read me, city / luft 1

The Berlin presentation at the Lettrétage is conceived as a literary evening in which performative readings and projections of visual and video works intertwine. Spoken texts, urban interventions and digital transformations enter into an open dialogue. Writing becomes voice, image becomes text, public space becomes a resonant space. The programme consists of a reading and projections lasting approximately 50–60 minutes.

Since 2002, .aufzeichnensysteme has referred to an interface between literature, visual and auditory art as a concept / project by Hanne Römer, an author and artist based in Vienna since 2000. Studied art history, media studies and printmaking at Philipps University of Marburg, MA 1997. Publications, radio plays, radio art on Austrian public radio / Kunstradio, intermedia projects since 2002. Runner-up for the Heimrad Bäcker Prize 2018, Vienna Literature Scholarship 2016, Austrian State Scholarship for Literature 2011.


Augusta Laar lives and works as a poet and artist in Munich and Vienna. She studied musicology and piano in Munich and poetry at the School of Poetry in Vienna (where she was a student of Nick Cave, among others). In addition to traditional art forms such as photography, video and drawing, she engages with installations, cross-disciplinary and interactive art projects. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. In 2022, Laar was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize (Art).

Nika Pfeifer works as a transmedia artist with text, image and performance in Brussels and Vienna. Her works explore language as a visual and conceptual substance across various media. Presentations include the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, flucc Kunstsalon, Srishti at Rangoli Metro Art Centre Bangalore, sophiensæle Berlin, and WUK Vienna. Publications in nevertheless and springerin. Numerous grants (including from the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the City of Vienna) and residencies: Max Kade Arizona, Georgetown University. Interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Vienna/Lancaster University.

Jörg Piringer lives and works in Vienna. He is a writer, sound artist and computer scientist. He is a founding member of the Institute for Transacoustic Research and the “Vegetable Orchestra”. Piringer’s body of work includes numerous performances, sound artworks, texts, videos and animations, including *datenpoesie* (2018), ich/meines/mir/mich (2016), abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, darkvoice (2019), konsonant and letter singles. In 2021, Jörg Piringer received the City of Vienna Media Art Prize.