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5/12/2006

Two events

The Moore Space, Miami

CLAMOR by Allora & Calzadilla

For their exhibition at The Moore Space, the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have taken up the genre of war music as the basis for a new body of work. Tracing the history of this form of sonic expression back to earliest of military encounters, the exhibition investigates the bodily and physical dimensions of the music of war.

A large sculptural form- serving as a hybrid chamber resembling perhaps a bunker, a meteorite, a ruin, a cave and/or a sound booth, will accommodate a group of musicians playing various repertoires of war songs from different geographical territories and historical periods. The simultaneous performances, at times harmonizing and at other moments in complete discord, will cumulatively generate a monstrous montage of war music, somewhere between a symphony and cacophony.

For the public, this concert will be only partially visible as one will not be able to completely see the musicians playing and will hear the clamor coming from this morpho-illogical sound structure through the small openings extending from the interior chamber to the outer surface of this form. Allora and Calzadilla remove these songs from their historic encodings and retrofit them within this particular form. This re-contextualization proposes new meanings as alternatives to the political markings that have shaped this genre of music; and as a result, suggests alternative directions for them to take.

The Moore Space is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to multi-disciplinary contemporary art practices. It offers a year-round program including exhibitions, educational programs, internships, artist residencies, lectures, and performances. Since its founding in 2001 by collector Rosa de la Cruz together with Craig Robins, an integral part of its exhibition program has been to invite international artists to produce new projects and works of art. This project is generously sponsored by Craig Robins, Rosa de la Cruz, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners. Additional funding is provided by Bank of America ad the National Endowment for the Arts.

The opening reception is on Saturday, September 7, 2006 from 9pm-midnight, concurrent to Art & Design Night in the Design District.


"ZERO HERO" JOHN BOCK, INSTALLATION WILL BE PRESENTED IN MIAMI TO INAUGURATE THE NEW THE MOORE SPACE LOFT.

The Moore Space presents ZERO HERO (2004-2005), a performance and installation by John Bock. Originally presented at the 51 st Venice Biennale, this installation and performance will be the inaugural exhibition at The Moore Space Loft, a new 7,500 square foot warehouse space located at 3627 NE 1 Court, Miami, Florida 33137, run by The Moore Space and dedicated to long-term projects.

ZERO HERO, probably Bock's most refined performance work to date, depicts Kaspar Hauser, teenage boy who appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, in 1828. The boy lived from birth to the age of about sixteen in a small, dark cell with a straw bed for company and consuming only bread and water for sustenance. Hauser was the ultimate outsider: unable to speak, nor properly walk; devoid of human contact, reason or memory; and unskilled in the use of his hands, the boy confronts the city and its inhabitants. Initially he is treated like a curiosity and a freak, and as he is guided through the ways of the Western civilized world, he is eventually driven to despair.

In ZERO HERO, John Bock creates his own interpretation of this peculiar life in the form of a man who appears in the world and with the help of others, passes through different stations, in the form of sculptural objects of one grand installation. This is a man who comes out of a cave, learns how to walk, to talk and to escape his previous life. John Bock's Kasper Hauser is not defeated by his devastating past; instead, he is the one who finally takes over power and becomes self confident. This story takes place in a scenario typical for John Bock with lots of props and hilarious situations. During the performance, Bock and another actor roll raw egg on their arms, apply a vibrating portable mixer to their chests, hang upside down, and pull stuffing out from under their shirts, while on the installation's multiple video screens Bock is seen sticking his head into a bucket of spaghetti.

John Bock, who was born in 1965 near Hamburg and is currently living in Berlin, is one of the most celebrated German artists to emerge in the late 1990s. His work has been presented in exhibitions around the world including solo presentations at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2000) and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2003). Among his countless group-exhibitions are The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2004), Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004), Documenta 11, Kassel (2002) and the 48th and 50th Venice Biennial, Venice (1998 and 2003).

The Moore Space is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to multi-disciplinary contemporary art practices. It offers a year-round program including exhibitions, educational programs, internships, artist residencies, lectures, and performances. Since its founding in 2001 by collector Rosa de la Cruz together with Craig Robins, an integral part of its exhibition program has been to invite guest curators to contribute new ideas and new thought to the organization and the Miami arts community at large. This project is generously sponsored by Craig Robins, Rosa de la Cruz and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners.


Image: Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor

For more information, please contact Silvia Cubina at 305-438-1163

Open to the Public: Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 10am-5pm
Admission Free of Cost

Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 7 from 9pm to Midnight
Saturday, December 9 from 9pm to Midnight

The Moore Building
4040 Northeast 2nd Avenue, 2nd floor
(Miami Design District)
Hours during ArtBasel Miami Beach: December 7 through December 10 from 10am-5pm

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