Scriptings: Political Scenarios
Scriptings is a publishing project initiated 2009 by the visual artist Achim Lengerer. Scriptings works in cooperation with international artists, theoreticians, writers and activists on forms of presentations that concern political debates and that are addressed within performative script writing and other types of non-academic text.
In addition to the ephemera and publication entitled Scriptings, the project also sets in motion the production of exhibitions, films, radio plays, often in collaboration with an informal temporary working group. Thus a series of gestures rather than objects are performed in-between performative modes of language and its shelter or storage: notebook, document and script.
Scriptings‘ new reader series ”Political Scenarios” is published and internationally distributed by Archive Books and also made available in technological innovative form as an e-book by EECLECTIC – Digital Publishing for Visual Culture. The goal remains to publish carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic forms nor to purely literary forms of writing, but rather embed “text” as a fully integral part of contemporary political and visual art practice.
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I Speak Radio
Artistic essay on the feminist appropriation of the young radio technology of the 1920s and the reading versions of Bromley’s radiophonic walks with portraits from Kosovo
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Aus der ersten Person. Filmische Autobiografien/Autofiktion (AT)
A personal exploration of the field of cinematic autobiography/autofiction
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Leseproben zu Peter Weiss / The Trotsky Rehearsals
Artistic research on aesthetics of political speech in East and West Germany in connection with the play Trotsky in Exile by Peter Weiss
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Voix-off: … aber wir sind der Sprache scheissegal
The publication documents Lengerer’s engagement with the French educator, writer and filmmaker Fernand Deligny (1913–1996).
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The Interpreter Dis/appears (AT)
Artistic research project on ethical questions and the political meaning of translation from and into different languages in the context of state asylum procedures in France
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Territoires – Filmtranskripte
First monographic publication on the cultural producer’s films about the legacy of the German colonial project in Cameroon and Germany
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Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants
5,99 € – 15,00 €First monograph of writing by visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
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Helke Sander: I like chaos, but I don’t know whether chaos likes me
5,99 € – 15,00 €Texts from “Frauen und Film”. The newly published texts focus on central questions of feminist film work.
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My Name Is Language
6,99 € – 17,00 €In the fictive worlds represented in this book, society is not centralized, not oversized, and self-naming is brought forward as a form of self-empowerment and resistance.
