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December 1, 2009 - Tuesday 
Departure Gallery presents

Trident Way 2: The Southall Project

Exhibition:

Friday 11th - Friday 18th December, 11am-4pm daily

8 Trident Way, The International Trading Estate, Southall, UB2 5LF

www.departuregallery.com

Artists:

Louise Ashcroft, Helen Barff, Nathan Birchenough, Neela Basu, Doug Burton, Anka Dabrowska, Danielle Drainey, Livia Garcia, Nathalie Guinamard, Elizabeth Hancock, Investigation Three, Doug Jones, Helene Kazan, William Mackrell, Gemma Nelson, Savvas Papasavva, Assunta Ruocco, Jeni Snell, Sara Twomey, Nicolas Vass, David Snoo Wilson, Charlotte Young. Curated by Louise Ashcroft

Getting there:

Southall Station is 12 minutes from Paddington by train. Services run regularly until midnight

Departure Gallery is a nomadic platform for contemporary art, which temporarily reclaims empty urban spaces to provide unique architectural contexts, showcasing cutting edge work by exceptional emerging and established artists.


Investigation Three comprises of a group of four people who came together at a workshop conducted by Ultra-red as part of their residency at Raven Row, London in 2009. The collaborators are Lucie Galand, Anna Kontopoulou, Robbie Lockwood and Rashmi Munikempanna. Having chosen to listen to Elephant and Castle Investigation Three works with sound and amplified soundwalks in the area around the themes of regeneration and gentrification.

Currently reading:
In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art
By Seth Kim-Cohen
7:03 PM 
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December 1, 2009 - Tuesday 
If you happen to be in Seattle anytime from today until January 31, 2010, you can visit Chris's four-channel sound installation, "N30: Live at the WTO Protest, November 30, 1999" at the Henry Art Gallery: http://www.henryart.org/exhibitions/show/1117

"N30" melds DeLaurenti's front-line field recordings of the heady and harrowing protest against the WTO with intercepted transmissions from local and national law enforcement agencies. It is at once a memorial and a blueprint.


Listen to the work free on UbuWeb: http://www.ubu.com/sound/delaurenti.html


To make your own version of the installation, stream selection 2, "N30: Who guards the Guardians?" six seconds after selection 1, "N30: Live at the WTO Protest, November 30, 1999" and the two sync up.


For those who live in and around Seattle, the Seattle Phonographers Union celebrates the release of a new CD with two shows, December 11 and 12. Perri Lynch opens on Dec 11; I open with a solo set which includes a piece sponsored by 4 Culture, "Darfur and Disney," on Dec 12.

Currently reading:
Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture
By Frances Dyson
7:20 AM 
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November 29, 2009 - Sunday 
Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981) was an experimental British composer whose activities, particularly with the Scratch Orchestra (1969 - 1974), both reflected and contributed to the breaking down of barriers between different disciplines that took place during the 1960s.

This book reflects on the legacy of Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra in the light of contemporary art forms that engage with collaborative, participatory and improvisatory practices. The book complements an exhibition of the original score of Treatise (1963 – 1967), Cardew’s impressive 193 page graphic score, original manuscripts, Scratch Books and other archival material brought together for the first time in the UK.

The contributing artists, writers and curators pursue and rekindle the questions and contradictions that Cardew's practice incorporated.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Cornelius Cardew: Play For Today at The Drawing Room, London, 5 November - 13 December 2009.

Publisher: The Drawing Room
Authors: Andrea Phillips, Adrian Rifkin, Rob Stone, Grant Watson, Michael Parsons, John Tilbury, Ultra-red and Otolith Group

To order your copy go to:
http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=3227&page=0
Currently reading:
Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today
By Andrea Phillips
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November 28, 2009 - Saturday 
Ultra-red
SCHOOL OF ECHOES SCOTLAND
Introductory Sessions in Glasgow and Dundee

What is the sound of community organising?

Leading international sound art collective Ultra-red launch the 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 and sound art in relation to social struggle. Ultra-red are visiting Glasgow at the invitation of sound art organizations Arika and Sound & Music, Tramway and the CCA, in order to meet and share ideas with local artists, community organisers, activists, students, 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 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. All events free and all are welcome.:

Monday 7 December: 6-8pm Meeting Room, DCA 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 909 900

Tuesday 8 December: 4-6pm CCA5, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, 0141 352 4900

Wednesday 9 December: 4-6pm Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE, 0141 276 0950
Currently reading:
We Make The Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
By Myles Horton
6:52 PM 
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November 19, 2009 - Thursday 
Ultra-red and School Of Echoes present THE CARDEW OBJECT
21 and 22 November 2009, 1pm to 6pm both days
ICA on The Mall, London, London and South East SW1Y 5AH

Ultra-red present a two-day, ten-hour performance, "The Cardew Object," in collaboration with members of School Of Echoes in which we facilitate a collective investigation into the problematics of the late avant-garde and radical composer Cornelius Cardew. All are welcome and invited to participate in the investigation.

