Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of

noise music Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. Noise music include ...

and

post-industrial music Industrial music is a form of experimental music which emerged in the 1970s. In the 1980s, industrial splintered into a range of offshoots, sometimes collectively named post-industrial music. This list details some of these offshoots, including ...

. She is a filmmaker and visual artist in

Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish language, Danish and ; ; ) is an independent city, independent town in the far north of the Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. After Kiel and Lübeck, it is the third-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg's ...

. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the world, and her short films have been presented at several film festivals.

Early life

Mama Baer was born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling on October 29, 1981.

Career

She works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, and filmmaker in Flensburg. She often works together with her husband

Kommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise (music), Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often work ...

as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. A self-taught artist, she began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. Her art is in the field of neo dada and

art brut Art Brut is an English indie rock band. Their debut album, '' Bang Bang Rock & Roll'', was released on 30 May 2005, with its follow up, ''It's a Bit Complicated'', released on 25 June 2007. Named after French painter Jean Dubuffet's definition ...

. Mama Baer has a huge amount of music releases available at independent labels like Ultra Eczema, Intransitive Recordings, Nihilist Records, Obskyr Records and others. She shares albums with Bomis Prendin, Franz Kamin, Philip Krumm,

Wolf Vostell Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are ...

, and others.

Performance

Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at festivals such as Colour out of Space Festival,

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, 2009, Zappanale, Bad Doberan, 2010,

Incubate (festival) Incubate was an annual multidisciplinary arts festival held every September in Tilburg, Netherlands from 2005 to 2016. It was originally named ZXZW, but changed its name in 2009 to "Incubate" after a request from the Austin, US-based festival SXSW ...

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 Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American banjoist, guitarist and music critic. Life and career Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar wh ...

, John Wiese, Heather Leigh Murray, Clive Graham, and others.

Art

She has presented in solo and group art exhibitions around the world. On 9 November 2009 she joined the

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. History The movement was initiated by Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanle ...

movement. German novelist, Peter Rathke presented Mama Baer as a character in his novel ''Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer''."Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer", P.Rathke Verlag, 2011 (), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Mama Baer was played by Kathleen Gregory in an incomplete short film by Fred Wilder. Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer wrote most of the film's music.

References

External links

Artist's website

Gallery
* What happened to the happening

* Discogs list of Mama Bae

* Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler und Fra

* Fred Wilde

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