Microscope is very pleased to present the premiere of The Exquisite Moving Corpse, a 65-minutes collective video made by 60 international artists during the pandemic between 2020 and 2022.

Assembled through a cadavre exquis method in which the first frame of a video visually links to the last frame of the preceding one, the project was conceived and initiated by Chip Lord, Jack Massing and Sean Miller. The event is organized by Liz Flyntz.

From Liz Flyntz:

“In planning The Exquisite Moving Corpse decisions were made to alter the methodology from a drawing strategy and apply it to video, specifically each invited artist would make a one-minute video based on the last frame of the previous minute.

The three originators would begin and curate the moving corpse (inviting 19 other artists each). Sixty artists in sixty minutes. Some artists produced their one minute of footage within hours whereas others took weeks to complete their minute. All the work, play, sharing, and caretaking resulted in Exquisite Moving Corpse, 2022. These two years of collective efforts provided a chance open-source project and an isolated yet connected creative act generated by an interconnected group of international artists.

Lord, Massing, and Miller made the first three minutes and then handed it off to an evolving list of artists whom they invited – a jump into the unknown!”

The full list of participating artists in order of appearance in The Exquisite Moving Corpse is: 1. Chip Lord, 2. Jack Massing, 3. Sean Miller, 4. Chiaozza, 5. Phillip Pyle II, 6. Kara Hearn, 7. Sergio Vega, 8. Ken Friedman, 9. Bill Wegman, 10. Bryan Konefsky, 11. Albert Chong, 12. Robert Hodge, 13. Chris Sollars, 14. Mary Mattingly, 15. Natali Leduc, 16. Gustavo Vazquez, 17. Tea Mäkipää, 18. Mel Chin, 19. Sarah Aziz, 20. Hasan Elahi, 21. Hillerbrand+Magsamen, 22. Leyla & Mike Mandel, 23.Kristin Lucas, 24. Ali and Aoife, 25. Shane Mecklenburger, 26. Oliver Herring, 27. Bibbe Hansen, 28. Fereshteh Toosi, 29. Craig Smith, 30A. Tom Marioni, 30B. Severn Eaton, 31. Pinar Yoldas, 32. Adebukola Bodunrin, 33. James Benning, 34. Chris Beaver, 35. Connie Hwang, 36. Chris Felver, 37. Theadora Walsh, 38. Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witeck, 39. Jason Simon, 40. Isabelle Carbonell, 41. Aisling O’Beirn, 42. Mark Seliger, 43. Elia Vargas, 44. Leah Floyd + Cristina Molina, 45. José Hernández Sánchez, 46. John Sanborn, 47. Dana Sherwood, 48. Hank Schyma, 49. Emiko Omori, 50. Mark Dion, 51. Jack Thompson, 52. Bart Weiss, 53. Rachel Mayeri, 54. Nina Katchadourian, 55. Larry Andrews, 56. Emmanuel Manu Opoku, 57. Tony Oursler, 58. Tony Labat, 59. Alyssa Taylor Wendt, 60. Muntadas

Artists Oliver Herring, Chip Lord, Jack Massing, Sean Miller, and Mark Seliger will be in attendance and take part in the Q&A with the audience that follows the screening.