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born 01. November 1948, lives in Los Angeles/USA.
Encompassing music, spoken word and installation, intermedia artist
Anna Homler's alternative languages extend the possibilities of meaning
and communication. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern,
Homler makes words musical and music like words. Since 1982, she has collaborated
in America with composer/musicians Steve Moshier, David Moss, and Ethan
James; and in Europe with Viola Kramer, the Voices of Kwahn, Axel Otto
and Frank Schulte. Geert Waegeman and Pavel Fajt.
Homler has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including
appearances at Recommended Records in London; Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.); P.S.122, the Kitchen, Dixon Place and the Poetry
Project at St. Mark's Church in New York; Supraclub in Prague; Klarinsky
in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; Ketty Dó in Bologna, Italy; the
Stadtgarten and the Loft in Köln, Germany; the Melkweg and Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam. From 1990 to 1995 she participated in such international
festivals as Sonic Disturbance at the Cleveland Public Theatre; New Music
America in Montreal; the Tegentonen Festival at the Paradiso in Amsterdam;
Milanopoesia in Milan; primavera Jazz Festival in Sardinia; the Internationales
Treffen Innovativer Musikerinnen in Aachen, Germany; Het Vertel Festival
in Gent, Belgium; Voices Festival in Innsbruck, Austria; Spoken Word Festival
in Brussels, Belgium; Dissidentent Festival in Rotterdam, Holland; the
Moers Festival in Moers, Germany; and the Festival International des Musiques
Actuelle in Nancy, France.
Highlighting Homler's work is the performance/installation project
PHARMACIA POETICA, which examines the symbolic and tonal qualities of
words and objects. Having travelled nationwide as part of the exhibition
40 Years of California Assemblage, the installation has also been shown
at Gracie Mansion in New York; the Center of Contemporary Arts in Santa
Fe and Nonsequitur Music Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Gallery 400
in Chicago, Illinois; the Melkfabriek in Den Bosch, Holland; and in Amsterdam
at Gallery Oko. From 1994 to 1995 the PHARMACIA POETICA was part of the
travelling exhibition Outside the Frame: Performance & the Object
- a survey of performance art in the U.S. from 1950 to the present. It
was also exhibited at Karbon in Zürich, Switzerland.
Homler's debut CD Dó Ya Sa'di Dó was released on
amf, an independent German label, in 1992. She has been included in the
compilation albums Le Sacre du Printemps (Gonzo Circus) and Poetic Silhouettes
(amf). In 1994 she was featured on Sugarconnection: alien cake on No Man's
Land. 1995 showed Macaronic Sines, a collaboration with Geert Waegeman
and Pavel Fajt on the Belgian label Lowlands which was followed by live
recordings of that group on the canadian Victo label: Corne de Vache in
1996. The collaboration with the british Voices of Kwahn is featured on
the CD silver bowl transmission and NURNICHTNUR, Germany did feature Anna
Homler on their VOX compilation CD.
Anna
Homler
Pharmacia
Poetica
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