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Exquisite Corpse

.Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle to start a participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition where each new artist alters the image to build on the last artist's effort

November 1 - December 31, 2019


Exquisite Corpse is an exhibition that begins on November 1 and ends on December 31, 2019 but we only know how it begins and have no idea how it will end.

 

The exhibition begins with the image above and will continue as artists from around the world send their response to each "new" image (selected from emailed images that build on the current image).

 

The current image in this exhibition can be accessed either by photographing it from your screen or by downloading a PDF copy (click on the image) to modify as you wish.

 

Images will be selected by the promptness and innovativeness of the response.

 

Email your Exquisite Corpse hi-res images (at least 2550 (h) x 3190 (w) pixels which is 8 1/2" x 11" at 300 dpi) to: anotheryearinla@gmail.com

Put Exquisite Corpse in the subject line and please include your name.   

 

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EXQUISITE CORPSE EXHIBITION

EXQUISITE CORPSE HISTORY

 

 


 

 

EXQUISITE CORPSE

(new work will be added as it arrives)

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Marquis DuBonnet on December 29, 2019

Marquis DuBonnet

December 29, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, by unknown artist on December 17, 2019

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December 17, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Jody Zellen on December 14, 2019

Jody Zellen

December 14, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Caroline Cox on December 12, 2019

Caroline Cox

December 12, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Scott Lewallen on December 12, 2019

Scott Lewallen

December 12, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Brian Mallman on December 5, 2019

Brian Mallman

December 5, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Devon Paulson on November 16, 2019

Devon Paulson

November 16, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Cathy Stone on November 10, 2019

Cathy Stone

November 10, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Parris Patton on November 5, 2019

Parris Patton

November 5, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle for the participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition that started on November 1, 2019 with new additions by artist, Jerrin Wagstaff on November 3, 2019

Jerrin Wagstaff

November 3, 2019

 

 

 

Iimage of a dot in the center of a rectangle to start a participatory Exquiste Corpse exhibition on November 1, 2019 where each new artist alters the image to build on the last artist's effort

starting image

November 1, 2019

 

 

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Exquisite Corpse History (from Wikipedia)

 

This technique was invented by surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least as early as 1918.[1]

 

The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.")[1][2] André Breton writes that the game developed at the residence of friends at an old house in Montparnasse, 54 rue du Château (no longer existing). Besides himself he mentions Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert, Yves Tanguy and Benjamin Péret as original participants.[1][3]

 

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