The second volume of the Exquisite Corpse Video Project will have it's first screening in Berlin on November 19th, 8p.m. at Kulturpalast Wedding International.

The project members Stina Pehrsdotter, Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Wai Kit Lam (China), Kim Dotty Hachmann and Matthias Roth (Germany) will be in attendance.

WHAT?
The ECVP [Exquisite Corpse Video Project] is a video collaboration collaboration project inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the "Exquisite Corpse". The project is coordinated by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela and currently has 63 participating artists from 21 different countries.
The ECVP vol. 2 was made during 2009, with the participation of 56 artists. Together, these artists made about 110 minutes of experimental video, divided in 12 chapters.

HOW?
In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure.
Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please, until
everyone's vision is threaded together into an instigating final "corpse."
While the Surrealists are said to have created the method almost a century ago, only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced. The inspiring process of exchange between artists from around the world illuminates the possibilities and potentials of a globalized, collective creativity.

WHERE?
ECVP Screenings and exhibitions have been taking place in various countries since June 2008, such as Sweden, USA, Greece, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.