Mama Baer
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Mama Baer works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise (music) and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg
, a town on the German border with Denmark. She often works together with her husband Kommissar Hjuler
as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist she began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. She is considered to work in the field of neo dada
and art brut
.
Mama Baer has a huge amount of music releases available at independent labels like Ultra Eczema, Intransitive Recordings
, Nihilist Records
, and others. She shares split albums with Thurston Moore
, The New Blockaders, Smegma
, Rudolf Eb.er, Sudden Infant, John Wiese
, and colaborated with GX Jupitter-Larsen
, Dada Action Group, Bryan Lewis Saunders
, Z'EV
, John M. Bennett
, Jaan Patterson
and Alig Fodder of Family Fodder
.
Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed live at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton, 2009, Zappanale
, Bad Doberan, 2010, Incubate (festival)
Nijmegen, 2010, and at artists' venues like Morden Tower
, Café Oto or Mary Bauermeister
's performance space. They performed live with Jan van den Dobbelsteen
and Danielle Lemaire, Eugene Chadbourne
, John Wiese
and others.
As artist she has been involved in several solo and group art exhibitions around the world. Short films by Mama Baer have been presented at European festivals.
Since November 9, 2009 she is a member of the NO!art
movement, founded by Boris Lurie
, Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman at March gallery New York in 1960, since 1999 lead by Dietmar Kirves
and Clayton Patterson
.
The German novel writer Peter Rathke, who works under pseudonym FOLTERGAUL
, presented Mama Baer as character at his novel "Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer".
Mama Baer appears as a character, played by Kathleen Gregory, in a partially completed short film by Fred Wilder
. Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer also wrote most of the music for the film and there are performances by The Sex Socks.
Flensburg
Flensburg is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig...
, a town on the German border with Denmark. She often works together with her husband Kommissar Hjuler
Kommissar Hjuler
Kommissar Hjuler works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making...
as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist she began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. She is considered to work in the field of neo dada
Neo-Dada
Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to audio and visual art that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork. It is the foundation of Fluxus, Pop Art and Nouveau réalisme. Neo-Dada is exemplified by its use of modern materials, popular imagery, and absurdist contrast...
and art brut
Outsider Art
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut , a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.While...
.
Mama Baer has a huge amount of music releases available at independent labels like Ultra Eczema, Intransitive Recordings
Intransitive Recordings
Intransitive Recordings is an independent record label for experimental music, founded in Gainesville, Florida in 1997 by the artist Howard Stelzer and currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Intransitive publishes electro-acoustic music, free improvisation, sound art, sound poetry, and noise...
, Nihilist Records
Nihilist Records
Nihilist Records is a record label that releases noise music albums, and is similar to labels like Load Records and Hanson Records, though it tends to release bands that are more controversial or offensive in a sensational manner...
, and others. She shares split albums with Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
, The New Blockaders, Smegma
Smegma (band)
Smegma is an American experimental noise group formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Originally part of the Los Angeles Free Music Society movement of the 1970s, Smegma is one of the few music collectives of that era still active today. Author Richard...
, Rudolf Eb.er, Sudden Infant, John Wiese
John Wiese
-Biography:Born April 18, 1977, John Wiese is an artist and composer residing in Los Angeles, California. In the late 1990s, Wiese moved from St. Louis, Missouri to the west coast in order to study graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts...
, and colaborated with GX Jupitter-Larsen
GX Jupitter-Larsen
GX Jupitter-Larsen is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture...
, Dada Action Group, Bryan Lewis Saunders
Bryan Lewis Saunders
Bryan Lewis Saunders is a performance artist, videographer, and performance poet widely known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and Stand up tragedy....
, Z'EV
Z'EV
Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...
, John M. Bennett
John M. Bennett
John M. Bennett is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet.- Writing and publishing :As well as steadily producing and distributing his own work, Bennett, through "Luna Bisonte Prods", a small press founded in 1974, has published thousands of limited edition items by writers who...
