Abstinence: Interview with Sikander Ali Baba, Sufi Ascetic
(Excerpt)
Denial. Desire. Deprivation
Ravi Agarwal
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A Feast of Sorts
The ‘meal’ is an investigation of food along with three very different “practitioners.” They offer tastes of fasting, suffering, health, politics, social control, cognition, and language.
(4 videos, headphones, table, stools – dimensions variable)
Abstinence
Sikander Ali Baba,
(25 mins. approx. video HD)
Sikander Ali is a Sufi baba, roaming the countryside, immersed in a meditative practice dedicated to God. He speaks of the relationship of food as a form of fasting, denial, suffering in the quest for a higher self.