When Charlotte Slipped
When Charlotte Slipped is an on-going collaborative reverse world-building exercise. The objective of the exercise is to understand how our perception of the current world has implications for the future.
As a mural of multiple impressions, it is a gathering of thoughts. It mimics our role in sculpting the future. Some of us may feel confined by rules and structures that seem to govern the future, and let slip the creativity of the human who will live through it.
This project takes inspiration from the traditional Cadavre Exquis drawings, where Surrealist artists subjected cadavres to distortions born of their subconscious. The resulting composite figures were fantastic in their ability to disorient the most familiar, and revealed personal, cultural, and social perturbation and yearnings on unsuspecting bodies.
This project takes inspiration from the traditional Cadavre Exquis drawings, where Surrealist artists subjected cadavres to distortions born of their subconscious. The resulting composite figures were fantastic in their ability to disorient the most familiar, and revealed personal, cultural, and social perturbation and yearnings on unsuspecting bodies.
Example of a traditional Exquisite Corpse, 1926-27 - Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise. The Museum of Modern Art, New York."We were at once recipients of and contributors to the joy of witnessing the sudden appearance of creatures none of us had foreseen, but which we ourselves had nonetheless created.”
- Surrealist poet Simone Kahn
When Charlotte Slipped is not only a collective vision, but a creative one - a product of individual aspirations, inclinations, anxieties, and curiosities for the future. It is a melange of scaleless moments contributed by participants, unadulterated readings one may have towards our future society, environment, and technologies.
Our individual attitude towards aspects such as climate change, artificial intelligence and our built environment will undoubtedly influence the decisions we make today, and will have lasting impact on our collective future. The final piece, “Oct 21 2050 9:32 AM: When Charlotte Slipped” is an idea of a collective future, one that we are unconsciously/consciously working towards.
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