Opening: Michel Auder at Aurel Scheibler
New York-based French artist Michel Auder will open his first Berlin solo show titled Heads of the Town today, Friday, February 6 at Aurel Scheibler. Borrowing liberally from his friend, the poet Jack Spicer, Auder interprets the title My Vocabulary Did This to Me to produce new work that “remains self-referential in its treatment of the work of art and the medium of film.” After 40 years of collecting images obsessively in his video-diary and documentary style, Auder has a personal archive that can be mined for an infinite amount of conceptual reconfigurations. In this particular installation, he borrows another title from Spicer (Heads of the Town) to guide the interplay between his images and original sound.
From the press release:
The artist Jonas Mekas wrote about Auder: “And yes, Auder is a poet; he isn’t a realist. A poet of moods, faces, situations, brief encounters, tragic moments of our miserable civilization, the suffering. And yes, also human vanity, ridiculousness.”
These inward reflections and sustained productivity come at an important time in Auder’s career, following the success of The Feature, his collaboration with Andrew Neel (grandson of Alice Neel), which won the New Vision Award at the CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen in November 2008. The recent recognition will hopefully turn a critical eye back on Auder. He is underrecognised for his contributions to video art and filmmaking, which resonate in contemporary styles like that of Andrew Bujalski and even the deluge that is YouTube. Anthology Film Archives will screen The Feature from March 18-24 and you shouldn’t miss it.
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