Image/Text: The Performing Page, A Workshop by SALYER + SCHAAG: Thursday

Adrian Piper, Decide Who You Are, #1: Skinned Alive

(1992; three silk-screened photos, graph paper, silk-screened pencil drawing, two silk-screened texts, 72 x 153”)

Read text here: http://www.adrianpiper.com/art/g_decide.shtml

Adrian Piper, It’s Just Art

(1980; performance documentation: 13 black & white photos with hand-lettered texts, 8 x 10”; 2 black & white photos with hand-lettered texts, 10 x 8”; 3 paper-text collages with hand-lettered texts, 8 x 10”)

Detail: Paper Text Collages #9 of 15

For more information about this project, see http://www.adrianpiper.com/art/just_art/just_art_9c.shtml

Adrian Piper, Vairagya Wrapping Paper
(2012; silk screened digital image overprinted on rolls of gift wrapping paper, dimensions variable)

Adrian Piper, Hypothesis: Situation #14

(1969; photo-diagram collage: graph paper, B&W photographs, ink diagrams, vintage mimeographed forms with typescript text, vintage photo offset two-page essay, “Hypothesis” (1968))

Read The Hypothesis Series statement here: http://www.adrianpiper.com/art/g_hypothesis_text.shtml

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Pledge), 1998 + Untitled, 1988 + Untitled + Untitled (Questions), 1991

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (your body is a battleground), 1989

Ultra-red, an activist sound art collective

From their mission statement:

Activist art has come to signify a particular emphasis on appropriated aesthetic forms whose political content does the work of both cultural analysis and cultural action. The art collaboration Ultra-red propose a political-aesthetic project that reverses this model. If we understand organizing as the formal practices that build relationships out of which people compose an analysis and strategic actions, how might art contribute to and challenge those very processes? How might those processes already constitute aesthetic forms?

In the worlds of sound art and modern electronic music, Ultra-red pursue a fragile but dynamic exchange between art and political organizing. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Ultra-red have over the years expanded to include artists, researchers and organisers from different social movements including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development, and the politics of HIV/AIDS.

Collectively, the group have produced radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations, texts and public space actions (ps/o). Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, Ultra-red take up the acoustic mapping of contested spaces and histories utilising sound-based research (termed Militant Sound Investigations) that directly engage the organizing and analyses of political struggles.

Ultra-red's ten associates in North America and Europe work within a variety of ambiences conducting Militant Sound Investigations of the spaces of needle exchange (Soundtrax, 1992 - 1996), public sex (Second Nature, 1995 - 1998), public housing (Structural Adjustments, 1997 - 2003), resistance to global capital (Value System, 1998 - 2003), labor (Social Factory, 1997 - 2002), education (School of Echoes, 2001 - Present), anti-racism and migration struggles (Surveying The Future, 2001 - Present), and HIV/AIDS (SILENT|LISTEN, 2005 - Present). The group also runs the fair-use online record label, Public Record.

Public Record is the internet-based archive of the Ultra-red audio-activist organization. Established for the distribution of work by Ultra-red members and allies, Public Record serves as an interface between the organization and its publics with free fair-use downloads of exclusive full-length albums, images, texts and video (text from website). Read about Public Record here: http://www.publicrec.org/directory.html

Listen to Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol. 2: http://www.publicrec.org/archive/2-06/2-06-003/2-06-003.html

(The sound files are free downloads, but downloading isn't necessary to listen - just click on a file and it will play.)

"With one-minute recordings ranging from soundbite mash-ups to sound walk documentaries, chapter two challenges artists and listeners to think through the question of poverty and the fight against poverty, according to an analysis of the ear."

Here are descriptions of the tracks:

You can find information about Ultra-red's actions and public space occupations here: http://www.ultrared.org/pso.html

Read the article "Constitutive Utopias: sound, public space, and urban ambience" by Ultra-red here: http://www.temporaryservices.org/ultratext.html

You can find Ultra-red's other writings here: http://www.ultrared.org/lm.html

Hannah Hoch, Dada-Ernst, 1920

Hannah Hoch, The Strong Guys, 1931

Hannah Hoch, Tamer, 1930

Kara Walker, My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (2007)

See http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2007/kara-walker-my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppress and http://www.walkerart.org/architecture-design/browse/publications/2007/kara-walker-my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppress

Avant-Garde Sound Art, Sound Poetry, and Experimental Music

Listen to Hugo Ball, "Gadji beri bimba"
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/ball_hugo/Ball-Hugo_Gadji-beri-bimba.mp3

More information on Dadaist sound poetry:
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/techniques/sound.shtm
http://ubuweb.com/sound/ball.html

Listen to Antonin Artaud, excerpt from To Have Done With the Judgment of god, A Radio Play
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/artaud_antonin/judgement/Artaud-Antonin_02_Sound-Effects-Maria-Casares.mp3

More information on Antonin Artaud:
http://www.surrealism-plays.com/Artaud.html
http://ubuweb.com/sound/artaud.html

Listen to John Cage, 4'33"
http://vimeo.com/49738079

More information on John Cage:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-cage/about-the-composer/471/
http://www.rosewhitemusic.com/cage/texts/WhatSilenceTaughtCage.html
http://ubuweb.com/sound/cage.html

Listen to Yoko Ono, Cough Piece:
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/ono_yoko/Ono-Yoko_Cough-Piece_1961.mp3

More information about Yoko Ono:
http://imaginepeace.com/
http://www.a-i-u.net/onolife4.html

Sounds of Protest

Woody Guthrie, All You Fascists Bound To Lose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

Pete Seeger, Which Side Are You On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433

Gwendolyn Brooks, The Lovers of the Poor
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15871

Plastic Ono Band, Give Peace a Chance
https://soundcloud.com/yokoono/plastic-ono-band-give-peace-a

Amiri Baraka, Against Bourgeois Art
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Baraka/Buffalo-78/Baraka-Amiri_01_Against-Bourgeois-Art_Buffalo_12-8-78.mp3

Amiri Baraka, Class Struggle in Music II
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Baraka/Baraka-Amiri_Class-Struggle-in-Music-II.mp3

Bikini Kill, White Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3SWQuD-wSk

Bikini Kill, Rebel Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzMGqVh8G20

Negativland, Advertising Secrets
http://ubuweb.com/sound/negativland.html

Music for Occupy
https://soundcloud.com/occupy-this-album

Yoko Ono, Rising
http://www.imaginepowerarising.com/#sthash.qfE486i4.dpbs

Sound as Documentation

Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream" speech

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/audio/128077288.html

Women's Audio Archive

http://www.marysialewandowska.com/waa/introduction.php

Wisconsin Protests: "This is what democracy sounds like"

http://vimeo.com/20206648

The Sights and Sounds of Occupy Wall Street
http://vimeo.com/30625145

Union workers blast crying baby sounds at protest

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/union-workers-blast-crying-baby-sounds-protest-17961917

Voices From Tahrir: Portrait of a Revolution

https://soundcloud.com/hearingvoices/voices-from-tahrir

Joseph Cornell, Journal d’Agriculture Practique, altered book, 1930s

Leon Ferrari, Dios, 1964

Leon Ferrari, Sin título, 1963

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967

Ralo Mayer, from The Ninth Biospherian

"A map of Biosphere 2, an experiment of a closed ecological system in the desert of Arizona. From 1991 - 1993 eight people lived in the giant sealed greenhouse, exploring global ecological relationships and testing future space colonies."

For more information about Ralo's work, see http://was-ist-multiplex.info/ and http://www.argosarts.org/program.jsp?eventid=c757317341734cc2882904823ccf5aef