Exquisite: 1: carefully selected : choice 3 a: marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution <an exquisite vase> b: marked by nice discrimination, deep sensitivity, or subtle understanding (Webster.com) Corps : 2: a group of persons associated together or acting under common direction; especially : a body of persons having a common activity or occupation (Webster.com) What is the traditional "Exquisite Corpse" Exercise?

The Project: The web page and process as a whole is a conceptual piece. Each "Progression Tree" is both part of that and a stand-alone collaborative piece. Each individual finished artwork is part of both, as well as a stand alone piece. Participating artists were individually invited from all over the world. They were selected for a high quality of personal work, but also to be part of as diverse a group as possible in style, media, location, identity, conceptual framework and career experience. Each artist submits one Primary Stage piece, add to at least three pieces without finishing them, and finish at least one piece. There is no limit to how many they can alter and finish.

 

The Structure: *each image (finished or not) will be labeled with the artist's name, location and/or country of origin, dimensions and medium(s). 1. Participating artists each submit a "Primary Stage" piece, either very incomplete or largely obscured (such as a piece of a photo on a larger paper) over the internet. These can even be "starting from chance" in the tradition of certain exquisite corpse exercises (such as an ink spill). 2. Other participating artists can then download high resolution versions of the primary pieces. Through printing these (on paper, fabric, canvas...), transferring prints, projecting them, or working directly on the computer they then add a second stage to the piece in whatever media or method they choose. If they designate it as "Finished" another artist cannot change it. Multiple artists can work from the same primary stage, or use the same one multiple times. 3. If the piece is not marked "Finished", it is a second-stage piece and can continue being altered in the same way as the primary stage pieces. Pieces can progress to potentially infinite stages. -Artists are encouraged to pay close attention to the piece they work from, to react to it and to interact with it. -While digital work, collage, mixed media, drawing and painting are easiest, ANY static media is acceptable, including 3D and installation. Finished pieces may include multiple pictures of a 3D object/installation/performance.

Conceptual Artist for the piece as a whole and web design: Mary Corey March

Participating Artists: Jose Luis Anzizar (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Peng Bo (Beijing, China), Megan Faye (Glasgow, UK), Michela Griffo (Rochester, USA), Aldo Carhuancho Herrera ( Lima, Peru), John Himmelfarb (Chicago, USA), Annysa Ng (Hong Kong, China/ New York, USA), Jan K�lling (Netherlands), Sachin Kondhalkar (Mubai, India), Mary Corey March (San Francisco, USA), Lorenzo Noccioli (Florence, Italy), Cereinyn Ord (London, UK), Shaida Parveen (Pakistan/High Wycombe, UK), Javier Puertolas (Barcelona, Spain), Renate Reisky (Dresden Germany), Ewa Wrobel (Krak�w , Poland), Constantin Severin (Suceava , Romania), Simone Stoll (Germany/France), Gosia Wlodarczak (Melbourne, Australia, b. Poland), Andreas A. Zingerle (Innsbruck, Austria)

Principal Programmer: Christopher Saari

Translators: Nathan Parker (Chinese), Susan Scrimshaw (Spanish)