Puerto Rico-based American and Cuban-born Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are known for their playful, socially-involved, sound-based installations, videos and performances. This well-designed volume presents recent works that investigate how power, militarism and war are encoded into sound.
Featured image, a still from the 2004 video Returning a Sound, was made on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, where the U. S. military and NATO forces practiced war games and bombing exercises until local civil disobedience and international attention lead to demilitarization in 2003. Reproduced from Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, it follows Homar, a civil disobedient and activist, as he crosses the demilitarized island on a moped with a trumpet fitted to its muffler. "The noise-reducing device is diverted form its original purpose and instead produces a resounding call to attention, becoming a counter-instrument whose emissions follow not from a preconceived score, but from the jolts of the road and the discontinuous acceleration of the bike's engine as Homar acoustically reterritorializes areas of the island formerly exposed to ear-splitting detonations."
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FORMAT: Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 156 pgs / 112 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $72.5 GBP £25.00 ISBN: 9783037640272 PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier AVAILABLE: 3/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD Excl AT CH DE FR
Puerto Rico-based American and Cuban-born Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are known for their playful, socially-involved, sound-based installations, videos and performances. This well-designed volume presents recent works that investigate how power, militarism and war are encoded into sound.
