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Distracted Geographies: An Archipelago of Intent by
Sudeep Sen is about the politics of body and text, mask
and posture, desire and distraction, disease and
health—the relationship between indoor and outdoor,
island and mainland, centre and periphery—and the
texture that dictates topography and cartography.
The book contends boldly with intimate issues of love,
loss, illness, passion, and sex. Even though the locale
is largely set in various parts of Scotland, it could
ostensibly be anywhere that is imaginatively similar.
Using both a minimalist and cinematic form, the scenes
shift, dissolve, inter-cut, flashback, and fast-forward
to provide a narrative that is at the same time linear
and oblique, classical and avant-garde.
The form and structure of the piece is inspired both by
the architecture of the human body, and the shape of
Pablo Neruda’s Odes that reflect the long-thin shape of
Chile. Sections and sub-sections within the narrative
join together like synapses between bone and bone; and
the titles act as translucent markers or breath pauses,
not separators. |
