Helke Sander: I like chaos, but I don’t know whether chaos likes me
Texts from “Frauen und Film”. The newly published texts focus on central questions of feminist film work.
5,99 € – 15,00 €
The monographic publication Helke Sander: I like chaos, but I don’t know whether chaos likes me comprises texts from “Frauen und Film” (women and film), the first feminist German-language film magazine founded and edited by Helke Sander in 1974.
The texts selected for publication focus on central issues of feminist film work, economic and legal conditions and, above all, their structural conditions in social relations and the radical critique of them.
In the publication, the reprints of the texts from “Frauen und Film” are accompanied by a conversation between Helke Sander and the film scholar Elena Meilicke on the beginnings and the context of the journal’s development. In order to additionally illustrate the close connection between the practice of writing and the cinematic work, excerpts from a working version of the screenplay of Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers are published for the first time.
The publication makes Sander’s texts, in both analogue and digital versions, accessible for the ongoing debate on production conditions and gender relations for subsequent generations of artists.
Scriptings’ reader format “Political Scenarios” is published in collaboration with Archive Books and the e-book publisher EECLECTIC. The aim is to publish carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic nor to purely literary forms of writing, but embed “text” as an integral part of a contemporary political art practice.
Achim Lengerer (Hg.)
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 (Hg.)
As a publisher, lecturer and art director, Janine Sack is interested in the different media possibilities of presenting and contextualising the respective topics.
She conceives and designs all forms of publications: e-books, books, websites as well as magazines and newspapers (most recently redesign of the “taz”, 2017; from 2008–2012 the weekly newspaper “der Freitag”).
She is part of the journalistic network Drucken Heften Laden, which publishes the quarterly newsletter Paper News in addition to joint trade fair participations and a series of events.
Until 2009, she worked as a visual artist with a special focus on the relationship of the subject to its media representation. She co-founded the artist groups frauen•und•technik and -Innen and is currently part of the feminist network #PurpleNoise.
Eds.: Achim Lengerer, Janine Sack
Text: Uta Berg-Ganschow, Valie Export, Helge Heberle, Elfriede Irrall, Elena Meilicke, Helke Sander and Ula Stöckl
Design: Julie Högner, Archive Appendix
Design e-book: Janine Sack, Camila Coutinho
German
Approx. 250 pages, 28 illustrations
epub (10 MB)
September 2021
ISBN 978-3-947295-63-0
5,99 Euro
Bundle (book and e-book):
242 pages, 28 illustrations
Softcover
ISBN 978-3-947295-74-6
15,00 Euro
Published as a book by: Scriptings / Archive Books
ISBN 978-3-948212-63-6
12,00 Euro
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