Workshop “Exquisite Corpse”
Museo Experimental El Eco
June 23, 2012
LIGA, TOMO and el ECO organized an afternoon in which well-established architects and artists shared their paper with younger colleagues by means of the ‘exquisite corpse’ principle. With participations from: Jose Castillo y Saidee Springall (Arq 911), Teddy Cruz, Miquel Adriá, Enrique Jezik, Tania Candiani, Francisco Pardo (AT103), Salvador Arroyo (TEN), Alejandro Rivadeneyra, Tatiana Bilbao, Jorge Ambrosi, Esteban Suárez (BNKR), Juan Pablo Maza (FRENTE), Eric Meyenberg, Alejandro Hernández, Wonne Ickx, Abel Perles, Víctor Jaime y Carlos Bedoya (PRODUCTORA), Surella Segu y Armando Hashimoto (EL CIELO), Arturo Ortiz, Lucio Muniain, Jorge Munguia, Andrea Griborio, Iván Hernández (LUDENS) and many more.
A game invented in 1925 by Surrealists Yves Tangui and Jacques Prevert: cadavre exquis would be defined in the Dictionnaire Abregé du Surréalisme as “a game of folded paper that consist of composing a phrase or drawing by different people, without any of them fully knowing about the involvement of the others”. The Surrealists took the body as a basis, to later distort it intuitively through sketch. At the end, a joint work is achieved where the author disappears and the outcome acquires value by itself.
