A New Kind of Guardian
Carrying on from my last post – I started looking at collaborative ways of making artworks that relate to Derby's public spaces. After scouring the web for inspo and coming up with nothing, I remembered a childhood game called Consequences. You might’ve played it with your nan.
The aim of this game is to assemble a sentence together. It’s usually done on paper, with each player completing and then folding over their section to hide it from the next. This means you’re only allowed to see the last word written down. It's a kind of older, more PG version of Cards Against Humanity. There’s also a set of rules to stop it from being completely wild. For example, one set of rules could be:
The-adjective-noun-adverb-verb-the-adjective-noun.
AKA
The-anxious-artist-swiftly-scribbled-the-dreadful-doodle.
Although created way back when, as a parlor game for posh Europeans - it also just happens that this game is closely tied to The Surrealists™. An artistic movement I referenced last week, which gives me at least ten art points. Their method wasn’t called Consequences, it held a more morbid name - The Exquisite Corpse. This edgier version doesn't focus solely on words like Consequences does – but images too.
Following a similar set of rules, players would draw a different section of the image. Often times this assemblage ends up being some kind of figurative work, with somebody responsible for the limbs, head, torso etc. A kind of Frankenstein’s monster.
This led me to think about monsters and hybrids - particularly
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