PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 26 artists from 13 countries, 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.”
The videos from the ECVP were created by artists who met online, at artreview.com, a networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors. The project was instigated and managed by Brazilian video‐artist, Kika Nicolela.
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 sharing and exchange between and among ’strangers’ from around the world illuminates and celebrates the possibilities and potentials of globalized, collective creativity.
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.
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TO PREVIEW THE VIDEOS:
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INTERVIEWS WITH EXQUISITE CORPSES’ ARTISTS
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LIST OF THE PROJECT’S VENUES
2009
Formverk Gallery
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #1 to #9
The Vitruvian Woman
Date: March 14, 2009
Location: Eskilstuna, near Stockholm, Sweden
Venue: Formverk (Sweden)
Website or Map: www.formverk.se
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2008
The Lupa Art
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #1 to #9
Date: November 2008
Venue: The Lupa Art in Melbourne, (Australia)
Information pending…
aluCine 2008
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #1 to #9
Date: Nov. 20, 2008 at 12pm to Nov. 29, 2008 at 12pm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Street: 90 Oxford Street – Suite # 8 Toronto – M5T 1P3 ON
City/Town: Toronto
Website or Map: www.alucinefestival.com
Event Type: festival, international, film, short, video
VANSA, Visual Arts Network of South Africa
Exquisite Corpse Video Project
Date: October 30, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Western Cape
City/Town: Cape Town, South Africa
Website or Map: www.vansa.co.za
Rural Research Laboratories @ the Arnot Art Museum
Exquisite Corpse Video Project #1 to #3
Date: October 14, 2008 at 6pm to October 28, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Arnot Art Museum
Street: 254 Baldwin Street. Elmira, New York 14901
City/Town: Elmira, New York
Website or Map: www.ruralresearchlabs.com
Event Type: international, video
Indie – Mostra de Cinema Mundial
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #2
Time: October 9, 2008 at 6pm to October 16, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brasil
City/Town: Belo Horizonte | SÃO PAULO
Website or Map: http://www.indiefestival.co
Event Type: festival, international, film
AZAdigitalCINEMAfestival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #1 to #6
Date: September 2008
The AZAshortFILMfestiva (Greece).
Website or Map: www.azafestival.com
Event Type: festival, international, film
Monkey Town
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #1 to #6
Date: August 18, 2008 at 10:30pm
Venue: Monkey Town, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY. (USA)
Website or Map: www.monkeytownhq.com
Formverk Gallery
Exquisite Corpse Video Project – Corpse #1 to #3
Date: 4 June 2008 – 7 June 2008
Venue: Eskilstuna, near Stockholm, Sweden
Venue: Formverk (Sweden)
Website or Map: www.formverk.se
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LIST OF WORKS
Corpse #1
Running time: 7′56′
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
Running time: 7′33′
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
Running time: 8′14′
John Pirard (Belgium) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Anders Weberg (Sweden) | Joy Whalen (USA) | Marty
McCutcheon (USA) | Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Simone Stoll (Germany)
Corpse #4
Running time: 10′29′
Marty McCutcheon (USA) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | H.l.ne Abram (France) | John Pirard (Belgium) |
Brad Wise (USA) | Ronee Hui (England) | Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil) | Kai Lossgott (South Africa) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil)
Corpse#5
Running time: 09′58′
Michael Chang (Denmark) | Joshua & Zachary Sandler (USA) | Simone Stoll (Germany) | Stina
Pehrsdotter (Sweden) | Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal) | Niclas Hallberg (Sweden) | Ambuja Magaji (India)
| Dellani Lima (Brazil) | Per E Riksson (Sweden)
Corpse#6
Running time: 09′13′
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)
Total program running time: 52′03”
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LIST OF TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EXHIBITION
We propose 2 options of exhibition.
01 screen projection: all 6 videos are screened in the same projection, in looping
‐ Dark screening room
‐ High quality video projector
‐ DVD player or computer to play the medias
‐ 02 high quality sound speakers
03 screens projection: each projection screens 2 videos in looping. The projections can be
placed in the same room in different walls, or side by side in the same wall.
‐ Dark screening room
‐ 03 High quality video projector
‐ 03 DVD player or computer to play the medias
‐ 06 high quality sound speakers
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EXQUISITE CORPSES Artists’ Bio
Hélène Abram
b. 1973, France
Hélène Abram is a video artist, filmmaker, and
screenwriter in Paris. A 2002 graduate of France’s
renowned state film school, La fémis, Hélène makes
documentaries, short fictions, and experimental
films and videos. Her works have received numerous
festival awards, including a Grand prix expérimental
from the Côté court festival in Pantin, France for her
2006 movie Reconstitution.
Lucas Bambozzi
b. 1965, Brazil
Lucas Bambozzi is a multimedia artist and curator
based in São Paulo, Brazil. His award-winning
works include installations, single-channel videos,
short films, and interactive projects that have been
shown in more than 40 countries, including the 2005
Share Festival 2005 in Italy; Videoformes 2005 in
France; Spio 2005 at the HTTP Gallery in London;
Interconnect 2006 at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany;
Pensé Sauvage at Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany
(2007), Emergentes 2007/2008 at Laboral in Gijon,
Spain and the 2008 HeARTbeat Festival in Moscow.
