https://www.mariajosecrespo.com Maria Jose Crespo Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:09:58 +0000 https://www.mariajosecrespo.com en https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/About Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:27:30 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/About <img width="3995" height="3385" width_o="3995" height_o="3385" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7b72e33d9ea96400c9032669603680e3107354b392437a5a1062d4aead9b446/Fei_22-small.jpg" data-mid="211501690" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7b72e33d9ea96400c9032669603680e3107354b392437a5a1062d4aead9b446/Fei_22-small.jpg" />Photo by Lui Xiaofeini María José (b.1991) completed a BA in Fine Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana and a MA in Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her research looks into the porous space between territory, language, limits, and the body, and how this space can be understood by extending the way they relate to each other as gestures in different materialities. By questioning how she inhabits certain boundaries as a woman, she is interested in studying remains and traces that administrative powers leave behind in unclear territories. https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Projects Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:40:42 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Projects Female Flickers, 2025 The gateway as a point of encounter, 2023 Flaws in negotiations with non-cohesive sand, 2022 A set of conditions, constantly being updated, 2022 Witnessing as a method of getting through gateways, 2022 Govern yourself accordingly, 2022 Elements of erasure, 2022 A barbed sun of possibilities, 2021 An excess that limits bodies to exile, 2021 Variaciones para clasificar paisajes, 2019 El significado está dormido, 2018 How hard do you try when seeing?, 2016 Minúsculo evento, casi inadvertido, 2017 Cada una lo es, 2014 https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/CV Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:11:01 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/CV Education 2020-2022&nbsp; MA Fine Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy. Rotterdam, NL. 2015-2016 Academic Exchange in Photography Bachelor, IADE. Lisbon, PT. 2011-2017&nbsp; BA Fine Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Tijuana, MX.Selected solo / duo exhibitions2025 To live in a state of desire (And failing again) Galería Tiro al Blanco, Guadalajara, MX.Screen Memories&nbsp;MXCL BNL LAB. Whittier, CA USA 2024 La permeabilidad de una línea Planta Libre at Material Art Fair. Mexico City. MX. 2023 Female flickers over built environments WET, Rotterdam, NL. The gateway as a point of encounter with Madeleine Ruggi. PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL. Space is a place with Alejandra López. Lab23, The Hague, NL. 2022 Flaws in negotiation with non-cohesive sand Artpace. San Antonio, Texas. USA. 2016 How hard do you try when seeing? 206 Arte Contemporáneo. Tijuana, B.C., MX. Selected group exhibitions 2026 Portals: Porous Gestures&nbsp;Daeseom Artspace. Jeju-si, Jeju-do, KR. FADE OUT&nbsp;CASSTL, Antwerp, BE.2025 Prospects Art Rotterdam, NL.Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands Tucson Museum of Art. AZ, USA. Tacto: Diálogos de separación y unión SPARC. Los Angeles, CA. USA2024 Destination Unknown Heerlen, NL. Invisible traditions The Front Arte y Cultura, San Diego CA. USA. 2023 To undiscovered lands Het Paviljoen. Ghent, BE. Water as displacement OnCurating. Zürich, CH. Land of Milk &amp; Honey Planta Libre + Archivo Río Colorado at the MexiCali Biennial. Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. California, USA. 2022 And it was but a chat away Mama - Ubik. Rotterdam, NL. I must be living twice curated by Shimmer at Palazzo de Mora, European Culture Center. Venice, IT. INDEX Planta Libre. Mexicali, B.C., MX. 2021 Creación en movimiento Antiguo Colegio de San Idelfonso. Ciudad de México, MX. XIII Bienal Plástica de Baja California. Tecate, Baja California, MX. 2021 XXIII Bienal Plástica de Baja California. Ministry of Culture of Baja California. MX. Cuéntame una historia 9th anniversary. 