exquisite corpse evolved from an old parlor game in which one of any number of people playing would write a sentence fragment on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution. The Surrealists applied this idea of blind collaboration to images in the 1920s, drawing unpredictable collective works. The name came from one early result, "The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine."

Since the summer of 2006, we have been creating our own blind-love twists on this tradition: We do a male/female couple, switching who starts with what gender each time, combining text and image to depict something relevant to our most recent experiences together. We use two pieces of paper divided into three sections and passed back and forth, so that whoever did the "head" and "feet" on one will have done the middle on the other. After exhibiting our own pairs at Stain [www.stainbar.com] in Fall 2006, we decided to invite other creative couples (not exclusively visual artists) to submit works for a group show that would open on Valentine's Day 2007 at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, New York. Due to its success, we're making this a yearly tradition; and ultimately we envision a book showcasing selected works arising from this project.

Now it's time for the second annual "SUCKERS AND BITERS: Love, Lollipops and the Exquisite Corpse" at Chashama [www.chashama.org] at 169 Avenue C, in the East Village, Manhattan, opening February 14, 2008. To see how to make Suckers and Biters, peruse our image gallery, learn more about us, and for submission guidelines please click on the links below.

Submission Deadline: art received by January 25th, 2008