MEDIATHEK

Antonia Baehr is a choreographer / director, performer and film-maker. What caracterizes her is a non-disciplinary work and a method of collaboration with different people, using a game-structure with switching roles: each person is alternately director / author and performer for the other one. 1994 she co-founded the Berlin-based performance group „ex machinis“. She graduated in Film- and Media Arts at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Valie Export (1996) and obtained a DAAD-grant and a Merit Scholarship for the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. There she completed her Master in Performance with Lin Hixson of the performance group Goat Island and began collaborating with William Wheeler. Since 2000 she is based in Berlin. She was co-organizing “Labor Sonor“, experimental music and performance series, at KuLe from 2001 to 2003, co-hosted the festival “Radioriff“ that took place in December 2003 at Ausland, Berlin and is a founding member of Fernwärme im Ausland – The Making of Performing Arts series at Ausland Berlin. She is the producer of the horse whisperer and dancer Werner Hirsch, the musician and choreographer Henri Fleur, and the composer Henry Wilt. In 2006 she has been associated artist in residence at “Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers“ in France.