The Exquisite Corpse
Six groups of young artists, three in Wales and three in Brazil, will each create one “part” of a body performance with just a clue from the group before them. The artists won’t know exactly what the other groups have created until they all come together to watch the final creation.

By artists across Brazil and Wales
Together, six groups of artists, three in Wales and three in Brazil, including Indigenous people from the Xingu territory and poets from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, created one “part” of a body performance. In “exquisite corpse” fashion, before any of these groups began their creation process, they had just a clue from the group before them, and nothing else! The artists didn’t know exactly what the other groups have created, that is until they all came together to watch the final product.
The exquisite corpse baton was forged in an online meeting between all the artists. They met collectively for the first time and got to know one another. They shared how they felt within their contexts, the contexts of their communities and territories, and their global contexts. They discovered what connects them, what divides them, as well as what feels urgent and meaningful to them right now.
Taking on the themes of this meeting, our exquisite corpse baton then embarked on a journey; starting with the Wauja (living in the Xingu Indigenous territory in the Amazon south basin), who recorded five minutes of material. Of this material, the Wauja artists hand-picked only five photos and five words to pass on to the next group in Wrexham, Wales, the rest of the footage was kept to themselves. The Wrexham artists then creatively responded to these photos and words, recording five minutes of material of their own. From Wrexham, the same process carried on, passing on the baton to the Complexo da Maré, the largest complex of favelas in Rio, to the Rhondda, to the Minas Gerais, mining state in Brazil, to its final stretch back in Wales- Caernarfon.
The baton was then handed over to our digital dramaturg, Jorge Lizalde, who weaved all the content from every location into one piece of digital performance, creating a story about how we live together, how we could or should live together.