Exquisite Cadaver
The Power of the creative collective conscious - PACT4SKILL
The PACT4SKILLS POEM
Childhood cartoons, summer, ☀️ 🌊 , having fun, being on a good mood
Sea summer a joyful dance and party in the sun
Summer, freedom, dancing, hot sun, sea, colorful clothes, hot golden sand☀️⛱️🌊
Relaxing home reading books
Cheerful time joy
Kids, flowers, sun, dancing, trees
Background music from a kids video game
cruise ships, elevators
Me with my friends and family enjoying with my life⭐️
Music from a cartoon
Soundtrack of Greek movie(s) of the sixties with city scape or bar scenes
Feel like kindergarten kid waiting for the show to start
Relaxed, calm, happy ,
Summer, festival, rain drops, lollipop, ice cream
Children with Pokemon like Pikachu Walking in the forest catching Butterflies and having picnic
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Good mood, summer, childhood, sea, party🤣💖
Harmony relax having fun
You may ask: What is this poem, which poet created it, and the answer is NONE and ALL.
What you are reading is a co-creation we made in a workshop with teachers from different countries. We are not poets, but we did treat ourselves to a unique co-creation.
The Exquisite cadaver is a creative game that reveals the group unconscious, a technique of collective creation (where several artists cooperate) that was born in the literary field and then applied to the visual arts.
In this game, each participant makes their contribution without knowing what the contribution of the others is. And the sum of these individual contributions generates a work that has not been previously imagined. There is no ownership or copyright; it belongs to all.
This technique was invented by surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least as early as 1918.[1]
The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.")[1][2] André Breton writes that the game developed at the residence of friends at an old house in Montparnasse, 54 rue du Château (no longer existing). Besides himself he mentions Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert, Yves Tanguy and Benjamin Péret as original participants.[1][3]
Henry Miller often played the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s.
source wikipedia
How to play the game in a room
- You choose any music you like and play it for 2 minutes or a bit more
- Ask the participants to listen to the music, close their eyes, and feel it sense it.
- As them to write from one to 5 words or a short phrase in Capital LETTERS in a Post-it (use big size Post-it and different post-it colours)
- When the music stops, go to the wall and co-create the Poem by sticking the post-it.
- Play the music again (lower mode) and ask volunteers to read the Poem.
How to play the game on ZOOM
Step 1. We take a few minutes to relax while music is playing.
Step 2: We ask each person to write in the chat (without entering) a word or short phrase they want, the first thing that comes to their mind.
Step 3: we ask them to hit enter on the count of three and fire off their sentences, and.... voila
Everything that follows is magic, surprise and amazement.
Do you want to use images instead of music?
Here is YOUR take away
The surrealist dream of a collective, intuitive, playful and automatic poetry and art - not dominated by reason - is experienced in the magical moment when the Poem is unfolded. We can observe how this unintentionally composed Poem is presented to us with a halo of familiarity and joy, with the certainty that "we are all connected".
We suggest you do it at the beginning of the school year to show the Power of cooperation and co-creation.
If your group has different nationalities, multilingual POEM is a must because it opens the door to explore "emotions" that sometimes are locked by the use of the language.
It is not an ice-breaker.
You go beyond this. Ice-breakers do not break anything.
Here you co-create and start to generate empowerment /(anyone can contribute, no exclusion), so you deliver a result and create a sense of belonging to a creative collective.
Talking without speaking without talking : emojies
the sound of silence what is on the back of the team dis-functionalities