"Epic exquisite corpse is a project by Xavier Barrade developed with wake up web solutions and supported by Iconne Paris. It features 38797 drawings on 1000000 spaces available."

Epic exquisite corpse is a website I found whilst researching exquisite corpses. It is a website that has over one million drawing spaces.  It has many drawings from people around the world which unites them by creating one piece of art work.  On the website there is an option to put your own input on the website which gives you guidelines where your drawing has to line up to. So it all becomes one piece. I began to draw my piece and carefully matched it up to what was already there.

 

The next project that we began working on was a response project. It helped me to manage my time skills and think of a response fairly quickly The first image posted was of half a window with the instruction of “put your window here” on the other half of the image. The idea was to respond to half a window that was posted on the Tumblr site. Many images were put up that showed a lot about that persons identiy that was again matched by the other persons personality. There were other images that had a contrast between photographic work and photoshop work.  Images were posted that had different lighting which made an interesting image. The conflict between light and dark worked really well together.

I posed an image of a window in my house. It was luckily a sunny day which helped. I chose to focus on what was out of the window rather than the actual window. It was a clear and crisp image that didn’t give much away about my persona or identity. The reply I got worked well with my image. Although it wasn’t the same type of window it matched up extremely well. The sense of freedom and happiness portrayed through my image was completely contrasted by the view of a brick wall from the responders image. There is also a contrast in colour which works well together, The image I posted reveals a bright colourful sky whereas on the response image it is dull, dark and the complete opposite with regards to colour. As much as there was a contrast to the images the window matched up perfectly, the responder had carefully ensured it matched up to give it some sort of connection.

The first blog I was ever introduced to was on Tumblr. It was shared between Leeds City College and a collection of artists in Edinburgh. It began with a collection of images produced in groups. Firstly someone would go out and take a picture, they would come back and the next person would go out and respond to that image. It quickly became a series of interesting images. The images we produced looked like this: The images started off grid like with black and white colours. This then led on to a grill which has similar lines on it. After that it became more to do with the steel/metalalic based images. Sinks and lifts were then photographed.  Assumingly this image was taken simply because of the texture and material. The next image almost breaks out of the metal images and is a photograph looking down some stairs. This image has horizontal and vertical lines which refer back to the first image.

The next activity was similiar to the drawing task, but instead it was in a photgoraphy format. Again we were split in to groups of three. The idea was to create a human body out of things found around us. The first person went away and photograph what was going to be the head. The image was printed off and folded over so that only a small part of the image was shown. This allowed the next person to go take another phtoograph that would match up with the bottom of the first image. This continued one last time, which then eventually created a modernised exquisite corpse.
Here are the results:

This is the completed image. The three parts are made up from three different photographers that tried thier best to match the images up as best as possible. The first image is of a door handle, I like this image, it seems quite retro and stands out really well. The second image is the "body" which is a cleaning sign. I think it works really well with the first image as it is smaller at the top giving it a neck almost. The third image is an easy option but nevertheless it works perfectly. The legs match up really well with the bottom of the sign.

Overall I think the digital exquisite Corpse works well together, the colours are bright and eye catching. It almost gives it character. This image is a good example of a modern day version.

Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite corpse was created by surrealists at around 1918.
An exquisite corpse is a sequence of images created by two or more people each in turn adding a part of a the picture. The first person would start by drawing the beginning they would then fold the paper over hiding what has just been drawn leaving just enough for the next person to follow on. The next person would draw the middle part, again folding it over leaving enough for the next person to continue. Once the last person has finished the drawing off the final image can be revealed, often leaving a surreal and mis-match drawing.
This game has evolved of the years and it is now commonly used where particpants would draw a human body or an animal.

I tried my own version of this, we split in to groups of three and I began to draw.
This was the end result:

Man Ray

Andre Breton, Man Ray, Max Morise, Yves Tanguy, Exquisite Corpse, ca 1927

This is an Exquisite corpse created by Andre Breton, Man Ray, Max Morise, Yves Tanguy in 1927. It is one of the earliest surrealist games known.

Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse is a collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution.

It is named exquisite corpse as the first sentence was:

The-exquisite-corpse-will-drink-new-wine.

– André Breton. (Waldberg, 93-94)