—OFF
—OFF is a kinetic and sensorial work that attempts at articulating a constructed discontinuity. The piece exists inside an atrophied discourse where ideas are never entirely developed. It sounds like the summary of a larger piece but it isn’t. —OFF wants to leave an aftertaste, a charming frustration: it doesn’t feel finished yet the energetic discourse is constant, leaving no room for momentary interpretation. The work doesn’t end with its last sound and places the listener in a temporal discomfort. Therefore, the statement becomes as experiential as musical.
I would like the structure of this minimal narrative to be clear to the reader once the book is closed—strictly evident and resonating for a long time, like the rhymes of a sonnet. This joy of fully grasping and embracing the whole is, of course, inaccessible to the novel reader, whose interrupted reading may have lasted a week, leaving them, once the book is finished, with only a general tone, a feeling—a vague frustration accompanies this excessive freedom of reading. To be frank: the short story allows the writer to hold the reader in their grasp, to forbid multiple interpretations, to take away their freedom, and to enchant them in the strongest sense.
Pierre Michon
Excerpt Visualisation
Made by Victor Ivanov.