Exquisite: A Series of Corpses
Oct. 30, 7 - 11 p.m.
NNWAC/St. Paul's Cultural Center, 2215 W. North Avenue, Chicago
Event takes place upstairs. CIMMFest will present short films downstairs.
Plastique Press presents a new interactive poetry/visual art series -
Exquisite: A Series of Corpses. We invite poets and writers to join artists
on stage with a live model, drawing materials, and typewriters. Poets and
writers are asked to create new works, hand or typewritten, based on the model, the art, the event, thepeople. Artists are asked to draw about the same, including the written works. The result with be a sort of immediate broadside.
Plastique Press will then publish an enhanced eBook of the works produced that night, with each poet, writer, and artist being credited as an author. Sound, text, visual art, and potentially video will become part of the final
book.
This event follows in the history of the exquisite corpse parlor games. Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.
