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Still from 'Empathy'
Amie Siegel , 2003

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Amie Siegel (* 1974 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American filmmaker , video artist , photographer , essayist and poet . Your work will be shown internationally. She lives and works in New York .

Artistic career

Amie Siegel was born in Chicago in 1974. She graduated from Bard College with a degree in literature in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree . She then studied film and art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . Since then she has worked as a video artist , filmmaker , photographer , essayist and poet .

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Power

As a visiting artist at the University of Maryland , Amie Siegel developed the material for her experimental feature film Empathy with 16mm and digital video material as well as 3-D animations . In it she deconstructed the power dispositions in psychoanalytic and documentary practice. Empathy premiered very successfully at the Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003, was shown at many other film festivals around the world and was shown in cinemas in the USA in 2004.

The complexity of watching

In many of her works, Amie Siegel examines the psychological complexity of watching. Your films want to find viewers who engage with them, but they also create a certain level of discomfort while watching them.

This is first felt in The Sleepers (1999). This film is dedicated to the phenomenon of voyeurism . The nightly look into the window reminds one of Alfred Hitchcock : You only have a limited amount of information. For example, in The Courtyard Window , Grace Kelly said to James Stewart : "Tell me exactly what you saw and what you think it means." The distance between what you see and what you think it means What is seen means turns the audience into active contributors.

In Provenance you can see at the beginning how carefully the pieces of furniture were arranged in the rooms of the owners and how this aesthetic is reflected in the film. As the film progresses, the audience has to deal with what exactly the objects shown are, who they are themselves and how this is related.

Still from 'Provenance'
Amie Siegel , 2013
HD video
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Amie Siegel's works “address the influence that the images of the film industry have on the perception of the real and the construction of history.” Provenance shows the history of certain pieces of furniture from the 1950s to the present day in reverse order. The furniture was designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret specifically for the controversial, progressive architecture of the Indian city of Chandigarh . In recent years, they have been sold at record prices in auction houses around the world. The film begins in the rooms of die-hard collectors in New York, London, Belgium and Paris and then shows the previous stages of the furniture: auctions, previous visits and photo ops for the auction catalogs, restoration, ship transport, Indian ports and finally Chandigarh. On October 13, 2013, Amie Siegel left provenance at a London auction from Christie's , placing the film in a row with the furniture on display: it is inseparable from the art market it is showing. Lto 248 , a second film, captures this auction and thus becomes a mirror of Provenance : It repeats and completes the cycle of design and art that is the basis for speculation in the art market.

German history

Since her stay in Berlin as a DAAD scholarship holder in 2003, Amie Siegel has dealt with the German capital several times: She developed the films The Captives and DDR DDR , both of which are set in Berlin, among other places.

During her time in Oldenburg, where she had a scholarship stay in 2005, Siegel dealt intensively with German history and the traces of historical changes in the cityscape.

In her video installation Berlin Remake (2005), which was exhibited during the Berlinale 2006 as part of the Forum Expanded exhibition, Amie Siegel juxtaposed old film scenes from the DEFA archive in a one-to-one translation with her own current recordings in a double projection. This leads to an unexpected "parallelism of past and present, of familiar places and newly constructed historical contexts."

Her work Death Star (2006) addresses the burdened history of architecture and its appropriation by ideological systems using German examples. Five historical German buildings in the style of modernist architecture from the 1930s to 1950s are shown side by side in a synchronous setting. The camera moves slowly through endless corridors in the five buildings. "Standstill and change are staged by the techniques of the moving camera and the loop and played off against each other."

The Center for Literary Research in Berlin commissioned the artist with a work on the work of Walter Benjamin. The video installation Deutsche Menschen / German People (2007) was created .

Working method

Amie Siegel uses some found film material and puts it into new contexts. She does not use the representation strategies of the film for the construction of a media staging, but for its deconstruction.

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Projects with video and photography

  • Deathstar / Death Star , 2006
    • Five-channel video installation from a 16mm film.
    • Study I and Study II , color photographs.
  • Black Moon, 2010
Still picture 'Black Moon / Hole Punch No. 9', marked with a punch
Amie Siegel , 2010
C-print
34.3 × 61 cm
los Angeles

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    • S-16mm color film with sound, converted to HD video, 20 minutes, accompanied by nine It was filmed in an abandoned housing estate outside of Los Angeles , which had been designed as a housing project for the middle class. Black Moon shows the America of the future as a post-apocalyptic landscape. This film was shot as a contribution to the exhibition dedicated to the winners of the James and Audrey Foster Awards .
    • Black Moon Hole Punches, 15 C-Prints, 34.3 × 61 cm. Photo prints of individual scenes. Each of them was marked with a hole punch.
    • Black Moon / Mirrored Malle: 2-channel video installation from the 16mm film, 4 minutes, color, sound.
  • The Modernists, 2010
    • Two color photographs
    • Video projection, color, without sound

Filmography (film and video)

Amie Siegel shoots 16 mm , 35 mm and video.

