OFFICE OF SURREALIST INVESTIGATIONS

2018

Oct 7

OFFICE OF SURREALIST INVESTIGATIONS, 135 Victoria Street

Collaborative Corpse is a series of projected exquisite corpse drawings on the windows of the Office of Surrealist Investigations. Office of Surrealist Investigations is a collaborative art studio taking the form of a film noir private investigator’s office within which participants are invited to collaborate in Surrealist activities.

For this project, multiple participants worked simultaneously to create drawings inspired by the Surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpse. Participants engaged in a visual correspondence forming a collaborative drawing that builds off of each participant’s ideas and automatic mark-making. The Office of Surrealist Investigations hosted a public drawing night where visitors contributed to live projected drawings that were projected in the windows each evening throughout the week of Luminocity.