Aborted Metamodernist Dialogue by Teklal Neguib

Aborted
Metamodernist
Dialogue
Teklal Neguib

Text :
Teklal Neguib
Written in 2015
Published in L.ART en Loire 8 (February 2015)
Photography (previous page) :
“The abandoned boats” by Teklal Neguib
Teklal Neguib :
Known too as Lamena Lahgo and Talulah Naakre, Teklal Neguib is a
writer, poet, artist and the former EIC/founder of L.ART en Loire
(average c. 100 000 read./issue//2013-2018).
Published in various magazines such as Internet Poetry, Minorites,
Artefact, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, BonjourPoesie, Bloganozart,
lorem_ipsum, L.ART en Loire/Céréales & Tubercules, VoiceIn Journal,
and books (MACRO an anthology of image macro, The Twitter
biography of Matthew Britton), some of her art was part of the online
exhibition “Listen Audioselfies !” a group show curated by May Waver,
and part of the exhibition “Nature insolite en ville” (group show,
curated by Ville de Saint Nazaire, L’Atelier).

The concept
“Aborted Metamodernist Dialogue” was my first artistic creation under
the metamodernist theory.
At the beginning, I offered a metamodernist artist to create an artistic
dialogue with me, for the Dialogue section in L.ART en Loire 8.
Weeks later, my offer was rejected, but I found this rejection very
motivating, because I ask to myself : how could we (as human) dialogue
with an absent in our modern society of loneliness ?
Human beings are social animals needing interactions with others. But
the more we have ways to interact (through social networks for
example) the more alone people are feeling.
And while “Aborted Metamodernist Dialogue” was part of my first steps
to introduce metamodernism in Francophonia/France with “Récit de
voyage dans l’art métamoderniste de Shia Labeouf” and “Letter from a
broken (he)art”, I felt that a dialogue was necessary with artists or
theorists of it.
In the end, as an artist myself I was challenged by the rejection and
found a way to dialogue with this absent artist.
So I created both the visual art and the poems, which were written first
in french* and later translated into english.
In the end, the artist in me was really happy of this dialogue with an
absent, as a sort of an utopia of the silence.
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*Maxime Batiot wrote a thesis about my introduction of metamodernism in the francophone area/
France. When we discussed in 2019/2020, I didn’t remember this creation was first done in french.
So it’s not his fault when he says that I didn’t create in french. It’s mine. Sorry Maxime ! (oups !)
His thesis about my work (with the interview we did, in the last pages) : “Le métamodernisme :
théorie et mises en applications” Maxime Batiot University of Waterloo (Canada) 2020
https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/16291/Batiot_Maxime.pdf?sequence=1&isAll
owed=y

The Absent I - Toile sur châssis - Teklal Neguib

The Absent II - Toile sur châssis - Teklal Neguib

The Absent III - Toile sur châssis - Teklal Neguib

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