A series of art works: consisting of photographs, objects and digitally handwritten texts, dedicated to Ela Ury
Edition of 7
DVD 200 Euros
A DVD projection of image and sound, English Version 33 minutes, German Version 40 minutes, has also been produced.
Promised Land: Beelzebularin was awarded a commendation in the International Jewish Artists of the Year Awards, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art (GB) 10.3.2007
Trailer 4 Minutes
Promised Land, about Ury’s family and the problematic of Israeli politics, encompasses art works and biographies that scrutinise Israel’s history: 2 perspectives from 2 generations of different eras, the contemporary view and the biblical with creative license.
1. Tanya Ury an Anglo/German, Jewish artist writing and making art about the Shoah and its aftermath while living in Germany, tells her story.
2. Sylvia Ury’s story as told by Tanya. Sylvia fled with her Jewish parents from Nazi Germany to England as a child. As a young woman, in Palestine she decided to stay and fight in the War of Independence in Palestine; hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced during the Israeli/Arab wars of 1948 and 1967, who still wish to return to and live in Israel.
3. Bezalel Ben Uri is the artist who constructed the holy objects for Moses’ new monotheist God while still almost a child.
4. In this imagined tale, Uri ben Hur suspects that his son Bezalel may have assisted Aaron, Moses’ brother, in the creation of the golden calf. Uri points out the inconsistencies in Moses’ Law when promoting the case for murder and acquisition of another’s property in the conquest of the Promised Land.
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
Information
Concept, text, performance and voice over: Tanya Ury
Text editor: Amin Farzanefar
German translation Gelobtes Land: Tanya Ury and Amin Farzanefar
Camera: David Janecek
Digital processing: Claudia Stasch
DVD edit: Rainer Nelissen
DVD image correction Pixel2motion — crossmediadesign
Bibliography
Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis and Other Works, Sigmund Freud 1937 – 40, Vintage, The Hogarth Press UK, 2001 ISBN 0−099−42678−1
Precarious Life — The Powers of Mourning and Violence, Judith Butler, 2004 publ. Verso, ISBN 1 84467 005 8
Andreas Kilcher: The Moses of Sinai and the Moses of Egypt. Moses as Magician in Jewish Literature and Western Esotericism. In: Aries. Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. Edited by Roland Edighoffer, Antoine Faivre and Wouter J. Hanegraaff. 4, Heft 2 (2004), S. 148 – 170. Leiden (NL)
New English Bible
Lutherbibel
The Trailer is an extract collation from different parts of the video.
Presentation
2005 (2 – 18.12.) DVD Version, group exhibition, Traum und Trauma — Zur Idee des Staates Israel in Film und Video, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Dream and Trauma — On the Idea of the State of Israel in Film and Video) (D)
2005 (7.12) Seminar & trailer, Conference: Jüdische Frauen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Jewish Women in the Past and Present), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Wesseling nr. Bonn (D)
2006 (27.2) Peer Critique, trailer, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum (GB)
2006 (5.4.) Professional Practice Seminar with trailer, Fine Art Department, Sheffield Hallam University (GB)
2006 (6.4) Trailer presented in Seminar within Cathy Gelbin’s PhD. Conference course: Gender and Visual Arts, Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway, London (D)
2006 (6.5. – 18.6.) Jahresausstellung (Yearly exhibition), Kunstverein Rosenheim (D)
2006 (10.5) Körperbilder (Body Images), seminar and video trailer, Kunstverein (Art Centre) Dortmund (D)
2006 (14.8) Promises: DVD projection, solo exhibition, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum (GB)
2006 (29.8. – 31.8.) DVD projection, group exhibition, c.sides festival, International Convention Center, Jerusalem and projection with discussion, Jerusalem Cinematheque, evening of 29.8. (IL)
2006 (6.10. – 27.10) Promised Land: 3 photographs: Beelzebularin and 2 digitally handwritten texts in English and German, Virtual Residency, Galeria Biala, Centrum Kultury, Lublin (PL)
2007 (23.3.) On the online Feminist Art Base: www.brooklynmuseum.org… audio extract (English) from Promised Land„ The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York (USA)
2007 (10.3.) Promised Land: Beelzebularin awarded a commendation in the International Jewish Artists of the Year Awards, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art (GB)
2007 (11.3. – 9.4.) Group exhibition, DVD projection, Connected, opening 12 am, Jewish Cultural Days, Altes Museum im BIS-Zentrum (Old Museum in the BIS Centre), Moenchengladbach www.connected-mg.de (D)
2007 (6.11−16.12) Opening 5th November, ending 16th December, Promised Land DVD, group exhibition Diaspora and Troubles curated by Tanya Ury, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich (D)
2008 (27.1) Screening with discussion, Anadoma Film/Video-Festival (25. – 27.1), Lot-Theater, Braunschweig www.anadoma.de/ (D)
2009 (30.4−3.5) 17.30 hours — 1st May, screening of Promised Land (German version) with discussion, Limmud Festival, Werbellinsee, Jugenderholungs- und Begegnungsstätte (Youth Relaxation and Meeting Place) (D)
Publications & Press
2005 (12) Interview Isabella Herskovics, Saarländisches Radio (D)
2005 (4.12) Interview Dominik Rzepka, Radio Dom, Cologne (D)
2006 (5.2006) Image of Beelzebularin in Jahresausstellung (yearly exhibition) catalogue, Kunstverein Rosenheim (Art Centre), (D)
2006 (26.8) Interview with Aron Hadar and image: Promised Land: Beelzebularin, Ha’aretz (IL)
2008 (9) Promised Land: 3 photographs: Beelzebularin and 2 digitally handwritten texts in English and German, Virtual Residency catalogue ISBN 978−3−9812208−0−3 (D) www.virtual-residency.…
2008 (11) Beelzebularin discussed in article on Tanya Ury (in German) by Hartmut Bomhoff with image of Beelzebularin, Jüdische Zeitung (monthly), Berlin (D) article as PDF
2009 (1) Anadoma Film/Video-Festival, Braunschweig catalogue, discussion with Florian Krautkrämer on the video Promised Land (pdf) (D)
2009 (4) Image of Beelzebularin in Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (USA)