Modern Examples
William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin were hugely influenced by Surrealism, mostly when referring to the cut-up technique, whose principles dialogue with the Cadavre Exquis play invented by the Surrealists.
Marseille Blues – cadavre exquiszophrenic with 50 characters + a zucchini gratin recipe (from the French edition Marseille Blues – cadavre exquiszophrène avec 50 personnages + une recette de gratin de courgettes), by Henrik Aeshna – hallucinating collage poetry and polemical play – 2011, Tsunami Books, Paris, ISBN 979-10-90471-00-9
The Exquisite Corpse Project, a 2012 feature-length comedy written using the exquisite corpse technique.
The Electronic Corpse: A Storytelling Experiment took place from September 24–27, 2012 as part of Social Media Week, with the participation of writers and editors Ankur Thakkar, Sara Levine, Kyle Beachy, Rachel Fershleiser, Roxane Gay, Laura Hadden, and Patrick Somerville.
Gridcosm, HyGrid, Yono, and ChainedStory are four projects on the long-running SITO website that extend the concepts of exquisite corpse into global-scale on-going collaborative artworks.
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