Program(me) & surprises by Lamena Lahgo
My 2024/2025 artistic program with a cycle of works on the artist Daniel Gillies and another on the artist Lewis Tan, a surprise that some have been waiting for since 2016, and various announcements. Two years plenty of arts !
My 2024/2025 artistic program with a cycle of works on the artist Daniel Gillies and another on the artist Lewis Tan, a surprise that some have been waiting for since 2016, and various announcements.
Two years plenty of arts !
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<strong>Program</strong>(<strong>me</strong>)<br />
& Surprises<br />
La<strong>me</strong>na <strong>Lahgo</strong>
Photography (previous page) :<br />
“Matin Bru<strong>me</strong>ux”<br />
By Teklal Neguib<br />
Martinique - 2010<br />
La<strong>me</strong>na <strong>Lahgo</strong> :<br />
Known too as Teklal Neguib and Talulah Naakre, Teklal Neguib is a<br />
writer, poet, artist and the for<strong>me</strong>r EIC/founder of L.ART en Loire<br />
(average c. 100 000 read./issue//2013-2018).<br />
Published in various magazines such as Internet Poetry, Minorites,<br />
Artefact, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, BonjourPoesie, Bloganozart,<br />
lorem_ipsum, L.ART en Loire/Céréales & Tubercules, VoiceIn<br />
Journal, and books (MACRO an anthology of image macro, The<br />
Twitter biography of Matthew Britton), so<strong>me</strong> of her art was part of<br />
the online exhibition “Listen Audioselfies !” a group show curated <strong>by</strong><br />
May Waver, and part of the exhibition “Nature insolite en ville” (group<br />
show, curated <strong>by</strong> Ville de Saint Nazaire, L’Atelier).
Summary<br />
-<br />
Sommaire<br />
Surprise<br />
Cycle Daniel Gillies<br />
Cycle Lewis Tan<br />
Various
Surprise<br />
I am beginning with the surprise as I know a lot of you have been<br />
waiting for it since 2016.<br />
So as you have guessed, the surprise is … a new magazine is coming !<br />
As L.ART en Loire, it will be a bilingual mag of artistic expression<br />
(french and english), with various types of arts (poetry, short story,<br />
essay, photography, painting, video).<br />
It will be a shorter mag than the for<strong>me</strong>r one (30/50 pages maximum),<br />
but I hope to publish it one per month (we can dream).<br />
If you are an artist, you could submit your work in the sa<strong>me</strong><br />
conditions as L.ART en Loire.<br />
A call for work will be publish as soon as I buy InDesign (probably<br />
february/march).<br />
If you don’t know the for<strong>me</strong>r magazine, you can read so<strong>me</strong> of the<br />
remaining issues here (4 L.ART en Loire & 1 Céréales & Tubercules) :<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/user/l.artenloire<br />
It’s the official account of L.ART en Loire.<br />
You will discover the na<strong>me</strong> of the new mag in the following weeks,<br />
through a mixed piece of art, with a poem that will hide the na<strong>me</strong>…<br />
You could try to guess the new na<strong>me</strong>…<br />
The mag will be published on the yumpu page.
Cycle Daniel Gillies<br />
My work on this cycle will fall within the sa<strong>me</strong> type of work I did<br />
about Shia Labeouf, during the years 2014-2016, and which has<br />
beco<strong>me</strong> my introduction of <strong>me</strong>tamodernism in the<br />
francophone/french area.<br />
But it will be a little different, as Daniel Gillies doesn’t seem to place<br />
his work under a cultural theory, and I will first study his work as an<br />
actor (through two of his characters).<br />
The work I will do will be part of both his cycle and the cycle<br />
Resilience, whose first ele<strong>me</strong>nt is my analysis of the film “Zulu” from<br />
Jérô<strong>me</strong> Salle “Zulu une histoire de résilience”. This analysis studied<br />
the (failed or successful) resilience of the two main protagonists and<br />
the question of the one of the South African society.<br />
For the mo<strong>me</strong>nt, I am translating the Zulu article in English (it was<br />
written in French). The day I will publish it, it will <strong>me</strong>an the Daniel<br />
Gillies cycle is initiated.<br />
In that part I will study Elijah Mickaelson, the rest of the family and<br />
their processes of resilience in the first article and Mandrake from<br />
“Coming Ho<strong>me</strong> in the Dark” in the second article. The second is my<br />
main target to be honest.<br />
If I can, I would like to make a “travel story in the art of Daniel Gillies”,<br />
as he seems to be a multidisciplinary artist. When I write that type of<br />
article, I consider the artist as a foreign country I am visiting /<br />
discovering (hence the notion of travel story) and wanting to share<br />
with others as a sort of a tour guide in the art of an artist. During my<br />
discovery I try to distinguish 2 or 3 main questions in the art and then<br />
I work on them in the article. To understand more the purpose of that<br />
type of article, I will translate in english “Récit de voyage dans l’art
métamoderniste de Shia Labeouf”, I wrote in 2014, and I will publish it<br />
on the Yumpu page.<br />
Moreover, I am very interested in Daniel Gillies new tv series “Sight<br />
Unseen” because of its purpose. As you can have guessed, I am<br />
passionate about resilience, trauma, etc.<br />
I have decided to make two bonuses for this cycle. The first vocation<br />
