Screening: The Exquisite Moving Corpse

62 min. video, 2020- 2022 with sound – B&W and color

Conceived as a collaboration by Chip Lord, Jack Massing and Sean Miller

The Exquisite Moving Corpse started as a conversation between Chip Lord, Jack Massing, and Sean Miller in 2020. In planning The Exquisite Moving Corpse decisions were made to trade the methodology from the original Surrealist drawing strategy with video making. Each invited artist made a one-minute video based on the last frame of the previous minute. The three originators curated (root word cura: to care for) the moving corpse by inviting 19 other artists each. Sixty artists in sixty minutes. Some artists produced their one minute video within hours whereas others took weeks to complete their minute. All the work, play, sharing, and caretaking resulted in The Exquisite Moving Corpse, 2022. Two years of collective efforts produced an open-source project within an isolated yet digitally connected creative community of international Artists.

The Exquisite Corpse was a Surrealist strategy for collective art making, similar to the old parlor game Consequences in which players take turns writing on a piece of paper, in turn folding it to conceal what was previously written. With The Exquisite Corpse the Surrealists applied this methodology to the human body with various body parts being concealed and drawn and folded over by multiple artists to produce a final chance-oriented figurative representation.

The artists involved in order of appearance in The Exquisite Moving Corpse are:

1. Chip Lord

2. Jack Massing

3. Sean Miller

4. Chiaozza

5. Phillip Pyle II

6. Kara Hearn

7. Sergio Vega

8. Ken Friedman

9. Bill Wegman

10. Bryan Konefsky

11. Albert Chong

12. Robert Hodge

13. Chris Sollars

14. Mary Mattingly

15. Natali Leduc

16. Gustavo Vazquez

17. Tea Mäkipää

18. Mel Chin

19. Sarah Aziz

20. Hasan Elahi

21. Hillerbrand+Magsamen

22. Leyla & Mike Mandel

23. Kristin Lucas

24. Ali and Aoife

25. Shane Mecklenburger

26. Oliver Herring

27. Bibbe Hansen

28. Fereshteh Toosi

29. Craig Smith

30A. Tom Marioni

30B. Severn Eaton

31. Pinar Yoldas

32. Adebukola Bodunrin

33. James Benning

34. Chris Beaver

35. Connie Hwang

36. Chris Felver

37. Theadora Walsh

38. Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witek

39. Jason Simon

40. Isabelle Carbonell

41. Aisling O’Beirn

42. Mark Seliger

43. Elia Vargas

44. Leah Floyd + Cristina Molina

45. José Hernández Sánchez

46. John Sanborn

47. Dana Sherwood

48. Pecos Hank

49. Emiko Omori

50. Mark Dion

51. Jack Thompson

52. Bart Weiss

53. Rachel Mayeri

54. Nina Katchadourian

55. Larry Andrews

56. Emmanuel Manu Opoku

57. Tony Oursler

58. Tony Labat

59. Alyssa Taylor Wendt

60. Muntadas