CAMILLE AUER
Born 1984
Lives and works in Turku, Finland
ckauerr (A) gmail.com
Camille Auer works with sound, words, digital image and direct action. Her subject matter is the friction and diffraction that takes place in and between micro and macro realities, subject and object formation, matter and meaning, and marginalised individuals in an oppressive society. Currently supported by 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
working with birds
2021
Deep Time Trans_______ with Teo Ala-Ruona, Even Minn 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
emotional noise torture
empty ritual
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 at 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
2014
remain impossible. broken landscapes /// exhibition at B-galleria, turku
/// MEMBERSHIPS ///
artists’ association Arte (vice chair of board 2020, chair of board 2021)
AV-Arkki, the Centre for Finnish Media Art
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