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Michel Auder, a
Frenchman living in New York, has been making
video since the late 1960s. His early works are
intimate observations of the New York art and
glam scene, in particular of the life in and
around Andy Warhol’s Factory. Portraits of
artists such as Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie
Sprinkle, or Cindy Sherman, video plays featuring
Gary Indiana, Cookie Mueller, Jackie Curtis, and
Taylor Mead, as well as television collages and
videos of his adventurous travels to Morocco,
Bolivia and Vanuatu complete his oeuvre.
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Auder’s fascination with the possibility of
turning daily life into pictorial fiction by
means of an optical apparatus was the initial
reason to pick up a camera. His life is mirrored
in work that is characterized by pleasure - the
pleasure to observe himself and his surroundings
precisely and diligently, a kind of voyeurism
paired with a distance to himself. Auder’s
films and videos are neither purely documentary,
since they are not distanced in an enlightened
way and do not have pedagogical intentions, nor
are they fictional film. He is concerned with the
depiction of intimacy paired with the conscious
pleasure of looking. The exhibition will be
accompanied by an illustrated 68-page catalog,
the first major publication on the artist. It
includes essays and interviews by the curator
Heike Munder, and by Christoph Gerozissis,
director of AC Project Room, New York, Yvette
Brackman, artist and writer living in New York,
as well as Mark Webber, freelance film and video
curator and member of the band PULP.
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Michel
Auder
Video, Film & Photography 1969-2001
ROOSEUM PROVISORIUM
The new activities of Malmö’s Center for
Contemporary Art
8 September – 14 October, 2001
The first ever retrospective of the French/US
film maker Michel Auder, a new regional project
focused on young artists and the launch of the
microcinema and new ‘Future archive’
continue the progress of the new Rooseum towards
a fluid, multi-function art space.
Michel Auder began as a filmmaker in Paris during
the 1960s, having been influenced by the poet
Arthur Rimbaud and the innovative ideas of
Jean-Luc Godard. In 1969 he left for New York and
joined Andy Warhol and the Chelsea Hotel circle.
Around this time he purchased the first
commercially available video camera, and has
since shot thousands of hours of footage on an
almost continuous basis.
For Michel Auder, the camera functions as a
personal means of expression, documenting the
people, places and events in his immediate
surroundingsto form intimate portraits and
personal reflections on real life. The
inspiration for his work is drawn from everyday
life and media,TV in particular, and occasionally
he has made direct recordings of telephone
conversations.The overall impression of his work
presents an image of a stunningly open and
unprejudiced viewer subject, depicting the life
of which he is an intimate part.
The Rooseum exhibition with Michel Auder and the
microcinema and present video, film and
photography from over thirty years of his
production. It is the first major manifestation
of his work and the exhibition is also important
as a reference for younger video artists who have
emerged in the 1990s. We will present a large
variety of documentaries, biographies,
travelogues and feature films where the
political, the sensual, everyday realism and the
poetic are woven into one another. |
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