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/Berlin and Saprophyt/Vienna invite you to:

“Dinge und Dialoge”

Opening: 5.12.2015, 19.00
Scriptings, Kamerunerstr.47, 13351 Berlin

20.00 Performative reading by Barbara Kapusta

Artists: Daniel Heinrich (Berlin), Kathi Hofer (Berlin/Vienna), Barbara Kapusta (Vienna), Ulrike Köppinger (Vienna), Katrin Mayer (Berlin), Ulrike Müller (New York/Vienna), Rocco Pagel (Berlin), Jenni Tischer (Berlin).

The exhibition will be on view until 31 January 2016
Visits by appointment
Event: 30 January 2016
Participants and further details to be announced.

We are pleased announce the exhibition “Dinge und Dialoge” at “Scriptings”, Achim Lengerer’s showroom and publishing house. It is a project that has evolved over a long time frame, the concept of the exhibition emerging in continouus exchange between us and our individual artistic practices.

The exhibition explores the relationship between the material character of things and the physical existence of the observer. We read the language of objects and ask questions about the particular, unique standpoint from which we can speak and perceive. Where everyday objects and art objects concur, due to their similarities and differences, their status becomes productive.

Our questions are addressed to the objects as well as the observer:
The possibility of seeing differences in objects, or to recognise an object as something distinct, is dependent on the capacity of seeing and comprehending. What is the difference between the everyday objects that surround us, ubiquitous technological objects and the art objects that we want to talk about here?
Are we actually touched in a specific way by objects that others direct at us? Is it a gesture sent in our direction, which upon decrypting itself possibly reveals and formulates an idea, one which is both carried by it and the source of it?

The exhibition accompanies a two-part publication realised in collaboration with the Viennese design agency Studio Vie and an event in January 2016.

Barbara Kapusta, Jenni Tischer and Rocco Pagel Vienna/Berlin, Winter 2015

SAPROPHYT is a nomadic platform for exhibitions, discussions and an open dialogue between artists, curators, writers and theorists.

www.saprophyt.net

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