206 Arte Contemporáneo. Tijuana, B.C., MX. 2020 Todo se deshace, el centro no puede sostenerse Casa Bosques, México City. MX 2019 Rotas/Rutas International simposium of artistic research: Intervindo, Migrando e se (Des)Localizando. Por to Alegre, BR. Creación en movimiento Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso. Ciudad de México, MX. Todo menos un fantasma Centro de la Imagen. Mexico City. MX. 2018 &nbsp; PFC 16: Centro Cultural Tijuana. Tijuana B.C., MX. 5th Transborder Biennial El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ). MX - USA. 2017 5th Anniversary 206 Arte Contemporáneo. Tijuana, MX. Life in the Conditional School of Visual Arts. New York, USA. 2016 Conquistadores de lo inútil Samples: International video festival. Diorama gallery. Mexico City. MX. Transvideo: Borderless image Aalto University Learning Centre. Helsinki, FI. Tiempo Espacio. Galería Frida Kahlo, UAS, Culiacán, MX. 2015 Rumorosa Arredondo/Arozarena, Mexico City. MX.Residencies&nbsp; 2024 Destination Unknown Herleen, NL 2023 Malt AIR Maltfabrikken. Ebeltoft, DK. Goethe Investigating Goethe Institute. Rotterdam, NL. 2022 Artpace San Antonio Texas, USA. LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe European Alliance of Academies, Akademie Der Kunst. Berlin, DE. Performance / Talks2025 Ya hecho: Readymade in the borderlands, conversation between curator Rigoberto Luna,&nbsp; artist Gil Rocha, and me. Tucson Museum of Art. AZ, USA.&nbsp; Artist talk as part of Screen Memories with curator Rosela del Bosque. MXCL LAB. Whittier CA. USA. 2024Performance lecture Double-edged zones: waterways, borderscapes and corporeal limits with Madeleine Ruggi&nbsp;as part of Interior Ecologies&nbsp;conference, organized by MAIA at HEAD – Geneva and the Institute for Postnatural Studies. Female Flickers performance as part of The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily at Rib. Rotterdam, NL. Artist talk&nbsp; Territorio, Materialidad y Comunidad en el Paisaje Fronterizo at Azul Arena. Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, MX.2023 Artist talk at Det Jyske Kunstakademi X Aarhus Billedkunstcenter. Aarhus, DK Border Crossing Networking for an Independent Culture&nbsp; European Alliance of Academies. Central European University, Budapest, HU.2022 Artist talk. 206 arte contemporáneo. Tijuana, Baja California. MX. Witnessing as a method of getting through gateways Performance lecture with Madeleine Ruggi. Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam,&nbsp; NL. 2021 PROXYEROTICS Performance lecture with Madeleine Ruggi. Royal College of Art. London, UK. Grants / Awards2023Kunstenaar Start&nbsp;Mondriaan Fund, NL.AFK&nbsp;Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. Amsterdam, NL. Development and Research(O&amp;O)&nbsp;CBK Rotterdam, NL. 2021 XXIII Bienal Plástica de Baja California Acquisition award. MX. Fundación JUMEX Grant for postgraduate studies. MX. 2020 FONCA Jóvenes Creadores (Alternative media installation) Young Artists Grant, National Endowment of Arts and Culture of Mexico. MX Van Beek Donner Foundation Grant for postgraduate studies. Rotterdam, NL. FONDARTE BC&nbsp;Fund for supporting independent artistic activities in Baja California. Ministry of Culture, BC, MX. 2019 PECDA Jóvenes Creadores (Alternative media installation) State program for artistic development of Baja California. Ministry of Culture of Baja California. MX. 2018 FONCA Jóvenes Creadores (Alternative media installation)&nbsp;Young Artists Grant, National Endowment of Arts and Culture of Mexico. MX. Contemporary Photography Program (PFC) BBVA BANCOMER Foundation and Centro Cultural Tijuana. Tijuana B.C., MX. 2016 APROART&nbsp;Art Production Grant. Centro Cultural Tijuana. Tijuana, B.C., MX. 2015 BECA ALAS&nbsp;International Exchange Grant. UABC Foundation, Tijuana, B.C., MX. Collections Colección Elias + Fontes Baja California, MX.Colección Phillips Yuyito Ciudad de México, MX.Publications / Text&nbsp; Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo, the River, and Artistic Research Written by JD Pluecker. Southwest Contemporary, New Mexico. USA. Journal der Künste 19 Akademie der Künste. Berlin, DE.Metropolis M Graduation Shows - Piet Zwart Institute by Jorne Vriens. NL Archivo vivo: Primer mapeo de artistas mujeres de Baja California Fondo Editorial La Rumorosa, colección Arte y Patrimonio, Secretaría de Cultura de Baja California. MX.Ecos y Resonancias: Primera panorámica de la pintura en Baja California. Coordinated by Daril Fortis. Fondo Editorial La Rumorosa, colección Arte y Patrimonio, Secretaría de Cultura de Baja California. MX. Laboral experience 2026 Guest Relations Coordinator at Qumra, Doha Film Institute, Qatar. 