ALLORA y CALZADILLA SPECTERS OF NOON

The Puerto Ricobased collaborative duo Allora y Calzadilla created Specters of Noon as a group of seven large-scale works specifica lly for the Menil Collection.The ensemble is orchestrated around the idea of solar noon, a notion derived from Surrealist texts by C aillois, Césaire, and others that probe the transcultural mythology of noona time when shadows vanish and delirious visions momenta rily reign. The works include light projections, guano, ship engines, live vocal performance, and coal. Using the Menils Surrealist holdings a...[Llegir més]