Kommissar Hjuler
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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 music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. He is considered to work in the field of neo dada
, whereas his output also contains elements of fluxus
, art brut
.
Kommissar Hjuler has more than 200 music releases available, mainly at independent labels like Ultra Eczema, Intransitive Recordings
, Nihilist Records
, WFMU
, and others. He shares split albums with Medium Medium
, Thurston Moore
, Jerome Noetinger
, Smegma
, shares albums with Richard Pinhas, Incapacitants
, Emil Beaulieau
, Asmus Tietchens
, Zbigniew Karkowski
, and collaborated with GX Jupitter-Larsen
, John Wiese
, Lasse Marhaug
, Dino Felipe
, Brume, Lt. Caramel, Anla Courtis
, Dada Action Group, Arnulf Meifert, The New Blockaders, Bryan Lewis Saunders
, Z'EV
, John M. Bennett
, Le Syndicat, Jaan Patterson
and Alig Fodder of Family Fodder
.
Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at 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 with artists like Jan van den Dobbelsteen
and Danielle Lemaire, Eugene Chadbourne
, John Wiese
and others.
His work has been exhibited in solo and groups shows at locations like the Institute of Contemporary Arts
, London, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld, Museum Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo and at several galleries, he collaborated with Keith A. Buchholz, Clayton Patterson
, Barbara Rapp
, Cornelius P. Rinne, Cecil Touchon
and others. In October 2010, Kommissar Hjuler was named a winner of the international artists' prize by Kleine Zeitung
and Innovationskongress Austria for his assemblage "Enter Konsum".
Short films by Kommissar Hjuler have been presented at European festivals like 12. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Muenchen 2010, Vienna Independent Shorts
2011,, Leeds International Film Festival
2011, and at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
.
Since November 9, 2009 he is a member of the NO!art
movement, founded by Boris Lurie
, Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman at March gallery New York in 1960.
The German novel writer Peter Rathke, who works under pseudonym FOLTERGAUL
, presented Kommissar Hjuler as character at his novel "Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer".
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. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer
Mama Baer
Mama Baer 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. She often works together with her husband Kommissar Hjuler as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau...
as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. He 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...
, whereas his output also contains elements of fluxus
Fluxus
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
, 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...
.
Kommissar Hjuler has more than 200 music releases available, mainly 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...
, WFMU
WFMU
WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format...
, and others. He shares split albums with Medium Medium
Medium Medium
Medium Medium were a post-punk band from Nottingham, England, initially active between 1978 and 1983.-History:Emerging in 1978 out of Nottingham punk/rhythm & blues band The Press, Medium Medium's debut single was "Them or Me", which was released in late 1978 and was still selling well enough in...
, 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...
, Jerome Noetinger
Jerome Noetinger
Jérôme Noetinger is an improviser and composer of electroacoustic music based in Grenoble, France.He also runs the record label and record distributor Metamkine and writes in the French magazine Revue Et Corrigee...
, 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...
, shares albums with Richard Pinhas, Incapacitants
Incapacitants
are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics...
, Emil Beaulieau
Emil Beaulieau
Emil Beaulieau, or more fully, “Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist” is the stage name of Ron Lessard, a prominent noise musician who primarily records for his own label: RRRecords. He has collaborated and performed with many well-known noise artists, including Merzbow, Pain...
, Asmus Tietchens
Asmus Tietchens
Asmus Tietchens , who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music....
, Zbigniew Karkowski
Zbigniew Karkowski
Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology...
, and collaborated 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...
, 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...
, Lasse Marhaug
Lasse Marhaug
Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation, jazz, rock and extreme metal. Marhaug has also been involved in creating music for theatre, dance, art installations and video art...
, Dino Felipe
Dino Felipe
Dino Felipe is a Miami-based recording artist of Cuban descent. Deemed a "sound wizard" by Pitchfork, he is known primarily for the varying textures of his music, which can simultaneously resemble experimental noise, post-punky cold wave, lo-fi pop, digital bebop and danceable rhythms...
, Brume, Lt. Caramel, Anla Courtis
Anla Courtis
Alan Courtis was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on February 22, 1972. He studied classical guitar, piano, theory and composition. He holds a degree in Communication Science from the University of Buenos Aires, where he currently runs an annual music workshop...
, Dada Action Group, Arnulf Meifert, The New Blockaders, 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...
, Le Syndicat, 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 at 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 with artists like 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.
His work has been exhibited in solo and groups shows at locations like the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...
, London, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld, Museum Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo and at several galleries, he collaborated with Keith A. Buchholz, 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...
, Barbara Rapp
Barbara Rapp
Barbara Rapp, born 1972 in Klagenfurt, Austrian mixed media artist, lives and works in Velden am Woerthersee, Austria and Germany. Her work has been exhibited all over the world since 1994, she is involved in several international art projects. Barbara Rapp deals intensively with socio-political...
, Cornelius P. Rinne, Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon
right|thumb|ABOVE: "Fusion Series #2174" By Cecil Touchon. A collage using fragments of lettering from found bill board material. Image use courtesy of the artist...
and others. In October 2010, Kommissar Hjuler was named a winner of the international artists' prize by Kleine Zeitung
Kleine Zeitung
Kleine Zeitung is an Austrian newspaper based in Graz, Styria. It was founded in 1904 by the Katholischen Pressverein. The first issue was published on Tuesday, November 22, 1904. It was designed from the start as a paper to be read by the masses, covering general news topics and being very cheap...
and Innovationskongress Austria for his assemblage "Enter Konsum".
Short films by Kommissar Hjuler have been presented at European festivals like 12. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Muenchen 2010, Vienna Independent Shorts
Vienna Independent Shorts
Vienna Independent Shorts is an international short film festival held annually in May in Vienna. It is the largest short film festival in Austria.- History :...
2011,, Leeds International Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
The Leeds International Film Festival is the largest film festival in England outside London. Held in November at various venues throughout Leeds, West Yorkshire it shows over 200 films from around the world, commercial and independent....
2011, and at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...
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Since November 9, 2009 he 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.
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 Kommissar Hjuler as character at his novel "Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer".
External links
- Artist's website
- No!art website
- Gallery
- What happened to the happening? http://www.kunstaspekte.de/maja-hoock-happening/
- Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kommissar+Hjuler
- Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kommissar+Hjuler+Und+Frau