Kjubh

TANYA URY
"Fury"

Exhibition: 20 Aug - 22 Aug 2010, daily from 7-9 pm
Opening: Thursday 19 Aug 2010, 7 pm, film start at 8 pm

Installation, Video-Performance
An installation of the Video-Performance "Fury" (2009) by Tanya Ury

The piece is about the loss of the Ury/Unger family archive with the collapse of the Historical Archives in Cologne, on 3rd March 2009.
With "Fury" Tanya Ury takes on the role of one of the Three Furies, also known as the Erinnyes, or Eumenides, the so-called Avenging Goddesses of the Antique, who avenged heavy crimes. She carries a suitcase full of scripts and articles written by her grandfather, Alfred H. Unger to the "hole", the location where the Cologne City Archives once stood and reads one of these articles about Cologne, from 1948. The suitcase had mistakenly been delivered to her home address and not the City Archives ten years ago, and she kept it.

(Performance: Tanya Ury; translation: Tanya Ury und Amin Farzanefar: camera: Sigrid Hombach: Edit: Mirco Sanftleben, Pixel2motion, 2009)