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.

Scriptings#14: The Nondescript of our Gestures
by Achim LENGERER
Temporary screens and projections with film clips by Fernand Deligny, Renaud Victor, a.o.
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Tue Nov 16, 2010, 7 p.m.

Seminar room 40112, GEIWI-Tower (1. floor)
University of Innbruck / Institute for Comparative Literature
Innrain 52, Innsbruck

Admission free
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projection screens for f.d.

Scriptings#14: The Nondescript of our Gestures

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 an unknown film I had never heard of: Le Moindre Geste. That’s right, Achim, that’s actually how it should be when we, I, make things—preserving, discovering, guiding the slightest, smallest, indescribable, cautious, most nondescript gestures. Looking further—a large, beautiful book, printed in French on extremely thin paper; that’s what there is of the author. Not so much in German, of course: from Merve (as usual) a volume from the seventies: “Ein Floss in den Bergen". A book that lies, like a discarded teddy bear, sequestered in storage at the university library in Innsbruck (with places, I also change books), so that it is no longer possible to access its worn-out greenery.
I have, however, gotten my hands onto one passage: “It happens that a certain drifting gesture—geste de dérive—suddenly becomes a guiding gesture—geste dérive—which is as much a gesture as a thing. The most nondescript of our gestures is initially a thing, and the unassuming thing can conjure an entire world of gestures.”*
*Fernand Deligny, Ein Floss in den Bergen / A Raft in the Mountains

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