Posted by kat on May 18, 2002 at 22:37:27:
In Reply to: THIS IS THE LANGUAGE WE WERE MADE TO SPEAK. WE NEED TO ENTHUSIASTICALLY INHABIT THIS CONVERSATION! posted by giveawayboy on May 18, 2002 at 15:38:14:
: THIS IS THE LANGUAGE WE WERE MADE TO SPEAK. WE NEED TO ENTHUSIASTICALLY INHABIT THIS CONVERSATION!
: : : Le Cadavre exquis est le plus célèbre des jeux surréalistes. Pratiqué à partir de 1925, il consiste à composer des poèmes ou des dessins à plusieurs, chacun inscrivant un mot ou un motif sur un papier plié, à l’insu des autres participants. Les œuvres ainsi obtenues présentent des rapprochements inattendus, comme la phrase "le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau", à laquelle le jeu doit son nom.
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: altavista's babelfish says:
: The exquisite Corpse is most famous of the surrealist plays. Practised since 1925, it consists in composing of the poems or the drawings with several, each one registering a word or a reason on a folded paper, with l.insu of the other participants. The uvres thus obtained present unexpected bringings together, as the sentence "the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine", to which the play owes its name.
: ...this sounds a bit like the burroughs cutup thing.
: THIS IS THE LANGUAGE WE WERE MADE TO SPEAK. WE NEED TO ENTHUSIASTICALLY INHABIT THIS CONVERSATION!
This is a game! Oui!?
The game started with pictures the first person would draw a picture on a part of the paper and then fold the paper so you could only see a portion of the picture, Then that person would add to the picture and fold it so the next one could only see a portion of the last picture.
With poetry or prose It would go a line at a time, each time the paper is folded so that the next person only has the last line to go on!
Somehow they would simply 'know' when a drawing or story was done and it would be ended and the story would be read in it's entirety or the drawing would be unfolded so all could see their surealist collaborative work. Pretty cool.
If this is something you already knew, I apologize for buttin in.
Type in Exquisite Corpse in a search engine and you'll find some ongoing online Cadavre Exquis!
Tres manifique!