Achim Lengerer works with questions of language that he either thematizes in his performances or spatializes within his installations. In the last years Lengerer founded different collaborative projects: "labelfuerproduktion" (2005) was initiated by Lengerer as a collaborative, process-oriented art project that presented performances, exhibitions and events at institutions like Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna or Kunstverein Braunschweig. He co-founded the artist-run space "freitagsküche" in Frankfurt a. M. in 2004 that moved to Berlin later on. The third long-term project, "voiceoverheard," is a collaboration with artist colleague Dani Gal. On the basis of archived sound documents, mainly speeches, the artists develop exhibitions and performances a. o. at INSA Art Space, Seoul, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Portikus, Frankfurt and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. Since 2009 Lengerer runs the travelling showroom and instant publishing house "Scriptings" which is about to publish its 10th issue: "Speech practice Dissasembling voice" in collaboration with IASPIS,SW, end of March 2010. Lengerer writes currently on his first novel in script-form "Zoooom I+II".

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