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Bibbe Hansen is an American performance artist, musician and actress.
Hansen's parents were Bohemian Jewish poet Audrey Ostlin Hansen andFluxus artistAl Hansen, a participant in theAndy Warhol Factory.[1] Her stepfather was Jimmy Shapiro. She is the mother of three children,Beck Hansen, Channing Hansen and Rain Whittaker, a musician, artist and poet, respectively.[2] Hansen delivered her future daughter-in-law,Marissa Ribisi, and Marissa's twin brother,Giovanni, when they were born.[3] Hansen is grandmother to Beck and Marissa's two children, Cosimo and Tuesday, and Channing's son, Aubrey.[citation needed]
Hansen began her professional acting career as a child with theSaranac Lake Summer Theater in upstate New York.[4] As a teenager in the mid-1960s, Hansen appeared in films by avant-garde filmmakerJonas Mekas. After a chance meeting withAndy Warhol, he invited her to collaborate on a film about her recent incarceration in various youthpenal institutions. The result was Warhol's filmPrison, co-starringEdie Sedgwick.[5] She also appeared in Warhol'sRestaurant,10 Beautiful Girls,10 More Beautiful Girls, and shot two of Warhol'sScreen Tests.[6] In the 1970s she appeared as an extra in theRoger Corman filmBig Bad Mama, as a dancer inBrian De Palma'sPhantom of the Paradise,[7] and in the Odyssey Theater production ofThe Threepenny Opera directed by Ron Sossi. She also appeared in a 1999 short film,The White to Be Angry.
In 1964, Hansen recorded an album onLaurie Records with friendsJan Kerouac and Charlotte Rosenthal in a band called The Whippets.[8][9] The Whippets released a single onJosie Records called "Go Go Go With Ringo," which was aPop Art tribute toRingo Starr andThe Beatles. From 1990 through 1995, Hansen operated the Troy Café inLos Angeles with her husband, Sean Carrillo, and performed with singer,drag queen, andperformance artistVaginal Davis. She and Davis went on to form the satirical band Black Fag, named after, and poking fun at, the famous punk bandBlack Flag.[10]
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