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The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. 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, until everyone’s vision is threaded together into an instigating final “corpse”. Each individual artist interrogates, via different means, a number of genres, tendencies and strategies. The ECVP was initiated in 2008 by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela and it has had 6 volumes released. The project has had the participation of over 100 artists from more than 25 countries.

The project has been already shown in galleries, museums, cinemas and alternative spaces of Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and US. Some of the main spaces that have exhibited the ECVP include the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Central Gallery in São Paulo, Open Contemporary Art Center in Taiwan, Galerie Carla Magna in Paris, Monkeytown in New York, Visual Arts Network in Cape Town, Artists Television Access in San Francisco and Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand.

"The pulsing energy of this self-organized operation was refreshing, as freed by the plurality of possibilities set in motion through collaboration, each member manages to exit a framed identity and successfully positions the work in a continual process of becoming rather than being. Together, the ECVP members envisage and successfully comment upon a further possibility of art making".

Claudia Corrieri, excerpt, Artreview magazine (London, 2010)