DISK Session 04: ULTRA-RED
Date: November 7, 2005 Time: 9 pm   DISK Session 04: The Transitors Tour – Sound Art Activism and Migrant Resistance   ULTRA-RED [INT] 'B L O K 7 0'   In June 2004, Los Angeles-based sound artists Ultra-red, Rutvica Andrijasevic of the feminist network Next GENDERation and Manuela Bojadzijev of the German anti-racist network Kanak Attak on their way to a research project in Belgrade, Serbia, did a stop-over in Berlin to inform about the project in a joint transmediale/club transmediale-Salon at the former Podewil. Now they return to Berlin with a performance to present the results of the journey before participating at the Transit Migration exhibit and conference at the Kunstverein in Cologne on November 10.   Ultra-red recorded hours of interviews and site recordings investigating changes to Serbian migration policies. With the 2004 expansion of the European Union into Eastern Europe, peripheral states like Greece, Turkey and Serbia have come under pressure to adopt new laws preventing migrants from entering the Western European states. Ultra-red's performance BLOK70 listens in on the places in the city of Belgrade where, in the words of Elliot Perkins, migrants "conduct their politics" -- from Chinese merchants in New Belgrade's discount emporium, asylum-seekers at the 1000 Roses Motel in the Southeastern limits of the city, to the suburban village of Ledine where recently repatriated Roma families struggle to come to terms with their forced deportations from Germany.   Combining electroacoustic music, shuffling rhythms and press-conference polemics, BLOK70 will be performed by Ultra-red members Rutvica Andrijasevic, Manuela Bojadzijev, Elliot Perkins and Dont Rhine.   More information: > www.transitmigration.org (click on BLOK70 in the menue to the right) > www.projektmigration.de   The album ULTRA-RED PLAY KANAK ATTAK can be downloaded for free > here	> November 07, 2005
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