Directions: Played in the usual blind folding manner, with one exception. Each player must first pull a tarot card, or choose a chance sentence from a book, and then draw their panel as an intuitive response to this card or sentence. Players: AK, SC, HC, AM, RC
Directions: Each player is one part in a huge machine, and decide silently what noise their own particular machine part makes. When everyone is ready, all begin making their noise at the same time. Afterwards, discuss collectively what shape, function, and origin this machine might have. Once the discussion has ended, draw your idea of the machine’s form.
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• Large and round, lots of long arms and things that reach out
• Steam Powered
• Hydraulic processes that occur sometimes, but not always
• Some kind of snipping action
• Small round orbs come out and spin fast, like a weather vane
• Trudging along on long legs
• Is a mechanical animal moves through environment and interacts with things, processes things
• Autonomous machine running under its own will
• Gigantic robotic bug with pincers
• Takes things from environment and presses them into golden bricks, makes the famous yellow brick road behind it.
• Antagonistic to surroundings, imposing its order onto the world
• Attitude of “Just doing a thing”
• Turns life into something pretty, as opposed to truly beautiful
• Giant flea?
ORIGIN
• It seemed like a good idea at the time
• Crawling out of the center of the sun
• Organism began acquiring sticks and rocks and adding to itself, making metal parts and attaching them.
• Worked for so long that it evolved away its intelligence and fused with machine, became mindless
• Has mind but all that’s left for it to think is “I’m doing a good job!”
• Hyper focused
• Too efficient
• Programmed itself in response to an initial impulse
Players: HC, SC, AK, AM, RC
04/28/2022 Dream: I had a dream of a new surrealist game we were playing in Atlanta last night. Small squares were cut out of colored construction paper (bright reds, blues, yellows) and at the center of each color square a chance word or image was also attached. I think we were supposed to write a poem or something that was a synthesis of the feel of the color, and the essence of the word or image? Though the details are somewhat vague now. – SC
03/18/2022 Dream: Someone new had shown up to our Atlanta Wednesday meetings, and had the idea for us to all do improvised noise while also playing Dixie Chicks CDs at high volume. Everyone was like, are you sure…? Also, someone had ordered subs for the group, but the bread was old and soggy. So yeah, everyone was just sitting around the circle, holding soggy subs, looking somewhat perplexed. – SC
Players: Aaron Dylan Kearns, James Robert Foster, Hazel Cline, and Steven Cline
Players: ADK, JF, SC, HC
Featuring: Steven Cline, Hazel Cline, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Juli Maria Kearns, Megan Leach, Steve Morrison
Egregore soundscape: Hazel Cline, Martin Kearns
Egregorrhea #6 – Surrealist Egregores, Or, How To Take A Collect Call Collectively
written by Jason Abdelhadi and narrated by Juli Maria Kearns
Film, editing, original background music: Aaron Dylan Kearns
A common cartoon trope—that hallway of infinite doors. And behind each door, anything can be waiting. Anything at all…In our game version of this, we collectively visualized this space, and then took turns narrating what we each saw on opening a door there, taking care not to have any preconceived ideas about what we would see before opening it. Players: SC, HC
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“In a well-known game children are invited to examine a picture and find elements in it that are somehow “wrong”: A person standing in midair; a dog reading a book, etc. In our surrealist version of the game, first played on July 1988 in Chicago, each player identifies the “wrong”, or anomalous elements in a ordinary, mass-circulation picture.”
Players: SC, HC, BL, AM, AK, L
– The frogs mouth has opened too wide.
– One thousand moths are pupating inside the rock’s lumps.
– Chocolate ice cream hard, crack.
– The rock face going thru puberty. It’s a confusing time.
– What the hell! That’s some really old milk!
– The carbuncles are frozen.
– The robed couple has been transported back in time and are being photographed because of their unusual garb.
– Shame, for shame, shame, shameful.
– If we don’t look, the paparazzi will let us be.
– I find it strange how that man is using two hands to hold his beverage to his mouth, yet he refuses to share with the dancing couple.
– Why is Jack Nicholson, circa the Shining, staring at me?
– How strange! That dog is not drinking beer, even though it is winter. :O
– The can is empty, but the hollow is bared.
– His hair replanted itself on his dog.
– He is drinking dog pee, unfortunately.
– My house has been taken by beard man.
– Blank space in place of nothing.
– The cult members awaiting the arrival of the sacrificial melon.
– The man on the right (named Balonius) does not have a wife in this forest. C’est bizarre!
– The offering remains unswallowed.
– The heads are barely attached.
– It is a funeral for a hairball.
– They are inside a dinosaur egg, yet they are happy.
– The pores are extended to the extreme and the chicks have nothing to eat.
– Their laughter makes no sound.
– The walls of the cave are not stone. They are soft.
– More cheese rocks are sickening. Too many holes.
– The amnion is missing and the twins fall from the womb.
– There are two bodies, but only one soul.
– Those people don’t know why they’re being photographed.
– Too high up. Cheese rocks.
– The web of rock suds are threatening to swallow up the 80’s.
– How strange that they aren’t looking at the web of rock.
(Players: SC, HC, BS, BL, MB)
(in this variation, we folded over as usual, but also set an overall theme beforehand for each comic)
Directions: Each player in turn draws onto the same sheet of paper with their eyes shut. The players are permitted to see what the others have drawn as the paper is passed around, but must keep their eyes closed when it is their turn to draw. The paper is circulated until all the players agree that the drawing is finished. Each player then gives an interpretation of the image. In this variation on the game, we each wrote one sentence of a haiku structure describing the drawing, folded over to hide our line, and passed on until all 3 lines had been completed. (Players: SC, HC, BS, BL, MB)
Silly Potato
Palm runner defies the sun
Grump-boy floats up up
Yellow brick road opens
Stinky baby on the go
Come on home my dood
Pastry you love me
Existential Bakery
And his labors end
Frog decides the doom
Frog king snorts a trail of thorn
Ants, ants, ants, a feast!
Violence in space
Surfer boy & Miracle
The sun got gets mad
