Cadavre Exquis
A collective photo project
Temporäre Galerie über dem Café Nest
organised by: ParisBerlin>fotogroup
Emmanuel Honold: cave canem / Cadavre Exquis 4 / 06-05-09
2009 © Emmanuel Honold
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Cadavre Exquis [Exquisite Cadaver] is a kind of collective game which the Surrealists developed in the 1920s. The first player wrote something down spontaneously on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it on. The next player, not seeing what had already been written, added a further spontaneous contribution, and so on.
This same principle was adopted by the ParisBerlin>fotogroup in 2009 for a project of its own. A member of the group would receive a photo, being given a week in which to provide a photographic response. The point of reference could be the subject matter, the form, the theme, the colour or anything else. The response photo would be sent to a central address, and forwarded by the organisers to the next photographer in the chain. The sequence of photographers had been determined in advance by drawing lots. A total of 47 photographers, the majority based in Berlin and Paris, took part in the project. The exhibition Cadavre Exquis shows the results.
Theme
Visiting & co-opted institutions
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Artist(s)
Manuela Böhme, Laurent Moynat, Cécile Rogue, Sebastian Rosenberg, Sandra Schmalz u.a.
Curator(s)
Christel Boget und Elfi Rückert
Duration of the exhibition
20.10. - 14.11.2010
Vernissage
20.10.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Mo-So 10-24 h
Location
Temporäre Galerie über dem Café Nest
Görlitzer Straße 52
10997 Berlin
T 0049 30 62735787
Public transport connections
U1 Schlesisches Tor
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