concrete
47 images (edition 7): A4, height 85 cm x width 60 cm
Height 31.5 cm x width 23.5 cm (edition 7)
A ca. 6‑hour compilation loop of the following poetry video pieces, with text as audio performance and visual concrete poetry by Tanya Ury has been put together for screening on a mac mini:
1. half dimensional poems 2009 – 2011, edit 2011, B&W 36:08 minutes
2. cement 2011 (January-March), edit 2011, colour 36:42 minutes 3. weißer neger (white nigger) 2011 (March-May),
edit 2012, B&W 42:00 minutes
4. concrete party 2011 (May-August),
edit 2013, colour 31:35 minutes.
5. oral call 2011 (August-December), edit 2013, colour 28:21 minutes 6. cross word 2011 – 2012 (December-April), edit 2013,
B&W 28:00 minutes
7. two toned 2012 (April-July-), edit 2013, colour 30:35 minutes
8. pommes 2012 (July- December), edit 2013, B&W 28:39 minutes.
9. taste of space 2012 – 2013 (December-May),
edit 2013, colour 27:26 minutes.
10. leeres archiv 2013 (May-November), edit 2014, B&W 29:15 minutes
11. hero of your own saga (November 2013-October-(October) 2014,
edit 2014, colour 00:00 minutes
Total length (Loop) 5:42:49 minutes
Insurance value 1000 Euros
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.
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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…
A ca. 6‑hour compilation loop of the following poetry video pieces, with text as audio performance and visual concrete poetry by Tanya Ury has been put together for projection or screening:
Poetry series
- half dimensional poems 2009 – 2011, edit 2011, B&W 36:08 minutes
- cement 2011 (January-March), edit 2011, colour 36:42 minutes
- weißer neger (white nigger) 2011 (March-May), edit 2012, B&W 42:00 minutes
- concrete party 2011 (May-August), edit 2013, colour 31:35 minutes.
- oral call 2011 (August-December), edit 2013, colour 28:21 minutes
- cross word 2011 – 2012 (December-April), edit 2013, B&W 28:00 minutes
- two toned 2012 (April-July-), edit 2013, colour 30:35 minutes
- pommes 2012 (July- December), edit 2013, B&W 28:39 minutes.
- taste of space 2012 – 2013 (December-May), edit 2013, colour 27:26 minutes.
- leeres archiv 2013 (May-November), edit 2014, B&W 29:15 minutes
- hero of your own saga (November 2013-October-(October) 2014, edit 2014, colour 00:00 minutes
Total length (Loop) 5:42:49 minutes
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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)
- femininity – femininiation 2011
- Moving Message 1992
- Word-fore-play – Recipe for Love 1995
- Sonata in Sea 1999 – 2000
- wish 2000
- wrestlewithyourangel 2001
- neonazi 2001
- Poker Poems 2003
- elle la poésie 2003
- lesser is me more or less 2003
- Promised Land – a collection of works 2005
- Mid Summer 2005
- Un 2006
- or else 2007
- half dimensional poems 2009 – 2011
- half dimensional – semi detached 2010
- cement (Befestigte Gedichte) 2011
- on a mat appear 2011 -
- Lost Poems 2011
- weißer neger (white nigger) 2011
- informed 1.3.2011
- concrete party 2011
- oral call 2011
- cross word 2011 – 2012
- toned poems 2011 – 2012
- two toned 2012
- pommes 2012
- taste of space 2012 – 2013
- leeres archiv 2013
- archive burn out 2011 – 2014
- hero of your own saga 2013 – 2014
- magical reality 2014 – 2015
Presentation
2011 (12.3) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) from 8 pm in WP8 Düsseldorf (D)
2011 (15.3) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (9.4.) YES WE CANNED (Gernot Bogumil, Karl Krützmann Achmett Schachbrett), free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 7th Stairway-Concert, 3 – 6 pm, KUNSTRAUM (Art Space) Renée Blume, under the old lighthouse, on the Helios grounds, Venloer Strasse 389 (red, green blue), (Tel: +49 0221 30 24 95 06 or + 49178 66 88 319) Cologne-Ehrenfeld (D)
2011 (12.4) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (17.5) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (25.5) Sechzig 32 (Martin Zierold, Gerno Bocumil, Willi Strack, Sebastian Schaffmeister), free improvised music (private session), with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) and Benedetta Reuter (dance), 8 – 12 pm, Cologne (D)
2011 (12.7) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) with Roland Graeters free improvised Music Marathon # 193 (voice), 8 – 12 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (13.7) Roland Graeter’s free improvised Music Marathon # 194 (cello/voice), featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) and Uwe Laukeningkat (percussion), 8 pm at Grosse Brinkgasse 16, D‑50672 Cologne (D)
