SUNDAY, 18 NOVEMBER

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State Historic Park
1245 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
(former site of Not A Cornfield)

4PM

Ultra-red invites you . . .

Organize the silence.

AIDS where is your rage . . . I am confused . . . I heard something very disturbing on the news . . . I'm frustrated grieved disappointed overwhelmed saddened by the silence that still exists in our communities . . . And still to this day I'm baffled by that . . . When I listened to the silence I heard behind it an anger . . . Tired of being stigmatized . . . AIDS where is your rage . . .

This is a rehearsal. This is a performance without audience. Only actors. This is an experiment in occupying public space for a brief moment. This is a chance to see each other, to hear our collective voice, to dance together, to feel what it is like to walk together.

This is a chance to come together around similar concerns. HIV prevention in prison. Human rights of prisoners. Sentencing reform. This is a space to organize our affinity.

This is a space that makes of us new demands. The chants we will use are quotes from testimonies by AIDS activists across North America—simple statements of how people feel about the AIDS crisis today. How might we imagine these declarations as the basis of new ways of organizing ourselves to end the AIDS crisis? How might we organize the silence?

Assemble at Park's east end at 4:00 PM
Begin precisely at 4:30 PM

Wear comfortable walking shoes & jacket.
This public space occupation has been
permitted by the LA Parks Department.
For more info email: info@ultrared.org

This untitled performance for small ensemble is organized by the activist art collective Ultra-red and CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project) with support from Farmlab and TRÁNSITOry PÚBLICO.

This site-specific ensemble performance by Los Angeles audio activist group Ultra-Red aims to invoke the history of AIDS activism in Los Angeles and reinvent those conventions in ways that address the contemporary conditions of the epidemic. Performers in will include professional dancers and community members from Los Angeles' HIV/AIDS activist community. Untitled (for a small ensemble) has been developed in close collaboration with local social movement activists and organizers, including CHAMP, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project, and the Women and AIDS Activism Forum. The state park where Untitled will be performed is located one mile from the Men's Central Jail, where the Center for Health Justice works in lobbying for and facilitating HIV prevention services. The performance is also situated in close proximity to the USC Hospital where, nearly 20 years ago, hundreds of AIDS activists conducted vigils with ACT UP to advocate for the establishment of an AIDS ward. Ultra-red member Dont Rhine commenced his own AIDS activism during one of those County Hospital vigils in 1990. Ultra-red's Untitled occupies the liminal space between where the movement has been and where it needs to go in its fight against AIDS.

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Los Angeles, CA 90029 USA

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