Michael Båstrup Chang
b. 1973, Denmark
Alumnus of The London Institute Central Saint
Martins College of Art & Design. Living and working
in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Per E. Riksson
b.1964, Sweden
Per Riksson is a contemporary painter, performer,
video artist, and comic illustrator in Stockholm,
whose solo work has been exhibited in the US and
Northern Europe. Trained at the Konstfack University
College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, Per founded
the noted multimedia and performance art group
Cyberia City, for which he served as curator and
projects leader from 1992-2007.
Alicia Felberbaum
b.1950 , Argentina
Alicia Felberbaum is a multimedia artist based in
London, graduated from Goldsmiths, University of
London with a Master in Fine Arts. A recipient of
several art grants, Alicia was awarded a Fellowship
from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science,
Technology and the Arts) for research on the
relationships between interactivity, databases, and
the narrative form. Her work includes installations,
interactive projects and video shorts that have been
shown internationally in festivals and exhibitions,
including the EMAF, Osnabruck, Germany; F I L E
2005 and Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2005); Viper
Basel Switzerland; Sónar A La Carte, Barcelona,
Spain (2006); Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK;
IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia;
Axis, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2000).
Alberto Guerreiro
b. 1969, Angola
A Portuguese-African native, Alberto Guerreiro
is an anthropologist, museum curator, and new
media performance artist in Lisbon, Portugal. His
visual projects include single-channel videos and
film, documentaries, explorations of found footage,
experimental video art, and conceptual photography.
Alberto is also the creator and main curator of the
FocFest—Freedom of Choice International Video
Festival, which, in 2008, takes place in the cities of
Lisbon, Istanbul, and Yerevan.
Niclas Hallberg
b. 1965, Sweden
Niclas Hallberg is a freelance artist working with
video, photo, installation, and painting, among other
mediums. He has participated in solo and group
exhibitions in Sweden, China, Finland, Serbia, and
Poland. His experimental works often deal with
questions concerning identity, the environment,
and humanity. He has made several videos
commissioned by other artists and museums, and he
is a co-founder of Formverk, an artist-run exhibition
space in Stockholm.
Nung-Hsin Hu
b. 1981, Taiwan
After completing her bachelor degree in Special
Education from the National Hsinchu University of
Education in Taiwan, Nung-Hsin Hu moved to New
York to pursue her Master in Fine Arts at Long Island
University. She is a sculptor, installation, and video
artist who has shown her work in New York City,
Long Island, and Taiwan. In 2008, the International
Sculpture Center honored Nung-Hsin with the
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary
Sculpture Award.
Ronee Hui
UK
Ronee Hui is a London-based artist, whose work has
been shown in Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Canada,
China, and Cuba. Graduating from Middlesex
University in 2002 with a Master in Fine Arts under
Professor Jon Thompson, she works across a
range of media including object- and text-based
works, as well as sculpture, installation, video and
photography. Her major shows include the 6th
Sharjah International Biennial of Contemporary Art
in the United Arab Emirates, and the 25th Viper
International Festival of Film, Video and New Media,
in Basel, Switzerland.
Jan Kather
b. 1951, USA
Jan Kather teaches photography, video art,
humanities, and women’s studies courses at Elmira
College in upstate New York, as well as photography
courses at Cornell University. She is the recipient
of several artist grants, including, a 2007 NYSCA
Decentralization Artists Crossroads Program Grant
for the community art installation, Aleatoric Video.
She is also an active member of Rural Research
Laboratories in Elmira and the State of the Art
Gallery in Ithaca.
Ulf Kristiansen
b. 1969, Norway
Ulf Kristiansen is a painter and video-artist currently
living at Nesodden, a peninsula outside of Oslo,
Norway. While starting out as a figurative painter,
Ulf is now mainly focusing on 3D animation and
machinima projects that have been shown in
numerous international video festivals and exhibitions.
Dellani Lima
b. 1975, Brazil
Dellani Lima is a filmmaker, musician, and producer
from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. For the past ten years,
he has performed in two musical intervention
groups, “Em Dias de Surto,” and “E Disse Que Era
Economists,” which he founded and also provides
digital support for. His major exhibitions include
showings at Media Forum in Moscow, the Hamburg
International Short Film Festival, the JVC Tokyo
Video Festival, Video Brazil, and South Africa’s KO
Video Festival.
Kai Lossgott
b. 1980, Germany
Kai Lossgott is a South African writer and artist
working in video, performance art, and experimental
film. Kai graduated in sculpture and painting at the
National School of the Arts. He holds a BJourn in
documentary filmmaking and dance theatre from
Rhodes University and a Masters in Creative Writing
from the University of Cape Town. He has lectured in
visual and digital art at the University of South Africa,
at The University of Pretoria, and in the Department
of Digital Arts at WITS University. As a writer, he
holds a special interest in video poetry.
