Founded 1994 in Los Angeles, CA.
The sound collective Ultra-red was founded by AIDS activists and sound artists Dont Rhine and Marco Larsen, but has since expanded to include artists, researchers and organizers with diverse political and artistic orientations. Ultra-red works between art and politics, asking how the principles governing activism are already aesthetic in nature. Public Record, one of their on-going projects, is an on-line, free-use record label and archive of Ultra-red members’ sound work. For SILENT|LISTEN, begun in 2004, Ultra-red members traveled to different arts institutions and held workshops and meetings with local AIDS activists and community groups. These meetings led to collective sound performances in the public sphere. Ultra-red has shown extensively since the late 1990s, including the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain; the Plymouth Arts Centre; the Transmediale Festival, Berlin; Futuresonic, Manchester; and the ICA, London.
