The Exquisite Corpse Video Project

Monday, August 18
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 10:30pm
reservations are recommended

Inspired by the Surrealist invention of the 'Exquisite Corpse,' a method of sequential, collaborative image production, these video shorts were composed over several months by 26 artists in 13 countries. (total running time: approximately 50 minutes).

In the Surrealists' 'game,' a sheet of paper is folded so that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work and begins his or her own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous, form or figure.

These video 'corpses' were created by members of artreview.com, an online networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors, and the project was instigated and managed by Brazilian video artist Kika Nicolela. The three corpses are composed in the following manner: the final ten-seconds of an initial one-minute video is sent to a second participant, who then integrates it into the beginning of his or her own minute of video, the final ten seconds of which are then sent to a third contributor, and so on, until the collected minutes are 'stitched' together in order, thus creating a single piece.

www.artreview.com/profile/excorpse
http://www.youtube.com/user/ExCorpseProject
www.formverk.se/site/corpses.html
http://momente.wordpress.com/