yowdy howdy, yo. i had a party last week at the apt. where i was house sitting. we made lots of exquisite corpse drawings. here's one :
More pix are posted in the reponses section to this post. hey, a couple of killoggsers participated in thes drawings... andrew, craig, me and j.w.... also alot of pratt peeps and my new gallyfrien from switzerland.
Lynnr said at 5:56 PM 05-30-2001: was everyone at the party obsessed with mutated male genitalia, or just the same person who always drew the lower halfs?
Laura said at 3:24 AM 05-31-2001: i think the guy with the buddha-phone-genitalia is the best. ist's such a nice idea... listening with one's testicles. that's akin to thinking with on's dick er snatch, wouldn't ya say?
Craig said at 11:30 PM 05-30-2001: That night, I never got to draw the genitalia. All I got to draw was the head, feet, or breasts. The one pelvic region I did draw was female, though.
Craig said at 11:33 PM 05-30-2001: You fold up a sheet of paper into four sections. Someone draws the head, fold it under, and passes it to someone else. Without looking at what was drawn, they draw the torso, fold it under, and pass it on. This keeps repeating until the figure is done. Finally, it is unfolded, and you have your exquisite corpse masterpiece. It is a geat activity, sure to enliven any stuffy gathering of artists.
Craig said at 11:45 PM 05-30-2001: It was started by the surrealists, in the form of poetry/automatic writing. The artists adopted it. I just read a biography on Remidios Varo, a surrealist painter that moved to Latin America during WWII. She played the game quite frequently with her inner circle of friends. They actually played the game with collage, which can also produce some very interesting results. I want to try it that way.
Craig said at 11:47 PM 05-30-2001: The Name "exquisite corpse" actually comes from a part of the very first exquisite corpse game, done as a writing exercise.
Laura said at 3:29 AM 05-31-2001: the giraffe head is pretty smart. and i agree, bourque's bootay is most egggggsquisite. i was lucky enough to see his san fransico ass a couple of weeks ago. ohh-lala. kevin has been re-incarnated from corpse into a lovely delicate princess!