Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist in Flensburg. 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 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.testcard no. 16 - Extremismus, Ventil Verlag, , p 101-107
Mama Baer has a huge amount of music releases available at independent labels like Ultra Eczema, Intransitive Recordings, Asylum Lunaticum, CD, (INT033), mentioned at The Wire (magazine)'s years review, issue 311, Jan. 2010, as one of the best 15 albums of the year 2009 in outsider music Nihilist Records, Obskyr Records and others. She shares albums with Bomis Prendin, Franz Kamin, Philip Krumm, Wolf Vostell, and others.Article in November 2010 issue of The Wire (magazine), no. 321, page 18, and review mentioned on the front sleeve of issue, consisting mainly of an interview with Daniel Spicer, also Bad Alchemy, issues 51, 54 and 59, and skug Magazine, March 26th, 2010
Performance Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at festivals such as 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.August 2nd 2009, in a series of performances that previously featured John Cage, Nam June Paik, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle and Karlheinz Stockhausen They performed live with Jan van den Dobbelsteen and Danielle Lemaire,Paulo Post Futurum , Lokkal 01, Breda, November 3rd to 4th 2007, and to end all live, iLLUSEUM , Amsterdam, August 1st 2009, videos at youtube Eugene Chadbourne,Musikpalast Flensburg on July 12th 2008 John Wiese,KKI Flensburg on January 19th 2008 Heather Leigh Murray, Clive Graham, and others.
Art She has presented in solo and group art exhibitions around the world.artlout: com magazine, Leipzig, 2009, issue 04:08 On 9 November 2009 she joined the NO!art 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 No!art website Gallery What happened to the happening? Discogs list of Mama Baer Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau Fred Wilder