Allora & Calzadilla
Artist Cv
Through sculpture, photography, performance, sound and video, Allora and Calzadilla's works have been informed by questions of mark making, traces, and survival in a way that is simultaneously conceptual, metaphorical and spatial. Their understanding of material and metaphor as a couple is crucial; for them a material is never simply self-evident in its meaning, it is always marked with histories, cultures, and politics that are at once irreducible to and indivisible from the material in question. Another recurrent trope in their work is that of animality, and its unstable relationship to the realm of the human. Most recently, they have created a series of works that explore the interplay between militarism and sound in the context of today's global state of war.
Allora and Calzadilla live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
www.alloracalzadilla.com
Artist Contact
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Artist News
Allora & Calzadilla
Stop, Repair, Prepare - variations on ode to joy for a prepared piano
Haus der Kunst, Munich
14 June - 14 September 2008
For Haus der Kuns, Allora & Calzadilla have created a new work that explores the influence of Turkish music on western classical music with a particular look at the music of janissary bands, which is considered to be the oldest type of military marching band in the world.
Haus der Kunst
Peripheral vision and collective body
MUSEION - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano
24 May – 21 September 2008
Museion
Forms that Turn
16th Biennale of Sydney
Sidney, Australia
8 June – 7 September 2008
Biennale of Sydney
After Nature
New Museum
New York
17 July – 21 September 2008
New Museum
7th Gwangju Biennale
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
5 September - 9 November 2008
7th Gwangju Biennale
Prospect.1 New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
I November 2008 – 18 January 2009
Prospect.1 New Orleans
Artist Exhibitions
ALLORA & CALZADILLA October 10 - November 17, 2007View Exhibition
Allora & Calzadilla May 1 - 29, 2004
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Out of Sight Out of Mind February 15 - April 3, 1993
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Artist Images
Intermission, 2008 Hand made print from wood template (ink on linen) 304.8 x 426.72 cm
There's More than One Way to Skin a Sheep, 2007 Single channel projection with sound Dimensions variable
Internal Combustion (Eye of the Needle), 2007 35mm film transferred on video
Balance of Power, 2007 Performance Trafalgar square, July 2008 Photo: Dave Morgan
Sediments Sentiments (Figures of Speech), 2007 Mixed media installation, live performance and pre-recorded sound-track (wood, expandable foam ,jesmonite and paint) Dimensions variable (approx. 235 x 320 x 220 cm) Installation view: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2008 Courtesy the artists and Stedelijk Museum
Clamor, 2006 Mixed media and live performance with sound Dimensions variable
Growth (Survival), 2006 Grafted tropical plants and Jenny Holzer's Blue Wall Tilt, 2004 (six double-sided LED signs with bright blue diodes in stainless steel housings) Dimensions variable
Sweat Glands Sweat Lands, 2006 Single Channel Video with Sound Dimensions variable
Under Discussion, 2005 Single channel video with sound Dimensions variable
Hope Hippo,2005 Mud, whistle, daily newspaper, Llve performance Approximately 488 x 183 x 152 cm Installation View: 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, 2005 Photo: Giorgio Boato