Cadáver Exquisito, a 2020 collective performance by Anto Lloveras and collaborators within the Socioplastics framework, reinterprets the surrealist exquisite corpse method as a museographic action in urban-relational contexts, challenging predefined authorship amid social and spatial dislocations. Staged at Espacio Cruce in Madrid on October 31, 2020, it critiques seamless cultural production by introducing emergent, unpredictable forms through shared gestures, emphasizing care, dissolution, and material tangency in an era of fragmented interactions. At its center, the project activates a sequential process: participants—Pérez Aranda, Montes, Moro, Baena, and Claudia Lloveras—contribute blindly, one releasing an object or idea, another dissecting it, another narrating its trajectory, another transporting it tenderly, another opening spatial dimensions, and another ritualizing its form. Mechanics draw from literary folding: each adds an image-idea, conceals prior contributions except connecting traces, unfolding finally into a composite "corpse" shaped by mass qualities, conversational flows, body heats, and perimetral contacts. Documentation captures these in black-and-white photos of figures amid debris or inverted bins, plus floor plans mapping the site's architecture.
