Daniela Cascella Boeken

An archival fiction of listening, where landscape is reinvented and abstracted across autobiographical narratives of sounds, books, pictures and songs.

Exploring the nuances of listening and reading, this collection of fragments and essays delves into the unexpected moments of perception and reflection. It captures the serendipitous nature of thought, emphasizing the importance of the peripheral experiences that shape our understanding. Through its unique structure, the work invites readers to engage with the transient aspects of communication and contemplation, revealing the depth found in seemingly accidental encounters.

Fiction. Art. "The smell of singed paper haunts me. Is this a burning, is it a song? Sing, singed." Cascella's radically experimental poiesis conceives of text as a space of doing but also stillness, of transmission but also interference. In SINGED she writes criticism that includes silence, repetitions and dead ends; that retains mystery and the unspoken, in a language out of synch; that interrogates the very the necessity of using language: "Where does the necessity to speak and write arise from, and what are the hooks I can hold on to in the absence of records?"