Exquisite Corpses Intervention Day at Staffordshire University 2017

Every now then then at the Staffordshire University Animation department we have an Intervention Day; a chance to down tools, put current projects aside and revitalize everyone's creative juices. This time around we went for four different workshops, running simultaneously throughout the day with a rotation of students from all levels, based on the theme of  'Exquisite Corpses'...

Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis), is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.  

Wikipedia definition (God-of-academics forgive me).

Workshops included large scale painting and drawing, large scale puppet making, paper collage and mine; digital collage using Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop and 5 Gigabytes of images from old books, engravings and manuscripts.

And yes...we dressed up!

For me the students all created Top, Middle or Bottom body parts and they were assembled afterwards.


It was an excellent day and the results are below..