In 2019 Lengerer visited his friend, the Japanese filmmaker Goh Harrada, in Tokyo. Presenting sketch-footage of the trip, excerpts from Harrada’s digitial films, and excerpts of conversations between Lengerer and Harrada about socially normed conditions of labour, filmmaking as a “small form” of a resistant, amateurish practice in a highly efficient meritocracy, the contribution aims to articulate the complex transcultural negotiations of a long-standing friendship between Frankfurt, Berlin, and Tokyo.

 

Achim Lengerer works on political questions of speech and language that he thematizes in performances, radio plays or spatializes within installations, and publications. Lengerer co-founded different collaborative projects such as Freitagsküche in Frankfurt a. M. and voiceoverhead, with artist colleague Dani Gal. Since 2009 Lengerer runs the Berlin-based publishing and production house Scriptings. Artists, writers, filmmakers, performers as well as activists are invited – all of whom are working with the formats of script and text within their processes of production.