17.03.2010
Corner College, 7 pm

 
voiceoverhead
Dani Gal / Achim Lengerer


“voiceoverhead” is an ongoing project by Achim Lengerer (Germany/Netherlands) and Dani Gal (Israel/Germany) that deals with performative aspects of speech, sound documents and archived spoken language. In the past years  “voiceoverhead” realized exhibitions and performances in close collaboration with other visual artists, musicians and filmmakers in various venues such as INSA ART SPACE, Seoul; SMART Project Space, Amsterdam; PORTIKUS, Frankfurt am Main and  DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM, Berlin.

During the evening Lengerer and Gal will play two sound compositions while presenting their collaborative project:

“Relational view” (2007)
The documentation of a visit Gal and Lengerer made to the London studio of the British artist William Furlong. The work is a reference to Furlong’s  Audio Arts archive of interviews with artists and to his own sound pieces.

“The ballot or the bullet” (2009)
The recording of a live-performance at the 2nd Herzliya Biennale in Israel in which the artists worked with the montaging and layering of different sound and spoken language documents.


Dani Gal, born in Jerusalem, 1975. Live and work in Berlin. He is the winner of the Ares Viva award in 2009 and will take part with a solo project in Art Basel 41 Statements and in the Loge Biennale, Poland 2010. Recently Gal took part in group exhibitions in Kölnscher Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, Fondazione Torino Musei, Italy and Galeria d'art Estrany De la mota, Barcelona.

 

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, “voiceoverhead”, 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”.