CAMILLE AUER
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
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
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