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 appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) and Uwe Laukeningkat (percussion) was recorded at Grosse Brinkgasse 16, D‑50672 Cologne (D) 13.7.2011 and edited by Bernhard Rummel.
A documentation (English/German) of SONGS WITH WORDS, 13.7.2012, a concert, with toned poems by Tanya Ury (poems in English and German) and Kasander Nilist (double bass and sound mix), 2012, and improvisation – free improvised music: Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), 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) performed in the Kunstraum St. Michael, Brüsseler Platz, Cologne (D) was filmed Parisa Karimi & Mehrnaz Asadi, edited by Tanya Ury and Mirco Sanftleben and produced by Tanya Ury.
www.artundamen.de/inde…
Documentation, 47:00 minutes: vimeo.com/49010713
Trailer, 4:12 minutes: vimeo.com/49156210
Press: Marianne Kierspel – Kölner Stadtanzeiger (journal) 2.4.2013 (PDF)
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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: vimeo.com/112798380
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Having developed her projects with concrete poetry Tanya Ury embarked on a venture of improvised poetry with sound intensity and word play. 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” because of its visual design, and unconventional aural effect when spoken — the texts thereby gain in dimension beyond accepted meaning.
“The word that came to me when going home under the impression of your performance was ‘evanescent’. It names the attunement that reached me. There are two other words that occurred to me today: ‘tentative’ and ’scarcely presencing’.
The carousel around the abyss comes to mind, for you seem to me to dance close to it.
(…)
Your verse performance itself is (…) fleeting, evoking an atmosphere, a freely floating attunement to something fragile and precarious, as signalled by your voice, posture and gestures.
Your poetry lives from the polysemy of the words that points in various directions. Language is wonderful in that way; it takes surprising turns and you end up somewhere unexpected. Akin to, but different from the thinking-paths of philosophy along which something simple and decisive comes into view. Another way of looking-at (Anschauen, intuition, “theorein”, “nous”).”
Dr. Michael Eldred, Cologne, November 2013
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About the Cologne and Düsseldorf Improvised Music Scene:
Cologne has, an impressive jazz scene that has developed out of the Music Academy and the WDR (West German Radio) concert sessions in the Stadtgarten and generally, on the radio, over the last thirty years. The improvised music developed parallel to this jazz scene, where rules that apply to jazz sets, are thrown overboard — while improvising the musicians harmonise intuitively and freely together. This alternative scene throws free jazz styles together with funk, rock and new music.
Tanya Ury took part in the sessions with improvised poetry weekly from 2011 – 2012, performing in concert also from 2012 – 2014 with “Suspended Beliefs”, a group that she put together (Gernot Bogumil: trumpet, Kasander Nilist: double bass, Hans Salz: percussion, Peter Alexius Worringer: electric guitar).
Ury has been performing regularly as a duo with Kasander Nilist (double bass) since 2012
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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 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 (empty archive) 2013
- archive burn out 2011 – 2014
- hero of your own saga 2013 – 2014
- magical reality 2014 – 2015
Encore: 3:65 minutes, from Roland Graeter’s free improvised Music Marathon # 194 (cello/voice) featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) and Uwe Laukeningkat (percussion), recorded at Grosse Brinkgasse 16, D‑50672 Cologne (D) 13.7.2011.
