September 2011
10 posts
Lost at Sea...
Starting over can often be a most perplexing exercise. Meeting people, discovering who the “players” are within the new art sphere, finding the places and spaces you would most like to align yourself with, its never easy. I do feel a bit out of sorts establishing exactly what I will be executing within this Vancouver - London maneuver. I have been very proactive at building a new...
"Le cadaver / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau"
6 CONTEMPORARY TAKES ON THE OLD SURREALIST GAME:
1) The Exquisite Book
The Exquisite Book is a project based on the Surrealist game called the Exquisite Corpse. The book is a modified version of the game, played by one hundred contributing contemporary fine artists, illustrators, designers and comic artists.
2) The Exquisite Corpse Video Project 2008 - 2011
The...
Exquisite Corpses
Exquisite Corpse Artist Image Credits
Left: Untitled, Zoee Laporte; Sandra Teixeria; Morija Reeb, mixed media, 2011
Right: Chicken Soup, Krista Wilson; Catherine Nicholls; Bonnie Adie, mixed media, 2011
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The Game: Another take on the Exquisite Corpse, Seymour Art Gallery, 2011 (in Collaboration with Surface...
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Exquisite Corpse: A quantum-inspired model for...
Exquisite Corpse, a visually oriented spin-off on the collaborative storytelling parlour game consequences, has been around for several decades. The Surrealists brought it to the fore when they began mucking about in coffee shops and bars, drawing triple-sectioned non-sensical entities on napkins. These experiments at the time of its origins were thought to have brought forth the “unconscious...
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution”
– Paul Gauguin
“Art is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
– Thomas Hobbes and myself 