Allora & Calzadilla
07 Dec 2006 - 01 Mar 2007
CLAMOR
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
7 December 2006 - 1 March 2007
Opening reception:
Thursday, December 7, 9pm-midnight
Saturday, December 9, 9pm-midnight
Exhibition Dates: December 7, 2006- February 1, 2007
For their exhibition at The Moore Space, the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have taken up the genre of war music as the basis for a new body of work. Tracing the history of this form of sonic expression back to earliest of military encounters, the exhibition investigates the bodily and physical dimensions of the music of war.
A large sculptural form- serving as a hybrid chamber resembling perhaps a bunker, a meteorite, a ruin, a cave and/or a sound booth, will accommodate a group of musicians playing various repertoires of war songs from different geographical territories and historical periods. The simultaneous performances, at times harmonizing and at other moments in complete discord, will cumulatively generate a monstrous montage of war music, somewhere between a symphony and cacophony.
For the public, this concert will be only partially visible as one will not be able to completely see the musicians playing and will hear the clamor coming from this morpho-illogical sound structure through the small openings extending from the interior chamber to the outer surface of this form. Allora and Calzadilla remove these songs from their historic encodings and retrofit them within this particular form. This re-contextualization proposes new meanings as alternatives to the political markings that have shaped this genre of music; and as a result, suggests alternative directions for them to take.
The Moore Space is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to multi-disciplinary contemporary art practices. It offers a year-round program including exhibitions, educational programs, internships, artist residencies, lectures, and performances. Since its founding in 2001 by collector Rosa de la Cruz together with Craig Robins, an integral part of its exhibition program has been to invite international artists to produce new projects and works of art. This project is generously sponsored by Craig Robins, Rosa de la Cruz, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners. Additional funding is provided by Bank of America ad the National Endowment for the Arts.
The opening reception is on Saturday, September 7, 2006 from 9pm-midnight, concurrent to Art & Design Night in the Design District. The Moore Space is located at 4040 NE 2 nd Avenue, 2 nd floor, Miami, FL 33137. For more information, please contact Silvia Cubina at 305-438-1163 and info@themoorespace.org or visit:
www.themoorespace.org
© Allora & Calzadilla
Hope Hippo , 2005. Mud, Live Performer, Whistle, Newspaper.
Dimensions Variable. Installation View Bienal de Venezia 2005
Courtesy of Galerie ChantalCrousel, Paris
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
7 December 2006 - 1 March 2007
Opening reception:
Thursday, December 7, 9pm-midnight
Saturday, December 9, 9pm-midnight
Exhibition Dates: December 7, 2006- February 1, 2007
For their exhibition at The Moore Space, the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have taken up the genre of war music as the basis for a new body of work. Tracing the history of this form of sonic expression back to earliest of military encounters, the exhibition investigates the bodily and physical dimensions of the music of war.
A large sculptural form- serving as a hybrid chamber resembling perhaps a bunker, a meteorite, a ruin, a cave and/or a sound booth, will accommodate a group of musicians playing various repertoires of war songs from different geographical territories and historical periods. The simultaneous performances, at times harmonizing and at other moments in complete discord, will cumulatively generate a monstrous montage of war music, somewhere between a symphony and cacophony.
For the public, this concert will be only partially visible as one will not be able to completely see the musicians playing and will hear the clamor coming from this morpho-illogical sound structure through the small openings extending from the interior chamber to the outer surface of this form. Allora and Calzadilla remove these songs from their historic encodings and retrofit them within this particular form. This re-contextualization proposes new meanings as alternatives to the political markings that have shaped this genre of music; and as a result, suggests alternative directions for them to take.
The Moore Space is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to multi-disciplinary contemporary art practices. It offers a year-round program including exhibitions, educational programs, internships, artist residencies, lectures, and performances. Since its founding in 2001 by collector Rosa de la Cruz together with Craig Robins, an integral part of its exhibition program has been to invite international artists to produce new projects and works of art. This project is generously sponsored by Craig Robins, Rosa de la Cruz, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners. Additional funding is provided by Bank of America ad the National Endowment for the Arts.
The opening reception is on Saturday, September 7, 2006 from 9pm-midnight, concurrent to Art & Design Night in the Design District. The Moore Space is located at 4040 NE 2 nd Avenue, 2 nd floor, Miami, FL 33137. For more information, please contact Silvia Cubina at 305-438-1163 and info@themoorespace.org or visit:
www.themoorespace.org
© Allora & Calzadilla
Hope Hippo , 2005. Mud, Live Performer, Whistle, Newspaper.
Dimensions Variable. Installation View Bienal de Venezia 2005
Courtesy of Galerie ChantalCrousel, Paris