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| Avant-Garde Dating The Danaids |
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Carpenter & Ury (D) 2007 Performance documented on video, English, 1 hour 2007 (3.10) The Danaids is a collaborative work by Carpenter and Ury, conceived and performed during the ”Avant-Garde Dating” week, 27.9.-3.10.2007, for Art Forum, The New Life Shop Art Gallery, Choriner Strasse 85, Berlin (D) 2007 (30.11.-11.1.2008) A computer representation with all video trailers from the week’s residency in the New Life Shop Art Gallery, Berlin (D) www.isefoundation.org is included in the exhibition “In Pursuit: Art on Dating” at the ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, New York (USA) Avant-Garde Dating was a Wooloo concept by the artists/curators Sixten Kai Nielsen & Martin Rosengaard www.AvantgardeDating.com An article by Simon Hoegsberg on Tanya Ury’s and Laurel Jay Carpenter’s partnership during the Avant-Garde Dating week appeared in the Danish magazine “Samvirke”, February 2008: www.simonhoegsberg.com
Other works in the Avant-Garde Dating series |
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Laurel Jay Carpenter approached Tanya Ury with the idea of the Danaids; in Greek mythology they are the 50 daughters of King Danaus whom he called upon to collectively murder their husbands (also their cousins) on their enforced wedding night; their father provided the Danaids with: “…ruby tipped poisoned pins to stick into their hearts. All of the Danaids did so (except one, who fell in love with her husband and eloped. She went to Elysium after her death. Punishment: The Danaids are forced to carry water in sieves from the Lethe to a bathtub which, when full (which it will never be) is to be used to cleanse their sins.” http://www.angelfire.com/nj/persephone/damned.html Tanya Ury |
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