Category: Collection of works: Concrete

Poem, English, unpub­lished This short love poem is a humorous but passionate string of word fore­play oriented around oral and aural desire, culi­nary, with a sensed jazz rhythm beat. *** 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 […]

Poem (English), unpub­lished wish, a Haiku on S & M In its style and inten­tion the concrete poetry is a collec­tion of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is impro­vised and written down imme­di­ately — in essence it is auto­matic writing. Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be regarded as​“concrete” […]

Video-instal­la­­tion with live perfor­mance reading. A DVD (42 minutes) of the poem layout with an unsyn­chro­nised double voice sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2012 (image format 4:3) – trailer 2 minutes. Infor­ma­tion Poems, design Recording 1 Tanya Ury, Recording 2 Jules Desgoutte Video edit Mirco Sanftleben Text editor Amin Farzanefar The live concert​“CrissCross/​Anamnesis #10“, by the composer […]

This poem in German and English is, in the main, a list of hand­picked words that begin with the prefix​“un”. In its style and inten­tion the concrete poetry is a collec­tion of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is impro­vised and written down imme­di­ately — in essence it […]

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 […]

Tanya Ury & Kasander Nilist 2011 – 2013 From 2011 on, Tanya Ury started recording 12 of the more tradi­tional poems to be found in her poetry series in a working part­ner­ship with Kasander Nilist (double bass, sound and mix). These toned poems are: Artemis 2:05 minutes (from oral call 20, poem 2011, music & sound mix 2012) cells 40 seconds (from cross […]

Video-instal­la­­tion A DVD (4:50:00 minutes) of the poem layout with voice-over sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2013 (image format 4:3) Infor­ma­tion Poetry, design & recording Tanya Ury Video edit Mirco Sanftleben Correc­tion of German parts Amin Farzanefar In a similar manner to her other poetry series Tanya Ury’s taste of space is written off the cuff, what­ever comes […]

Photo series with English text 17 photos Sealed onto Forex sheets, plex­i­glass and clip-framed 1999 – 2000 8 photographs 30.3 x 45.1 cm 8 photographs 20 x 45.1 cm (English text) 1 photo­graph 9.5 x 14.8 cm (title) Edition of seven Edition of seven: 8 photographs 60.6 x 90.2 cm 8 photographs 40 x 90.2 cm 1 photo­graph 19 x 29.6 cm Sonata in Sea is presented as a room instal­la­tion, where a CD of Suzanne Brad­bury may […]

Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry ​“Pomes Penyeach” was the title of James Joyce’s thir­­teen-poem collec­tion, written over a twenty-year period (1904−24). The title is a play on​“poems” and​“pommes” (the French word for apples) which are here offered at​“a penny each” in either currency. It was the custom for Irish trades­people of the time […]

(in 3⁄4 time) 2003 15 A4 sheets of English verse (unpub­lished), hand­written in mirror form, framed in light wooden frames. (Hand mirror is provided.) Insur­ance price 1000 Euros The Poker Poems are by and large about an imag­ined inter­ac­tion between the dictator Adolf Hitler and the philoso­pher Ludwig Wittgen­stein. It is possible that they knew each other in […]

Like half dimen­sional poems 2009 – 2011 cement 2011, weißer neger (white nigger) 2011 and concrete party 2011, oral call (the title suggesting the oracle) 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 […]

A video docu­men­ta­tion (8.21 minutes) of the half dimen­sional poems presen­ta­tion in the Kunst­palast Düssel­dorf 24.2.2011, with on a mat appear — and impro­vised poetry in WP8 Düssel­dorf 12.3.2011, was filmed, edited and produced by Maxi­m­ilian Hoffs. An audio CD docu­men­ta­tion of Roland Graeter’s free impro­vised Music Marathon # 194 (cello/​voice) — 36,5 minutes, encore 3:65 minutes, featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat […]

LED display sign with holo­grams of texts, English and German, 1992 The 12, A4 holo­grams of texts have been framed together in steel frames, in three rows of four, 83cm x 78 cm The LED displays a moving message with various combi­na­tions of the three words YOU ARE WHY. The dictum YOU ARE WHY, not only poses the […]

Poem, English, unpub­lished This short poem about the end of love describes a night of love in words evoking the Goddess Fortuna but also in terms of a meal consumed too quickly. Word-fore-play — Recipe for Love no thyme though there was no thyme it was mint to be to be quite candied in no thyme I knew no thyme to rue you took my […]

Video-instal­la­­tion Infor­ma­tion Poetry, design & recording Tanya Ury Video edit Mirco Sanftleben Correc­tion of German parts Amin Farzanefar A DVD (? minutes) of the poem layout with voice-over sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2015 (image format 4:3) *** magical reality is yet another poetry series written off the cuff — the thir­teenth in a series, commenced in 2009 with […]

These poems take up the thread where the half dimen­sional poems, cement and on a mat appear leave off. In style and sense they are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, which reflect the daily life and tempera­ment of the artist. Distinc­tively, this poetry is impro­vised and written in real-time. Tanya Ury’s written poetry may […]

Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry 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 […]

4 sides of English verse (unpub­lished) This short poem takes up the thread where the half dimen­sional poems, cement and on a mat appear leave off. In style and sense it is a concrete poem, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, which reflect the daily life and tempera­ment of the artist. In detail it contains a conglom­erate of song, […]

2013 – 2014 The poetry series hero of your own saga continues in the same vain as other series that Tanya Ury has contrived, with lines written off the cuff, mostly absurd, sporad­i­cally tradi­tional and with some images, that is, text as poetry. The form, as with several others of the series, remains a construc­tion of 28 poems, […]

Dedi­cated to Alan Xmas 2009 — New Year 2011 Video-instal­la­­tion with live perfor­mance reading. A power point presen­ta­tion of the poem layout was created in 2011 — also a DVD (36:08 minutes) with sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2011 – trailer half dimen­sional poems no.15, 1:25 minutes. For the première in the Kunst­palast Düssel­dorf 24.2.2011 Ury played back the video-instal­la­­tion and […]

1989 – 2010 The photo­graph semi detached & the half dimen­sional poems no. 1 combine to create a record cover (31.2 cm width x 31.3 height) commis­sioned for a group exhi­bi­tion of 25 Jens-Uwe Beyer record covers cele­brating 10 years of kjubh Kunstverein e.V. (Art Centre), at the Kölnis­cher Kunstverein (Cologne Art Centre) (D) 10^th July 2010. semi detached is a photo­graph taken in Alfred Unger’s […]

Typed computer version 2007, German poem 2011 Etching (29 cm width x 37 cm height, framed: 43 cm width x 51 cm height) and poem, English and German version, unpub­lished Poster: height 85 cm x width 60 cm 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 […]

This is a concrete poem in English, written for the artist’s niece Elà. In its style and inten­tion the concrete poetry is a collec­tion of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is impro­vised and written down imme­di­ately — in essence it is auto­matic writing. Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be […]

2011-12-14 — 2012-04-18 Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry 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, […]

27.5.2011 – 2011-08 – 16 Like half dimen­sional poems 2009 – 2011 cement 2011 and weißer neger (white nigger), concrete party 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 edition, like […]

Video-instal­la­­tion A DVD (36:42 minutes) of the poem layout with voice-over sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2011 (image format 4:3) – trailer cement no. 16, 1:02 minutes. These poems take up the thread where the half dimen­sional poems leave off. In style and sense they are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, misun­der­stood conver­sa­tion and misread […]