Allora & Calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla is a collaborative artistic duo formed by Jennifer Allora (b. 1974, Philadelphia) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b. 1971, Havana), based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since the mid-1990s, they have worked together across sculpture, performance, video, and sound, consistently engaging with questions of geopolitics, ecology, collective memory, and the intersection of human bodies with political and natural systems.

Their work frequently uses sound — musical performance, amplified machines, transformed instruments — to activate and trouble the relationship between spectacle, power, and public space. In Algorithm (2011), athletes perform atop functioning arcade games.