For the realization of The Cardew Object members of Ultra-red and School Of Echoes organised themselves among the following individuals: Gabriella Alberti, Nelly Alfandari, William Crisp, Lucie Galand, Andrea Giulivi, Janna Graham, Chris Jones, Fozia Khaliq, Anna Kontopoulou, Robbie Lockwood, Rashmi Munikempanna, Dont Rhine, and Robert Sember.


Presented as part of the two-day symposium "Play for Today: Cornelius Cardew" co-organised by The Drawing Room. Through talks, performances and panel discussions, this two-day symposium aims to remake – rather than repeat – the legacy of Cardew, examining the questions and contradictions of his practice for their contemporary relevance. Also featuring musical performances of Cardew's compositions by John Tilbury (musician, Cardew collaborator and biographer), Frederick Rzewski (composer and pianist), and Dave Smith (musician & Scratch Orchestra member). For a complete program follow The Drawing Room link below.


Ultra-red's performance is free and open to the public. To attend other events in "Play for Today" admission is £8 / £7 ICA Members per day. £12 / £10 ICA Members for both days. To book the package price for both days please call the Box Office on 020 7930 3647.


For more information:

ICA

http://www.ica.org.uk/Play%20for%20Today%3A%20Cornelius%20Cardew%20Conference+22278.twl

The Drawing Room

http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/corneliuscardew-symposium.htm


Currently reading:
A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism Book Series)
By Jean-Jacques Lecercle
5:58 PM 
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October 12, 2009 - Monday 
Friday, Oct 16th, 2009 // Viaduct Theater, CHICAGO

Live Electronic Set in CHICAGO @ the Viaduct Theater
Line-up: CP-303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) + Special Guest DJ MARK GERGIS (Sublime Frequencies + Porest)
Doors 10:30pm
Venue information: www.viaducttheatre.com
(See Flyer)
Line-Up: Checkpoint 303 (Live Electronics) + Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies / Porest - DJ Set)
Event Description: Arabic Sound Hackers: Did you say Palestine? Yes, we did. Forget about world music, forget about oriental exotic lounge mixes. Expect a night of raw no-nonsense tunes from the Middle-East and beyond. The menu: experimental field recordings, middle-eastern breakbeats, recycled sound, audio collages and exquisite audio piracy by an underground international sound hacking brigade. Checkpoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) and special guest DJ Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies / Porest) invite you to tune in to hacked airwaves and chopped sound bites: A ride that will take you from Palestinian underground grooves to Syrian Glamour Dabke, rare sounds from the depths of south-east Asia and everything in between. From Ramallah to Aleppo, Tunis to Beirut, Bagdad to Cairo…A sonic journey of abstract beats and activism for peace, justice, freedom and the right of all populations to self-determination.

Find out more about Checkpoint 303:
www.checkpoint303.com
www.myspace.com/checkpoint303

Find out more about Mark Gergis and the label sublime frequencies:
www.sublimefrequencies.com
www.porestsound.net

Tuesday, Oct 20th, 2009 // The Dark Room, CHICAGO

Live Electronic Set in CHICAGO @ The Dark Room
2210 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622-4827, USA.
Line-up: CheckPoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) + more bands/DJs
8pm / $10
Venue information: www.darkroombar.com
Currently reading:
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
By V. N. Volosinov
10:56 PM 
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September 16, 2009 - Wednesday 
 After All, Everything Is Different In The End

Opening: September 25, 2009 at 18.00
HISK / Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Charles de Kerchovelaan 187A, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Open: September 26 - October 18, 2009, Thursday to Sunday from 14.00 till 18.00
HISK / Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Charles de Kerchovelaan 187A, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Film program: October 5, 2009 at 20:00
Art Cinema OffOff, Begijnhof Ter Hoye - Lange Violettestraat 237, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Mike Carremans / Brandon LaBelle / Gent Clapping Group / Nate Harrison / Jeuno JE Kim / Raimundas Malašauskas / Joris van de Moortel / Tisha Mukarji / Sarah Pierce / Thus & Hence / Ultra-red / Katarina Zdjelar / plus Jean-Luc Godard, Len Lye and Norman McLaren
Currently reading:
The Philosophy of Marx
By Etienne Balibar
4:55 PM 
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July 31, 2009 - Friday 
Investigation Three are happy to invite you to a public event
at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre
this Saturday, the 1st of August at 14:30. 

The event is part of our residency at “The Elephant Rooms” gallery (29/07-02/08). The event involves an amplified soundwalk, as in attentive listening and possible recording within the spaces of the shopping centre. After the walk, we invite everyone back to the gallery space, to listen together and discuss “what did you hear”, focusing on the relationship between attentive listening and the regeneration process. 

