Exquisite Cadaver Project (2020-21)

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Rachel Norman

A poster on the Wilko Community Board in Swansesa City Center, depicting a collage based on the movie 'The Grudge'. The work was made by Rachel Norman, Zoë Mills, Lucy Woodrow and Adam Charlton. It uses both digital and physical forms of collaborations. Photo credit: Rachel Norman.

A poster on the Wilko Community Board in Swansesa City Center, depicting a collage based on the movie 'The Grudge'. The work was made by Rachel Norman, Zoë Mills, Lucy Woodrow and Adam Charlton. It uses both digital and physical forms of collaborations. Photo credit: Rachel Norman.

 

Encouraging artists to question and develop their practices through collaboration.

It began as a way to create a sense of community after returning to studios after the first lockdown, while great to back it felt awkward trying to navigate working amongst other people again. This lead to us experimenting with the surrealist parlour game 'The Exquisite Cadaver' to encourage collaboration without the pressure of it conforming to a practice.

This then led to us using the work made to become small zines that we could keep as a record of our experimentation. We then went on to create posters that referenced famous horror films and we placed them in various public spaces where art isn't necessarily expected to be seen.

We have recieved positive feedback from artists and individuals that have participated in the creation of our zines. The Mission Gallery in Swansea sold our most current zine called 'Good Laugh'.

To read the zine, ‘Post Internet Aggravation’, scroll through the PDF below:

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Rachel Norman

Rachel Norman is a multi-discipline Welsh artist who enjoys working with a variety of mediums from photography, performance and installation.

Their practice explores notions surrounding recontextualising and restructuring spaces, display mechanisms and how the audience responds to art. With the focus upon the process, rather than the result, it means that there is not much planning of outcomes but framing each stage as important in their own right.

https://www.rachelnormanartist.com

ProjectContributorZine, Collage, collaboration, Experiment