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LaGeMe
What
we achieve, how and for which future?
Concept
note – last revision: Jan. 2015
"Desire, which is at the center
of Human experience,
is desire for nothing that you can
name."Lacan,
Le Séminaire, livre
II, Le Désir, la vie ou la mort,
19 mai 1955, p 261-262, Seuil,
1978
How?
LaGeMe
is a collection of artists and few social scientists or similar. Our
main purpose is simply to make Art.
We
decide that the way you make Art has an influence on Art, which is
then not anymore the simple ‘result’ of human activity but mainly
what we cannot speak for. It’s then not only and it is also the
result of our work which is interesting and valuable. This process of
making Art remain discreet without being hidden as it offers then an
intimate relationship to Art which is often spectacular.
At
the junction of theory and practice, thought is also included in the
Art field that we invest in.
LaGeMe
is then not a brand and we advise all our artists not to mention that
their works has been produced with the support of LaGeMe (or of
LGeLe).
This kind of weak visibility is a strong tool as it reduces a lot
costs and indirect time spending activities. In a nutshell: our main
character is the artists and their works, not the structure that
support them even when this structure is part of the Art spheres.
Reversely, you can consider that LaGeMe is a long and permanent
exhibition pursuing similar modus operandi as ‘The Factory’ for
instance. Unlikely ‘The Factory’, we make a point of being
diverse, we don’t have any guru and we don’t have a clear
aesthetical doctrine out of what is drafted here.
We
also decided that we will not have any bureaucratic apparatus and
that we reduce the paper work (including archives) to a minimal
level. Each artist that wants to document this or that is of course
free to do it.
We
refuse to fall into petrifaction and then remain temporarily here or
there. This apparent fragility
is one of our strong points.
We
don’t have commissions deciding who will or will not join us. Each
artist is free to invite but then is responsible for the invitee.
We
sometimes do or host formal exhibitions but most of our exhibitions
are spontaneous. We don’t keep a record of these exhibitions.
Our
relationship with institutions is relaxed.
What
we achieve?
First,
as already underlined, the way we achieve what we achieve is already
an achievement.
Then,
we host and hosted artists - as members or not - that produced
numerous works exhibited in several public and private spaces in
France, including our, and abroad.
Our
actions are the actions of our members. They are permeable to several
ways of joining distances.
The
future is open
Overall
future is made of coldness, fears and desires.
We
have the desire to comeback downtown, to develop also projects abroad
(Tokyo, Moscow, LA…), to move and change, to see new faces, to meet
again with old ones, to be surprised, to help (yes, to help), to
remain tender one to the other, to stay warm and on top of all to
keep being not afraid.
The
overall future that we see is not the one that we support, at least
not fully.
We
are not Lacanians neither now nor in the future but it happens that
we read it (speaking of future).
------We
warmly thank French Ministry of Culture
and the Manufacture
de Sèvres for
their crucial support that was never, not at any single moment,
intrusive. They not only respect our independence, they obviously
understand the value of it---------