System Failure: A tribute to Ultra-red and militant sound investigation
Toronto, 09.03.22
System Failure explores the work of the sound/art/activist collective Ultra-red that creates different model of engagement between participatory art, organizing and public pedagogy. Through sound and critical listening, Ultra-red’s work is found on the intersections of art, critique, politics and grassroots organizing/community making and has been valuable and influential to bridging art and political organizing, de-centring curation practices, as well as the creation and theorization of ambient and listening as a political vehicle tied to local communities, spaces, places, histories and political demands. Their broader activist-artistic praxis includes electronic music, field recordings, interviews, video pieces, participatory sound installations etc Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Ultra-red have over the years expanded to include artists, researchers and organizers from different social movements including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development, and the politics of HIV/AIDS.
Tracklist
- Blok 70 am (Object Relations). By Oticon (TRANSISTORS-BLOK70:Translations)
- An Archive Of Feelings, 1987 to 1992 (The AIDS Uncanny-An Archive of Silence)
- deadrooms:from the death of ambient music to listening material (Excerpt from text by Ultra-red)
- Against a Natural History of Wind(The Debt)
- Value Form of Participation (The Debt)
- “Some thesis of militant sound investigation” (Excerpt from text by Ultra-red)
- G8.genova (TRANSISTORS-border sounds)
- Detention Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia (TRANSISTORS-border sounds)
- Ledine. By Ultra-red (TRANSISTORS-BLOK70:Translations)
- Kixly (Tijuana-San Diego) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.2)
- X-Chris (South London) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.2)
- Union de Vecinos (Los Angeles) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.4)
- Pablo Alvarez (Basingstoke) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.4)
- Augusto Palma (Merida) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.4)
- Arte-Union de Vecinos (TRANSISTORS-Plaza Mariachi)
- Mariachis-Union de Vecinos (TRANSISTORS-Plaza Mariachi)
- Espacio-Union de Vecinos (TRANSISTORS-Plaza Mariachi)
- An Epidemic Of Silence (4’33") (The AIDS Uncanny-An Archive of Silence)
- Frankfurt Bahnhof by Ultra-red (TRANSISTORS-Play Kanak Attak)
- Deison (Udine) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.3)
- Adern X (Pistoia) (P.O.P-Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.3)
- Checkpoint 303 (Ramallah-Paris)
- Ultra-red (Los Angeles)
- …networks... (TRANSISTORS-BLOK70:Translations)
- …banned… (TRANSISTORS-BLOK70:Translations)
- Fetishism as a means of authoring the invisible Laurence- Rassel & Terre Thaemlitz(Articles of Incorporation-The Laurence Rassel Show)
- Message from Yoyogi- Park-Rassel & Terre Thaemlitz(Articles of Incorporation-The Laurence Rassel Show)
- Movement for Beograd Airport. Remixed by PoS (TRANSISTORS-Movement for Airports Transistors Remixes)
- Una Geórgica de Urbana (TRANSISTORS-Play Los Jornaleros del Norte)
- Trabajo y Días (TRANSISTORS-Play Los Jornaleros del Norte)