Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants
First monograph of writing by visual artist Lyónn Wolf interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
5,99 € – 15,00 €
Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants is the first monograph of writing by visual artist Lyónn Wolf interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
Over the past decade Wolf has developed an interdisciplinary practice, which incorporates and overlaps installation, performance, and experimental workshop formats, in which the practice of self- and collective DIY publishing often serves as a kind of porous container to re-combine and bundle their multifaceted activities with text.
The publication gathers together these texts, traversing particular cultural and historical sites, the lived present and imagined futures, incorporating auto-fiction and anecdote as part of a tradition of queer-transfeminist working class vernacular and ethics, promiscuous and adept at working within limitations.
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.
Lyónn Wolf (Emma Wolf-Haugh)
Lyónn Wolf is a visual artist, educator and writer-based in Berlin and Dublin and working internationally. Lyónn’s work is shaped by economic necessity, engaging forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera that result in soft modularity, wild archiving, and performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation, and authorship. Their pedagogical and publishing work posits the imagination as a political tool with radical potential that can exist and erupt anywhere and at any time.
Wolf has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer and transfeminist economies and spatial politics. The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public, and Domestic Optimism have been exhibited through various iterations at: The Project Arts Centre Dublin, The Grazer Kunstverein Graz and De Appel Amsterdam, among other places.
Lyónn is co-founder of ‘The Many Headed-Hydra’, aqueous-mythmaking-decolonising collective, since 2015 and founder of ‘The Reading Troupe’ – Disruptive Pedagogy, workshop and instant publishing series, since 2013. Lyónn is the editor of Having A KiKi – Queer Desire & Public Space, PVA, 2016.
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.
Ed.: Achim Lengerer
Text: Lyónn Wolf (Emma Wolf-Haugh)
Design: Julie Högner, Archive Appendix
Design e-book: Janine Sack, Camila Coutinho
English
Approx. 200 pages, 33 illustrations, 2 videos, 1 audio file
epub (46 MB)
October 2022
ISBN 978-3-947295-75-3
5,99 Euro
Bundle (book and e-book):
208 pages, 33 illustrations
Softcover
ISBN 978-3-947295-65-4
15,00 Euro
Published as a book by: Scriptings / Archive Books
ISBN 978-3-948212-79-7
12,00 Euro
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