Michel
Auder, Morocco Chronicles, 1971, video stills.
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http://www.michelauder.com
designed by: Krabbesholm Hojskole
Per Andersen & Kurt Finsten
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http://www.michelauder.com is
a new website presenting the work of one of
the pioneers in video art, Michel Auder.
Born in Soisson, France, in 1945, Auder began making films at the age of
18. As an aspiring young filmmaker, he was influenced by the French New
Wave and experimental cinema, most notably Jean-Luc Godard and Andy
Warhol.
In 1969 Auder met and eventually married Viva - one of Warhol's
principal
talents. A year later, they moved to New York where he has since
resided.
Since 1970 he has persistently documented people, places and events that
are his life.
Video allowed Auder to translate Warhol's talent for making the banal
glamorous and the glamorous banal into a diary practice. His earliest
works are simply called Chronicles. They have no narrative structure,
but
are lengthy excerpts culled (not edited) from hundreds of hours of raw
footage. This material formed the basis for video travel logs and
endearing portraits of friends from a cultural milieu including the
likes
of Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, Louis Waldon
and Larry Rivers, to name a few.
Michel Auder is a consummate voyer, one who literally reads scenes of
intimacy, exchange and daily life as verses of poetry unto themselves.
His
work functions as a collection of personal documents, as a protrait of a
particular cultural milieu and as history of the video medium.
In addition to stills from some of the artist's videos throughout the
course of his career, http://www.micehlauder.com
features photos and texts
including a biography.
Design: Krabbesholm Hojskole
Per Andersen & Kurt Finsten
post@krabbesholm.dk
http://www.krabbesholm.dk
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