Allora & Calzadilla
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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.
Artist Contact
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Artist News
Martial Museum of Terrestrial Art
Barbican Art Gallery, London
6 March – 18 May 2008
Barbican Art Gallery
Allora & Calzadilla - Never Mind That Noise You Heard
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
8 February – 4 May 2008
Stedelijk Museum
Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War
Exhibition co-curated by Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla, and Jens Hoffmann
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
30 November 2007 - 26 January 2008
CCA Wattis Institute
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
There's More than One Way to Skin a Sheep, 2007 Single channel projection with sound Dimensions variable
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, live person Approximately 488 x 183 x 152 cm