During the evening Achim Lengerer and Dani Gal will play the composition "What you doin' tapin'", an oral documentation of a visit they made to the London studio of British artist William Furlong. "What you doin' tapin'" is a reference to Furlong's Audio Arts archive of interviews with artists and to Furlong's other sound pieces. Lengerer and Gal have been collaborating since 2006 on their project "voiceoverhead". "voiceoverhead" deals with performative aspects of speech, sound documents and archived spoken language. In the past years they have 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; DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM, Berlin and recently at FORUM EXPANDED, BERLINALE together with Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin. In addition to their listening session Gal and Lengerer will present further interviews and tapes from the Audio Arts Archive and will launch their new poster and CD edition.

Dani Gal
born in Jerusalem, 1975, Lives and works in Berlin. Gal is the winner of the Ars Viva award for 2009. His work has been exhibited in a solo project for Art Basel 41: Statements, as well as in the Loge Biennial, Poland, 2010. He has shown in group exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Fondazione Torino Musei, Italy; and Galeria d'art Estrany De la mota, Barcelona. His work is currently on view in the 54th Biennale di Venezia.

Achim Lengerer
is an artist working in Berlin and Amsterdam. He deals with questions of language, which he realizes in performances, publications and installations. He has been running the traveling exhibition space and publishing house Scriptings since 2009. Scriptings functions as a discursive platform, building on and running parallel to Lengerer’s solo projects. Artists, writers, graphic designers, performers, and publishers – all those who make use of “script” and “text” formats in their respective production processes – are invited to take part in Scriptings. Lengerer is currently working on a publication and performance in multiple parts called "ZOOOOM: Little Body Beating Heart".

Audio Arts Archive and William Furlong
was launched in 1973 by Barry Barker and British sculptor William Furlong (b.1944, GB). From 1973 to 2006, Audio Arts published 25 volumes of 4 issues of the Audio Arts Cassettes (later releasing LPs and CDs as well). Interviewees include: Andy Warhol, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert & George, Yoko Ono, R. Buckminster Fuller, Hermann Nitsch, Mario Merz, Gerhard Richter, Nam June Paik, as well as an interview with WB Yeats' daughter and readings by Yeats himself. With the acquisition of the Audio Arts archive by Tate Britain, London, in 2004, over 200 boxes of master tapes used to edit the magazine are now secured for research.

*Kindly supported by Jan-van-Eyck Academie, NL

With thanks to Galerie und Buchandlung Barbara Wien/Wilma Lukatsch

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PERFORMANCES IN HANSAVIERTEL
PERFORMANCES IN HANSAVIERTEL is a series of performances based on sound and spoken word, irregularly organized by THE OFFICE. The events take place at TIERGARTEN EINS in Berlin's neighborhood of Hansaviertel. THE OFFICE invites artists and other cultural producers to develop a site specific project for the particular acoustics at the ground floor of Eternithaus. The building was constructed by the architect Paul Baumgarten in 1957 for IBA, the International Construction Fair. The city of Berlin has invited numerous, highly prestigious architects such as Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Bruno Taut, and others, built a new urban plan according to how they imagined the modern city of the future.

THE OFFICE
Based in Berlin, THE OFFICE temporarily occupies spaces throughout the city. The goal is to re-discover Berlin, to channel and transmit information, and provide space for discursive thinking around the arts. THE OFFICE is a collaboration between Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Fichtner, Fiona Geuss, Maribel Lopez and Kathrin Meyer. Founded in May 2009, THE OFFICE explores different models of cooperation between curators, writers and artists independent from the institutional context.
www.theoffice.li

TIERGARTEN EINS is a space for chance encounters. At once hidden and open, it is both retreat and stage, hosting diverse events ranging from garden parties to business meetings, from eclectic dinners to soccer screenings. In Fall 2009, TIERGARTEN EINS initiated FOYER, a series of art-related happenings to create memorable experiences in an intimate setting.
www.tiergarteneins.de

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www.theoffice.li

Tiergarten Eins (Eternithaus)
Altonaer Str. 1
10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
www.tiergarteneins.de

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Dani Gal and Achim Lengerer - WHAT YOU DOIN' TAPIN' (with William Furlong)*