Around Luna Mahoux’s documentary “The Other Queen of Memphis”, films, concerts, and performances come together to form a sensitive portrait of diasporic music, envisioned as a space of memory, resistance, and shared imagination.

Line Up

• Screening of the film “ The Other queen of Memphis “ by Luna Mahoux (BE)
• Screening of the film “Hauntology of an OG» by Christelle Oyiri & Neva Wireko (FR)
• Talk/discussion
• Mak of Memphis – performance / poetry (US)
• Yara Dulac Gisler (aka I-vye) – live/performance (CH)
• EMBACI –  live (US)
• Joy Guidry –  Live (US )

«The Other Queen of Memphis» by Luna Mahoux (22′, 2024)
A documentary look at Memphis’ rap culture, caught between visibility and disappearance. Framed by a car ride with rapper Lachat (Chastity Daniels), the film ‘The Other Queen of Memphis’ unfolds a layered portrait of the local scene, where personal memory, social reality, and musical lineage intertwine. Between the figures of Lachat and Gangsta Boo, a double narrative emerges: one of female presence, influence, and the unspeakable woven into the city’s cultural memory. A central element is the film’s atmospheric score, co-created by New York based artist Embaci, whose work rooted in operatic vocals, experimental production, and poetic compression opens up alternative emotional spaces. Her live concert following the screening echoes the film’s themes, extending them into a sound-based dimension that bridges intimacy and scale. Une production Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.

Luna Mahoux is a Belgian artist whose work explores overlooked Afro-diasporic narratives through a blend of music, documentary, and archives. She graduated in Painting from La Cambre and joined Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains in 2023.
While traveling in the United States, she deepened her research on music as a living archive and the complexity of Black experiences through the lens of collective memory and individual narratives. Her artistic approach examines how rap and Black music function as spaces of resistance and remembrance. Luna Mahoux has received several awards, including the tiff Emerging Belgian Photography Prize (FOMU, Antwerp) in 2023 and the Fintro Prize (Brussels) in 2024.

«Hauntology of an OG» by Christelle Oyiri & Neva Wireko (8′, 2025)
In Hauntology of an OG, Crystallmess explores the American South—caught between inertia and brilliance—through the works of artists such as Arthur Jafa, William Faulkner, and Memphis hip-hop pioneers Three 6 Mafia. The region becomes a site for reflecting on survival and cultural transmission in Black communities, read through the lens of Southern Gothic: an aesthetic of ghosts, genre cinema, and contemporary rituals. Hauntology of an OG (2025) by Christelle Oyiri and Neva Wireko was commissioned by Amant (Brooklyn, NY) and LAS Art Foundation (Berlin), with the support of the Pinault Collection (Paris).

Christelle Oyiri (b. 1992) Paris-based artist, and producer/DJ (under the pseudonym CRYSTALLMESS). Combining film, music, performance, and sculpture, her radically interdisciplinary work deals with themes of alienation and alternative temporalities. Faced with the deliberate erasure of narratives outside the dominant canon, Christelle Oyiri looks for information between the lines. Her research is focused on the tonalities, textures, and visual vernacular of the music, art, popular culture, and youth cultures within and outside the African diaspora.

Originally from the historic Orange Mound neighborhood in Memphis, Darius «Phatmak» Clayton aka Mak of Memphis creates performances that blend poetry, music, and comedy. In 2005, he founded The Den, a vital hub of the city’s local arts scene, bringing together poets, musicians, and comedians. He is also deeply engaged in social advocacy, particularly for people experiencing homelessness. His influence spans from mentoring emerging artists to uplifting Memphis’s underground arts scene, making him a central figure in the city’s cultural ecosystem.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JafNNCvyXU0

Yara Dulac Gisler is a French-Swiss multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Zurich. Her work encompasses film, performance and visual arts, and she is known for her explorations of socio-political issues, particularly the notion of «blackness» in the arts in Switzerland. As a DJ under the name of I-vye, her sound work moves between presence and understatement. Layers of breakbeat, percussion, voice fragments, melody, and abstract textures fold into one another carrying an off-kilter, playful energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKE_sDWT5bo

Embaci is a multidisciplinary artist and musician of Trinidadian heritage, born and based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice weaves sound, technology, and storytelling into celestial, shape-shifting forms, guided by her voice moving between resonance and distortion—as both
an instrument and a portal. Trained as a contralto opera singer, she fuses classical technique with experimental production, dissolving genre boundaries through improvisation and play. https://soundcloud.com/embaci

Joy Guidry is a bassoonist, versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer of experimental, daring new works that embody a deep love of storytelling; Joy’s music channels her inner child in honor of their ancestors and predecessors. The San Diego Tribune has hailed her performances as “lyrical and haunting…hair-raising and unsettling.” https://guidrybassoon.bandcamp.com/album/five-prayers