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
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Artist News
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Wake Up, Please, Le Quartier, Quimper
3 July – 25 October 2009
Le Quartier
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
July – September 2009
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Allora & Calzadilla
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
From 15 October 2009
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Artist Images
Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech), 2007 Mixed Media and Live Performance with sound Plaster, Foam, Pigment, Pre-recorded Sound and Live Opera Singers, 263" x 216" x 180" Photo: Seza Bali ©Allora & Calzadilla, San Francisco Art Institute
Wake Up, 2007 Temporary partition walls, lighting system, mixer, dimmer, computer, pre-recorded sound commissions by Franz Hautzinger Mazen Kerbaj, Ingrid Jensen, Leonel Kaplan, Paul Smoker, Natsuki Tamura, and Birgit Ulher, Approximately 96" x 30" x 240", Photo: Wilfried Petzi ©Allora & Calzadilla, Kunstverein Munich
Clamor, 2006 Plaster, Foam, Pigment, 1 Tuba, 1Trumpet, 2 Tombones, 1 Flute, 1 Drum Kit, Pre-recorded Sound, and Live Musicians, 365" x 207" x 64". Photo: A. Burger ©Allora & Calzadilla, Kunsthalle Zurich
Internal Combustion (Eye of the Needle), 2007 35mm Film transferred to video, 5:17 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
There's More Than One Way to Skin a Sheep, 2007 Single Channel Video with Sound, 6:40 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
There's More Than One Way to Skin a Sheep, 2007 Single Channel Video with Sound, 6:40 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Unrealizable Goals, 2007 Single Channel Video with Sound, 6:32 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Unrealizable Goals, 2007 Single Channel Video with Sound, 6:32 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Growth (Survival), 2006/2007 Grafted tropical plant's and Jenny Holzer's JH725 "Yellow Corner" (2002; seven electronic LED signs with stainless steel housings: CML bright amber diodes ) Allora & Clazadilla overall dimensions vary; Holzer, each 100 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 3 inches or 254,7 x 13,3 x 7,6 cm). Photo: A. Burger ©Allora & Calzadilla, Kunsthalle Zurich
Sweat Glands, Sweat Lands, 2006 Single Channel Video with Sound, 2:21 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Sweat Glands, Sweat Lands, 2006 Single Channel Video with Sound, 2:21 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Hope Hippo, 2005 2005. Mud, Whistle, Daily Newspaper, Live Person. Approximately 192" x 72" x 60". Installation View 51st Venice Biennale Photo: Giorgio Boato, Courtesy Lisson Gallery
Hope Hippo, 2005 2005. Mud, Whistle, Daily Newspaper, Live Person. Approximately 192" x 72" x 60". Installation View 51st Venice Biennale Photo: Giorgio Boato, Courtesy Lisson Gallery
Under Discussion, 2005 Single Channel Video with Sound, 6:14 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Returning a Sound, 2004 Single Channel Video with Sound, 5:42 Photo: Allora & Calzadilla
Puerto Rican Light, 1998/2003 Dan Flavin, Puerto Rican Light (to Jeannie Blake), 1965. Allora & Calzadilla, Puerto Rican Light, Battery bank containing solar panels, batteries, & inverter. Allora & Calzadilla Dimensions 48" x 48" x 30"