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Cluster Chronicles with Jean Luc Raharimanana
02.05.2023
In the month of May, Jean Luc Raharimanana from Madagascar was invited to accompany the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence's activities and sharing his reactions, observations and views on various platforms of the Cluster.
This is a page that has grown over the course of Raharimanana's stay. Here, we showcased the insights he shared here and on the Social Media accounts of the Cluster. The multi-faceted artist was also featured in a number of Cluster events in May 2023.
Short Bio:
Jean Luc Raharimanana is a poet, novelist, playwright and editor. As a committed artist, he attacks words, kneads their meaning until their musicality penetrates deep into the reader, anchors the memory in the body, and makes an act of beauty in the saying and the writing t rying to bring out the relational aspects.In a lyrical and poetic style, despite the crossing of violence and the tormented history of Madagascar, he is looking for relational sees all the beauty of our world.
The theater occupies a preponderant place in his career. He is the author of numerous plays and musical tales, and brings his texts to the stage. In 2014, he founded the company SoaZara, bringing together playwrights, musicians, video artists and dancers.
He is also the director of the "Fragments" collection at Vents d'ailleurs. He works as a lecturer and translatorconducts master classes and holds writing workshops with institutions and theaters on the Francophone question. In September 2021, he co-founded with Nassuf Djailani the publishing house Project'Îles.
Raharimanana's activities for the Cluster of Excellence have also been summurized on his "Artist in the Cluster" page.
- 15.05.2023 Transoceanic Musical Lectures with Jean Luc Raharimanana and Alexandre Vieira - more info here (find the video below)
- 19.-23.05.2023 - Swahili Coloquium - more info here
- 24.05.-31.07.2023 - Exhibition "Trajectories" at Iwalewahaus - more info here
Images & Texts / Posts
Croire encore
Croire encore aux ailes des saisons qui emportent nos impossibles
Cette sensation de familiarité et d’étrangeté
L’Europe s’est uniformisée. Pratiquement les mêmes magasins, la même ordonnance des rues, les mêmes panneaux de signalisations, les mêmes habits des passants, et les mêmes attitudes en espace public.
Ombrage et pétrification.
Sais-je ce qui m’agite chaque fois que je me retrouve dans une civilisation de la pierre, l’ombre des vies anciennes qui sommeille en moi et qui vibre brusquement, ma raison la minorant, le temps et le présent qui s’essaient à l’union et qui m’enjoignent de croire simplement au convenu ?
Etrange comme le mot « relief » signifie à la fois « splendeur » et « déchet » …
Les éclats et les ruines, dans leurs effacements, projettent leurs dernières magnificences. Comme sont les étoiles finalement, une dégénérescence splendide. J’observe la ville.
Les nuits, on dessine
On dessine ce que les idées peinent à confiner dans une langue. On dessine ce que la bouche ne peut pas envelopper de son et de mots, et ce que les yeux ne peuvent pas transcrire en lettres sur une surface. On dessine ce que le silence ne veut pas sortir de la confidence.
Les rives insignifiantes de soi.
Qui du mouvement et du sens trace la route ?
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