2025-ongoing Producer Development and Invitations at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. NL 2023 - ongoing&nbsp;Premiere Protocol and Q&amp;A coordination at&nbsp;International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL. 2019 - 2021 Teaching Experimental Video and Art History at CUT on Bachelor in Cinema. Tijuana, B.C., MX.2018- 2020 Program Coordinator and film curator at Cine Tonalá Tijuana a multicultural space focused on cinema, performative arts and gastronomy, producing a monthly program including national and international films by coordinating the communication among distributors, schedules and inviting guest to join screenings. Tijuana, B.C., MX.2014 - 2019 Media Coordinator and Co-founder at Periférica a non profit organization focused on distributing content about visual arts, producing exhibitions, talks and creating a one year certified workshop on art critic in Baja California. Tijuana, B.C., MX.2016 - 2017 Coordinator of Audiovisual Production and Pedagogic Area at Transmedios a multidisciplinary project focused on producing information about visual arts of Tijuana and offering workshops on visual arts, film production and technology. Tijuana, B.C., MX.2016&nbsp;Assistant production at 206 Arte Contemporáneo a cultural space by producing and hosting exhibitions. Tijuana, B.C., MX.2015 FIFT: Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Tijuana. Co-funder and program coordinator, inviting guests, building the public program and making budgets. Tijuana, B.C. MX. https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Contact Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:49:00 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Contact majosecrespo@gmail.com IG: emejcrespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/The-gateway Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:51:08 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/The-gateway THE GATEWAY AS A POINT OF ENCOUNTER <img width="3600" height="2403" width_o="3600" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/666a7130e5be142eaabc75a3c2e2db6f7175e1b0dfc485660097f743f2407d11/the-gateway_puntwg-6.jpg" data-mid="189873613" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/666a7130e5be142eaabc75a3c2e2db6f7175e1b0dfc485660097f743f2407d11/the-gateway_puntwg-6.jpg" /> ‘The gateway as a point of encounter’ was a collaborative exhibition in puntWG, Amsterdam between artists María José Crespo and Madeleine Ruggi drawing upon the artists’ firsthand experiences visiting the Port of Amsterdam — a massive 4900-acre logistics hub handling some 100 million tonnes of international cargo traffic each year. The experience of their own bodies gaining access to and being confronted with macrocosmic trading systems, territories, borders and port infrastructures is presented via Crespo and Ruggi’s separate methods of research, archive organisation and material experimentation. Crespo and Ruggi’s individual witnessing of the vastly connected world of commodity demand has resulted in this collaborative new body of work featuring sculpture, video, print, installation and sound. This exhibition marks a shift in Crespo and Ruggi’s previous mode of research which had centred on audiovisual presentations, such as their performance lectures at the Royal College of Art, London (2021) and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (2022). For the finissage of The gateway as a point of encounter, Ruggi and Crespo gave a public performance lecture offering insight into their research methodologies and processes of material translation, which collated image, video, sound and reading. <img width="3600" height="2403" width_o="3600" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a4fcf2126086e5b752ecbe603ab92097e1858487a1fa340011becbcb019ee83/the-gateway_puntwg-1.jpg" data-mid="189873691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a4fcf2126086e5b752ecbe603ab92097e1858487a1fa340011becbcb019ee83/the-gateway_puntwg-1.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2403" width_o="3600" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74736e91f3e094275ee53aab061c283e9c16da4ab537c9cb656f7b46391f2606/the-gateway_puntwg-2.jpg" data-mid="189873696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74736e91f3e094275ee53aab061c283e9c16da4ab537c9cb656f7b46391f2606/the-gateway_puntwg-2.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2403" width_o="3600" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7380714bb77868b1739b06ab0bcabca77b1e5f06bdaddb1b71693a84ab207943/the-gateway_puntwg-7.jpg" data-mid="189873726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7380714bb77868b1739b06ab0bcabca77b1e5f06bdaddb1b71693a84ab207943/the-gateway_puntwg-7.