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Video

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THE EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT

A collaboration project created by members of artreview's Video Artists
group.

We created 3 videos in collaboration that premiered on June 4th 2008 as a video-installation at the gallery Formverk, in Sweden (www.formverk.se).

The videos can be watched here in this page.

3 more videos are in the process of being made and will be ready in August/2008.

About my artwork

IInspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse", a method of sequential, collaborative image production, the first 3 videos of THE EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT were composed over a period of two weeks by 14 artists from 9 countries; and exhibited on the Formverk gallery in Sweden, June 2008.

In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his 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 versions were created by members of artreview.com, an online networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors, and was instigated and managed by Brazilian video-artist, Kika Nicolela. They were composed in the following manner: the final ten-seconds of an initial one-minute video is sent online to a second participant, who then integrates it into the beginning of her own minute-long video, and she, in turn, sends her final-ten-seconds to a third contributor, and so on, until the collected minutes are 'stitched' together in their order, creating a single piece.

While the Surrealists are said to have created the method almost a century ago, only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced.

Whereas the end product is the medium by which this method can be shared with an audience, it is the inspiring process of sharing and exchange between and among 'strangers' from around the world that illuminates and celebrates the possibilities and potentials of globalized, collective creativity.

Currently, a second series of the project is being made – Corpse#4, Corpse#5 and Corpse#6. Most participants of the first 3 videos are again working on these pieces, but new members were also incorporated – such as Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil), Nung-Hsin Hu (Taiwan), Alicia Felber (England), Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal) and Kai Lossgott (South Africa). The new videos will be ready in August/2008.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Videos already completed:

Corpse #1
Marty McCutcheon (USA) | Ambuja Magaji (India) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Zachary Sandler (USA) | Simone Stoll (Germany) | John Pirard (Belgium) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Anders Weberg (Sweden)

Corpse#2
Michael Chang (Denmark) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Marty McCutcheon (USA) | Alison Williams (South Africa) | Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Per E Riksson (Sweden)

Corpse#3
John Pirard (Belgium) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Anders Weberg (Sweden) | Joy Whalen (USA) | Marty McCutcheon (USA) | Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Simone Stoll (Germany)

Videos in the process of being completed:

Corpse #4
Marty McCutcheon (USA) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Hélène Abram (France) | John Pirard (Belgium) | Brad Wise (USA) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Ronee Hui (England) | Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil) | Kai Lossgott (South Africa)

Corpse#5
Michael Chang (Denmark) | Joshua & Zachary Sandler (USA) | Simone Stoll (Germany) | Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden) | Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Ambuja Magaji (India) | Dellani Lima | Per E Riksson (Sweden)

Corpse#6
Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Alicia Felberbaum (England) | Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) | Anders Weberg (Sweden) | Marty McCutcheon (USA) | Jan Kather (USA) | John Pirard (Belgium) | Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) | Nung-Hsin Hu (Taiwan)

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Our premiere exhibition!

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project had its Premiere as a video installation at Formverk, June 4, 17.00 GMT (18.00 Swedish time)

www.formverk.se

The centre of the artworld is

online, nowhere and everywhere

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http://www.artreview.com/profile/EXCORPSE
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