two toned 2012

Video-instal­la­tion and some printed concrete poetry 

The poetry series two toned was written directly after the toned poems that were set to music with sound effects by Kasander Nilist; the title, amongst other things, also refers to the term ​“tone poems”.

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orches­tral music in a single contin­uous section (a move­ment) in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a land­scape or another (non-musical) source is illus­trated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein. en​.wikipedia​.org/​wiki/…

The term two-tone also suggests the two-tone mate­rial that was often used to make men’s suits fash­ion­able in the 1970’s.

When blue beat and ska were revived in the late 1970s through bands like The Specials, The Beat, Madness it intro­duced two-tone fabric to the fashion and the gang­ster ​‘rude boy’ style of down­town Jamaica. www.hidden-histories.o…

And conse­quently two toned refers also to the music form that emerged in the 1970’s.

2 Tone (or Two Tone) is a music genre created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rock­steady, reggae and New Wave. Within the history of ska, 2 Tone is clas­si­fied as its second wave, and is the precursor of the third wave ska scene of the 1980s and 1990s.[1] (…)The term was coined by The Specials’ keyboardist Jerry Dammers, who — with the assis­tance of Horace Panter and graphic designer John ​“Teflon” Sims — created the iconic Walt Jabsco logo (a man in a black suit, white shirt, black tie, pork pie hat, white socks and black loafers) to repre­sent the 2 Tone genre. en​.wikipedia​.org/​wiki/…

***

Like half dimen­sional poems 2009 – 2011, cement 2011, weißer neger (white nigger) 2011, concrete party 2011 and cross word 2011 – 2012, two toned is prose poetry, written in English and German. In style and sense these are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, misun­der­stood conver­sa­tion and misread text, which, reflect the daily life and tempera­ment of the Jewish artist. This piece, unlike Tanya Ury’s other concrete poetry will however be presented with several actors and thema­tises Jewish iden­tity and life in Germany today. 

Tanya Ury

***

Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be regarded as ​“concrete” because of its visual design, and uncon­ven­tional aural effect when spoken — the texts thereby gain in dimen­sion beyond accepted meaning.

2011, Ury created visual images of 17 concrete poems, to be presented online and as print versions (23.5 x 32.45 cm), digital image processing Mirco Sanftleben, two of these poems being femi­ninity and femi­nini­a­tion, the rest being part of the series cement, weißer neger (white nigger), concrete party & oral call, cross word, toned poems, two toned, pommes, taste of space, leeres archiv and since 2011 Tanya Ury recorded 6 of the more tradi­tional poems (toned poems: 5.54 minutes) to be found in the poetry series, together with Kasander Nilist (double bass, sound and mix), also for the June edition online of Imag­i­na­tions – Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Univer­sity of Alberta (CA) with Ury as featured artist.
www​.csj​.ualberta​.ca/im…

Ury has also created other artworks that might be consid­ered visual poetry. Moving Message 1992, incor­po­rates an LED sign displaying the words: you are why; Sonata in Sea 1999 – 2000 is a photo series combined with poetry and wrestle­with­y­ourangel 2001, is a neon sign produced together with the neon sign neonazi 2001; the title of a double photo portrait lesser is me more or less 2003 plays on the name of the German Post-Impres­sionist Lesser Ury, as does the title of a further double portrait or else 2007, which refers to the German writer Else Ury. The title of a third photo-portrait Beelze­bu­larin 2005 (in the Promised Land series) reveals itself to be an anagram of the biblical Bezalel Ben Uri. half dimen­sional — semi detached 2010, combines the first of the half dimen­sional poems with the photo­graph semi detached.

concrete – a collec­tion of works (including poetry series)


Presen­ta­tion

2012 (11.6) Tanya Ury is the featured artist with new works in the June edition online of Imag­i­na­tions: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Univer­sity of Alberta, Canada, with Videos: Inti­macy, cement & dark room; a series of 17 concrete poems, the photo­graph Alibi­jude, Selec­tion from the Who’s Boss series, and 8 photos from Soul Brothers & Sisters, also 3 photos of Occupy in Stras­bourg, from the Fading into the Fore­ground series; further­more 5 toned poems (sounds, music and sound mix Kasander Nilist) and a peer review inter­view (text and Skype video) with Claude Desmarais, (CA)
www​.csj​.ualberta​.ca/im…

Scroll to Top