Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. White, Michelle J. (Economist)
2. Rabinow, Rebecca A.
3. Tejada, Roberto
4. Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution

Description

1. 165 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

1. The Puerto Rico-based collaborative duo Allora & Calzadilla created Specters of Noon as a group of seven large-scale works specifically for the Menil Collection. Orchestrated around the idea of Solar Noon, a notion derived from Surrealist texts by Roger Caillois, Aime Cesaire, and others that probe the transcultural mythology of noon-the time of day when shadows disappear and delirious visions momentarily reign-the works include light projections, guano, ship engines, live vocal performance, and coal. Using the Menil's Surrealist holdings as a point of departure, Specters of Noon is infused throughout with a Caribbean perspective that addresses the instability of environmental and colonial politics; one work is a massive power transformer damaged in Hurricane Maria that is half-sheathed in brass. Filled with stunning installation photography and insightful texts both commissioned and reprinted, this volume captures the spirit of Jennifer Allora (b. 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla's (b. 1971) deeply researched and multifaceted work. Exhibition: Menil Collection, Houston, USA (26.09.2020-20.06.2021).

Alternative title

1. Allora and Calzadilla
2. Specters of noon

Subject

1. Allora, Jennifer, 1974- -- Exhibitions.
2. Calzadilla, Guillermo, 1971- -- Exhibitions.
3. Allora, Jennifer, 1974-
4. Calzadilla, Guillermo, 1971-
5. Allora & Calzadilla -- Exhibitions.
6. Conceptual art -- Exhibitions.
7. ART / General.
8. Conceptual art.

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / Rebecca Rabinow -- Allora & Calzadilla's land of marvels / Michelle White -- Music for Specters of Noon / David Lang -- Wonderstruck on the edge of decline: new works by Allord & Calzadilla / Roberto Tejada -- Graft -- Dead flowers and silver lining science / Julie Ault -- Blackout -- Mains of hope / Mari Carmen Ramírez -- Entelechy -- A fissure in time / Maria Stavrinaki -- Manifest -- Empire of shit / Daniel Immerwahr -- Specters of noon -- The animacy of light / Elizabeth DeLoughrey -- Cadastre -- Dark electricity / Gerardo Mosquera -- Penumbra -- Aimé Césaire steps into the sun / Molly Nesbit.

Call number

1. JQG 21-723

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Menil Collection in Houston from 26 September 2020 - 20 June 2021.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. White, Michelle J. (Economist), curator.
2. Rabinow, Rebecca A., writer of foreword.
3. Tejada, Roberto, writer of added content.
4. Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.

LCCN

1. 2020948947

ISBN

1. 9780300254464 hardcover
2. 0300254466 hardcover