2011 (16.8) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (8.10) Roland Graeter’s free improvised Music Marathon #281 (cello/voice), featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) and Takashi Mitsui (keyboard), 2 – 5 pm, a Staircase concert in the Helios Tower in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (D)
www.musikmarathon.com vimeo.com/9573170 www.raum-fuer-kunst.de…
2011 (8.10) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) from 8 pm in WP8, Kölner Strasse 73, 40211 Düsseldorf (D)
2011 (11.10) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (8.11) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (10.12) Lautspalter, free improvised music: Tanya Ury (improvised poetry) with Sebastian Schaffmeister (double bass), Takashi Mitsui (keyboards), Peter Alexius Worringer (guitar) will appear late Saturday night for the “Bunker – Solidarity – Performance – Event” (Friday, the 9th and Saturday, the 10th December), curated by Signlinde Kallnbach, Hochbunker, Körner Strasse, Cologne-Ehrenfeld (D) hochbunkerkoernerstr.w…
2012 (10.1) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2012 (14.1) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) from 8 pm in WP8, Kölner Strasse 73, 40211 Düsseldorf (D)
2012 (7.4) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) from 8 pm in WP8, Kölner Strasse 73, 40211 Düsseldorf (D)
2012 (16.4) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Climax, Eifel Strasse 37, 50677 Cologne (D)
2012 (21.5) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Climax, Eifel Strasse 37, 50677 Cologne (D)
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)
2012 (2.8) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 7.30−11.30 pm, Summer Session, Akki e.V., Siegburger Strasse 25, Düsseldorf (D)
2012 (6.9) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 7.30−11.30 pm, Summer Session, Akki e.V., Siegburger Strasse 25, Düsseldorf (D)
2012 (14 & 15.9) Free improvised music: Kasander Nilist (double bass) & Tanya Ury (on a mat appear – lautquälerei, improvised poetry mostly in English with German), 5th Robodonien Festival, Odonien, Horn Stasse 85, 50823, Cologne (D) robodonien.de/
2012 (16.9) SONGS WITH WORDS, a concert with free improvised music: Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion), Peter Alexius Worringer (electric guitar), featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat appear – lautquälerei, improvised poetry mostly in English with German), 5th Robodonien Festival, Odonien, Horn Stasse 85, 50823, Cologne (D) robodonien.de/
2012 (11.10) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8−11.30 pm, Café im Bürgerhaus MüTZe, Berliner Straße 77, 51063, Köln-Mülheim (D)
2012 (13.12) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8−11.30 pm, Café im Bürgerhaus MüTZe, Berliner Straße 77, 51063, Köln-Mülheim (D)
2013 (12.1) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), winter session, from 8 pm in WP8, Kölner Strasse 73, 40211 Düsseldorf (D)
2013 (23.3) SUSPENDED BELIEFS, a concert with free improvised music: Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion), Peter Alexius Worringer (electric guitar), featuring Tanya Ury, improvised poetry mostly in English with German, Spring Festival, 7 pm, Lutherkirche, Martin-Luther-Platz 4, 50677, Cologne (D)
2013 (3.4) “Liquid”, a house-concert of free improvised music: Kasander Nilist, double bass accompanying Tanya Ury & improvised poetry mostly in English with German; with Suzanne Bradbury, piano, Louis Ryan poetry, Paul Archer poetry and singer Fiona Stuart Wilson, Cami de Ses Fontanelles 6, Soller, Mallorca (ES)
2013 (11.4) Free improvised music, including Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), winter session, from 8 pm in WP8, Kölner Strasse 73, 40211 Düsseldorf (D)
2013 (11.7. – 7.9) “Righting the Image” — The Literature Collection in Cologne (LiK) and the Cologne City Library, present an exhibition of Tanya Ury’s work. Opening event — Thursday, 11.7.2013, 8 pm. Introduction: Dr. Gabriele Ewenz, Director of the LiK-Archive, with Suspended Beliefs — improvised poetry with improvised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion), Peter Worringer (e‑guitar)
