Description
Book SynopsisThis collection is the first to address both historical and contemporary works that employ the ritual of the
cadavre exquis. It offers a unique overview of the efforts of scholars and artists to articulate new notions of crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and to experience in a new way the body's mutability through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic frames.
Trade Review“This corpse is very living—and here, explored from many vantage points, performative, theoretical, art historical, and experiential. The variety of writing is as wide-ranging as the topic in all its excitement of exchange.”—Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York and author of
Manifesto: A Century of IsmsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Totems without Taboos: The Exquisite Corpse
Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Algorhythms of the Exquisite Corpse
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger
Part One: The Ludic
1. From One Exquisite Corpse (in)to Another: Influences and Transformations from Early to Late Surrealist Games
Anne M. Kern
2. "This is Not a Drawing"
Susan Laxton
3. Events and the Exquisite Corpse
Ken Friedman
4. Cutting Up the Corpse
Oliver Harris
Part Two: Artistic Collectivity and Literary Creation
5. The Corpse Encore/Apres Exquis
Ingrid Schaffner (with a contribution by Elizabeth Finch)
6. The Exquisite Corpse Is Alive and Well and Living in Montréal
Ray Ellenwood
7. An Anatomy of Alfred Chester's Exquisite Corpse
Allen Hibbard
8. "together in their dis-harmony": Internet Collaboration and Le Cadavre Exquis
Michael Joyce
Part Three: Academia
9. Academia's Exquisite Corpse: An Ethnography of the Application Process
Craig Saper
10. Dead Men Don't Wear Pixels: The Online Exquisite Corpse and Process-based Institutional Critique
Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denlinger
Part Four: Recomposing the Body
11. Exquisite Theater
Kimberly Jannarone
12. Howling: The Exquisite Corpse, Butoh, and the Disarticulation of Trauma
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
13. "You Make Such an Exquisite Corpse": Surrealist Collaboration and the Transcendence of Gender in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Don Dingledine
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