  • 1997: Pasang Naik / The Tide , video, 17 minutes, color, sound. In 1996 Amie Siegel made this experimental travel film during a long stay in Southeast Asia, which asks questions about the perception of tourists.
  • 1999: The Sleepers , 16 mm film, 45 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2001: The Proud Scabs , video, 6 minutes, color, sound, The Poetry Project, New York, Commission.
  • 2002: Establishing Shots , 3-channel video installation.
  • 2003: Empathy , 35 mm film, 92 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2005: Berlin Remake , 2-channel video installation.
  • 2007: Deutsche Menschen / German People , HDV, 27 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2008: DDR / DDR , HD, 135 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2009: My Way 1 , video, 9 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2009: My Way 2 , video, 12 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2013: Provenance , HD video, 40 minutes, color film, sound. Journey of design objects by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in reverse order across three continents. The objects become elements of the economic cycle and as such become the protagonists of the film, which dispenses with actors, interviews or voice-overs .
  • 2013: Lot 248 , HD video, 6 minutes, color, sound.
  • 2013: Circuit , HD video, color, sound, loop.
  • 2013: Winter , S-16mm film, transferred to HD, 33 minutes, color, sound, performance.
  • 2014: The Architect , HD video, 33 minutes, color film, sound.
  • 2015: Quarry , HD video , 34 minutes, color film, sound.

Photographic work

  • 2002: Establishing Shots (Study) , photographs, drawings on paper, 6 "× 14".
  • 2009: Author, Author , in: Input , Volume 2.
  • 2013: Proof , inkjet print, acrylic, 65.8 cm × 47 cm.

Installations

  • 2002: Brewster X9, The Brewster Project, Brewster, New York, USA

Poetry

Audio documents

  • 2009: pitch , 1:33 minutes

Essays

  • Godard: Ideas & Images , with Jon Jost and Patrick Keiller: Vertigo Magazine , Vol. 2 No.1, Spring 2001, London.
  • Violations, Indiscretions and Narrative Expectation in Film Sound. in: Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998–2001 , Wallflower Press London, 2002.
  • Marching Up, Crawling Through and Coming Out: Public Art in Germany. With Bettina Mathes: Chain 11: Public Forms , Temple University Press Philadelphia, 2004.
  • Author Photographs and Their Victims , 2006
  • Don't Mention the Wall In: The Imagined Nation: Body & Gender in East German Studio Films , DEFA series Berlin, 2007.
  • Project Malaparte (Body Scripts) , in: Mario Doulis, Peter Ott: Remediate. At the edge of film, the network and the archive. Merz Akademie München, Paderborn, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5546-8 , pp. 64–72 (English and German).
  • Bed-Stui (question of housing). Edited by Jesko Fezer, Christian Hiller, Nikolaus Hirsch, Wilfried Kuehn, Hila Peleg. Spectormag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95905-049-4 (English).

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Awards (selection)

Scholarships

Prices

  • 1998 Princess Grace Film Foundation Award : Film Honorarium
  • 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize from ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston , USD 25,000
  • 2011: Princess Grace Film Foundation Award : Special Project Award for Malaparte .
  • 2,012 cash reward of Documentary Film Program and Fund (DFP) of the Sundance Institute for film provenance .

literature

Film analyzes

  • Holger Römers: Empathie , www.munzinger.de, accessed on April 7, 2016.
  • Lutz Wohlrab: 'Empathy' by Amie Siegel 2003 , in: Lutz Wohlrab (Ed.): Films on the couch. Psychoanalytic Interpretations. Gießen (Lahn) Psychosozial-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89806-450-7 , pp. 53-60.
  • Ken Johnson: Amie Siegel: 'Provenance' . www-nytimes.com, September 4, 2014, accessed April 10, 2016.

Catalogs

  • Amie Siegel, Sabine Himmelsbach, Barbara Filser: Berlin Remake: Edith-Russ-House for Media Art, Oldenburg (April 1 - May 7, 2006). Verlag Christoph Keller, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86588-261-5 (German and English).
  • Amie Siegel: Catalog. Edited by Prem Krishnamurthy. Inventory Press, ISBN 978-1-941753-03-3 (English).
  • Amie Siegel: Ricochet . Edited by Ulrike Groos and Sven Beckstette, Prestel, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5897-0 (German and English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b press release: 'Amie Siegel: Provenance.' Three-part exhibition at the MAK explores the speculation-driven art and design markets. , Mak.at, 2015, accessed April 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Amie Siegel. In: akademie-solitude.de. August 1, 2010, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h DAAD announcement on Amie Siegel , Berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de, accessed on April 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Amie Siegel: Provenance - University of Michigan Museum of Art. (No longer available online.) In: umma.umich.edu. October 19, 2013, archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.umma.umich.edu
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Edith Ruß House for Media Art: Archive - Edith Russ House for Media Art. In: edith-russ-haus.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Amie Siegel: Provenance - University of Michigan Museum of Art. (No longer available online.) In: umma.umich.edu. October 19, 2013, archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.umma.umich.edu
  7. ↑ a b Amie Siegel - German people. In: amiesiegel.net. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e absolutearts.com, World Wide Arts Resources, Cor: absolutearts.com - Buy Contemporary Art - Artist Portfolios - Art For Sale - Art News. In: absolutearts.com. December 16, 2010, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  9. ^ A b c Sundance Institute Announces Grants to 25 Documentaries. In: sundance.org. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
  10. ^ Archive - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. In: kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de. Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Amie Siegel: Provenance June 23, 2014 - January 4, 2015 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In: metmuseum.org. June 23, 2014, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Amie Siegel. Part 2. Ricochet. January 30 - May 16, 2016. In: kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de. May 16, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Museum Villa Stuck: RICOCHET # 10. Amie seal. In: villastuck.de. June 5, 2016, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  14. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Amie Siegel. In: gf.org. June 14, 2020, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  15. ^ The MacDowell Colony. (No longer available online.) In: macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on May 26, 2009 ; Retrieved April 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.macdowellcolony.org
  16. ^ The MacDowell Colony. (No longer available online.) In: macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on May 26, 2009 ; Retrieved April 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.macdowellcolony.org
personal data
SURNAME Siegel, Amie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist (film, photography, video)
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States