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Lord Tanjah

Lord Tanjah was born on July 18, 1965, in Grenoble. He is an artist of drift, a poet of desire, sovereign anarchy, and impossible community, in the tradition of Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. He has published six books, unclassifiable in style and form: miscellany of poems, broken narratives, journals, theoretical fragments, feverish monologues, imprecations, furtive and proverbial notes. For Lord Tanjah, the experience of writing is always an existential struggle, a merciless rebellion, a game of passion and death where extremes and antagonisms alternate. Sacredness reigns, but also humor and derision. Everything is decisive. His injunctions are declarations of love. His provocations are disguised as farce. His figures are both divine and bestial. He makes the concept tend towards myth where idolatry becomes art. If he is a tormented mystic, he is also an unscrupulous blasphemer. A reptile of drift, he knows how to play with virtuosity on all the mise en abymes. His writing, penetrating beyond form and style, has always hunted the original voice, the sonorous pulse of the beginning. "Theatre" imposes itself, but as an alchemy of the visible, as a neutral space where psychology is reduced to nothing, logic is dismembered and only planes of poetic ecstasy succeed one another. His visions of a Fellini-esque darkness have no equivalent in the current state of degradation, this instituted nothingness where all the abject partisans of falsification spread.

Je danse sur un point, un étal où tout l’espace s’ouvre sans limites possibles. À force d’éprouver la présence phénoménale du réel, je l’imagine. J’ai « quelque chose » à dire, car Je suis. J’ai saisi la structure du désir, sa forme idéale gicle sur le mur d’épaisses strates de fibrilles explosives. Mes stases dépressives atroces sont brisées.