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« ... the audacity of the performer exposed under the lights, and the furtive hunger of the clandestine observer, the recursive loop of spectatorship and seduction. There is no redemption here. No masters, no saviors. We are all savage men at the mercy of one another. »
- Natalia Sielewicz
Excerpts from my film: Viva, pregnant, surrounded by fellow Warhol superstars Mario Montez and Taylor Mead, alongside Arthur C. Clarke, Shirley Clarke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonas Mekas, and more — all captured by me in 1970 at her book-signing event. She held a mic wired to my camera all night, interviewing each guest as they arrived.
The bird necklace she’s wearing was made and gifted to her by Mapplethorpe.
🎬 Michel Auder, Viva Superstar/ Booksigning, 1970, 61 min
Canvas video by @michelauder for Lichtung - new Telekaster single out today!
Streaming is what it is and everyone knows... but I prefer my almighty algorithms colourful. Big Shoutout to Michel - thanks a lot for adding this to the music! Feels like a beautiful memory glitch. Streaming links in bio - or check for Telekaster on your favourite platform.
Canvas plays on Spotify.
#telekaster #kosmischemusik #ambientguitar #cosmicmusic #newrelease #canvas #ambientjazz #nujazz #saxophone #indiemusician #leftfieldmusic #michelauder
FINAL WEEK | Closes Saturday, October 25
Through a ghostwriter, Michel Auder invites us to linger on image, memory, and the passage of time. Within these works, perception and narrative quietly intertwine.
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In ghostwriter, Auder presents ‘Chasing the Dragon’(1982), a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life- filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor- becomes the “ghost” of the person, a doubled identity that can never fully capture its subject. The work also conjures the spectral presence of a long-gone New York City, an uncanny body-double on the verge of austerity and collapse.
Michel Auder: ghostwriter is on wiew at Martos Gallery until October 25th.
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Ghostwriter
The figure of the ghostwriter—like a body double or shadow self—touches the fragile threshold between who we are and how we are perceived by others, between the stories we tell ourselves and the ways others inscribe us into their memories.
Embodying a kind of haunting, spectral presence, where another’s voice and agency subtly inhabit one’s space, the ghostwriter challenges the clear boundaries of the individual subject or author.
Throughout his life-long practice, Michel Auder has used the moving image to reflect on his own life, New York’s artistic milieu, and the world at large, often recording semi-staged performances and portraits of fellow artists from the downtown scene. His eye and his camera, in a Proustian sense, serve as instruments for capturing reality, while his ever-shifting approach to archive and memory organizes events into fluid, evolving realms of meaning.
This exhibition brings together traces, meshes, and specters of various poetic exercises, where ghostwriting—understood here loosely and fleetingly as a shadow of the self—becomes a way to practice distortion, unsettling both authenticity and the very concept of identity.
At the entrance to the gallery, Auder presents Chasing the Dragon, a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor—becomes the “ghost” of the person, a doubled identity that can never fully capture its subject. The work also conjures the spectral presence of a long-gone New York City, an uncanny body-double on the verge of austerity and collapse.
The film Meshes of Derivatives explores emerging technology as a ghostwriting apparatus, where the vast archives amassed by our phones and the algorithmic organization of memory orchestrate a constant transformation of remembering and forgetting, choice and interpretation.
COME-ON MY LITTLE SPIDERS! COME!COME TO SEE DADDY’S Videos! GHOSTWRITER @martos_gallery
SCREENING-Chasing the Dragons 1981 (43 minutes)
INSTALLATION:
-Meshes of derivatives-2025-
-48 hours in 8 minutes- 1978-
-Hunters-2025- -MichelangeloByMichelauder-2025-
