Avant-Garde Dating
Zucchini
 

2007 - 08

Performance in English, documented on video
Trailer 5 minutes 10 seconds

A DVD compilation of all the "Avant-Garde Dating" trailers with German subtitles, 40 minutes was put together 2009

2007 (27.9.-3.10) Zucchini was an impromptu short story related by Tanya Ury to her guests in the gallery, after they had consumed a courgette curry prepared by the artist at her 56th birthday party, during the ”Avant-Garde Dating” week 27.9.-3.10. for Art Forum, The New Life Shop Art Gallery, Choriner Strasse 85, Berlin (D)

Avant-Garde Dating was a Wooloo concept by the artists/curators Sixten Kai Nielsen & Martin Rosengaard www.AvantgardeDating.com

2007 (30.11.-11.1.2008) Included in the exhibition “In Pursuit: Art on Dating” at the ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, New York (USA) is a computer representation with all video trailers from the week’s residency in the New Life Shop Art Gallery, Berlin (D) www.isefoundation.org

An article by Simon Hoegsberg on Tanya Ury’s and Laurel Jay Carpenter’s partnership during the Avant-Garde Dating week (27.9.-3.10.2007) has been presented in the Danish magazine “Samvirke”, March edition 2008. There is an English translation on Hoegsberg’s website: www.simonhoegsberg.com

www.simonhoegsberg.com - article as PDF

 

 

It was Xmas of the mid-nineties in Cologne. The Jewish protagonist prepared a hybrid Christmas meal (Xmas cake and Indian food) for an eclectic group of friends: 2 German Christians (named Christoph and Christian) and 2 Palestinians. It was only the cook’s lover who was able to uncover the mystery behind the curry’s magic ingredient, but at least one of the guests, Jinan the youngest, may have gained an intuition…

Tanya Ury

Other works in the Avant-Garde Dating series
The Danaids
Game & Match
Climacter
Broken Glass 1 & 2

Avant-Garde Dating - Introductory Talk

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: Intimacy (sense of touch)

 
       
 
 
Zucchini, 1st October, 5 minutes 10 seconds