TANYA URY | ROLAND GRAETER |
I cannot calculate | |
your credibility | |
creative curating | |
a canvas | |
full of | |
coy copies | |
cute cornucope | |
pokia | |
copia | |
copious | |
futures are absent | |
pretentious | |
pernicious | |
sie suchte | |
nach ihrer | |
abbildung | |
auf Wänden | |
die zerstört waren | |
Portnoy | |
complained | |
too much | |
his portrait | |
was unforgiven | |
give me a break | |
Bruchteile | |
von Sätzen | |
she pandered | |
to the panda | |
it was a pastoral disease | |
what does this mean? | |
tripping through rows | |
of dahlia | |
daily | |
my inner alien is | |
listening to all this | |
un | |
protected | |
she participated | |
in pornographic | |
perfection | |
police protection | |
in Padua | |
they padded | |
formally | |
it was a permanent | |
format | |
scheinheiliger | |
shinto | |
schau mal | |
schau | |
Ja, ich werde mir | |
in dieses Heft | |
genau durchblättern | |
bis in alle Ewigkeit | |
ether | |
eternal | |
nation | |
company | |
on the shoreline | |
she waved | |
her waiver | |
wistful | |
the boat | |
warned off | |
mussels | |
muscular | |
seaweed | |
it was a salt-free | |
diet of worms | |
and snake | |
skin | |
it did not become them | |
they became | |
humid | |
torpid | |
untouchable | |
unkraut | |
sauerkraut | |
this sour thing for loving | |
because it makes me happy | |
all the minutes of happiness | |
I went to | |
when I was going along | |
the shore | |
with my lemon-like face | |
sandkuchen | |
we came together eating | |
our favourite | |
and best | |
and most erotic reception | |
eine pilgerfahrt | |
ins abendland | |
es wird | |
ihn teuer kosten | |
koste es bitte | |
bitter | |
kräuter | |
tee | |
stube | |
gläserne | |
glieder | |
gleichzeitig | |
gleitet sie | |
hin | |
auf dem eisernen | |
see | |
es war | |
nur ein ausschnit | |
aber man | |
konnte alles | |
betrachten | |
fortschritt | |
gibt es selten | |
mal wieder | |
genug | |
ich hab dich ewig nicht gesehen | |
ewiger Araber | |
maybe coming from | |
a different country | |
I never remember | |
where I came from | |
producing platitudes | |
for the populace | |
he was so eccentric | |
what’s he talking about | |
pole your attitudes | |
on perimeters | |
I didn’t come out of | |
this — honey | |
futile | |
futures | |
can you carry it off | |
she was carried away | |
caraway | |
cares | |
care free | |
carpet bagger | |
stop | |
voices voices | |
voices voices | |
voices voices | |
Ich stimme zu | |
voices voices | |
voices voices | |
voices voices | |
voices voices | |
Stimmzettel | |
voices voices | |
bleed me dry | |
yeah, that’s the right word | |
dry | |
sec | |
secular | |
wie ein guter weisswein | |
rot stimmt auch | |
when we taste it together | |
yeah, I could agree | |
wir könnten einen guten | |
trockenen weißwein | |
dieser genießer | |
Trinitatis Kirche | |
Kirsche | |
ZeitLupe | |
Treib | |
Treblinka | |
Treib’s nicht zu weit | |
weit hinaus | |
Tribeka | |
ink ink ink | |
an den ufer | |
trinken sie | |
cognac | |
cognac | |
cognitive | |
reconnaissance | |
meet me on the other side | |
sea side | |
lecker lecker lecker lecker | |
lecker lecker lecker lecker | |
what is the | |
other side | |
of number 8? | |
8 on its side | |
I’ll drink | |
to the age | |
in which | |
we age not | |
she parted her hair | |
partings were difficult | |
poetry can | |
sometimes salvage | |
a situationist | |
it was a pretty party | |
they played poker | |
for position | |
it was one of those parties | |
a | |
a | |
apolitical | |
I would be privy | |
to your partnership | |
put that in your pipe | |
Mr. Magritte | |
but he only smoked | |
day dreams | |
at night | |
inside the muscle | |
another muscle | |
another musscle | |
another muscle | |
no pearl under | |
the mattress | |
I lay me down | |
my cloud over all this | |
thinking | |
I lay me down | |
over all that thinking | |
levitation always | |
ends in sadness | |
I don’t need it | |
musical loud | |
I don’t need it | |
word association | |
company for two | |
yes, sure | |
I’m sure | |
I’m sure | |
with my temporary… | |
inevitably | |
ending in tears | |
tearing up trees | |
polite conversation | |
will get you | |
no | |
diet | |
today | |
diet | |
singing for | |
his super | |
supposing diet | diet |
superficial | |
solitude | |
sing for your | |
sup with the devil | |
need some diet | |
of you – food | |
diet of diet daily | |
on Saturdays and Sundays | |
she shot sandwiches | |
for sport | |
diet diet diet diet | |
girating garlands | |
girly girls | |
gaited shoes | |
grow up | |
poles apart | |
bring me a parcel | |
bring me the post | |
mortem | |
that I may read | |
a reed | |
a wreath | |
lecture | |
it’s easy reading | |
every minute leaving | |
in die bluesharp | |
post modern | |
post mortem | |
after life | |
still | |
breathing | |
bitte mitte | |
blau entfernt man nicht | |
von roten Blumen | |
es kann aber auch | |
plakativ wirken | |
