The Exquisite Corpse
Over 200 important contemporary artists have come together to create collaborative drawings based on the 1920's surrealist parlor game "cadavre exquise". The project is meant to celebrate the theme of chance encounters, surprise and radical juxtaposition.
Each drawing is a combination of the work of three or four artists; one for the head and shoulders, one or two for the torso, and one for the legs and feet. Artists add to the composition without seeing the contribution of the previous person.
The 16x30 inch drawings were created to benefit Armitage Gone! Dance. The project also highlights the “performative” aspect of art making by demonstrating that drawing, performance art, and dance all have in common spontaneity and an unpredictable nature.
The project was curated by David Salle, artist and Chairman of the Board of the Armitage Foundation and Project Manager Tanja Grunert of Gasser-Grunert Gallery.
Artist List
| 1. Vito Acconci 2. John Ahearn 3. Eija-Liisa Ahtila 4. Ellen Altfest 5. D-L Alvarez 6. Jose Alvarez 7. Ghada Amer 8. Laurie Anderson 9. Polly Apfelbaum 10. Knut Asdam 11. Donald Baechler 12. Kristin Baker 13. John Baldessari 14. Shigeru Ban 15. Amy Cohen Banker 16. Robert Barry 17. Jennifer Bartlett 18. Erica Baum 19. Ellen Berkenblit 20. Michael Bevilacqua 21. Ashley Bickerton 22. Nayland Blake 23. Ross Bleckner 24. Daniel Blochwitz 25. Louise Bourgeois 26. Joe Bradley 27. Ethan Breckenridge 28. Olaf Breuning 29. Beth Brideau 30. Delia Brown 31. Cecily Brown 32. Robert Buck 33. Tom Burr 34. Richard Butler 35. Nicolas Byrne 36. Ellen Carey 37. Matthew Cerletty 38. Sarah Charlesworth 39. Sandro Chia 40. Anne Chu 41. Francesco Clemente 42. Benjamin Cottam 43. Will Cotton 44. Renee Cox 45. Grayson Cox 46. Jessica Craig-Martin 47. Michael Craig-Martin 48. Russell Crotty 49. Adam Cvijanovic 50. Gerald Davis 51. Verne Dawson 52. Jules de Balincourt 53. Francesca di Matteo 54. Rodney Dickson 55. Chris Dorland 56. Carroll Dunham 57. Richard Dupont 58. Jimmie Durham 59. Dzine 60. William Earl Kofmehl 61. Tracey Emin 62. VALIE EXPORT 63. Reza Farkhondeh 64. Mounir Fatmi 65. Eric Fischl 66. Louise Fishman 67. Jonathan Safran Foer |
68. Alison Fox 69. Adam Fuss 70. Maureen Gallace 71. Martha Gallo 72. Vidya Gastaldon 73. John Gauld 74. Rashell George 75. Steve Gianakos 76. Ralph Gibson 77. Liam Gillick 78. Robert Gober 79. Ron Gorchov 80. Douglas Gordon 81. April Gornik 82. Andrew Guenther 83. Ann Hamilton 84. Hilary Harkness 85. Claire Harvey 86. Mona Hatoum 87. Mary Heilmann 88. Dana Hoey 89. Katie Holten 90. Judy Hudson 91. David Humphrey 92. Elliot Hundley 93. Bryan Hunt 94. Bill Jensen 95. Chantal Joffe 96. Jasper Johns 97. Joan Jonas 98. Brad Kahlhamer 99. Anton Kannemeyer 100. Jane Kaplowitz 101. Alex Katz 102. William Kentridge 103. Karen Kilimnik 104. Terence Koh 105. Douglas Kolk 106. Juul Kraijer 107. Jonathan Lasker 108. Cary Leibowitz 109. Matvey Levenstein 110. David Levinthal 111. Hanna Liden 112. Glenn Ligon 113. Jonas Lipps 114. Damien Loeb 115. Whitfield Lovell 116. Nate Lowman 117. Carrie Mae Weems 118. Mary Jane Marcasiano 119. Kerry James Marshall 120. Kris Martin 121. Nick Mauss 122. Paul McCarthy 123. Adam McEwen 124. Ryan McGinness 125. Roy McMakin 126. Patrick McMullan 127. Amanda Means 128. Josephine Meckseper 129. Richard Meier 130. Sam Messer 131. Wes Mills 132. Marilyn Minter 133. Yasumasa Morimura 134. Malcolm Morley |
135. Olivier Mosset 136. Irina Movmyga 137. Martin Mull 138. Matt Mullican 139. John Newsom 140. Camille Norment 141. Marcel Odenbach 142. Ioanna Olivera 143. Lisa Oppenheim 144. Tom Otterness 145. Tony Oursler 146. Jorge Pardo 147. Philip Pearlstein 148. Enoc Perez 149. Manfred Pernice 150. Ellen Phelen 151. Richard Phillips 152. Chloe Piene 153. Tiffany Pollack 154. Rob Pruitt 155. Mark Quinn 156. Shan Raoufi 157. Anselm Reyle 158. Alexis Rockman 159. Rosenblum/Muntean 160. Clifford Ross 161. Allen Ruppersberg 162. George Rush 163. Serra Sabuncuoglu 164. Tom Sachs 165. David Salle 166. Collier Schorr 167. Dana Schutz 168. Sean Scully 169. Richard Serra 170. Andres Serrano 171. Joel Shapiro 172. Dasha Shishkin 173. Lorna Simpson 174. Petra Singh 175. Alec Soth 176. Haim Steinbach 177. Pat Steir 178. Jessica Stockholder 179. Eva Struble 180. Billy Sullivan 181. Donald Sultan 182. Ena Swansea 183. Rosemarie Trockel 184. Diane Tuft 185. Frederic Tuten 186. Rezi van Lankveld 187. Michael van Ofen 188. Charline von Heyl 189. Rebecca Warren 190. William Wegman 191. Lawrence Weiner 192. Matthew Weinstein 193. Garth Weiser 194. Tommy White 195. Robert Wilson 196. Terry Winters 197. Lucy Winton 198. Joel-Peter Witkin 199. Ofer Wolberger 200. Lisa Yuskavitch 201. Peter Zimmermann |
