Helke Sander: I like chaos, but I don’t know whether chaos likes me

Achim Lengerer (Ed.)

In his artistic practise, Achim Lengerer deals with the political effects and functions of language and text. In addition to cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, his forms of expression include performative lectures and events.

Lengerer founded various collaborative projects, including the freitagsküche in Frankfurt on the Main. Since 2009, Lengerer has run the mobile exhibition space and publishing house Scriptings.

2017 Participation in documenta 14 with the 21-hour radio work different time, different place, different pitch (with Dani Gal) produced by Savvy Funk and Deutschlandfunk. PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Helke Sander

Helke Sander, born 1937 in Berlin, German filmmaker and author. In 1968 she was a co-founder of the “Aktionsrat zur Befreiung der Frauen” (Action Council for the Liberation of Women), in 1974 founder and until 1981 editor of the magazine “Frauen und Film” (women and film). From 1981 to 2003 she was a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. Films among others: Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers (The All-Around Reduced Personality – Outtakes, 1978), Nr. 1 – aus Berichten der Wach- und Patrouillendienste (From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services Part 1, 1985), Dorf (Village, 2001), Mitten im Malestream (2005).

Janine Sack (Ed.)

Janine Sack works as a publisher, art director and lecturer in Berlin. Since 2018, she has been running the publishing project EECLECTIC (Digital Publishing for Visual Culture), which was awarded the German Publishing Prize in 2024. She is part of the publishing network Drucken Heften Laden, which deals with topics of independent publishing in event and publication formats. As an art director, she has worked for the weekly newspaper “der Freitag” and redesigned the “taz”. She teaches visual communication with a focus on digital publishing (e.g. Merz Akademie, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin). She was a founding member of the artist groups frauen-und-technik and -Innen and is part of the technofeminist research network #PurpleNoise (e.g. #shareyourair, Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2023).