richtig richtig | |
richtig richtig | |
mit mit mit mit | |
ein gesellschaftsdrama | |
trug sie auf ihrer | |
gürtel | |
linie | |
die immer in gefahr werden | |
richtig | |
ich gefalle | alles auf ein plakat zu |
ich bin gefallen | vereinigen – ja in der |
es fehlt mir | |
Ich fürchte | |
plakativ – alles… | |
frostig | |
war die reaktion | |
aus dem fenster | |
hinausgeworfen | |
und und und und | |
angekommen | |
fiel ich zurück in die | |
onomatopoetische litanei | |
on a mat | |
she appeared | |
to be silent | |
of sens | |
itivity | |
it was an unusual | |
uniformity | |
untold honours | |
she betrayed her beauty | |
by bathing | |
in baskets | |
full | |
of bucolic | |
borealis | |
ja, ja, diese zinkbadewannen | |
das war doch was schönes früher | |
ich hatte eine | |
als ich drei Jahre alt war | |
stell da 5 zusammen | |
da hat man so ein | |
schönen swimming pool | |
ja ich schau mir gern | |
die Super-8-Filme | |
an | |
Stell Dich nicht | |
an | |
lauwarmes wasser | |
im August | |
zwanzig | |
zig mal | |
hab ich Dir | |
gesagt | |
I say you won again | |
I won | |
I’m winning | |
oh oh oh | |
your lost | oh |
cause you got the language — I | |
causeway | |
goes together | |
be | |
happy | |
here | |
hear me | |
I have something | |
to say | |
I am a soothe | |
smoothe sayer | |
be | |
ware | |
your heart | |
on your stocking | |
feet | |
footsie index | |
not Dax | |
ist auch ein Tier | |
ich weiss | |
Ich schon | |
Ich bin schön | |
(lacht) | |
HA HA HA HA | |
ZUGABE | |
ich spare | |
spar dir | |
deine wörter | |
sparring | |
reindeer | |
locked in | |
fighting | |
for their | |
reputation | |
they do it in summer | |
I found a shipmate | |
but the other one didn’t | |
didn’t | |
do it | |
well enough | |
it’s | |
enough | |
is… | |
poetry | |
will please | |
the masses | |
if they | |
don’t | |
participate | |
placate | |
auf dem bürgersteig | |
spielt eine welle | |
es ging ihr | |
nach und nach | |
es ging | |
ihr | |
schlecht | |
eine welle von emotionen | |
steckte in ihrem hals | |
gib’s zu | |
es nam keine ende | |
wie | |
lang | |
sind 4 | |
minuten | |
in Atemzügen | |
jetzt |
Presentation
2011 (12.3) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear, 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) Renee 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 – 12 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (D)
2011 (26.5) 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), with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) and Uwe Laukeningkat(percussion), 8 pm at Grosse Brinkgasse 16, D‑50672 Cologne (D)
www.musikmarathon.com
vimeo.com/9573170
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) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry) from 8 – 11 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 (6.12) 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)
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 (13.3) Free improvised music, with Tanya Ury (on a mat appear — Lautquälerei, improvised poetry), 8 – 11 pm Lichtung, Ubierring 13, 50678 Cologne (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 (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 (14 & 15.9) SUSPENDED BELIEFS, 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/
2013 (23.3) 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, 7 pm, Lutherkirche, Martin-Luther-Platz 4, 50677, Cologne (D)
2013 (3.4) “Liquid”, a house-concert including free improvised music: Kasander Nilist, double bass and sound mix 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 (11.7. – 7.9) “Righting the Image” — The Literature Collection in Cologne (LiK) and the Cologne City Library (D), 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 (31.10) Samhain – house concert with Tanya Ury (voice/text) and 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 vault 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”, improvised poetry with improvised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion)
2014 (05.07 – 12.10.2014) Opening 7pm 4th July, Tanya Ury presents Artistic Freedom, 9 photos in “Lost in Interiors – Photographic Positions on Political Imprisonment” 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 Projektraum – PhotoWerkBerlin, c/o Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Hohenzollerndamm 176, 10713 Berlin (D). At the opening (8pm) 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 (2.12.) 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: — vimeo.com/112798380
2015 (9.1.) Tanya Ury, improvised poetry (in English & German) and improvised music with Nicola Hein (electric guitar), Etienne Nillesen (percussion), Kasander Nilist (double bass), 8pm Galerie Schmidt und Handrup, Cologne (D)
