Allora and Calzadilla

Allora and Calzadilla

                                          stop,repair,prepare-variations on 'ode to joy' for a

                                         prepared piano, 2012

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are based in san jan, Puerto Rico and have been working collaboratively since 1995. Their works plan across the fields of installation, sculpture, sound ,video and what some would call social interventions (such as their work chalk in which passersby could write in Lima’s central square on the pavement with oversized pieces of chalk). Their work is  purposefully site specific,  very often political. In 2012 they participated in the 26th Kaldor public art project with the  work stop,repair,prepare."This structurally incomplete version of 'Ode to Joy' (the hole in the piano renders two full octaves inoperative) creates variations on the corporeal as well as sonic dimension of the player/instrument dynamic, the signature melody being played, and its pre-established connotations." Allora and Calzadilla - http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/project-archive/allora-and-calzadilla-2012