Allora & Calzadilla

Through a complex research-oriented practice, Allora & Calzadilla critically address the intersections between history, material culture, ecology, and geopolitics, using a multiplicity of artistic media that include performance, sculpture, sound, video, and photography. The interdisciplinary nature of their interventions is echoed by an expanded use of the artistic medium that includes performance, sculpture, sound, video, and photography. Their dynamic engagement with the art historical results in an acute attention to both the conceptual and the material, the metaphoric as well as the factual. The Puerto Rico-based artists have studied the ephemeral nature of collective drawing with monumental sticks of chalk at the Biennial de Lima, Peru; the imprints of colonial, nationalist, and military violence on the diverse populations and landscapes of Vieques, Puerto Rico; and the resonance of playing, warping and combining music from various moments in history; as well as the entanglement between biophysics, semiotics and actuality.