Break the word "question" down to its root–quest–and you get a sense of the insurgent inquiry practiced by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Their poetic and unabashedly activist conceptual art challenges everything from common definitions–they define protest as "proactive testing" and responsibility as "the ability to respond"–to concepts like free speech and historical commemoration. Confronting the assumptions behind everyday terms arises from a state of permanent questioning, says Calzadilla. "We believe that art has much to offer to this task, in its potential to provoke the public into a space of individual questioning about preconceived notions of truth, about forms of representation, participation, and identification."
via Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Insurgent Inquiry: The Art of Allora & Calzadilla.