Oral Report

Rocio Torrico                                                                                              5/24/18

Outline HUA 101

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla 

Intro: Jennifer Allora was born in Philadelphia, PA in the year 1974. She graduated from the University of Richmond in VA in 1996. And later on earned a masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Calzadilla graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Escuela de Artes Plasticas in San Juan, PR in 1996. and later a Master’s of fine arts from Bard in 2001. 

Began collaborating in 95’

Body:

• piece 1: Chalk- idealogical and geological (site specific work) 2002

• “write big words physically and symbolically”
• helped protesters.. disrupts norms of a setting
• police took the sculpture 
• created in Peru, human sized- 64 inches long and 12 inches in diameter
• installed in paris, boston, and NY 

• piece 2: landmark (site-specific) 

• Chromogenic prints from digital files
• 24 color photographs
• Each 20 x 24 inches 
• made in 2002
• “…Embossed with words and images, the soles spoke silently but assertively, voicing a host of positions, opinions, and grievances…” Princeton University Art Museum. 
• Created in Vieques, PR. 

• piece 3: Returning a Sound (site specific/ conceptual)

• created in Vieques, PR 
• made in 2004; total running time 5min 42 sec. 
• the trumpet attached to the bike lacks a key therefore resembling a siren 
• show class video on youtube at 7:00 
• “…Returning A Sound at once celebrates a victory and registers its precariousness, calling for an unheard-of vigilance…” Calzadilla; bombmagazine.org 

• piece 4: Hope Hippo (conceptual)

• made in 2005; sculpture 192 x 72 x 60 inches
• made out of mud, elephant bones, whistles and daily newspaper 
• features a performer reading a daily news paper, they blow the whistle when ever they read something they consider has injustice 

• piece 5: clamor (conceptual/ transformative art)  

• created in 2006 
• have class guess what its about 
• tell class what its about: “…It’s the music of war, music as a weapon, everything that has to do with music and war…” Calzadilla; Art21
• materials used:1 tubist, 1trumpeter, 2 tombonists, 1 flutist, 1 drummer 

40:00 minute pre-recorded soundtrack 

365 x 207 x 64 inches

• sculpture representing a bunker or cave. made of: Plaster, foam, pigment

Bibliography

1. Art21 

2. bombmagazine.org 

3. artmuseum.princeton.edu

4. artagenda.com 

5. gladstonegallery.com