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b85370da67d548edaf3387982d44e0ca2cada919708700ca4fa28a8de3c0976/the-gateway_puntwg-12.jpg" data-mid="189873814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b85370da67d548edaf3387982d44e0ca2cada919708700ca4fa28a8de3c0976/the-gateway_puntwg-12.jpg" />. &nbsp; <img width="2403" height="3600" width_o="2403" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70eb2b6660bfe2ed961a91ba52de3464a2ae1e8b2528f0c5c74d3c31c2d9379d/the-gateway_puntwg-8.jpg" data-mid="189873865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70eb2b6660bfe2ed961a91ba52de3464a2ae1e8b2528f0c5c74d3c31c2d9379d/the-gateway_puntwg-8.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2403" width_o="3600" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5955e678893e11dfdd3b6ea59b5a6b9bd211b453f36e895242058b758c8a38f2/the-gateway_puntwg-3.jpg" data-mid="189873880" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5955e678893e11dfdd3b6ea59b5a6b9bd211b453f36e895242058b758c8a38f2/the-gateway_puntwg-3.jpg" /> <img width="2403" height="3600" width_o="2403" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9df5672c5318bce384bfde3e0ea1a6c33b6ddd0c8e3348acd562c7a82b1c9e8/the-gateway_puntwg-9.jpg" data-mid="189873874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9df5672c5318bce384bfde3e0ea1a6c33b6ddd0c8e3348acd562c7a82b1c9e8/the-gateway_puntwg-9.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2403" width_o="3600" height_o="2403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98bc7093544b66ba18f94ffcae0b0c8f0b3967e9af98b5c86d9c85a3d3304bb4/the-gateway_puntwg-5.jpg" data-mid="189873891" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98bc7093544b66ba18f94ffcae0b0c8f0b3967e9af98b5c86d9c85a3d3304bb4/the-gateway_puntwg-5.jpg" /> Pictures by Sarah Ainslie https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Female-Flickers-1 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:09:58 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Female-Flickers-1 FEMALE FLICKERS <img width="4789" height="3193" width_o="4789" height_o="3193" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dec5186b9e9876e1752bd319915648e659181533514c24dfe08a2f85ba22c36/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-7.jpg" data-mid="231574595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4dec5186b9e9876e1752bd319915648e659181533514c24dfe08a2f85ba22c36/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-7.jpg" /> The installation revolves around the story of avisadoras, female messengers who flashed messages with a vanity mirror across the border between Mexico and the USA during the Mexican Revolution (1910-17). Most of the avisos were daily life communication, but also warnings, for example, to inform of the approach of the early border patrol. <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccccecd9a080c05a47987c4e88d2adb5c5c144381e7f955ebf0faa9e1f8e6a2a/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Silvia-Arenas-17.jpg" data-mid="231520501" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccccecd9a080c05a47987c4e88d2adb5c5c144381e7f955ebf0faa9e1f8e6a2a/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Silvia-Arenas-17.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c93094b775d83dc534d6261d162d8fa3d73248c8c9a60487dee88c12222917a9/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Silvia-Arenas-31.jpg" data-mid="231520504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c93094b775d83dc534d6261d162d8fa3d73248c8c9a60487dee88c12222917a9/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Silvia-Arenas-31.jpg" /> <img width="4004" height="6006" width_o="4004" height_o="6006" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0401832235ccf47b6a16a1802bce6982d9187108f91b6e8864378c67ca16010/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Silvia-Arenas-29-2.jpg" data-mid="231520676" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0401832235ccf47b6a16a1802bce6982d9187108f91b6e8864378c67ca16010/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Silvia-Arenas-29-2.