Auder’s alternative vision of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles is composed entirely of re-scanned and re-edited footage shot directly from a television set. The athletes’ exertions, fragmented and abstracted by Auder into an incessant flow of crotch shots and body parts, take on a highly sexual, often sadomasochistic edge. Auder exploits the subliminal, raising the violent and sexual subtext of TV sports coverage to the surface. His seamlessly re-edited images and discordant sound pull the viewer into an enigmatic narrative of physicality that is intensely subjective, almost obsessive, in its focus. The underlying principle behind appropriation and ‘scratch’ video of this kind is an inclination to subvert, artistically, the political ideology reflected in the industrial source of the material and TV entertainment (Bob Riley).
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ACMI Identifier
B1000072
Language
English
Audience classification
unclassified
Subject categories
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, colour and audio
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan