Untitled (for large ensemble)

Los Angeles-based performance art collective Ultra-red will stage their "Untitled (for large ensemble)" in downtown Chicago on Friday, May 9. The public are invited to join the performance, assembling promptly at 6:30 PM in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Grant Park at the east end of Van Buren Street between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive.

Ultra-red's "Untitled (for large ensemble)" combines choreographed movement and voice in a site-specific action. The performance draws on statements by AIDS activists across North America entered into "the record" during Ultra-red's SILENT|LISTEN (2005-2006) activist art project. The collective's current work is an experiment in performing that "record" in public space. The project emerges out of Ultra-red's on-going collaboration with the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP). "Untitled" invites members of the Chicago community to enter into a public action that invokes the history of AIDS activism and reinvents those conventions in ways that address the contemporary conditions of the epidemic.

Beginning at precisely 7:00 PM, the processional performance will walk the length of Van Buren Street from Grant Park to Jefferson Street (aka, "Godfather of House Music" Frankie Knuckles Way). The public is encouraged to wear comfortable shoes and a jacket. For more information about the performance and Ultra-red, contact info@ultrared.org or visit the group's website. This performance is presented with the support of the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Schedule
Date: Friday, May 9
Setting: Van Buren Street from Grant Park to Jefferson Street
6:30PM Assemble in Grant Park in front of Abraham Lincoln statue
7:00PM Exact launch time from Grant Park
8:00PM Arrival at Jefferson Street
8:30PM End