Allora & Calzadilla
Allora & Calzadilla, Revolving Door, 2011
Re-performed by Sydney Dance Company and Brent Street for Kaldor Public Art Project 27: 13 Rooms, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, Sydney, 2013
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora
born 1974 in Philadelphia, US
Guillermo Calzadilla
born 1971 in Havana, Cuba
live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Revolving Door, 2011
Allora & Calzadilla have collaborated as an artist duo since 1995. Through their experimental practice combining performance, sculpture, video and sound, they explore the histories and meanings embedded in our culture. In their work Revolving Door, 2011, a group of dancers spontaneously form a line and rotate in a circular motion, literally sweeping up visitors as they circle the space. The choreographed movements are drawn from political protests, military marches and chorus lines, a reflection on the many different gestures we create in unison.
Allora & Calzadilla have presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Art, Oslo, and Serpentine Galleries, London. They represented the United States at the 2011 Venice Biennale and participated in documenta, 2012, in Kassel, Germany. In 2012 they presented Kaldor Public Art Project 26: Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on 'Ode to Joy' for a Prepared Piano, which was reprised for Project 35: Making Art Public in 2019.