In the two and a half years

In the two and a half years before she died, Hammer’s artistic output was remarkable. She premiered her major performance and multi-
disciplinary work Evidentiary Bodies at Microscope Gallery, participated in the Lynne Sachs’ film Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor, and gave a performative lecture at the Whitney Museum on The Art of Dying.

In late 2018, after over 100 rounds of chemotherapy and tumors taking over her lungs, Hammer finally ceased undergoing interventions to counteract the cancer and spent her final months at home with her beloved partner Florrie Burke and with visits from many, many friends. Activist to the very end, Hammer used her dying to advance the cause of the right to medical aid in dying.