[5] Bauer's artwork is grounded in feminist theory and engages with issues including immigration, colonialism, and the history of women's efforts to organize themselves and their communities within the art world and beyond.
[5] Her research has engaged with the history of radical filmmaking, notably The Berwick Street Film Collective, Cinema Action and The London Women's Film Group; this has resulted in filmmaking collaborations with the Southall Black Sisters,[6] a London-based group that organizes against violence and discrimination towards women.
[10] In 2008, Bauer worked with artist Annette Krauss to produce Read the Masks, Tradition Is Not Given, an installation and planned demonstration at Van Abbemuseum.
[17] Bauer's artistic projects are generally organized as collaborations with other artists or organizations; some of her collaborators have included Southall Black Sisters (London);[5] Scot-Pep (Edinburgh);[18] and The Women's Centre in Tensta-Hjulsta (Stockholm).
[4] She created the Feminist Research Group with curators and theorists Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Binna Choi, Kirsten Lloyd, Frances Stacey, and Marina Vishmidt to study collective practices of care.