer-in-residence at Appetite, a sensorial lab exploring the intersections of food, music, and art.
