CATRIONA
SHAW aka MISS LE BOMB
1975 Born in Edinburgh,
Scotland
1997 Ba(Hons)Drawing and Painting Edinburgh College of Art
1996 Erasmus Exchange to Munich
2002 Diploma Sculpture, Klasse Asta Groeting, Akademie der Bildende Kuenste,
Munich
>2009 MA studies in Kunst im Kontext, UDK, Berlin
Awards
1997 Helen A. Rose Bequest
1997-98 DAAD Scholarship
2002 DAAD award for foreign students
2004 'Lokaltermin' funding-prize from the Cultural Insitute of Munich
for the Club le Bomb project "Radio Delay"
2005/2006 Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes
'Map XXL' funding for residency at Raumars, Finland
2007 Shoot the Cube prize for 'Exodus'
BIOGRAPHY
Miss le bomb is the psuedonym of artist and musician Catriona Shaw born
in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 1999 she co-founded Club le Bomb with Emanuel Guenther and Benjamin
Bergmann, an 'illegal' Sunday club where happenings and concerts were
staged and with which they toured around Europe from 2000-2004. Club le
Bomb was to become an outlet for outrageous and energetic 'underground'
activities and an infamous hang-out for the lively creative types who
would be regular participants in the unpredictable occurances. At the
same time she commenced with another musical performance project with
Isabel Reiss called "Hektor and Rositha", a parody of nightclub
singers and nostalgia bands. She also enjoyed more mainstream success
as lead singer of the pop covers project Queen of Japan. With the demise
of Club le Bomb in 2004 she started to produce music as Miss le Bomb,
regularly collaborating with Electronicat and forming a new band called
"X and the Living End'. Word of her lively and rather unhinged performances,
often involving unwitting audience participation, quickly spread and she
has since been touring around Europe, performing in a variety of locations
and releasing her music on diverse labels.
Shaw translates her
personal observations about art, popular culture and the day-to-day into
drawings, videos, and music. Her comic-like, disjointed narratives arise
spontaneously, as though they were diary entries in response to her surroundings.
Stories about life, death and vices, characters from the pop or art world
and animals who play human roles reflect her socially critical but also
humorous thoughts. Maintaining drawing as a core activity, she experiments
with its implementation in diverse environments and processes.
Catriona Shaw lives and works in Berlin
Performances
2008
Miss le Bomb, Sexflies, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Miss le Bomb, Pop goes the Weasel, Baedische-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Miss le Bomb, Opening party & Complaints Choir (with Tellervo Kalleinen
& Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen), Night Programme, 5th Berlin Biennale,
Berlin
Miss le Bomb, Architectures of Survival - Sunday Bloody Sunday, Sparwasser
HQ Berlin
Miss le Bomb, Gallery Claes Andersen, Berlin
Nordic Chaud, MyComputer, (with Pauline Curnier Jardin), Artspace 300m3,
Gothenburg, Sweden
2007
Miss le Bomb, lecture at the Royal Academy of Music, Arhus, Denmark
Ellipses (Electric Birdhouses), (with Discoteca Flaming Star, Micheal
Mahalchick, Francois Boehe), Tate Modern, London
Miss le Bomb, Guggenheim museum, Bilbao, Spain
Miss le Bomb, Art4Lux, Abbeye de Neumunster, Luxembourg
Miss le Bomb sings in a car, Galerie Roter Braeunlich, Berlin
Miss le Bomb, Borderline Festival & Yugong Yishan, Beijing, China
Nordic Chaud, series of performances with Pauline Curnier Jardin, Titanik
gallery, Turku / Lonnstrom Musuem, Rauma / Pispala arts, Tampere
2006
Miss le Bomb, Melancholie, accompanying events programme, Neue Nationalgalerie,
Berlin
Miss le Bomb, Exit Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Hektor und Rositha, ABC Brecht Festival, Augsburg
Hektor und Rositha, Rauma Taidemuseo, Rauma, Finland
2005
Miss le Bomb, Roxi at Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Queen of Japan, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Extensive touring with Queen of Japan and Electronicat, various locations
in EU, USA and Russia
2004
Performance Jam, Hub Sonic Scapes 2, with _fabrics interseason, 2nd Berlin
Biennale, Berlin
John and Paul, Heraldic Pomp, performance at Brooklyn Fireproof gallery,
New York
Miss le Bomb, Trollofon Festival, Kunsthalle/Landmark Bergen, Norway
Club le Bomb, Radio Delay, Lokaltermin, Munich
Extensive touring with Queen of Japan and Electronicat, various locations
in EU, USA and Russia
2003
X and the Living End, collaboration with Fabrics Interseason, One Project
Space, Vienna
Extensive touring with Queen of Japan and Electronicat, various locations
in EU, USA and Russia
2002
Hektor und Rositha, Let's twist Again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Hektor und Rositha, Repellent Magazine event, New York
Anville, monthly performance/art/music event, Wiener Freiheit, Vienna
Extensive touring with Queen of Japan and Electronicat, various locations
in EU, USA and Russia
2001
Club le Bomb, Hinterkonti,
Hamburg
Hektor und Rositha, Lothringer13, Munich
Extensive touring with Queen of Japan, various locations, Europe
2000
Club le Bomb, Lothringer13, Munich
Exhibitions
(selection):
2008