For further information, please visit our blog http://investigationthree.blogspot.com  or feel free to pop-in and have a chat with us during our residency at the Elephant Rooms, the shop at lower ground floor, opposite old Woolworths.

Warm Regards,
Rashmi Munikempanna, Lucie Galand, Robbie Lockwood, Anna Kontopoulou

[Note: Investigation Three came together as one of the three teams during Ultra-red's Raven Row Sessions of the School Of Echoes. The team have taken up a sustained inquiry into the soundscape and struggles around the Elephant and Castle neighbourhood of London.]
Currently reading:
New Studies of Old Villains: A Radical Reconsideration of the Oedipus Complex
By Paul Verhaeghe
Release date: 2009-01-13
1:21 PM 
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July 19, 2009 - Sunday 
Presented by The Wapping Investigation

Guest speakers:
Anthony Iles, Mute Magazine
Mara Ferreri, Isola Art Centre in Milano

SUNDAY 26th JULY 2pm til 4pm
Discussion at Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London E1 7LS

Stemming from the recent Ultra-red 'School of Echoes' project at Raven Row in Spitalfields, participants in the workshops have been hosting discussions on Sunday afternoons on a range of differing topics.

For the final Sunday session, some of the participants will briefly share some of their sense of unease about contributing to both a gallery and its exhibition programme before opening up the room to conversation.

We invite you to come to this space and discuss many and more of the following themes:

In other cities in the world, there seems both space and practical action that that is able to bring together cultural projects with political activity that link-up and work as a resistance to local regeneration and gentrification. Increasingly in London the gallery or funded art institutions have become the host for (supposedly) interesting discussions and exhibitions around questions of political and cultural organising and not our own alternative spaces, temporary or permanent. Many people sustain themselves through work in and around these spaces (art education, publishing, exhibition projects in and out of the spaces). How does it feel to work politically from within spaces that can be described as a 'contested' spaces? Do we ever escape the vortex of accomodation and instrumentalisation that working out of these spaces often entails.

More pointedly and seeking to go beyond mere institutional critique, we ask the question why does London lack self-organised spaces where the contradictions between art, activism and gentrification can be explored from both the personal realm but at the same time expand collective working against the continuing enclosure of the city?

Currently reading:
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Release date: 2009-08-25
4:43 PM 
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July 8, 2009 - Wednesday 
¿Cuál es el sonido de una comunidad organizándose?

Fechas: Martes 14 y jueves 16 de julio (10 a 16 h.)

Dirigido a: artistas, músicos, interesados en movimientos activistas sociales, trabajadores comunitarios, investigadores militantes y estudiantes.

Información e inscripciones: educacion.ca2m@madrid.org o 91 276 02 27

Concierto Ultra-red jueves16 de julio a las 21:00 h. en la terraza del CA2M
El colectivo de artistas y activistas Ultra-red presenta un taller en dos sesiones en el CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. Partiendo de las experiencias y aportaciones de los participantes, el taller incluirá derivas por el espacio urbano, audiciones, creación de nuevas estrategias para la acción colectiva, e investigaciones en torno a conceptos cruciales de procesos políticos, de participación y activismo político.

Ultra-red: fundado hace quince años en Los Angeles, lleva a cabo Investigaciones Militantes del Sonido junto a movimientos de justicia social en los que el sonido es al mismo tiempo el medio y el espacio de investigación. En este tiempo, Ultra-red ha usado el sonido para analizar los movimientos anti-racistas, las luchas migratorias, la movilización de los sin techo, los movimientos okupa y el activismo contra el SIDA.

Ultra-red dirige el activismo hacia los oídos: el sonido de las comunidades organizándose por sí mismas, la acústica de espacios de disidencia, las demandas y deseos en nuestras voces y nuestros silencios, y los ecos de luchas históricas. Esta investigación toma forma de grabaciones, exposiciones de arte, performances o simples derivas. Los miembros de Ultra-Red trabajan con asociaciones como Rural Racism Project (Devon, UK), la organización comunitaria independiente Union de Vecinos (Los Angeles), la alemana anti-racista Kanak Attak, la Community HIV/AIDS Mobilisation Project (New York/Los Angeles), y Woodcraft Rangers que desarrolla programas educativos en 61 escuelas en Los Angeles.

Traed vuestras experiencias con vosotros, los oídos abiertos y actitud colaborativa. Equipos, materiales y comida corren de nuestra cuenta.

DIRECCIÓN
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Avda de la Constitución, 23
28931 Móstoles, Madrid
centrodeartedosdemayo@madrid.org
www.madrid.org/ca2m

INDICACIONES DE ACCESO
www.madrid.org/centrodeartedosdemayo/el_centro/ubicacion.html
Metro: Línea 12/ Pradillo
Cercanías: C5 Móstoles (23 minutos desde Embajadores)
Currently reading:
Twenty Theses on Politics (Latin America in Translation)
By Enrique Dussel
8:43 AM 
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