Bibbe Hansen is an American performance artist, musician and actress.

Family

Hansen's parents were Bohemian Jewish poet Audrey Ostlin Hansen and

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artist Al Hansen, a participant in the

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Factory. Her stepfather was Jimmy Shapiro. She is the mother of three children, Beck Hansen, Channing Hansen and Rain Whittaker, a musician, artist and poet respectively. Hansen delivered her future daughter-in-law,

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, and Marissa's twin brother, Giovanni, when they were born. Hansen is grandmother to Beck and Marissa's two children, Cosimo and Tuesday, and Channing's son, Aubrey.

Acting career

Hansen began her professional acting career as a child with the Saranac Lake Summer Theater in upstate New York. As a teenager in the mid-1960s, Hansen appeared in films by avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas. After a chance meeting with

, he invited her to collaborate on a film about her recent incarceration in various youth penal institutions. The result was Warhol's film ''Prison'', co-starring Edie Sedgwick. She also appeared in Warhol's ''Restaurant'', ''10 Beautiful Girls'', ''10 More Beautiful Girls'', and shot two of Warhol's Screen Tests. In the 1970s she appeared as an extra in the

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film ''Big Bad Mama'', as a dancer in Brian De Palma's '' Phantom of the Paradise'', and in the Odyssey Theater production of ''

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'' directed by Ron Sossi. She also appeared in a 1999 short film, ''The White to Be Angry''.

Music

In 1964, Hansen recorded an album on Laurie Records with Jan Kerouac in a band called The Whippets. The Whippets released a single on Josie Records called "Go Go Go With Ringo," which was a Pop Art tribute to

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and

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. From 1990 through 1995, Hansen operated the Troy Café in

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with her husband, Sean Carrillo, and performed with singer,

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, and

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ist Vaginal Davis. She and Davis went on to form the satirical band Black Fag, named after, and poking fun at, the famous punk band Black Flag.

References

External links

Official website
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