[Frameworks] TONIGHT - "The Jesus Show: video by Michel Auder/Andrew Neel" opening 6-9PM at MIcroscope

[LBurchill]

For those of you in the NY area, we have an opening tonight of video by
Michel Auder, a pioneer of the diarist video form, and fillmmaker Andrew
Neel.

*The Jesus Show*
*MICHEL AUDER | ANDREW NEEL**    *
January 12 – February 11, 2013
*Opening reception January 12, 6-9PM*



Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present *The Jesus Show,* a
two-person exhibition of video by Michel Auder and Andrew Neel. As final
Christmas sales figures are tallied and reported, *The Jesus Show *offers
a frank visual dialog between the friends and occasional collaborators on
the beliefs and motivations behind religious faith – especially the extreme
– and on the way advancing technology drives both the spectacle of religion
and the exploitation of the most ardent followers.

Together, Auder’s *Jesus* (59 minutes, originally VHS, 1979) – in which
underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs
among others– and Neel’s *15 Minutes of Jesus* (45 minutes, HD video, 2008)
– shot in a remote village in the Philippines during a bloody crucifixion
re-enactment ritual before thousands of spectators, tourists, and press –
raise questions about the nature of performance, subversion, devotion and
fame in both art and life.
MICHEL AUDER was born in Soissons, France. He was made to serve in the
French military as a photographer at a young age. Later in Paris he began
making films and was part of the Zanzibar film group during “May 68”.
 After moving to New York the next year, he bought a video camera. Since
then video has been his primary artistic medium. Auder’s work has been
exhibited and screened widely in North America and Europe at institutions
including at MoMA, The Whitney Musuem; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle
Wien, Austria; Center for Contemporary Art, Malmoe, Sweden; Philadelphia
Museum of Art; The Renaissance Society at the University of
Chicago; Anthology Film Archives; and many others. He has been a professor
in the sculpture department at Yale University and was appointed critic at
the Yale School of Art in 2009.

ANDREW NEEL has been working with film and video in various forms for more
than a decade. His works have previously exhibited or screened at galleries
and festivals including Freight & Volume gallery, Berlin International Film
Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival, Newport Film Festival among
many others. He has directed 4 feature length documentaries (*Darkon*, *Alice
Neel*, *The Feature* (w/ Auder), *New World Order*). *King Kelly*, his
latest film and first fictional feature opened in New York in December. His
films have been distributed by IFC and ArtHouse Films, aired on Cablevision
and the Sundance Channel, and won several awards including the New Visions
Award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. Neel received a
BA in Film Studies from Columbia Collage. He was born in Vermont and like
Auder, currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Additional info: http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=9445


Microscope Gallery, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btween Buswhick &
Evergreen), Brooklyn, NY 11221, tel:347.925.1433
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