Exquisite Corpse Cadavre Exquis as a collaborative, chance-based parlor game, typically involving four players. Each participant would draw an image on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal their contribution, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution. Joan Miro, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy Began with Surrealist Artists in the 1920s Taking turns adding onto each others drawings and collages resulted in fantastic composite figures, such as Nude by Yves Tanguy, Joan Mir, Max Morise, and Man Ray. The resulting nude female figure combines a humorous and absurd array of featuresfrom leaf ears to snowshoe feet. For the Surrealists, Exquisite Corpse was a perfect parlor game--involving elements of unpredictability, chance, unseen elements, and group collaboration. The Basics I bet you all have participated in an Exquisite Corpse activity before The Exquisite Horse, a Printers Corpse by UW-Madisons Silver Buckle Press 1997 Edition of contemporary book artists and letterpress printers were asked to design and print 100 copies of the head or tail section of a horse (or something that makes reference to a horse), only specifying the paper size and the orientation of the horse-parts on the page. Without knowing what other artists were doing, each artist shipped their 100 prints to Silver Buckle Press, who created 100 boxes with two compartments, and placed each design randomly into their head or tail compartment. There is no page sequence, but each time a print is removed, or a page is turned, there still remains a complete image of a horse. The displayed prints may be arranged and reconfigured to create hundreds of different combinations. The Exquisite Horse Arent cows exquisite too? We will use a ROUGH template! The more your design varies from the generic template, the more interesting our collaboration will be. Only requirements: paper size, whether you have heads or tails, and making sure that ALL designs meet at a certain point on the page. Options for display