Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla: Stop, Repair, Prepare

Overview

Kaldor Public Art has put a giant dog outside Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary art, wrapped that city’s cliffs with Christo and Jeanne-Claude and generally taken the rarified field of art into the hands-on realm of the public sphere. For its 26th outing, Kaldor is busing down to Melbourne’s gentler climes to install Stop, Repair, Prepare in the State Library of Victoria.

Number 26 has been crafted by the American/Cuban alliance of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla with a performance piece answers the timeless question What can you still play if you cut the middle out of a piano? The artists have answered by belting Beethoven’s Ninth out the hole in their piano doughnut, which they'll be repeating on the hour for the course of the exhibition. If you want to get closer, there’s an artist talk on November 16 and Mr Kaldor himself on December 3.

Performances are hourly 11–8 Monday to Thursday and 11–5 Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Image by Chloe Fan.