[ELECTRON] Ultra-red Session at CCA on Tuesday 8th Dec, 4 - 6pm

[becca at sonicartsnetwork.org]

Hi All,

What is the sound of community organising?

Leading international sound art collective Ultra-red launch the Dundee and
Glasgow Sessions of School Of Echoes. For over 15 years, Ultra-red have
been at the forefront of developing ways in which the tools of sound art
and those of community organising can cross fertilize. The School of
Echoes Project, initiated at the beginning of this year, focuses
specifically on issues of radical education in relation to social
struggle. Ultra-red are visiting Dundee and Glasgow at the invitation of
sound art organizations Arika and Sound & Music, DCA, Duncan of
Jordanstone, Tramway, and the CCA, in order to meet and share ideas with
local artists, musicians, community organisers, students, activists,
education and art workers.

In order to establish the best ways for us to work together, and to think
through how best Ultra-red can both share information and learn from local
organizing, you are invited to a short informal seminar, where Ultra-red
will share reflections on their own work, and can learn from you about
yours.

Ultra-red have used sound-based procedures to investigate anti-racist
organising, the struggles of migration, social housing mobilisation, and
AIDS activism.  Their interest is to understand the contribution sound and
listening can make to organizing around these and other concerns.  The
Dundee and Glasgow Sessions will explore procedures for collective
listing, reflection and organizing drawn from the collective’s almost two
decades of enquiries. Workshop activities could include walking tours of
the city, making site-specific audio recordings, analytical listening to
recorded sounds, generating new strategies for collective action, and
investigations into the crucial concepts of collective process,
participation, and political action.

Please come along and join us for an informal chat:

DUNDEE: Mon 7th Dec:   Artists and Community Organisers.
6 – 8pm at Meeting Room, DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 909 900

GLASGOW: Tues 8th Dec:   Session One: Artists.
4 – 6pm at CCA5, The Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street,
Glasgow, G2 3JD, 0141 352 4900

GLASGOW: Wed 9th Dec:  Session Two: Activists & Community Organisers.
4 – 6pm at The Tramway, 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow, G41 2PE, 0141 276 0950

The events are free to attend, there is no need to book and all are
welcome. If you like you can register your interest via the Arika Facebook
page: www.facebook.com/pages/Arika/146947315665

Background Info

Founded close to twenty years ago in Los Angeles, Ultra-red conduct
Militant Sound Investigations alongside social movements where sound is
both the medium and the site of inquiry. While the image determines much
of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to the ear:
the sound of communities organising themselves, the acoustics of contested
spaces, the demands and desires in our voices and in our silences, and the
echoes of historical memories of struggle. These investigations take the
form of audio recordings, art exhibitions, performances, or sound walks.
The nine members of Ultra-red have worked with organisations such as the
Rural Racism Project (Devon, UK), the autonomous community development
organisation Union de Vecinos (LA), the German anti-racist network Kanak
Attak, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilisation Project (New York/LA), and
Woodcraft Rangers which facilitates education programmes in sixty-one
schools in Los Angeles County.

For more information or to ask any questions please contact
becca.laurence at soundandmusic.org.

info at ultrared.org | www.ultrared.org | www.publicrec.org | www.arika.org.uk