A collaboration creation over 50 artists from over 20 countries
12 themes, 12 videos
120 minutes of original audiovisual material
curated and coordinated by Kika Nicolela
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among international artists, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".
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.
Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create
video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. Each member
is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please,
until everyone's vision is threaded together into an instigating final "corpse."
Coordinated by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela, the ECVP started in April 2008 with artists
who met online at the networking site artreview.com, and over time other artists invited by
the project coordinator have joined it.
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. The inspiring process of exchange among 'strangers' from around the world
illuminates the possibilities of globalized, collective creativity.
The volume 1 of the project was comprised of 9 videos and was released in June 2008. After
several worldwide screenings and exhibitions of this volume, more artists joined the project
and the second volume was made: 12 new videos by more than 50 artists from 20 different
countries. Each of the 12 videos of the ECVP Vol.2 has a theme, so the artists responded to
these themes as well as to the pieces they received from the previous artist.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
ECVP attempts to develop its own audiovisual language, via a cross-fertilization of art forms,
opening up a dynamic dialogue between technology-based art and the more traditional video
art.
Rather than providing a unitary linear narrative, each participant maintains his/her own
style, permeated by the diverse cultural backgrounds. Each individual artist interrogates, via
different means, a number of genres, tendencies and strategies, engaging in performative,
documental, conceptual and poetic modes of representation.
The ECVP artists are exploring the possibilities of online social networking, which provides
the group with a more transparent, dialectic, self-correcting and viral working environment
to nurture creative intercultural dialogue and expand their video collaboration. The Internet
has also enabled this international artists' consortium to bypass traditional media outlets in
order to share in the creation, publishing, and self-promotion of its collective works.
While working in collaboration, the ECVP group is in search for new modes of expression in
the development of video art, building a new concept through utilizing the characteristics of
participatory platforms and new communication technology.
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
Contato
Exhibition of Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.2
Date: October 10-11, 2009
Location: São Carlos, Brazil
Magacin
Screening of Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.2
Date: October 8, 2009
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
V.art09
Premiere exhibition of Exquisite Corpse Video Project vol. 2
Date: 11-13 September, 2009
Location: Värnamo, Sweden
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Interfaces
Nung-Hsin Hu (Taiwan), Brad Wise (USA), Michael Chang (Denmark), Pila Rusjan (Slovenia),
Bruno Penteado and Tales Frey (Brazil), Paulina Sandberg (UK)
Languages
Joas Sebastian Nebe (Germany), Marty McCutcheon (USA), Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden),
Renata Padovan (Brazil), Jan Kather (USA), Alexandra Gelis (Colombia)
Identities
Artists: Per E Riksson (Sweden), Ambuja Magaji (India), Guillermina Buzio (Argentina), Jake
Selvidio (USA), Jorge Lozano (Canada)
Reminiscences
Artists: Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Hans Manner-Jakobsen (Denmark), Renata Padovan (Brazil),
Gabriel Soucheyre (France), Jake Selvidio (USA), Katja Bjorn (Denmark)
Machines
Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), John Pirard (Belgium), Anthony Siarkiewicz (USA), Jan Hakon
Erichsen (Norway), Danny Germansen (Denmark), Kim Thøgersen Grønborg (Denmark)
Fluids
Danny Germansen (Denmark), Joshua and Zachary Sandler (USA), Katy Connor (UK), Anthony
Siarkiewicz (USA), Gabriel Soucheyre (France), Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden)
Politics
Marty McCutcheon (USA), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Guillermina Buzio (Argentina), Giselle
Beiguelman (Brazil), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), John Criscitello (USA)
Senses
Michael Chang (Denmark), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Ambuja Magaji (India), Kika Nicolela
(Brazil), Kim Dotty Hachmann (Germany), Alicia Felberbaum (UK)
Encounters
Katja Bjorn (Denmark), Michael Greathouse (USA), Joas Sebastian Nebe (Germany), Alicia
Felberbaum (UK), Giada Ghiringhelli (Switzerland), Wai Kit Lam (China)
Boundaries
Anders Weberg (Sweden), Fernando Velazquez (Brazil), Ronee Hui (UK), Simone Stoll
(Germany), Dave Swensen (USA), Matthias Roth (Germany)
Narratives
Brad Wise (USA), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), Joshua and Zachary
Sandler (USA), Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Christian Leduc (Canada)
Transformations
Simone Stoll (Germany), Mike Bennion (UK), Michael Chang (Denmark), Alison Williams (South
Africa), Mads Ljungdhal (Denmark), Alvaro Campo (Switzerland)
