Allora & Calzadilla’s new work Compass, 2009, conceived specifically for the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, creates a new spatial and acoustic experience. Dividing the Kunsthalle horizontally, a level is introduced, inaccessible to the viewer and reducing the grand exhibition hall to less than one third. Visitors can only hear the vibrations and sounds of an a capella dancer performing a choreography above their heads.
Allora & Calzadilla elaborate on the relations between orientation and disorientation, memory and visibility, presence and absence – as well as on the realms of imagination, projection, and possibility. These themes are explored by the publication accompanying the exhibition through an introducing text by Angela Rosenberg and an interview with Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla.

Authors: Angela Rosenberg, Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla

Published by Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin and Angela Rosenberg on the occasion of Allora & Calzadilla personal exhibition (November 7, 2008 - June 09, 2009)

Softcover, 25 x 16,8 cm, 40 pages, with colored installation shots, and 13 sketches by Allora & Calzadilla illustrating the individual tracks of each dancer in the installation Compass.

Bilingual: German / English