2013 (5.9) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 7.30−11.30 pm, Summer Session, Akki e.V., Siegburger Strasse 25 Düsseldorf (D)
2013 (12.9) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8−11.30 pm, Café im Bürgerhaus MüTZe, Berliner Straße 77, 51063, Köln-Mülheim (D)
2013 (31.10) Samhain – house concert with Kasander Nilist (double bass), free improvised music, readings and poetry, Grosse Brinkgasse 16, Cologne (D)
2014 (13.2. – 21.4) Tanya Ury’s Hair Shirt Army, an installation, sponsored by the Kulturamt (Art’s Council Cologne), will be presented for the first time in the crypt of EL-DE-Haus, the Nazi Documentation Centre, Cologne (D), opening 7pm, 13th February, with an introduction by Professor Dr. Ernst van Alphen, Leiden University (NL). A programme of events includes a performance concert archive burn out on 10th April, with “Suspended Beliefs”, poetry with improvised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion)
2014 (04.07 — 29.09.2014) Opening 3rd July, Tanya Ury presents Artistic Freedom, 9 photos in “Lost in Interiors” a group exhibition, to the “25 Jahre Mauerfall” programme (25 Years After the Fall of the Wall), in Berlin, about Hohenschönhausen, the former Stasi prison, at PhotoWerkBerlin (www.photowerkberlin.co…), Apartment Project Berlin Hertzbergstr 13, Neukölln, 12055 Berlin, in coöperation with the Kommunalen Galerie Berlin (D). At the opening Kasander Nilist will accompany Tanya Ury’s poetry improvisation on the historical theme, in English and German, with free improvised music on double bass.
2014 (2.9.-) A concert with free improvised music, : Kasander Nilist, double bass accompanying Tanya Ury & improvised poetry mostly in English with German, at the opening of “Where have all the Flowers gone – 1914−2014”, a group exhibition to 100 years after the beginning of the First World War, Kunsthaus (Art Centre) Troisdorf (D)
2014 (8.11) Performance by Tanya Ury (voice/text), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Artclub, Melchior Strasse 14, 50670 Cologne (D), 8 pm on Saturday 8th November. The performance is at the front in the display window, in the context of the permanent exhibition and the opening of three new solo exhibitions in the project rooms: Jeannette Kreiser, Werner Kramer und Katja Rohsmanith.
2014 (2.12.) A video documentation of the performance concert archive burn out, on 10th April in the Nazi Documentation Centre, Cologne, with “Suspended Beliefs”, improvised poetry with improvised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion) can be seen on Vimeo under these links:
Documentation: vimeo.com/112831445
Trailer: vimeo.com/112828403
Encore: vimeo.com/112828985
2014 (2.12.) A video documentation of the performance concert “Lost in Interiors“ (25 Years After the Fall of the Wall), 4th July in Berlin, about Hohenschönhausen, the former Stasi prison, at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin (D) — Kasander Nilist with free improvised music on double bass accompanies Tanya Ury’s poetry with improvisation on the historical theme, in English and German — can be seen on Vimeo at this link:
2015 (18.1−15.2) Tanya Ury presents Artistic Freedom, 9 photos and a 5:42:49 minute long video loop with text as audio performance and visual concrete poetry, in “Der Fremde in Mir” (The Stranger in Me), a group exhibition curated by René de Rooze, with an opening talk by art historian David Stroband of the Art Academy Minerva Groningen, and a performance by Tanya Ury (text) and Kasander Nilist (double bass) – improvised poetry (in English) and improvised music on the exhibition theme “The Stranger in Me”, at SMAHK gallery, Assen (NL)
2018 (22.6.) c!ang #26, Tanya Ury (improvised and anima 19, written poetry), Maryanne Piper (improvisation on clarinet) and Kasander Nilist (improvisation on double bass), 8 pm, Atelier Swen Buckner (back courtyard), 61 Birkenstrasse, 40233 Düsseldorf (D)
2018 (10.11) Tanya Ury’s poem anima 19 (20.05.2018), recorded by, and together with Kasander Nilist (double bass) and placed by Susanne Fasbender on her “Brand” (Fire) films blog. This blog is about the Hambach Forest in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police and German energy company RWE’s brutal dealings with the tree activists – who were demonstrating against deforestation for brown coal mining purposes — and the accidental death of Steffen Meyn on 19th September 2018, who was filming for a documentary on the Hambach Forest situation https://brandfilme-blog.cabanova.com/blog.html (D)