, Jaan Patterson
Jaan Patterson
Jaan Patterson is a composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel. He is best known for his various Dada and Surrealist inspired experimental music and spoken word projects - such as Undress Béton, André Pissoir and Dusk Euphoria. Additionally, together with Frater Surrallee, he...
and Alig Fodder of Family Fodder
Family Fodder
Family Fodder is a group of musicians revolving around accordionist Alig Fodder. Formed in London in the 1970s, it has had a sporadic existence ever since, disbanding in the 1980s then reforming. Their song "Dinosaur Sex" is considered a post-punk classic. They released a 12-inch single for Small...
.
Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed live at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton, 2009, Zappanale
Zappanale
Zappanale is an annual music festival held outside Bad Doberan, a German town previously part of East Germany. The festival was first held in 1990, and the program features various bands performing the music of the late composer and guitarist Frank Zappa...
, Bad Doberan, 2010, Incubate (festival)
Incubate (festival)
Incubate is a multidisciplinary arts festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands. On June 16, the festival changed it name into Incubate after a request by the Austin, US based festival SXSW to change its name. Between 2005 and 2008 the festival was called ZXZW....
Nijmegen, 2010, and at artists' venues like Morden Tower
Morden Tower
The Morden Tower in Back Stowell Street on the West Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade 1 listed building. For the last 45 years Connie Pickard has been custodian of Morden Tower, and has made it a key fixture of Newcastle's alternative cultural life...
, Café Oto or Mary Bauermeister
Mary Bauermeister
Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister is a German artist.-Early life and family:Mary Bauermeister was artistically influenced in secondary school by her drawing teacher, Günter Ott. She studied in 1954–55 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and in 1955–56 at the Staatlichen Schule für Kunst und...
's performance space. They performed live with Jan van den Dobbelsteen
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen
Jan van den Dobbelsteen is an interdisciplinary Dutch artist who teaches at Academie St. Joost in Breda and lives and works in Eindhoven....
and Danielle Lemaire, Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...
, John Wiese
John Wiese
-Biography:Born April 18, 1977, John Wiese is an artist and composer residing in Los Angeles, California. In the late 1990s, Wiese moved from St. Louis, Missouri to the west coast in order to study graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts...
and others.
As artist she has been involved in several solo and group art exhibitions around the world. Short films by Mama Baer have been presented at European festivals.
Since November 9, 2009 she is a member of the NO!art
NO!Art
NO!art is a radical avant-garde anti-art movement started in New York in 1959. Its founders sought to deliver a shock to the complacent consumerist society around them....
movement, founded by Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for art leading to social action...
, Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman at March gallery New York in 1960, since 1999 lead by Dietmar Kirves
Dietmar Kirves
- Early work :Since 1964 he works in the field of mixed media works with film, photos, music, sculptures and environments.In 1970 he created the mediacontact agency in Düsseldorf in collaboration with Jochen Gerz and Terry Fox...
and Clayton Patterson
Clayton Patterson
Clayton Patterson is a Canadian-born artist, photographer, videographer, and folk historian. Since moving to New York City in 1979, his work has focused almost exclusively on documenting the art, life and times of the Lower East Side in Manhattan.-Early life:Before moving to New York City in...
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The German novel writer Peter Rathke, who works under pseudonym FOLTERGAUL
FOLTERGAUL
FOLTERGAUL is the latest and actually used synonym of the novel writer Peter Rathke, who runs the Peter Rathke Verlag, Winkel 1, 24226 Heikendorf, and who is known for his German translations of the novels Planetoid 127 and Mein Leben by Edgar Wallace. Peter Rathke mostly has written his novels...
, presented Mama Baer as character at his novel "Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer".
Mama Baer appears as a character, played by Kathleen Gregory, in a partially completed short film by Fred Wilder
Fred Wilder
Fred Wilder is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, painter, and musician. His early career was devoted to painting, and creating electronic music including soundscape. His filmography as writer director includes the films Scream Karl , and Karl Bites , which feature the robot Fast Karl...
. Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer also wrote most of the music for the film and there are performances by The Sex Socks.
External links
- Artist's website
- No!art website
- Gallery
- What happened to the happening? http://www.kunstaspekte.de/maja-hoock-happening/
- Discogs list of Mama Baer http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mama+B%C3%A4r
- Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kommissar+Hjuler+Und+Frau
- Fred Wilder http://www.stcroixstudios.com/wilder/index.html