{"id":11459,"date":"2026-01-07T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/?p=11459"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:20:58","slug":"still-utopia-broken-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/still-utopia-broken-links\/","title":{"rendered":"still utopia: broken links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jan. 14th from 6 to 8 pm: Held Line Space with Gallery MC is pleased to present still utopia: broken links<\/strong>, the second exhibition project of Still Utopia+Exquisite Corpse Collective, with 24 participating artists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Held Line Space with Gallery MC is pleased to present still utopia: broken links<\/strong>, the second exhibition project of Still Utopia+Exquisite Corpse Collective, with 24 participating artists. In times of profound miscommunication, misinformation and division, we uphold the utopian vision of gathering, recovering, recomposing, and healing the broken links that connect the loose ends of the multiple narratives produced by communities of human beings over time.  At the same time, we accept the possibility that flaws, mistakes, and misunderstandings may quietly erode and redirect original intentions, reshaping them through the very rules meant to contain them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with individual works on paper and other media, a collective Infinitive Quilt <\/em>inspired by the Surrealist game of the Cadavre Exquis<\/em>*, extends the parlor game (of which we celebrate the hundredth anniversary) to an open-ended, multi-directional and polyphonic tapestry of shared imagination. Each drawing adds to a living archive, where images flow, intersect, and evolve beyond traditional boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Collective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still Utopia + The Exquisite Corpse Collective<\/strong> is a consortium of artists** dedicated to curating and organizing collaborative exhibitions inspired by the Surrealist game of the Exquisite Corpse\/Cadavre Exquis. <\/em>Our exhibitions evolve and shift over time, creating alternative models for collaborative art that push the boundaries of drawing. By reaching out to artists and venues globally, we emphasize the beauty of connectivity and direct artistic interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participating Artists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aga Ousseinov  \u2022  Jean Weissglass  \u2022  Michel Kanter  \u2022  Predrag Dimitrijevic  \u2022  David Dixon  \u2022  Gorazd Poposki  \u2022  Gwenael Kerlidou  \u2022 Tomas Vu  \u2022  Brian Novatny  \u2022  Noah Loesberg  \u2022  Deanna Lee  \u2022  Tricia Keightley  \u2022  Daniel Davidson  \u2022  Jennifer Nuss  \u2022  Nils Karsten  \u2022  Steve DeFrank  \u2022  Malte Saenger  \u2022  Derick Melander  \u2022  Ray Oglesby \u2022  Simonetta Moro  \u2022  Rebecca Hackemann  \u2022  Brian Miller  \u2022  Yohanna M. Roa  \u2022  Alice Garik  \u2022  Heide Fasnacht<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Definition of Exquisite Corpse (From the Tate Gallery website):<\/em>Cadavre exquis<\/em> (exquisite corpse) is a collaborative drawing approach first used by surrealist artists to create bizarre and intuitive drawings. Cadavre exquis<\/em> is similar to the old parlour game consequences <\/em>\u2013 in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold to conceal what they have written, and pass it on to the next player \u2013 but adapted so that parts of the body are drawn instead. It was invented in 1925 in Paris by the surrealists Yves Tanguy, Jacques Pr\u00e9vert, Andr\u00e9 Breton and Marcel Duchamp. The name \u2018cadavre exquis\u2019 was derived from a phrase that resulted when they first played the game, \u2018le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau\u2019<\/em> (\u2018the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Still Utopia<\/em> was founded in 2018 by Simonetta Moro and Aga Ousseinov; The Exquisite Corpse Collective<\/em> includes the above, plus Brian Novatny (DRAW) and Nils Karsten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jan. 14th from 6 to 8 pm: Held Line Space with Gallery MC is pleased to present still utopia: broken links, the second exhibition project of Still Utopia+Exquisite Corpse Collective, with 24 participating artists Held Line Space with Gallery MC is pleased to present still utopia: broken links, the second exhibition project of Still Utopia+Exquisite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}