ECVP Vol.5 – CRISIS & UTOPIA

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member’s work; the videos are then threaded together into an instigating final “corpse”. The ECVP was initiated in 2008 by the Brazilian artist and independent curator Kika Nicolela and it has had 5 volumes released, while a 6th volume is being produced in 2018.

The video presented at ADAF is the volume 5 of the ECVP, entitled Crisis & Utopia. This was the thematic frame of this volume, approached by the collaborating artists in various ways. The video was produced during the year of 2016, a year that presented many political and social challenges and distress in different parts of the globe; echoes of that can be felt throughout the work.

Participating artists:
Alexandra Gelis (Colombia/Canada), Alysse Stepanian (US), Anders Weberg (Sweden), Anthony Siarkiewicz (US/Germany), Clemence Demesme (France), Dellani Lima (Brazil), Fernando Velazquez (Brazil), Gabriel Soucheyre (France), Gérard Chauvin (France), Guillermina Buzio (Argentina/Canada), John Sanborn (US), Jorge Lozano (Colombia/Canada), Kai Lossgott (South Africa), Kika Nicolela (Brazil/Belgium), Kim Dotty Hachmann (Germany), Krefer (Brazil), Laura Colmenares Guerra (Colombia/Belgium), Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil), Natalia de Mello (Portugal/Belgium), Nia Pushkarova (Bulgaria), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Nung-Hsin Hu (Taiwan), Per E Riksson (Sweden), Pila Rusjan (Slovenia), Renata Padovan (Brazil), Sigrid Coggins (France), Simone Stoll (Germany), Sojin Chun (Canada), Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), Ulysses Castellanos (El Salvador/Canada), Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong)