EXQUISITE CORPSE
Workshop and Exhibition in New York
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Workshop days 18, 19, 20, 21 of May 07
Exhibition 19th of May - 19th June
Space Downtown, 276 W. 25th St.,
2nd floor, NYC 10001
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Exquisite Corpse, the collective game by which words or images are
randomly assembled to create unpredictable combinations, is the basis
for Steak Zombies first U.S. show.
The installation will evolve over four days as participants in daily workshops
craft unique figures that become part of the ongoing exhibit.
Steak Zombies has invited Human Beans and Daniel Kupfer to play
in Steak Zombies world.
Together we have created installations that bring physical crafting and
digital interaction together.
The Workshops are open to public and will be held in the gallery space.
We will lead the participants into a playful collective crafting journey from
conceptual character drawingto sewing the fragmented creatures together
and giving them an identity.
The ongoing exhibition will surround the workshop that will include artifacts
from the Steak Zombies saga and interactive installations.
Experience “Steak Zombies tracer” a digital tracer will be set up for visitors
to play with a crowd of hundreds of miniature Steak Zombies.
Try your skills at the "Exquisite corpse machine" where the audience
can compose new characters out of the parts crafted in the workshops.
In the way of a fruit machine the parts scroll past at high speed.
Use your agility, imagination and luck to make the best combinations.
In our latest workshop for Tate Britain in London, Steak Zombies and
Mick from Human Beans
lead a group of 25 into crafting character puppets.
Building on this success we have involved Interaction designer Daniel Kupfer
to bring digital interaction into physical crafting.
Graduate from MA interaction design at Royal colege of Art in London,
Daniel Kupfer has created several successful interactive pieces such as
Memory mirror, a body sized interface for members of the audience to
communicate with touch and presence.
Design and artistic duo Human Beans are known for their fictional and
real products such as Power Pizza, a camouflage laptop case made
from real pizza boxes exhibited at Moma New York in 2006. More recently
they launched "What's cooking grandma", a website where you can share
your grandma's specialty recipes.
http://www.humanbeans.net
http://www.danielkupfer.com
http://www.humanbeans.net/interact
http://www.spacedowntown.com/