Over the summer, unexpected dreams continued unfolding from our 2025 FEELers Summer Camp. We came together to build on and expand our musings from the week we shared and one of those outcomes is this project, which explores the connection between climate justice and community building using the Exquisite Corpse method.
The Exquisite Corpse method is an asynchronous collaborative art process inspired by surrealist techniques developed in Paris in the 1920s. The version we are using is based on a game developed by Roz Ray in 2010 (described in detail here). It works like this: Based on a common ‘seed’ or inspirational prompt, all participants create an artwork in response to it using whatever medium seems appropriate (writing, painting, photography, sculpture, baking, needlepoint, film, music, dance, or literally anything else). After a set period of time, the pieces are exchanged between participants and everyone creates another piece inspired by whatever project they received and the process repeats…
For FEELers, we also organized an Exquisite Corpse project as a pre-camp game/ networking opportunity based on the question:
How do you connect that place to this place?”
Based on this prompt, we created a series of connected zines, poetry, paintings, collages, photographs and even an game!
During FEELers, we kept circling around the topic of environmental justice. Each pod approached this in different ways and even though many of us have already been working on this topic for a long time, it felt like there was still much to say and explore. So, with this project we will attempt to dig yet a little deeper by focusing on the following questions:
- How is FEELers connected to climate justice?
- How can meeting/ gathering/ thinking through these questions of collective care/ learning and dreaming with others inform and enact our conceptions of climate justice?
- What can we glean from and expand from our personal pod learnings to share with the wider group with regards to our personal approach to climate justice?
Our seed was a facilitated conversation about climate justice during our kick-off meeting on Sept 2nd. If you’re interested in more details, check out this FEELed Note.
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