1991 - 2009

A split-screen DVD (English and German versions: 34 minutes) edited by Mirco Sanftleben, pixel2motion was produced in 2009 – original material lo band Umatic from Hi8 source 1991.

Trailer 4 minutes.

Concept, performance: Tanya Ury

Intimacy, the split screen video and touch screen pieces combine material filmed in 1991 with written text citations taken from “Intimité” (Intimacy) 1939 from “Le Mur” (The Wall) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Modern Voices, Hesperus Press ((UK) ISBN: 1-84391-400-x and Hanif Kureishi’s novel of the same title “Intimacy” 1998, Faber and Faber ISBN 0-571-19437-0. The Intimacy works are a homage to Sartre and Kureishi’s analogous works.

The visual data was filmed between Xmas and New Year 1991, in Reading, where I was living at the time. A male lover and myself engage in sexual activity filmed by camera on a tripod, the action taking place against an arbitrary heard background of the BBC1 television play “The Lost Boys”, about J.M. Barrie, the author of “Peter Pan” and TV advertisements for the film “Truly Madly Deeply” (directed by Anthony Minghella in 1990) and other programmes. This recorded bedroom material, filmed a couple of years after my own marital breakdown, was not originally intended for use within a public art context but I feel it represents well the sentiments personified in the Sartre and Kureishi texts - the utopian idea of marriage fails and is replaced by multifarious sexual practice in fleeting encounters.

Further works in the series The Senses are:
The Senses: Play in Camera (sense of sight)
The Senses: Play it by Ear & An Ear for You (sense of sound)
The Senses: Ô d’Oriane (sense of smell)
The Senses: Zucchini (sense of taste)