2015 (18.1−15.2) Tanya Ury presents Artistic Freedom, 9 photos and ca six hour long video loop with text as audio performance and visual concrete poetry. A performance by Tanya Ury (text) and Kasander Nilist (double bass) – improvised poetry and improvised music on the group exhibition theme “The Stranger in Me”, curated by René de Rooze, with an opening talk by art historian David Stroband of the Art Academy Minerva Groningen, takes place at SMAHK gallery, Assen (NL)
2015 (30.1) Tanya Ury, improvised poetry (in English & German) and improvised music with Nicola Hein (electric guitar), Etienne Nillesen (percussion), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Kunsthaus Troisdorf (D)
2015 (21.5) Tanya Ury, improvised poetry (in English & German) and improvised music with Elisabeth Fügemann (cello) and Kasander Nilist (double bass), 8 pm, Galerie Schmidt and Handrup, Moltkestraße 81, 50674 Cologne (D)
2015 (3.10) Improvisation concert from 8 pm with “Hechtschmalz“, Andreas Techler (saxophone), Achim Pohl (drums), Kasander Nilist (double bass), followed by the duo Tanya Ury (improvised poetry in English and German on the 25th anniversary of German Unification) and Kasander Nilist (double bass), in Solaris 63 Association, Foundation for Art and Culture, Kopernikusstraße 53, 40225 Düsseldorf (D)
2016 (19.5.) A performance of improvised poetry and music (Tanya Ury – texts in German and English – Kasander Nilist on double bass) will take place on 19th Mai at 7 pm at the closing event of the exhibition “April April” (April Fool) — 6 – 11pm — Petersburger Art Space, Gladbacher Strasse 50, 50672 Cologne (D) petersburger-art.de/
2016 (21.5) A performance of improvised poetry and music (Tanya Ury – texts in German and English – Kasander Nilist on double bass) will take place at the opening on 27th February of Tanya Ury’s cunt prints 2013 at 2pm 4pm and 6 pm. THANK SHOWS ART in the clothes shop Marsilstein 2, 50676 Cologne (D)
2016 (23.6.) A performance of improvised poetry and music (Tanya Ury – texts in German and English – Kasander Nilist on double bass) will take place on 23rd June at 7 pm, at the end of the exhibition opening of “Spielfrei” (Game-Free) — 6 – 11pm — Petersburger Art Space, Gladbacher Strasse 50, 50672 Cologne (D)
2016 (29.10) vapour rising, improvisation concert with the duo Tanya Ury (improvised poetry in English and German) and water sound recordings by Kasander Nilist (double bass), from 8 pm: in Solaris 53 Association, Foundation for Art and Culture, Kopernikusstraße 53, 40225 Düsseldorf (D) www.solaris53.org/inde…
2018 (14 – 16.1.) Tanya Ury presents a video documentation of her performance concert archive burn out, filmed and edited by Freya Hattenberger on 10th April 2014 in the Nazi Documentation Centre, Cologne, with “Suspended Beliefs”: poetry, text and improvised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion), after a power point presentation of Ury’s article Personal Affects – Going into the Archive (short version), 11.20−12.40 pm on 16th January, at The Future of the Archive, Performing the Jewish Archive and Beyond, British Library, London (GB)
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)
Press
2013 (2.4) Article by Marianne Kierspel in Kölner Stadtanzeiger (journal) (PDF)
2014 (3.5) Interview (22:18 minutes on 18th April) 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 extracts of Ury’s concert performance archive burn out, with Suspended Beliefs: Tanya Ury (text/voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion)), online on Alleweltonair (All the World on air) (D) as podcast – “can’t dance without my shadow”
www.alleweltonair.de/t…
2014 (14.9) A mention of Tanya Ury (improvised poetry) und Kasander Nilist (Kontrabass), who performed at the opening of the exhibition „Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind“ (Where Have All the Flowers Gone), in the e‑paper Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger, Kölnische Rundschau (D)
www.ksta.de/troisdorf/…
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/…
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The appearance of Suspended Beliefs, a group with Cologne author Tanya Ury (2nd from the right), was a crass contrast to folklore.
Like a hopeful legend – Luther Church – Folklore and Improvisation at the Spring of CulturesCity Centre. For the third time, the Luther Church was the location of a music festival, inspired by the 3000-year-old Persian spring festival Norouz, or Nowruz — Unesco included it in its List of Intangible Heritage, 2009.
(…) After the folklore a modern, enigmatic experiment provided a crass contrast. The group “Suspended Beliefs”, four musicians with the Cologne author Tanya Ury, improvised very softly and very slowly. Ury spun series of unconnected splinters of sentences together about “the underworld”, “speech”, or “polar ice caps”. The instrumentalists played colourful sounds and the word outpourings were also accompanied by the sound of burbling water. (…) Marianne Kierspel – Kölner Stadtanzeiger (journal) 2.4.2013, Cologne (D) (Translation TU)