Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

The 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 before 1918.

In a variant now known as picture consequences, instead of sentences, portions of a person were drawn.

Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016

Accusations that Pentagon retaliated against a whistleblower undermine argument that there were options for Snowden other than leaking to the media. Edward Snowden has called for a complete overhaul of US whistleblower protections after a new source from deep inside the Pentagon came forward with a startling account of how the system became a “trap” for those seeking to expose wrongdoing ... “You’re playing with fire.” ... Snowden continued ... ....

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Demonstrations and protests against Monsanto in Rudolfsheim Fünfhaus, Vienna.

Protesters worldwide slam US-based biotech giant Monsanto

Edit Press TV 22 May 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated in nearly 50 countries around the globe to protest against the American mega producer company of genetically engineered (GE) seeds Monsanto, saying the corporation’s modified food and chemical herbicides pose grave threats to health ... They said the company works unethically in its development and implementation of genetically tailored seeds and pesticides ... ©AFP ... ©AFP ... ....

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Une femme en train de vendre de la nourriture au marché. A woman selling food at the market. Togo and Africa

Across Africa, the worst famine since 1985 looms for 50 million

Edit The Observer 22 May 2016

Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop. Related. 'It's a disaster'. children bear brunt of southern Africa's devastating drought . Lucy Lamble. Last year’s drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard ... ....

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Manchester United's manager Louis Van Gaal during their English Premier League soccer match against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke on Trent, England, Thursday Jan. 1, 2015.

Louis van Gaal: 'It's over'

Edit Sporting Life 22 May 2016

Sky sources understand Jose Mourinho is set to succeed Van Gaal as United manager with his agent, Jorge Mendes due to fly into the UK on Tuesday for talks. Van Gaal's United side won the FA Cup at Wembley after beating Crystal Palace 2-1 after extra time - a game which looks like it may have been the Dutchman's final game in charge ... Sky Sports News HQ's James Cooper wished Van Gaal good luck to which he replied "No, No - it's over" ... ....

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File - U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, deputy commanding general for Operations for Combined Joint Task Force-82, speaks via satellite with reporters at the Pentagon, June 26, 2007, providing an update on ongoing security and stability operations in Afghanistan.

A top US commander made a secret visit to Syria

Edit Business Insider 22 May 2016

Syria is a raging war zone, torn by multiple conflicts that have created severe human suffering across much of the country. But on Saturday the U.S. advisers camp that Votel visited was quiet. Situated about 50 miles from the nearest fighting, it was remarkably quiet. The sharpest sound was a month-old puppy's yapping as he ran between visitors' legs ... Aides said Votel's flight into Syria was the first made in daylight by U.S ... The U.S ... ....

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New Ramsay Art Prize welcome news for artists under 40

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 May 2016

$100,000 art prize announced. Bucking the trend of bad news in the arts sector comes the announcement of a major new prize for artists under 40 years old ... Advertisement ... artgallery.sa.gov.au. Telltale improvisations ... In workshops led by curators Justin Hinder and Anna Louise Richardson, the artists improvised on "exquisite corpse"-style narratives where each participant added to the story ... artsproject.org.au. Artists team up....

Exquisite Corpse event, sculptor Jon Hair opens St. Petersburg Studio

Edit Tampa Bay Times 27 Apr 2016

MOREAN ARTS CENTER. BE AN EXQUISITE CORPSE ... ....

The Poetic Host

Edit Huffington Post 11 Apr 2016

Exquisite Corpse is a method of rough assemblage invented by the Surrealists, in which collaborators sequentially string words or pictures together to form a novel whole. If you're looking for ways to celebrate April as Poetry Month, why not host an Exquisite Corpse Party? ... Let's play our own version of Exquisite Corpse....

LSO/Gilbert review – New York maestro hands audience an adrenaline rush

Edit The Guardian 05 Apr 2016

4 / 5 stars. Barbican, London. Alan Gilbert’s London Symphony debut played with extremes of tempo and volume in exciting ways, while Joshua Bell gave a well-argued take on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto ... Anders Hillborg has heard Gilbert conduct his piece Exquisite Corpse before – he gave the premiere in 2002 – but I doubt he has heard it quite so loud ... Twitter ... ....

Adelaide Festival: Pina Bausch masterpiece a fitting finale for artistic director David Sefton

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 14 Mar 2016

That idea emerged as a thematic concern, from the surrealist projections of Exquisite Corpse – a delightfully intriguing suite for string quartet, composed like the parlour game of the same name (with 11 composers given the last few bars of the previous composer's piece to work from), to Philip Kavanagh's Deluge – an ......

