Don't Call me Erotic  


A special event curated by Tanya Ury, with:

Helena Goldwater: And the Hairs Begin to Rise, performance
Fran Jacobsen: It's a Mitvah, Film
Lily Markiewicz: Silence Woke Me Up Today, Video and slides
Ruth Novaczek: Let Them Eat Soup, video & Performance
Tanya Ury: Kölnisch Wasser, video/performance

Article in programme catalogue Feminale, International Women's Film Festival, Cologne (D) 1994

 

What does it mean to be Jewish today, and to embrace this as an identity? Is it about the art of resistance, taking a defensive stand against the institutionalising effect of an ever more embracing world monoculture? Is it something that can be defined by race or by religion, politics or culture? Is it about the geography of a desired homeland, or on the contrary, the very absence of permanent location? Or is it a state of mind located in the body as a legitimised occupied territory? These people were humiliated and destroyed in the long history of Diaspora, Pogrom and Holocaust; it is surprising that a strong culture did survive.

Tanya Ury

 
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