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Collaborative Drawing
Collective Tale

1. Envision the year 2050 (Click here to read the backstory)

 

2. Think of different scales, interactions, and experiences. Start by thinking small. Think of a moment you experienced today. How would that moment be different in the year 2050.

 

3. Look at your tile. How will your tile connect to the other surrounding tiles? You tile may have 1 to 4 existing borders from other participants. Connect your story to theirs. If there are empty borders, let your drawing run off the side.

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4. Submit your tile along with an optional backstory to explain your world in 2050.

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Traditional Exquisite Corpse vs Xquis 2050

How it works?

In the traditional Exquisite Corpse, the drawing assumes a continuation of a body/creature.

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In our version, the Exquisite Tale, everyone contributes to an untold story by adding one tile to a grid of tiles. Each tile will physically connect to 4 adjacent tiles created from people in different disciplines, with different outlooks, interests, desires, fears, etc.

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All submitted tiles (30cm x 30cm) will be, added to the 3m x9m mural currently in progress.

What is
Exquisite Corpse?

You may have played this game a long time ago, in the traditional Exquisite Corpse, the drawing assumes a continuation of a body/creature.  Where the first person contributes a "head", the second person contributes a "torso, etc. Unlike the traditional game of Exquisite Corpse, which assumes a continuation of a body in one direction, When Charlotte Slipped asks everyone to contribute to a multi-directional story by adding one tile. The tile can be an illustration, collage, photo, or any creative output that represents snapshot in the year 2050. 

 

The collection of submissions will tell stories of 2050. The unrehearsed nature of the collective tale will encompass the desires and fears of both exciting and mundane imagined moments the future. The final artwork is a strange and magical story left for interpretation.

Example of a traditional Exquisite Corpse, 1926-27 - Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max

Example of a traditional Exquisite Corpse, 1926-27 - Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 

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Speculations

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  • How do humans interact with one another? Do we have pets? Who/What else do we interact with? What is our relationship with robots?

  • How do we experience technology? How do we experience love?

  • What types of technology exist for us to live in the future? Do we embrace it? Are we rebellious?

  • Is everyday life the same or different in the year 2050? What is our morning routine? How do we move/ move around?

  • Do we still need to eat? If we do, what do we eat? How do we get it?

  • How do we make decisions? 

  • Do we still care about physical surroundings? What is our relationship with the outdoors/nature?

  • What emotions do you feel? Are you content? Frustrated? Optimistic?

  • Is Tinder still a thing?

  • How does technology affect earth sciences and how you experience museums?

  • Do we have new types of pets?

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See how others envision 2050

What is your 2050?

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When Charlotte Slipped is a collaborative reverse world-building exercise - a method of collecting impressions, this mural considers how the collaborative nature of this exercise mimics our role in sculpting the future. The work shows that the future is not only a collective vision, but a creative one- a product of individual aspirations, inclinations, anxieties, and curiosities towards our society, the environment, future technology, and etc. It forces us to confront the decisions we make today and the implications it has for our collective future. When Charlotte Slipped is created by Allen Sayegh and Isa He, and organized by INVIVIA.

Curator:

Isa He

© 2023 by INVIVIA

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