Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär Having worked as musicians in their very experimental vein for a number of years, Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär increasingly turned to the creation of sculptures and paintings. Given their strange music,one might have expected them to be have been artists from the start. But they only began regarding themselves as artists in summer 2006, which marked a turning point in their career: their output of paintings and sculptures began to rise. By early 2007, Mama Bär had painted three times as many paintings as in all the years before. *They both began to work as artists and no longer regarded themselves as being only musicians.
On 18th Feb. 2006 we gave a short Anti-Live-Concert at Extrapool’s Audiotoop, Extrapool, Tweede Walstraat 5, NL-6511 LN Nijmegen, www.extrapool.nl , it was a kind of installation, on 27th May 2006 another Anti-Live-Concert took place at 3. Mainzer KunstZwerg Festival by Mainzer Kunstverein Walpoldenstr. 21 e. V., www.kunstzwerg.net/ .
We also made contributions for the international mail art project by the Mainzer Kunstverein Walpoldenstr. 21 e. V., the results could be seen on their website.
From 28th April 2007 to 27th May 2007 you will be able to visit our first solo exhibition at Gallery Heart Fine Art Ltd., 6 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EF, Scottland, www.heartfineart.com. The gallery shows seven large paintings by Mama Bär, ten paintings from BROTKATZE-Zyklus, and several objects from LA FLEUR, BLOEMENMBEET and PUPPE series by Kommissar Hjuler, combined with a set of Anti-Live-Concerts. Moreover, the Heart Fine Art Ltd. label Show and Tell Editions presents a special edition of our (SHMF-100)-LP, limited to 35 copies, only available at the gallery.
The next Anti-Live-Concert will be at the Hörbar im B-Movie, Brigittenstraße 5, 20359 Hamburg - St. Pauli, www.hoerbar-ev.de, together with other artists for their “Unüberhörbar” action on 29th Juni 2007.
More Anti-Live-Concerts are possible with the equipment we have built for these events, maybe Freaks End Future/Antwerp will be the next location. . On 3rd and 4th of November 2007 we will perform live on stage as a part of JaDa Land’s PAULO POST FUTURUM festival at Lokaal 01, Klosterlaan 138, NL-4811 EE Breda, www.lokaal01.nl.
You will be able to see some of our works at an exhibition “Kunst im Viereck” by Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld, www.museumhuelsmann.de, from 9th Feb. 2007 to 30th September 2007. Together with the museum we present an official artwork LP for this exhibition, Edition Museum Huelsmann (EMH-Hase1), in collaboration with youdonthavetocallitmusic (SHMF-100EMH/youdo-1MH), only offered at the museum store during the exhibition. The LP appears with painted labels and a collage cover, each one unique, the edition is limited to 66 copies. All artworks are shown on this site under file Edition Huelsmann.
Some tracks like “Waldkindergarten” and “Die lustigen Abenteuer von Pischi Pisch und Miff Maff” have been played at WFMU radio USA by Kenny G (Kenneth Goldsmith) and are now available as mp3-file under http://wfmu.org/ , some other tracks like “Stalking” have been played at radio sessions by Clive Graham, London, please see www.stalk.net/paradigm/ for any information. The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Radio 1Live, 50600 Köln, www.1live.de, made a special with parts from an interview.
Mama Bär now is supported by WOMENSRADIO, 2121 Peralta St., Ste # 138, Oakland, CA 94607, USA, www.womensradio.com, presenting her music for several radio transmissions and some tracks as mp3-files on their website.
