Memoir Reading and Video Screening
Guild & Greyshkul
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"DON'T CALL ME HOME" is a memoir about growing up in the Chelsea Hotel, as the daughter of two New York artists who were prominent in the early 70s. Viva, my mother, was an Andy Warhol "Superstar"; Michel Auder, my father, was then (and now) a video artist and filmmaker who later went on to marry the artist Cindy Sherman.
When my parents split, I remained with Viva, who moved into an apartment in the Chelsea Hotel and later had another daughter, my sister Gaby, who became a child actress. We were not a traditional family, to say the least, our lifestyle and sense of domesticity heavily influenced (and enhanced) by the looming presence of no-nonsense relatives, of celebrity artists and musicians, the familiar, seedy-but-splendid confines of the Chelsea, and what I now think of as a Lost New York. This memoir is a kind of coming of age story, although in my family one came of age pretty much instantly, if one chose to. It's also a portrait of Viva, emerging from the intense love and total identification I felt as a child, as well as the intense repulsion that same love would later transform into.
With videos by Nick Nehez (VivaViva)
and Michel Auder (Family Diaries 1970-1971)
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Schedule
October 18, 2008 from 19:00 to 21:00