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfa5a4d478713385a208408575043169cad73fa15fddbc2161cdfd58c4817dcd/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-1.jpg" data-mid="232764968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfa5a4d478713385a208408575043169cad73fa15fddbc2161cdfd58c4817dcd/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-1.jpg" /> <img width="3716" height="4719" width_o="3716" height_o="4719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f0e40d51742d463719908eff2dbf0580a83d2ca9d8494bddf8c4e0d0c7bfa46/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-3.jpg" data-mid="231520656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f0e40d51742d463719908eff2dbf0580a83d2ca9d8494bddf8c4e0d0c7bfa46/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-3.jpg" /> Avisadores were usually men, but while researching the archive of W.D Smithers at the Ransom Center in Austin, TX., I came across an image referring to female avisadoras. Departing from this finding, I created a setting where avisadoras meet with other female figures marked by struggle and different communication strategies during times of conflict, mostly in remote landscapes, like women who fought in the Mexican Revolution. Their activities and gestures are embodied in the work through tools and structures that liberate and constrain their activities, like a teleprompter, bullet belts, and a telegraph. Such is the installation's structure, inspired by a Dutch optical telegraph model from the Rijksmuseum used to send coded messages over long distances. <img width="3016" height="1805" width_o="3016" height_o="1805" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5e404898282fa47999fd62626aefb2124f6a38a4ce55e62ffc596abecffa207/Screenshot-2025-04-24-at-21.59.22.png" data-mid="231524268" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5e404898282fa47999fd62626aefb2124f6a38a4ce55e62ffc596abecffa207/Screenshot-2025-04-24-at-21.59.22.png" /> Still Female Flickers <img width="3798" height="5416" width_o="3798" height_o="5416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f01a18cb1864879cd799fdeb6474156591baf834fa79f085a5ebda2c5e03dfa/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-4.jpg" data-mid="231574578" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f01a18cb1864879cd799fdeb6474156591baf834fa79f085a5ebda2c5e03dfa/Maria-Jose-Crespo_-Credit-Tommy-Smits-4.jpg" /> Pictures by Silvia Arenas and Tommy Smits https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/imagine-controlling Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:27:22 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/imagine-controlling IMAGINE CONTROLLING https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/La-permeabilidad Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:51:28 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/La-permeabilidad LA PERMEABILIDAD DE UNA LÍNEA https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Flaws Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:41:34 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/Flaws FLAWS IN NEGOTIATION WITH NON-COHESIVE SANDS <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2d4bc09b870626fb3deb3886901c478ef41c2fee8476a29d840ef1e527a4f9d/2.jpg" data-mid="233538164" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2d4bc09b870626fb3deb3886901c478ef41c2fee8476a29d840ef1e527a4f9d/2.jpg" /> María José's exhibition Flaws in negotiation with non-cohesive sand unfolds in a series of structures informed by gestures that administer water and land at the border between Mexico and the United States. During her residency, Crespo explored on-site and in archives how different landscapes, objects, and mechanisms around the Rio Grande - Bravo are part of a history that can be expanded into multiple materialities and observed as diverse layers of experience in different settings. Flaws in negotiation with non-cohesive sand is an environment where clashing acts of self-governance and politics embedded in physical forms question the way history is displayed and therefore understood, contrasting the infrastructure of the space in itself with the intimacy that materials offer. The work in the exhibition experiments with possibilities through ethno-fictional methodologies of researching in archives as found objects applied to collage, video, and sculpture.&nbsp; <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b48ad17cb726ca16b844e83ef9b6c7368d9f9885de647edd885ee7da203bc446/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00008.jpg" data-mid="164794724" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b48ad17cb726ca16b844e83ef9b6c7368d9f9885de647edd885ee7da203bc446/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00008.jpg" /> <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8654476de78574065aa25af55b363387fdd8f032c6eceab4a4e1bf1746d9171c/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00003.jpg" data-mid="164795484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8654476de78574065aa25af55b363387fdd8f032c6eceab4a4e1bf1746d9171c/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00003.