Alan Gilbert Makes London Symphony Orchestra Debut (April 3 & 7) and Leads Four Premieres in Second NY PHIL BIENNIAL (May 23–June 11) (21c Media Group Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016

(Source. 21c Media Group Inc). March 9, 2016. Now in his seventh season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert is also a favored guest with many of Europe's preeminent orchestras ... London Symphony Orchestra debut ... Sibelius's classically economical Third Symphony, the overture to Nielsen's opera Maskarade, and Exquisite Corpse (2002) by Sweden's Anders Hillborg ... Second NY PHIL BIENNIAL ... He explains. ... 3 ... Exquisite Corpse ... 7....

"It Happening One Night" Review

Edit IGN Insider 07 Mar 2016

Warning. Full spoilers for the episode below. The Venture Bros ... Warhammer's also henchmen made for amusing sight gags, whether it was the Wasp/Green Fairy mash-up or erotically charged Frankenstein's Monster known as Exquisite Corpse. Continue reading… ....

Amanda Cooper and the Exquisite Porch

Edit Huffington Post 01 Mar 2016

From my late teens through my mid thirties I would often play the Surrealist parlour game Exquisite Corpse at parties - experiences that would always bring me back to those quiet, somewhat secretive times playing the picture game with 'the man downstairs' ... For those who are not aware, Exquisite Corpse is most often played with either three or four participants....

Cross-arts: Barbican April 2016 Highlights (Barbican Centre)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Feb 2016

(Source ... Concerts include ... THEATRE ... Press night ... MUSIC ... Joshua Bell is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto on Sunday 3 April 2016, performed alongside Sibelius' Symphony No 3, the Masquerade Overture by Nielsen and a work called Exquisite Corpse by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg ... For his first major London commission, Qureshi presents a series of exquisite miniature paintings, drawing upon the curve as a motif in this tradition....

‘Your Brain on Art’ Musical Performance Set at UH (University of Houston)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Feb 2016

(Source. University of Houston) ... Previous collaborations have featured visual artists, writers and dancers ... The musicians will perform wearing skullcaps equipped with sensors to track their brain activity as they play a variation of Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative, chance-based game made famous by the Surrealists in the 1920s ... WHAT. Three musicians will play a variation of the collaborative game Exquisite Corpse, ... WHEN ... WHERE ... (noodl....

‘Your Brain on Art’ Dance Performance Set for Friday (University of Houston)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Feb 2016

(Source. University of Houston). The latest in a series of artistic collaborations with a University of Houston engineer is set for 5.30 p.m. Friday, Feb ... The three, all wearing sensor-embedded skullcaps to record brain activity, will perform a variation of Exquisite Corpse, a game involving chance collaborations ... WHAT. Three dancers will perform a variation on the collaborative game Exquisite Corpse, ... WHEN. 5.30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12. WHERE....

Spring Public Programming at CMOA (Carnegie Museum of Art)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jan 2016

(Source. Carnegie Museum of Art). Contact. Jonathan Gaugler . gauglerj@cmoa.org . 412.688.8690 / 412.216.7909 ... Free ... Exquisite Corpse ... Artists at all levels and from all disciplines are invited to bolster their creativity in a series of open drawing classes beginning with this session devoted to the 'Exquisite Corpse,' the Victorian parlor game technique favored by the Surrealists for creating collaborative and surprising works on paper....

Sure Poets for Shaky Times

Edit Huffington Post 28 Jan 2016

In "The Exquisite Corpse," Corcoran protests against the popular group poetry-writing exercise of the same name that, "I wanted to write about life / before an explosion," asking finally and pointedly, "Which one of us will lie for days unnoticed? / Who will be blown into a million pieces?" No matter their departure point, these poems grapple with past and present in a firm but compassionate embrace ... (cf ... inescapable hum." ... ....

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Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source

Protesters worldwide slam US-based biotech giant Monsanto

Across Africa, the worst famine since 1985 looms for 50 million

Louis van Gaal: 'It's over'

A top US commander made a secret visit to Syria

You can search using any combination of the items listed below.

New Ramsay Art Prize welcome news for artists under 40

Exquisite Corpse event, sculptor Jon Hair opens St. Petersburg Studio

The Poetic Host

LSO/Gilbert review – New York maestro hands audience an adrenaline rush

Adelaide Festival: Pina Bausch masterpiece a fitting finale for artistic director David Sefton

Alan Gilbert Makes London Symphony Orchestra Debut (April 3 & 7) and Leads Four Premieres in Second NY PHIL BIENNIAL (May 23–June 11) (21c Media Group Inc)

"It Happening One Night" Review

Amanda Cooper and the Exquisite Porch

Cross-arts: Barbican April 2016 Highlights (Barbican Centre)

‘Your Brain on Art’ Musical Performance Set at UH (University of Houston)

‘Your Brain on Art’ Dance Performance Set for Friday (University of Houston)

Spring Public Programming at CMOA (Carnegie Museum of Art)

Sure Poets for Shaky Times