Pop goes the Weasel, group exhibition, Baedische-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
MyComputer, collaboration with Pauline Curnier Jardin and Goodiepal, Artspace
300m3, Gothenburg, Sweden
Sexflies, group exhibition, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
2007
Album, video screening/performance, General Public, Berlin
Freeze Frames, Art4Lux, Casino, Luxembourg
Common Ground, installation of 'Fly Draw', Lonnstrom Art Museum, Rauma,
Finland
Art=Danger, Schere8, Berlin
Shoot the Cube, screening of 'Exodus', Kultur Transistor, Kail
2006
Freeze Frames, Lonnstrom taidemuseo, Rauma, Finland
Pigment Piano Marble, Buenos Aires (virtual X and the Living End performance)
Exodus screened at Blue Herring Film Festival, Finland
Galeri Baberton real/virtual openings at Post 26, Berlin
2005
Posted Hiscox arts centre, London
Elend und Vergeltung presentations, Bosch Bar, Zurich, Kammerspiele theatre,
Munich
I shit music, radio show (twenFM, Berlin) and tour with Kevin Blechdom,
Planningtorock and Def 'n' Rad, various locations, Germany
2004
Radio Delay, Club le Bomb, secret location + collaboration with local
radio station FM94.5, Munich
Strips and Characters, group exhibition, Kunstraum Munich and Kunstverein
Wolfsburg respectively
Lokaltermin, Villa der Kuenstler, Stuttgart
Connect the Dots, presentation of 'Galeri Baberton', Leroy Neiman Gallery,
Columbia University, New York
2003
Kunstpraxis, installation of a puzzle table in the doctor's waiting room,
Siemens, Munich
2002
On Paper Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2001
Miss le Bomb, solo exhibition of drawings, Hinterkonti Gallery, Hamburg
A piece of chewing gum stuck to the bottom of your trousers one week of
events/performances/video screenings/installations curated by Club le
Bomb, Maximilliansforum, Munich
Kunstranch, Kampfnagel, Hamburg
2000
Club le Bomb - the World Tour tour through Germany/Scotland performing/installing
in different galleries and clubs
EMBY interactive/internet project with GMAM, Zucker and Danger Museum,
Munich, Singapore, Berlin
World Tour Retrospective installation/performance with Club le Bomb, Laden
Galerie, Munich
1999
Old Hippie Scandalistic (as Spiel 99) performance/installation @ CREDO
exhibition, Alte Rathaus, Munich
Old Hippie Stylistic (as spiel 99) Newspaper distribution at Christof
Schlingensief's Chance 2000 Berlin
Artists Books Kirkwall Museum, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Club le Bomb-a night behind the scenes installation/performance, Akademiegalerie,
Munich
Club le Bomb with Emanuel Guenther and Benjamin Bergmann, Club le Bomb,
Munich
Ins Haus der Kunst, Munich
1998
D.E.D.O.G., installation, collaboration with Emanuel Guenther, Akademigalerie
Munich
New Work, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Klinischer Kontakt (interactive installation as Spiel 99) Ultraschall,
Munich
In-Transit Out-takes and You're Parallel screened in Ultraschall, Munich
Digital Cowboy Club, installation with Emanuel Guenther at Ultraschall
Munich
1997
Gang from Munich, installation/performances, galerie 03 Wuerzburg, Pudel
Club Hamburg, Shedhalle Zuerich
Discography:
1999 Mercury Rising
CD, Queen of Japan (Angelika Koehlermann)
2000 Cool Cat/Total Eclipse 10", Queen of Japan (Fortina)
2001 I was made for loving you 12", Queen of Japan (Hausmusik)
2001 Physical 12", Queen of Japan (Echokammer)
2001 Nightlife in Tokyo CD/LP, Queen of Japan (Angelika Koehlermann/Erkrankung
durch Musique)
2001 Purple Haze/Somebody's watching me split 7" with Kamerakino,
Hektor und Rositha (Bodensatz)
2002 Headrush CD/LP, Queen of Japan (Echokammer/Erkrankung durch Musique)
2002 Club le Bomb 12", Club le Bomb (Erkrankung durch Musique)
2002 Miss Me EP, Catriona Shaw : Hans Platzgumer (DOXA)
2003 Kings, Queens, Wasps and Lust LP, Queen of Japan (Echokammer)
2004 Foreign Politics CD/LP, Queen of Japan (Echokammer/Erkrankung durch
Musique)
2004 "Eyes Off", Miss le Bomb, Favorit bar compilation #2
2005 "Cats want to have birds", Miss le Bomb remix for Electronicat,
Re:Bird compilation, (Angelika Koehlermann)
2005 “Keyboard Lies”, E:gum (w. Hans Platzgumer & Jens
Doering), (Klein records)
2006 “Sexual A-tension”, Miss le Bomb, Roxi Music compilation
(Reis)
2006 “Jealousy”, Miss le Bomb, 12” (Careless records)
2006 “Pinkitan”, Miss le Bomb, Girl Monster compilation (Chicks
on Speed records)
2006 “Vampire-moped-dead”, Miss le Bomb, “The wired
ones” compilation (Wired Records)
2006 "Lost Gigabyte", Miss le bomb & Electronicat, 'Pudel
compilation #4', 12" & CD (Pudel Produkte)
2007 "Purple Haze", Hektor und Rositha, "Strange but Beautiful"
compilation CD
2007 "No picture of the Hero - Acid Shmacid ", Miss le bomb
remix for Rhythm King and her friends, 12" (Kitty-yo)
2008 "Rakehand Dance EP", Miss le Bomb, EP (Wired Records)
Publications/Catalogues:
2000 "Club le bomb is dead, long live Club le bomb", limited
edition fanzine
2004 "Strips and Characters", exhibition catalogue (Verlag Kunstraum
Muenchen)
2005 "Elend und Vergeltung", self-publication with Joerg Tschirren
and Isabel Reiss (fanzine about popular culture)
2006 "Let's Twist Again - If You Can't Think It, Dance It. Performance
in Vienna from 1960 until today", exhibition catalogue (deA publishing
pool)
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