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ce6a376d7512e47cca280c50c01a18b8f244c15065d8ee2f77096097013cdaf/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00009.jpg" data-mid="164794747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ce6a376d7512e47cca280c50c01a18b8f244c15065d8ee2f77096097013cdaf/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00009.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6a6074d8cf9145b2716d2cd5df93a90b51d9fada3f21dd6259ffecd18313474/Mural-detail.jpg" data-mid="164795508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6a6074d8cf9145b2716d2cd5df93a90b51d9fada3f21dd6259ffecd18313474/Mural-detail.jpg" /> <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9c8fbabdb74205683dbf8807774ef24bbc1606e131f83bb174f80e802da256c/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00007.jpg" data-mid="164794731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9c8fbabdb74205683dbf8807774ef24bbc1606e131f83bb174f80e802da256c/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00007.jpg" /> &nbsp; <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5b9092d5960007bd9c99d48f4832926231e59e34cad6201799e901c956efea7/avisos-still_3.png" data-mid="172260842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5b9092d5960007bd9c99d48f4832926231e59e34cad6201799e901c956efea7/avisos-still_3.png" />Still from video:&nbsp;Avisos flickering across environments <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dce63bb5623fe9f59bf6a40f4e4837013c445e90929414f910c738e8ee7bfad7/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00002.jpg" data-mid="164795479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dce63bb5623fe9f59bf6a40f4e4837013c445e90929414f910c738e8ee7bfad7/IAIR_MariaJoseCrespo_BethDevillierCredit00002.jpg" /> Exhibition originally commissioned and produced by Artpace San AntonioPhoto credits: Beth Devillier https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/witnessing Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:48:57 +0000 Maria Jose Crespo https://www.mariajosecrespo.com/witnessing WITNESSING AS A METHOD OF GETTING THROUGH GATEWAYS <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d7cce971f0d1ee5b5c18a29c7fdfee45f454b0d7f65d556968de3924fdfe19d/wittnessing_03.png" data-mid="181833447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d7cce971f0d1ee5b5c18a29c7fdfee45f454b0d7f65d556968de3924fdfe19d/wittnessing_03.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2e013130f3ec91421a22f7789bda5a1692809f39cab291e51e28c8821827061/wittnessing_02.png" data-mid="181834374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2e013130f3ec91421a22f7789bda5a1692809f39cab291e51e28c8821827061/wittnessing_02.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad75ef7f63c00d22b58ec8a226377ca8368e8e49e6c3b0c39b694bd346c9e536/wittnessing_01.png" data-mid="181834295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad75ef7f63c00d22b58ec8a226377ca8368e8e49e6c3b0c39b694bd346c9e536/wittnessing_01.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6eb1b066feea6a37c3c258fa31eb619d31bc7605d3eb6ec406610b4997bfe90/wittnessing_05.png" data-mid="181834376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6eb1b066feea6a37c3c258fa31eb619d31bc7605d3eb6ec406610b4997bfe90/wittnessing_05.png" /> &nbsp;stills from: Witnessing as a method of getting through gateways First, one becomes an observer, then a mediator. Witnessing provides access to information about the realities and fictions on borders, territories, and the currencies and values to which bodies in these zones are subjected. Madeleine Ruggi and María José Crespo bring together their separate information processing within their artistic research by exchanging ideas and working methods in an audiovisual performance presentation. The presentation navigate through different ways of collecting information, and the translation of found material as research. &nbsp;<img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1474dc6c64097f00b22d9c0cdaa3ed4095cc06c387fd41ff9c39a7b19ac1e2a2/wittnessing_.jpg" data-mid="181834219" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1474dc6c64097f00b22d9c0cdaa3ed4095cc06c387fd41ff9c39a7b19ac1e2a2/wittnessing_.jpg" />María José Crespo and Madeleine Ruggi performing in Kunstinstituut Melly, 2022photo: Steven Maybury