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This
page has been set up by Ultra-red to provide support to Advisory Board members in advance of the organization’s Articles
of Incorporation. Each of the Advisory Board members have been given extensive archive materials covering the ten years of
working history for Ultra-red. After careful review of these materials, as well as consideration of the larger issues around
aesthetic-political art practice and its institutionalization, Advisory Board members are asked to contribute to a round-table
discussion. From this discussion Ultra-red has asked the Advisory Board to issue a set of recommendations. Ultra-red will
then consult these recommendations as part of issuing Articles of Incorporation marking the group’s shift from an aesthetic-political
sound art group to an organization. This website provides on-line access to some of the materials found in the archive as
well as eventually providing an on-line record of the Advisory Board conference.
After careful consideration, the four members of Ultra-red selected six artists,
critics, curators and political organizers to participate in the Advisory Board component of this project. We selected these
six entities according to the following criteria:
1. Intimate familiarity with the members of Ultra-red. By this we mean that
there is a level of trust and comfort necessary for useful critical reflection.
2. Investment in the mission of Ultra-red. We have worked with you either on
a collective or an individual basis. This history has established a personal investment on your part in the group and its
efforts to formulate an aesthetic-political practice of sound and media art.
3. Interest in the subject of art practice as it relates to institutionalization.
You are either a member of an arts organization, political organization or an artistic project that directly engages the forms
and discourses of institutionalization. We consider this experience crucial in identifying concerns and conditions surrounding
any project seeking its own institutionalization even wherein that institutionalization assumes the status of performativity.
4. Identification with Ultra-red's aesthetic-politics. Despite a range of political
and artistic experiences, the four members of Ultra-red share a commitment to art that directly practices political change
versus art that solely represents or comments upon politics. You are an ally in that commitment.
These six Advisory Board members include: Manuela Bojadzijev of Kanak
Attack (organizer, DE), Ben Borthwick (curator, UK), Sarah Pierce of Metropolitan Complex (artist, IE),
Joel Schalit (writer, US), The Speculative Archive (artists, US), and Terre Thaemlitz of Comatonse Recordings (artist, JP).
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