Scriptings



Scriptings

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Achim Lengerer*Scriptings’ solo as well as cooperative artistic practice addresses the political effects and functions of speech and text. In addition to films, cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, the forms of this practice-in-conversations-with-others include performative lectures and events.

Additionally, Lengerer has founded various collaborative projects, including the freitagsküche in Frankfurt am Main. In 2006, together with Dani Gal, he created the project voiceoverhead, which deals with archived spoken language in the form of audio performances, exhibitions, and screenings.

Achim Lengerer studied at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, CZ; the Städelschule – Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main, DE; and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. He completed a postgraduate programme in artistic research at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, and received a doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, with a thesis on the performative format of the ‘Leseprobe’ (read-through) as an artistic model for spaces of social negotiation. He is currently head of the studio-practice and art research courses at the IKFK – Institute for Art History – Film Studies – Art Education at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Since 2009, Achim Lengerer has operated the mobile exhibition space and publishing house Scriptings, which acts as a discursive platform where various experimental ways of dealing with speech and writing are presented in collaboration with other artists, filmmakers, and authors. In addition to its films, audio pieces and performances, Scriptings also exists as a multilingual publication entitled “Political Scenarios”.

In 2017, Achim Lengerer took part in documenta 14 with the 21-hour radio work ‘different time, different place, different pitch’ (with Dani Gal), produced by Deutschlandfunk and SAVVY Contemporary.


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Kamerunerstr. 47 / 13351 Berlin / Germany
Tel. 0049 (0)30 63961810
Mobile: 0049 (0)152 5541 7858
E-mail: info@scriptings.net Near metro U6 Seestrasse or U8 Osloer Strasse
+ tramlines 13 and 50


Achim Lengerer*Scriptings solo as well as cooperative artistic practice addresses the political effects and functions of speech and text. In addition to films, cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, the forms of this practice-in-conversations-with-others include performative lectures and events.

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Symposium at Goldsmiths University and Birkbeck related to reading groups as a political format and the ongoing research on the "Trostsky Rehearsals/Proben zu Peter Weiss" organized in collaboration with Claudia Firth.

Birkbeck/Goldsmiths' Art Department, University of London
and The Field, New Cross.

Reading the Word, Reading the World
On Display:
The Aesthetics of Resistance*
 25th - 27th April 2016

Research Symposium organized by Claudia Firth (Cultural and Critical Studies, Birkbeck) and Achim Lengerer (Art Depart­ment, Goldsmiths) in collaboration with Kristien Van den Brande (Art Department, Goldsmiths), Cristina Ribas (Art Department, Goldsmiths) and Vera Weghmann (Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, Nottingham University). The events will take place at both Goldsmiths' Art Department and Birkbeck, with an informal workshop session to be hosted at The Field, an alternative community space in New Cross.

Taking Peter Weiss’ historical novel The Aesthetics of Resistance as a loose starting point, the symposium will take a sideways glance at questions of how we might ‘read’ leftist historical narratives. While deferring an interrogation of the term resistance to a later point in time (and a further symposium in October at Birkbeck), we will follow a thread of collective learning and sharing knowledge and ask how subjectivity and politics might intersect through the process of ‘reading' together. One of our questions will be: how are these processes of collective ‘reading‘ organised and what can we draw from this collective experience for a contemporary artistic-activist praxis.

Events include: debates on the crossovers between work; education and workers’ education from a historical and a contemporary perspective; the reading group as cultural, social and historical form in relation to The Aesthetics of Resistance; the historical essay as exhibition and films by Peter Weiss; reading groups as a practice outside or at the margins of institutions; the interrelations between collective reading and political praxis.

Please download Symposium programme here:
Reading the Word, Reading the World full programme

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