2018 (24.11.) Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany, gives a speech including a poem – twenty per cent -, at “Solidarity with Palestine”, a day of action with DPG Bonn (German Palestinian Association), the Palestinian Community in Bonn, and the Institute for Palestine Studies, 2 pm, at Münsterplatz, Bonn (D)
Publications & Press
2013 (2.4) An article by Marianne Kierspel in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger (journal), on SUSPENDED BELIEFS, a concert with free improvised music: Kasander Nilist (double bass and sound mix), Hans Salz (percussion), Peter Alexius Worringer (electric guitar), featuring Tanya Ury, improvised poetry mostly in English with German, Spring Festival, Lutherkirche, Martin-Luther-Platz 4, 50677, Cologne (D)
2013 (4.9) “Playful Verse, Videos and Holograms — The Cologne Artist Tanya Ury exhibits 47 Visual Poems in the Central Library, on Josef-Haubrich-Hof”, an article by Jürgen Kisters in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne City Gazette) (D)
2014 (18.4) Interview with Tanya Ury by Brigitte Lang and Rebecca Mann, on the installation Who’s Boss: Hair Shirt Army in the Nazi Documentation Centre, Cologne, including an extract of Ury’s concert performance burn out, with Suspended Beliefs: Tanya Ury (text/voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion)), Good Friday at 7:04 pm, on Alleweltonair (All the World on air), on civic radio, with Radio Cologne, 107,1 FM & online on Alleweltonair (All the World on air) as podcast: www.alleweltonair.de in the right column, near the top under the title — can’t dance without my shadow (D)
2014 (14.7) Article by Thomas Schubert in Berliner Woche (Berlin Week) online on “Lost in Interiors – Photographic Positions on Political Imprisonment” a group exhibition (05.07 – 12.10.2014), to the “25 Jahre Mauerfall” programme (25 Years After the Fall of the Wall), in Berlin, about Hohenschönhausen, the former Stasi prison, at Projektraum – PhotoWerkBerlin, c/o Kommunale Galerie Berlin (D), featuring Tanya Ury and Artistic Freedom (7 photos).
www.berliner-woche.de/…
www.photowerkberlin.co…
2014 (14.9) A mention of Tanya Ury (improvised poetry) and Kasander Nilist (double bass), who performed at the opening of the exhibition „Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind“ (Where Have All the Flowers Gone), in an article by Andreas Helfer in the e‑paper Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger, Kölnische Rundschau (D)
www.ksta.de/troisdorf/…
2018 (24.11.) Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany, gives a speech including a poem – twenty per cent -, at “Solidarity with Palestine”, a day of action with DPG Bonn (German Palestinian Association), the Palestinian Community in Bonn, and the Institute for Palestine Studies, 2 pm, at Münsterplatz, Bonn (D). A photo documentation can be seen at this link www.nrhz.de/flyer/beit…, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Arbeiterfotografie (New Rhenish Gazette, Workers Photography) (D).
www.nrhz.de/flyer/beit… of Tanya Ury)
www.nrhz.de/flyer/beit… twenty per cent, by Tanya Ury)
Collections
1984 Etching (29 cm width x 37 cm height, framed: 43 cm width x 51 cm height) in private collection Nini Ury, Vancouver (CA)
2004 Between the Lines, Edition Rolf Steiner’s “Die weite Welt” (The Wide World) in the Graphic Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (D)
2010 half dimensional – semidetached, 2010, private collection, Alan Bangs, Cologne (D)
2012 anti gone (31.5 cm x 23.5 cm) in private collection Katja Butt, Cologne (D)
2014 femininity, poster (height 85 cm x width 60 cm) in private collection Reem Akl, Beirut (LB)
2014 mündliche tradition poster (height 85 cm x width 60 cm) in private collection Jürgen Müller, EL-DE-HAUS, Nazi Documentation Centre Cologne (D)
2014 femininity, poster (height 85 cm x width 60 cm) in private collection Nini Ury, Vancouver (CA)
2014 v form & caw-calling (combined), (31.5 cm x 23.5 cm) in private collection Nomi Louv, Jerusalem (Il)
2014 diary of a chambermaid, (31.5 cm x 23.5 cm) in private collection Astrid Nettling, Cologne (D)
2014 windhound, (31.5 cm x 23.5 cm) in private collection Kasander Nilist, Cologne (D)
2015 silly cone (31.5 cm x 23.5 cm), in private collection Dr. med. Juliane Terpe, Cologne (D)