Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla's interdisciplinary practice takes an unusually intimate perspective on postindustrialism's political, social, and environmental effects with four short films at London's Whitechapel Gallery. In Returning a Sound, a man retrofits his motorcycle with a military trumpet to produce a free-jazz anthem as he traverses sections of Vieques, Puerto Rico, that were once restricted by the US Navy during its 60-year occupation. Under Discussion finds the son of a fisherman/activist motoring an upside-down conference table past Vieques' new luxury resorts and along fishing routes still depleted by past US military exercises. Rooted in performative whimsy, these mappings proffer small but potent reclamations of expropriated space.

-TC