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.

The website is currently being redesigned; content will be updated by the end of November 2026.

Reader series: Scriptings Political Scenarios The multilingual reader series Scriptings: Political Scenarios publishes carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic forms nor to purely literary forms of writing, but rather embed “text” as a fully integral part of contemporary political and visual art practice. Editor of the series is Achim Lengerer.

Nicoline van Harskamp: My Name Is Language. Edited by Achim Lengerer (2020)

Helke Sander: I like chaos, but I don't know whether chaos likes me. Texte aus "Frauen und Film". Edited by Achim Lengerer and Janine Sack (2021)

Lyónn Wolf (formerly Emma Wolf-Haugh): Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants. Edited by Achim Lengerer (2022)

Anna Bromley: I Speak Radio. Edited by Achim Lengerer and Michael Fesca (2024)

Esther Buss: Aus der ersten Person. Filmische Autobiografien / Autofiktion Herausgegeben von Achim Lengerer (2025)

Virginie Bobin: L'interprète dis/paraît The Interpreter Dis/Appears Edited by Virginie Bobin & Achim Lengerer (2025)

Brigitta Kuster; „Territoires – Filmtranskripte“ Herausgegeben von Achim Lengerer (2025)


Distributed by Archive Books (print): https://www.archivebooks.org/

Distributed by Eeclectic (e-pub): https://eeclectic.de/reihe/scriptings-political-scenarios/
 
 
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