Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration
March 14–July 9, 2012
The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries, third floor
Organized by Samantha Friedman, Curatorial Assistant, with Jodi Hauptman, Curator, Department of Drawings.
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PopRally Presents: A Game of Exquisite Corpse, featuring Au Revoir Simone
"The greatest pursuit of an artist is collaboration. Especially drunken collaboration with friends."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspired by the exhibition Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, PopRally invites you to an interactive party based on the collaborative, chance-based game of Exquisite Corpse, which was embraced by artists and poets of the Surrealist circle. Enjoy drinks and music while inventing heads, bodies, and feet at drawing stations. See hilarious or monstrous figures come to life as the drawings are randomly matched up and projected live.
The three members of Brooklyn electronic pop band Au Revoir Simone will take turns DJing in the style of Exquisite Corpse; each will pick up where the other left off, creating a spontaneous musical hybrid.
Guests will also enjoy exclusive access to the Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration exhibition, where MoMA educators will be stationed throughout the gallery to guide you through the show. This exhibition brings together more than 100 works from the collection in which the body is dismembered or reassembled, swollen or multiplied, propped with prosthetics or fused with nature and the machine. Artists including André Masson, Joan Miró, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Mark Manders, and Nicola Tyson have distorted and disoriented our most familiar of referents, playing out personal, cultural, or social anxieties and desires on unwitting anatomies.
Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Admission includes tours, drawing, music, and drinks.
PopRally is supported in part by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art.
Special thanks to Sud de France Wines. Beer for this event has been provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
Steve Gianakos. She Could Hardly Wait. 1996. Oil and ink on cut-and-pasted printed paper, 27 x 27 1/2" (68.6 x 69.9 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2012 Steve Gianakos