About

Deep Time Trans / Photo: Tristan Petsola

CAMILLE AUER

PORTFOLIO

email: cimalle (A) duck.com

Camille Auer is a trans-disciplinary artist and writer. Her art practice has always been theory driven, but instead of illustrating existing theories, she uses forms ranging from sound, moving image, performance and text-based installations to contribute to theoretical discourse as modes of thinking in their own right. A common theme in her diverse body of work is the othering of trans and nonhuman bodies, such as herself or queer birds. Her work has been shown and published in The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki), Wäinö Aaltonen Museum (Turku) and Atlas Arts (Skye, Scotland) among others. Her work is currently supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

/// EDUCATION ///

2012-2016

Aalto University, Finland

Master of Arts

Master’s programme in Visual Culture and Contemporary Art

2005-2010

Turku University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor of Culture and Arts

Degree Programme in Media Arts

Film Art

__________ selected works _______________

2022

Air Moving Through Feathers, Drawing a Sense of Shape Around Us____ATLAS Arts

180 common cranes____________ATLAS Arts

Ruff Knowledge__________Astra tidskriften #3-4 2022

working with birds

2021

Deep Time Trans_______ Baltic Circle with Teo Ala-Ruona, Even Minn, Alvi Haapamäki, Satu Kankkonen, Eeti Piiroinen et al

Hyperbody _____________ MAA-tila with Nadiye Koçak

Gentle Gestures – Non-binary Conceptions of Difference___ Titanik as curator

Phenomenological Birdwatching__________ PVF, Festival for Political Photography

Luonto ei ole hetero_______ Niin & Näin philosophical journal and PVF, Festival for Political Photography

2020

Seepage__________________ Titanik and Third Space

end ending beginning beginning _________________ Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2, Frame Contemporary Art Finland

seep through me_________________ Ante Nouveau 2

Time as a Surface_______________Mapping the Pauses: Printed Matter

2019

trash island and Significant Otherness _____________ Today Is Our Tomorrow

Girldick III

Collaborative Epistemologies______________Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland

emotional noise torture_____________noise performances

empty ritual____________noise performances

2018

trash island ___________________ PPLATS curated by Nayab Ikram

Kietoutuminen / Entanglement ________________ Galleria Rajatila and B-galleria

the smallest movement / pienin liike ____________ Mustarinda curated by nynnyt

Antiphallic Dick II__________________TransFolk Kucku, Loviisa

Songs for late stage capitalism________noise performances at Maunula Electronic, Maanalainen, Titanik gallery, B-galleria, Kirjakahvila and Kupoli

2017

Antiphallic Dick ______The Paulo Foundation exhibition curated by Elis Hannikainen

The truth about Finland _______group exhibition and publication curated by Porin kulttuurisäätö

a series of photographs at the internet gallery of The Finnish Museum of Photography

noise performances_______Barker-teatteri, Vapaan taiteen tila and JOZIK FEST IV

2016

Cimalle Handpoked ________ongoing, contemporary tattoo work

Girldick II ________ongoing, zine project on the corporealities of transfeminine existence

Monument for the Excluded ________public action, installation and essay

remain impossible _________experimental essay on destructuring hierarchies

2015

Girldick I

2014

remain impossible. broken landscapes _______B-galleria

/// MEMBERSHIPS ///

artists’ association Arte (vice chair of board 2020, chair of board 2021)

AV-Arkki, the Centre for Finnish Media Art