Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren is an associate professor of performance studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, and author of Hearing Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theater. Davis Schneiderman is chair of the American Studies Program and an associate professor of English at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Multifesto: A Henri d'Mescan Reader. Tom Denlinger is an adjunct professor in the Department of Art Media and Design at DePaul University in Chicago and the author of Territorial by Design. Contributors: Tom Denlinger, Don Dingledine, Ray Ellenwood, Elizabeth Finch, Ken Friedman, Oliver Harris, Allen Hibbard, Kimberly Jannarone, Michael Joyce, Anne M. Kern, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Susan Laxton, Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky, Craig Saper, Ingrid Schaffner, and Davis Schneiderman.

"This corpse is very living—and here, explored from many vantage points, performative, theoretical, art historical, and experiential. The variety of writing is as wide-ranging as the topic in all its excitement of exchange."—Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York and author of Manifesto: A Century of Isms

• List of Illustrations   Acknowledgments   Foreword: Totems without Taboos: The Exquisite Corpse Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky Acknowledgments   Introduction: The Algorhythms of the Exquisite Corpse Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger Part One: The Ludic1. From One Exquisite Corpse (in)to Another: Influences and Transformations from Early to Late Surrealist Games   Anne M. Kern2. "This is Not a Drawing"    Susan Laxton3. Events and the Exquisite Corpse  Ken Friedman4. Cutting Up the Corpse      Oliver Harris Part Two: Artistic Collectivity and Literary Creation5. The Corpse Encore/Apres Exquis   Ingrid Schaffner (with a contribution by Elizabeth Finch)6. The Exquisite Corpse Is Alive and Well and Living in Montréal  Ray Ellenwood7. An Anatomy of Alfred Chester's Exquisite Corpse    Allen Hibbard8. "together in their dis-harmony": Internet Collaboration and Le Cadavre Exquis    Michael Joyce Part Three: Academia9. Academia's Exquisite Corpse: An Ethnography of the Application Process     Craig Saper10. Dead Men Don't Wear Pixels: The Online Exquisite Corpse and Process-based Institutional Critique    Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denlinger Part Four: Recomposing the Body11. Exquisite Theater   Kimberly Jannarone12. Howling: The Exquisite Corpse, Butoh, and the Disarticulation of Trauma   Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren13. "You Make Such an Exquisite Corpse": Surrealist Collaboration and the Transcendence of Gender in Hedwig and the Angry Inch Don Dingledine Works Cited Contributors      Index