Sat 12th  6pm

still from CORPSE#8

EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT Vol.½
curated by KIKA NICOLELA
total running time: 75 min.

in attendance of Niclas Hallberg

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final 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.”
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 exchange among ‘strangers’ from around the world illuminates the possibilities of globalized, collective creativity.
The project is coordinated by Brazilian video-artist, Kika Nicolela. In the first Volume of the project (2008), 9 videos were created in collaboration by 36 artists from 16 countries. For the Directors Lounge 2011, the curator selected 5 videos from this volume.

read more about EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT Vol.1 curated by KIKA NICOLELA (pdf)

CORPSE#1
2008, 7min 55s
<participating artists>
Marty McCutcheon (US)
Ambuja Magaji (IN)
Kika Nicolela (BR)
Zachary Sandler (US)
Simone Stoll (DE)
John Pirard (BE)
Niclas Hallberg (SE)
Anders Weberg (SE)

still from CORPSE#1

CORPSE#3
2008, 8min 15s
<participating artists>
John Pirard (BE)
Kika Nicolela (BR)
Anders Weberg (SE)
Joy Whalen (US)
Marty McCutcheon (US)
Ulf Kristiansen (NO)
Niclas Hallberg (SE)
Simone Stoll (DE)

CORPSE#6
2008, 9min 14s
<participating artists>
Kika Nicolela (BR)
Alicia Felberbaum (GB)
Ulf Kristiansen (NO)
Anders Weberg (SE)
Marty McCutcheon (US)
Jan Kather (US)
John Pirard (BE)
Arthur Tuoto (BR)
Nung-Hsin Hu (TW)

CORPSE#8
2008, 10min 23s
<participating artists>
Anders Weberg (SE)
Joshua & Zachary Sandler (US)
Kika Nicolela (BR)
Nung-Hsin Hu (TW)
Brad Wise (US)
Stina Pehrsdotter (SE)
Christian Leduc (CA)
Caroline Breton (FR)
Jan Hakon Erichsen (NO)
Pila Rusjan (SI)

CORPSE#9
2008, 10min 15s
<participating artists>
Joy Whalen (US)
Per E Riksson (SE)
Marty McCutcheon (US)
John Pirard (BE)
Alexandra Buhl (DK)
Simone Stoll (DE)
Alicia Felberbaum (GB)
Lucas Bambozzi (BR)
Pedro Reis (PT)
Mads Ljungdahl (DK)

EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT Vol.2

Volume 2 of the ECVP (2009) consists of 12 videos made by over 50 artists from 21 countries. Each video from this volume follows a certain theme previously proposed by the curator. 3 videos from this volume were selected to be presented at the Directors Lounge 2011.

read more about EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT Vol.2 curated by KIKA NICOLELA (pdf)

BOUNDARIES
2009, 10min 15s
<participating artists>
Anders Weberg (SE)
Fernando Velazquez (BR)
Ronee Hui (GB)
Simone Stoll (DE)
Dave Swensen (US)
Matthias Roth (DE)

SENSES
2009, 8min 45s
<participating artists>
Michael Chang (DK)
Niclas Hallberg (SE)
Ambuja Magaji (IN)
Kika Nicolela (BR)
Kim Dotty Hachmann (DE)
Alicia Felberbaum (GB)

NARRATIVES
2009, 9min 57s
<participating artists>
Brad Wise (US)
Niclas Hallberg (SE)
Ulf Kristiansen (NO)
Joshua and Zachary Sandler (US)
Kika Nicolela (BR)
Christian Leduc (CA)