Frontpage

A poster announces an event, for which guests from Cameroon, India, and Lebanon were invited to orally translate excerpts from Courierspeak, a phrase-book for couriers of museum objects.

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Courierspeak

1993

Display of a particular, thematically meandering selection of printed matter, alluding to topics like “mask”, “speech” and “cultures”. Compiled from existing publications and ephemera by the artist, or by other artists and writers, it was layed out towards the gallery window.

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‹Hinrich Sachs›

1994

Essay by Louis-Jacques Dorais, edited by Hinrich Sachs and Fredrik Ehlin

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A Written Orality

2018

Podcast conversation between Marie-France Rafael and Hinrich Sachs, about the multi-author editorial framework Fog Friend Font: Ways of Doing Multilingual Sense.

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Displaying Multilingualism?

2020

A set of 12 volumes – 11 of them blank, the twelfth acting as a kind of index merely constituted by titles –, various papers, various dimensions, covers in green heavy duty paper, blind blocking, letterpress printing, in an edition of six. With an afterword by the writer and literary scholar Marianne Schuller.

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Die Biografie

1991

…aims at mediating the history of French
public TV from a contemporary perspective, by featuring Trépido, a gentle, mindful and witty snail character from the former children’s program 1, Rue Sesame.

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Ernest, R2-D2, Trépido (parler aux humains)

2019

A large architectural model, based on the Musée
du quai Branly, a museum for non-western cultures in Paris, is floating at eye level, lit, against the backdrop of a monochrome wall. A label-like flatscreen is playing press clippings referring to
the planning of the Paris museum, as of 1996.

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Museum (merveilleux, amazing, einfach schön)

2007

A poster, a flyer, and newspaper ads announce an evening of public discussion. The invited participants of the panel are a heartsurgeon, a canyoning professional, a self-employed architect, and a sociologist, who debate risks, and the concept of risk in their respective activities and fields.

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Risiko(verhalten)

1998