Ambuja Magaji
b. 1979, India
Born in Bangalore, India, Ambuja Magaji currently
resides in Cranston, Rhode Island. She holds a
Bachelor of Fine Art specializing in printmaking
from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore,
as well as a Master of Arts in Media Studies from
Rhode Island College. As an artist, Ambuja’s work
involves the social and political roles that define
cultural identities. Her recent solo video installation
in Bangalore, titled ”Body Desire,” was about the
transgender people in India, known as “Hijras.”
Marty McCutcheon
b. 1967, USA
Marty is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist who
lives and works in Berkeley, California. His nearly
two hundred collected paintings hang in numerous
personal and corporate art collections throughout
the world. Over the past twenty years, he has
also explored a variety of mediums, including
experimental film, video art and instillation;
graphic design; music and audio production; and
assemblages created from recycled and found
objects.
Kika Nicolela
b. 1976, Brazil
Kika is an artist and filmmaker, whose work includes
video art, installations, and photography. A 2003
Film and Video graduate of the University of Sao
Paulo, Kika has also studied film at the University of
California, Los Angeles. Her award-winning videos
have been screened at film festivals in more than
30 countries, and she has participated in solo and
collective exhibitions in Brazil, USA, Canada, France,
Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Sweden. A recipient
of several art and film grants, Kika is a nominee
of the Sergio Motta Award of Art and Technology,
UNESCO’s Breaking the Chain Award, and the
Nascente Art Award.
Stina Pehrsdotter
b. 1966, Sweden
Stina Pehrsdotter is a curator and artist, working
in street, installation, and performance art inspired
by the human body and its environment. A Textile
Arts graduate from Umeå University, Sweden, she
has participated in numerous exhibitions at home
and abroad. As a curator, she has arranged several
showings in a variety of contexts. She is also one
of the founders of Formverk, an artist-run exhibition
place in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
John Pirard
b. 1977, Belgium
John Pirard is a video artist and professional film
editor living and working in Brussels. He has edited
many award-winning films, which have screened
in major film festivals in the US, Europe, and Asia.
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project represents the
first time John has publicly exhibited his own video
work, which he shot using a point-and-shoot digital
camera.
Joshua and Zachary Sandler
b. 1977 & 1979, USA
Joshua and Zachary Sandler are Brooklyn based
artists who come from different backgrounds.
Zachary is trained in theatre and performance (UCD
MA Modern Drama and Performance Studies),
while Joshua is an experienced photographer (Pratt
MFA Photography). They work collaboratively on
video art that uses performance along with media
collected from their family as a means to investigate
the feelings of alienation and fantasy they have
experienced growing up in a dysfunctional American
home.
Simone Stoll
b. 1967, Germany
Simone Stoll studied in Berlin and London, has
lived in France, Iceland and continues to travel. Her
research is based on body and mind, human studies
interwoven with her personal experience, earlier in
form of painting, she now concentrates on drawing,
photo and video. She has collaborated with neuroscientist
and multi-media artists. Her work is intimate
and sometimes raw and always poetic in search for
beauty. Her means are simple and direct; she is the
sole performer of her videos and model to photos.
She has been artist-in-residence with the Museum of
Reykajvik, the Academ of the Arts Berlin and others.
Her work can be found in European collections and
has been shown in Canada, Europe and the USA. In
2007, she received the Pollock Krasner Foundation
Grant.
Arthur Tuoto
b. 1986, Brazil
Arthur is an independent video maker and film
critic in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His works include
video art, short films, music videos, experimental
documentaries, and photography. Using
experimental digital narrative, he seeks to create
contemporary, atmospheric and celebrative cinema.
The subject of his work tends to be alienation,
loneliness, and spirituality. His videos have been
exhibited in worldwide festivals and TV Channels.
Anders Weberg
b. 1968, Sweden
Anders is an artist and filmmaker working in video,
sound, new media and installations. Specializing
in digital technologies, he aims to mix genres and
ways of expression to explore the potential of visual
media. Anders lives and works in the small coastal
town of Angelholm in the south of Sweden, and he
has exhibited at numerous art festivals, galleries, and
museums internationally.
Joy Whalen
b. 1983, USA
Raised in Chicago, Illinois, Joy now resides in New
York City where her work combines multimedia,
drawing, performance, video, and installation. She
received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute
in 2007, and, in May of that year, she had her first
major solo show, What They Found, at Chicago’s
Flatfile Galleries. Joy is also the 2008 recipient of the
Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant Award.
Alison Williams
b. 1966, South Africa
Alison is a self-taught artist, who holds degrees
in Psychology and Philosophy from the Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University. Seeing art as a
vision and a voice, her video arts seeks out the
mundane as well as obtuse, and reveals, in things
once hidden, that lost essence of life. Although she
is mainly a performer, Alison’s video work has been
shown in festivals around the world, and she paints
when she has the time.
Brad Wise
b. 1967, USA
Brad is a photographer, filmmaker, writer, editor,
and communications specialist living in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He holds a degree in Cultural
Anthropology from the University of California,
Santa Cruz, and he has studied film, theater, and
art history at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Major exhibitions have included showings at the
Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen and the Centro
Cultural Andratx in Mallorca, Spain.
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