Between philosophical essay and poetic experimentation, this text by the Chilean philosopher and artist pays tribute to Fernand Deligny, whose work on autism has allowed a more experimental understanding of difference.
Wandering Echoes veers between philosophical thought and poetic experimentation, asking for a reading by way of multiple and meandering lines. Underpinning the book is a profound engagement with Fernand Deligny, whose work with autistic children in the 1960s and 70s posed a more experimental understanding of the diversely abled. Wandering Echoes is a work under the influence of Deligny, amplifying his gestural philosophy through lines of thought whose echoes and vibrations lead into a labyrinthine text of personal experience, soft moments and deep restlessness. Subtle and demanding, the book is ultimately an act of poetic-doing which, for the author, enables emergent forms of solidarity.
Luis Guerra (born 1974 in Santiago of Chile) is a Chilean visual artist, philosopher, and poet living and working in Barcelona. He is associate professor of aesthetics at BAU University Centre of Design Barcelona. He is also GREDITS Design and Social Transformation Research Group Coordinator and the editorial coordinator of the scientific review Immaterial, Design, Art and Society in the same institution. He has been a fellow resident at the Saastamoinen Foundation (2021) and a fellow grantee by the Kone Foundation (2020) in Helsinki, Finland. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Centre for Artistic Research at the University of the Arts Helsinki. As a visual artist, his work revolves around the imaginary line that Western culture has created between art and philosophy.
