
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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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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Scriptings#26
Voix-off: ... et de nous il s'en fout pas mal le langage
Off-Stimme: ... aber wir sind der Sprache scheißegal
A translation by Dominique Hurth and Achim Lengerer.
archive books, Dieffenbachstraße 31, 10967 Berlin, Germany,
http://www.archivebooks.org/
Tuesday, 28. February, 20.30 hours.
The event will be held in German and French.
Placing things like gestures in space. Arranging things with hands, bringing them together for a time: in the dilapidated Parisian shops in Les Halles that are desperately trying to make their façades presentable again, I find a correspondence in a library: “I received your letter . . . read it again and again, dear friend, signed Fernand Deligny, November 16, 1968.” And the title of films I had shamefully never heard of: Ce gamin-là and Le Moindre Geste. The slightest gesture. The lesser gesture. That’s right, that’s actually how it should be when we, you, I, make things — preserving, discovering, guiding the slightest, lesser, smallest, indescribable, cautious, most nondescriptible gestures. Looking further — a large, beautiful book, printed in French on extremely thin paper; this is what there is of the author. Not so much in German, of course: from Merve, a volume from the seventies, “Ein Floss in den Bergen". I talked to T., who is running Merve now, if there is a chance to re-publish parts of the book within my Scriptings series. He agreed spontaneously. But since our first talk a professional "publisher" came up with the same idea. Good so! But still ... still the VOIX-OFF OF DELIGNY caught me like some first sentences in books can do. So I asked Dominique and we started working, cautiously translating into German the voice-over of Ce gamin-là, like real amateurs would do: attached to it without pay or training, pure amateurs.