The Exquisite Corpse Festival

News from the Exquisite Corpse Festival from Nepal!

exquisitecorpsefest — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:56:13 +0000

An email I received from a fan of the Exquisite Corpse Festival:

Jason,

I dropped my Exquisite Corpse piece to frame before coming home to Nepal. I was carrying around this classic descriptive line on the order claim sheet they gave me but only noticed it today when picking it up. Written by the young Nepali woman who took my order: “Painting of body structure of man with huge brain type” this is probably a better title than my “Runners’ High 2/10″. So I am happy to represent to you, now in it’s current home in Nepal:

“Painting of Body Structure of Man with Huge Brain Type” by Matt Tackett, Alexis Vergalla, and David D’Ostilio.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31 : The Exquisite Corpse Film Festival

exquisitecorpsefest — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:01:36 +0000

From the depths of our collective unconscious comes the Exquisite Corpse Film Festival

Saturday March 31

6:00 PM

at THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB!

The game of collaboration and consequences comes to the realm of video! Sometimes funny, sometimes trashy, sometimes emotional, and even some hip-hop will mash together into eight original short films. Each film is created by three filmmakers who do not know each other and have never met. The filmmakers gather together to watch the films for the first time with the audience!

No one has ever seen these films!!
(Not even the filmmakers’ themselves)

Here is what people have said about The Exquisite Corpse Festival:
Wendy Jean Wu says ‘THAT is absolute dopeage!’
Matt Taggart says ‘Wonderful! Awesome!’
Dug from the Nodd says ‘Mmmmmmm… now THAT’S some GOOD CORPSE!’
Bernard Dumaine says ‘I do like it!’

Check us out on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/excorpse

Watch Live on the Web! http://www.bowerypoetrylive.com/

The Films Keep Coming In! March is going to be an exciting, exciting month!

exquisitecorpsefest — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:29:28 +0000

While we can’t release any of the films or plots from the festival, we couldn’t help but sharing a couple stills from this delightful, little film that came in.

The last 10 seconds are being passed along to the next filmmaker today, so in a few weeks we can finally find out if he finds what he’s looking for!

Exquisite Corpse Film Festival:
Music! Animation! Suspense! Taxidermy! Comedy!
March 31, 2012
The Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery

Images of the Corpse that do not feature Chris O’Neil

exquisitecorpsefest — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:19:26 +0000

Click to view slideshow.

Photography by Simon Snogles

The Exquisite Corpse Festival or the Chris O’Neil Show?

exquisitecorpsefest — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:08:43 +0000

“Vos Orielles” by J.P.B., Anton Dudley and Matthew Grzybowski/costumed by Kim Young

starring Kathleen Hope Reilly, Jonathan Gabrielson, Chris O’Neil, and Jennifer Jill White

A very sweet story in which a couple’s love is refined…but will it become caramelized?

“Plus ca Change” by Stacy Davidowitz, Eric Samuelsen, Jamie King/costumes Annie Arthur

Just what is Dawson hiding from Joey…or is Joey hiding something from Dawson?

“Au Revoir” by Alexandra Collier, Shalini Tripathi, and Sara Farrington/costumed by JTZ

A man finds out that he is leaking, can talk to pigeons, and meets his birth father!

See Me Tell Me joins the exquisite corpse festival!

exquisitecorpsefest — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:34:58 +0000

Information on See Me Tell Me: Inspired by the social connectivity of the street art movement, social media, and a desire to free art from its function as commodity, the artist seemetellme has placed hundreds of tiny works in the streets and subways of New York, London, and Paris. The complete record of these works and the comments of those who collect them are noted at seemetellme.blogspot.com. For the Exquisite Corpse Festival she is placing 30 See Me Tell Me Shifts along 26th street. These tiny dresses are fashioned after light summer frocks and decorated with graffiti seen in London, Paris, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Chelsea and SoHo this spring and summer.

The “Ideal Museum”, Part 1

exquisitecorpsefest — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:36 +0000

Welcome to the opening of our “Ideal Museum,” an online homage to the surrealists’ collection of art works they admired!

Who would be more apropos to feature than the inimitable surrealist idol, Hieronymous Bosch and “The Garden of Earthly Delights, ” c.1500?

Exquisite Corspe NYC Tickets

exquisitecorpsefest — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:34:55 +0000

Checking my blog stats, I realized that yesterday someone Googled “esquisite corspe nyc” [sic] tickets, so perhaps it’s time to get ticket info online! Until the end of the month we are encouraging people to buy tickets through Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1479850114/the-exquisite-corpse-festival-becomes-live?ref=live

If we can get 208 people to donate $10 and reserve a ticket (you can pick the date you want to see the show later) we can pay rent to our theater and start making the festival even more exquisite!

If we can get 84 people to donate $25 and reserve a two-pack of tickets, we will get there quicker (and you can bring a friend to the show). If you want to come see the show, please reserve tickets now!

Thanks!

Would you rather see a 15-minute play written by three different playwrights or…

exquisitecorpsefest — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:20:48 +0000

Casting is finished! So we can finally announce the play line-up! Three of the plays are 15-minute plays each written by three playwrights:

“Heartspace” by Alexandra Collier, Shalini Tripathi, and Sara Farrington
“Roseanne Barr with a Toothache” by JPB, A. Dudley, and M. Grzybowski
“My First” by Stacy Davidowitz, Jamie King, and Eric Samuelsen

And then we thought…let’s break from the three-artists-working-on-one-piece of work. The festival is all about pushing the game to it’s limits, right? It’s also taking the intellect out of the equation and letting pure, animal instinct take over. So I let my cats write a play.

I took all of the plays that have been submitted to me since I moved to New York and spread them out across my living room floor. Then I took the fifteen plays that my cats were attracted to and compiled them into one three-minute play…nay, one three-minute musical, for one of the pages is from an opera! The play will be accredited to my cats unless one of the playwrights shows up, identifies his or her play, and claims credit for it!

If you’re a playwright, come and check out this show to see if my cats were attracted to your play!

News, Nominations, and Performances! Oh My!

exquisitecorpsefest — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:47:44 +0000

There is so much exciting news in the world of ECF!

One of our choreographers has been nominated for 2 New York Innovative Theater Awards for her production of Circus of Circus that she directed at the House of Yes!

She is nominated for Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Choreography/Movement.

The IT Awards Ceremony will be held September 19th, so keep your fingers crossed for her!!!

You don’t have to wait until October to see her work, you can also see her directing, choreographing, and co-costume designing a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the second annual New Brunswick Theater Festival performing September 2^nd through the 10^th. Details!

Also in September, is the Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble performing 2 dance pieces at the Oh! You Pretty Things Party: The Show Must Go On, A Musical Tribute to Queen, at (le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday, September 4^th. (also her birthday party!)

And on-going is our fund raising campaign for our production of the first ever Exquisite Corpse Performing Arts Festival performing a full run at Richmond Shepard’s this October!

Thank you all so much for your continuing love and support!

Love,
The Exquisite Corps