Exquisite Corpse

Sphinx Fox and our goth artist friend Kimberlee Traub a while back got together and drew up some exquisite corpse drawings.  We later elaborated on them which of course is a breach of conduct for the Surrealists who let the thing be what it was...we just couldn't help but work back into ours.  We did three, each of us worked on one until they all came back around to us, each of us having touched them twice.  Below is the first one I scanned.


For those who don't know the history or what an Exquisite Corpse is:

An Exquisite Corpse is a Surrealist term for a collaborative drawing done with three or more people where a sheet of paper is folded three or more times each person getting a section of the folded paper to draw on, never knowing what the other has drawn before them until everyone has contributed.


to expound  http://www.lmstudio.com/corpse_history.htm :

The Exquisite Corpse and The Surrealists
		One of the basic tenants of Surrealism was the notion that creativity /genius could be a shared experience. Through such exercises in collaborative imagination such methods as the Game of the Analogical Portrait, the Truth Game, the When and If Game, and the game of Exquisite Corpse (cadavres exquis) became tools for exploration. André Breton spoke of these games as "…the most fabulous source of unfindable images…". Breton's notion that images derived from disassociation were the important aspect of such exercises. He [Breton] defined surrealism as the spontaneous exploitation of 'pure psychic automatism', allowing the production of an abundance of unexpected images. The scandalous periodical, La Révolution surréaliste, was founded in December of 1924. In it was the proclamation, "Surrealism is not a new or easier means of expression, nor is it a metaphysic of poetry; it is a means toward the total liberation of the mind and of everything that resembles it…". Developed in 1925, the Exquisite Corpse was designed for group participation and relied on the chance encounter as a disruption of rationality and a product of the shared, oceanic unconscious in which the Surrealists believed.

(Like I said before this has been re-worked after the initial E.C. happened.  Others tend to be more raw.  Less unified.)

Try one with friends.