Never Mind That Noise You Heard: Allora & Calzadilla

published Jan 24, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla have worked together since 1995, and have established themselves as prominent figures in the international contemporary art scene.

Never Mind That Noise You Heard will provide an opportunity to see (and hear!) recent installations and videos that consider the continuum between noise and music as a productive measure and potentially rich tool through which cultural, social, and political relationships can be gauged and challenged.

Many works in the exhibition are the outcome of Allora and Calzadilla's investigations into militarism, war, and the inscriptions of power encoded in and through sound.

The central work will be a monumental installation entitled Wake Up (2007): a sound and light installation for which the artists asked trumpet players from around the world to interpret Reveille; the trumpet call which signals the start of the military day.

These sonic re-workings open up the wake up call to other registers of meaning and associations.

The recordings are linked to a series of speakers and lights embedded within the walls that divide the space, creating a visual/auditory experience.