Q: Do you move out of the way of people in the street or do they move out of your way?
A: Purple
The ‘surrealist question game’, a close relative of Exquisite Corpse, was first played by the Paris-based Surrealists in the 1920s. It operates by divorcing the two terms of questions such as we conventionally understand them: each player writes a question on a piece of scrap paper, folds it over, swaps it for another from the common pile, and writes down an answer without having read the question. The combinations are then read aloud in a circle.
The game hinders the standard teleology of question asking (I have a goal and I angle my question or successive questions so as to get there), and makes irrelevant any attempt to give the answer a direction. Ultimately, the players ask and respond at, not to. The concept of authorship itself is removed (which often alleviates the stress of ‘making it a good one’): each couplet swaps the primacy of happenstance for that of individual volition.
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A: Purple
The ‘surrealist question game’, a close relative of Exquisite Corpse, was first played by the Paris-based Surrealists in the 1920s. It operates by divorcing the two terms of questions such as we conventionally understand them: each player writes a question on a piece of scrap paper, folds it over, swaps it for another from the common pile, and writes down an answer without having read the question. The combinations are then read aloud in a circle.
The game hinders the standard teleology of question asking (I have a goal and I angle my question or successive questions so as to get there), and makes irrelevant any attempt to give the answer a direction. Ultimately, the players ask and respond at, not to. The concept of authorship itself is removed (which often alleviates the stress of ‘making it a good one’): each couplet swaps the primacy of happenstance for that of individual volition.
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