of the bonuses is to answer that question : in which role I would like<br />
to watch the actor I am studying ?<br />
After a ti<strong>me</strong> of reflexion, I write a novel, whose main character is the<br />
role in question. I need to precise that it’s not fanfiction (I don’t work<br />
that type of writings). They are true novels in themselves, and to be<br />
honest, these novels could be totally independent of the actor in<br />
question.<br />
Furthermore, these novels are too part of my own artistic work, so<br />
they are under my artistic questionings, which main one is : which is<br />
the place of the human/human being in our modern society ?<br />
In the end, the role created through the novel can be so<strong>me</strong>ti<strong>me</strong>s<br />
surprising.<br />
In an extension of the Daniel Gillies Cycle, I will continue the<br />
Resilience cycle <strong>by</strong> working on the two villains of the film “Crimson<br />
Peak”, and the main characters of “We need to talk about Kevin”.<br />
Analysis of the processes of resilience<br />
in the Mickaelson family<br />
“The Originals”<br />
tv<br />
series<br />
Analysis of Madrake “Coming Ho<strong>me</strong> in the Dark” film<br />
Travel story in the art of Daniel Gillies<br />
Analysis of the processes of resilience<br />
of the various characters in the new tv<br />
series<br />
Bonuses : 1 or 2 novels<br />
(hypothetically for the mo<strong>me</strong>nt)<br />
“Sight Unseen”<br />
(hypothetically, as I need it to<br />
be shown in France)<br />
tv<br />
series<br />
Analysis of two villains “Crimson Peak” film<br />
Analysis of the main characters “We need to talk about Kevin” film
Cycle Lewis Tan<br />
I was supposed to work on this cycle two years ago in 2022. Sadly<br />
because of important health problems, I was unable to do, but now I<br />
feel better I will work on it.<br />
Once the Daniel Gillies Cycle is finished, I will write my articles on<br />
Lewis Tan.<br />
The project on Lewis Tan cycle includes a “travel story in the art of<br />
Lewis Tan”, whose main the<strong>me</strong>s of study will be emotions, body<br />
expression and identity. In 2022, I have planned to write a part<br />
questioning Lewis Tan as a <strong>me</strong>tamodernist artist (or not). But with my<br />
health problems I forgot what I projected to write about that section<br />
of the article. So this part is abandoned.<br />
Two year ago I was supposed to make a review of one of his films but<br />
I am not sure it will always be interessing when I work on it. So we<br />
will see…<br />
On the other hand, I have lined up an article about martial art films<br />
and their power of resilience for the cycle of the sa<strong>me</strong> na<strong>me</strong>.<br />
As bonuses (in the sa<strong>me</strong> conditions as the Daniel Gillies Cycle), two<br />
novels are envisioned. And as I think he could play very well the<br />
proganist in one of my personnal novel, I will precise it when I<br />
publish it.<br />
Lastly, I am interested <strong>by</strong> 2/3 artists from his entourage. I will try to<br />
contact them for an interview for the new mag. We will see if I<br />
manage, but their art is inspiring.<br />
Travel story in the art of Lewis Tan<br />
Article about martial art films and resilience<br />
2 novels as bonuses 1 personnal novel as role of protagonist<br />
2/3 artists from his entourage
Various<br />
Each week, on sunday, I publish on my yumpu account the archives of<br />
my various works (artistic creations, articles from L.ART en<br />
Loire/Minorites/etc., poetry, art …).<br />
I hope I will manage to write my article about Hemingway. I have tried<br />
to work on it since my pregnancy in 2008, but to be honest, with ba<strong>by</strong>,<br />
L.ART en Loire, and life, I never managed to focus on it. It’s what we<br />
call in french my “Arlésienne” 1<br />
As soon as I buy InDesign, I will publish a poetry collection (in<br />
French) I wrote in 2010/2011. A publishing house approached <strong>me</strong><br />
years ago, but because of L.ART en Loire I never pursued it.<br />
Instead, you will discover it freely on yumpu.<br />
I will release the audio french version of my articles in English<br />
(/French ?), as I know so<strong>me</strong> of you learn your french with my work. I<br />
precise that I have a remaining west south french accent (from<br />
Tarbes/Toulouse).<br />
For the mo<strong>me</strong>nt, I make all my artistic work freely. It’s an important<br />
point for <strong>me</strong>. And the mag will be free for everyone too (as were<br />
L.ART en Loire and Créréales & Tubercules). I consider important for<br />
all to access culture and artistic works. With the previous mag, we<br />
managed as we were read <strong>by</strong> all social classes even the more down. I<br />
refuse people in difficult financial conditions (ho<strong>me</strong>less people, poor,<br />
persons in indebtedness, etc.) to use 40€ (the cost price of an issue<br />
of L.ART en Loire) in an art magazine. Keep your money and read it<br />
freely !<br />
1 From the expression “jouer l’arlésienne”<br />
definition : https://www.afraleigh.org/articles/94462-jouer-l-arlesienne
If you want to contact <strong>me</strong>, my official accounts :<br />
-twitter/x : https://twitter.com/teklalneguib<br />
-threads : https://www.threads.net/@la<strong>me</strong>nalahgotn<br />
-instagram : https://www.instagram.com/la<strong>me</strong>nalahgotn/