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They have had solo exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2017) New Museum/Rhizome, online (2016) Swiss Institute, New York (2015), online (2015) Hester, New York (2015) and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2015). 1993, Miami) is an artist based in New York. Like Ariel from The Little Mermaid, loving is not enough-one must become what one loves.Īndrea Crespo (b. I feel a potent unilateral erotic and amorous relation to images external to my body, but this exists alongside an equally charged relation that loops these images back into it as our body. I’ve chosen to be transparent about the bifurcation of desire my situation implies: wanting to be and to be with. Through parapagus, viewers can connect the elusive Cynthia and Celinde, with a deeper personal narrative, which Crespo describes in an essay accompanying “Joined for Life”: A challenge to bounded notions of gender and selfhood, the identity evoked in parapagus is one defined by liminality and ambiguity-what the artist describes as “the state or states of being neither and both.” They can’t be reduced to a simulated plural or to a gender neutral “they,” and yet, they also embody both of these positions.įor those who have followed Crespo’s work, the conjoined twins Cynthia and Celinde will be familiar from the artist’s sculptures and videos, where they have appeared as both chimerical outline and as commanding protagonists. In the film, reanimated memories and encounters-between the artist and the twins’ images, as well as between the artist and doctors, family, and peers-weave together into a kaleidoscopic personal history that breaks the mold of autobiography by replacing a singular authorial subject with a ravel of voices. It portrays the artist’s experience of what is possibly, but not definitively, a condition medically described as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, in which a person’s body image is at odds with their actual physical form. The screening is one hour and forty-five minutes long and will be followed by a conversation between Crespo, writer Erin Prinz Schwartz, and New Museum curator Lauren Cornell.Ī groundbreaking work that addresses theories of psychosexual development, body image, and desire, parapagus is also an intensely personal project. The film traverses concerns raised in “Joined for Life,” which portrays the artist’s errant and unexpected form of identification with the dicephalic parapagus (conjoined) twins Abby and Brittany Hensel-or, rather, to their image, which has been circulated in television talk shows, documentaries, and the press since the 1990s. In conjunction with Andrea Crespo’s solo exhibition “Joined for Life,” on view at Downs and Ross through April 23, the New Museum presents a cinematic screening of parapagus (2017), a feature-length film by this dexterous and original multidisciplinary artist. Courtesy Downs & Ross, New York Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin and the artist “I wanted to tell it honestly and accurately, because the more the I read, the more I realised how misunderstood the lives of these people have been, and how ready people seem to be to say: ‘If it were me, I would want to be separated,’ without ever fully considering the intimacy of such a relationship, not to mention the many joys it brings.Andrea Crespo, parapagus, 2017 (still). She “was immediately captivated by the idea of their lives – fascinated by the ways in which these amazing women managed to live as two separate people in one body”, she wrote in a piece for the Guardian children’s books site last year.
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“It probably sounds like a prison sentence,Ĭrossan, who is originally from Dublin and now lives in Hertfordshire, has said that she was inspired to write the novel after watching a documentary about Minnesotan conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel. “Tippi and I are of the ischiopagus tripus variety. O’Callaghan called One beautifully written and “wholly original”, while his fellow judge, Hay festival director Peter Florence, said it was “a book that breaks every rule and would enthral any reader a book that gives you the gift of reading in a new way”.
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One was among 10 novels shortlisted for this year’s award, alongside works including Holly Bourne’s Am I Normal Yet? and Jenny Downham’s Unbecoming. The YA book prize, launched by the Bookseller magazine last year, is the only award in the UK and Ireland to focus specifically on young adult literature. Already the winner of the Irish children’s book of the year award, One is also in the running for the Carnegie, the UK’s top prize for children’s fiction.