Consequences was a group exhibition organized by Jay Heikes at Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, bringing together a circle of artists through a series of collaborative exchanges, constraints, and shared histories. Conceived in relation to the Surrealist game Consequences, the exhibition explored how authorship and individual working processes might be disrupted through chance, friendship, and collaboration. The exhibition included Frog Prints, collaborative works by Jay Heikes and Michael Stickrod that grew out of a project begun in Denmark in 2009 using the footprints of a frog across pages from books of fairy tales.
Collaborative work made at Cooper Union, New York. One of two spray-based Frog Prints produced by Heikes and Stickrod and later included in Consequences. Photo: Giorgio Benni.
Collaborative work made at Cooper Union, New York. The second of the two spray-based works shown together in Consequences. Photo: Giorgio Benni.
Jay Heikes’s Our Frankenstein (top) in the foreground with Frog Prints by Jay Heikes and Michael Stickrod installed behind it. Stickrod fabricated the knife incorporated into Our Frankenstein as part of the exhibition’s collaborative process. Photo: Giorgio Benni.
A collaborative assemblage incorporating contributions from multiple artists. Michael Stickrod fabricated the knife held by the figure, continuing an exchange between Heikes and Stickrod that also produced the Frog Prints exhibited nearby. Photo: Giorgio Benni.