AustLit

From 21 June 2005 to 17 March 2008, Barbara Campbell performed a short text-based work each night making up the 1001 nights cast into the ether as live web streams to anyone, anywhere, who was logged on to this website at the appointed time, that is, sunset at the artist's location. A frame story written by the artist can be read in the introduction of this site. It is a survival story and it created the context for subsequent stories generated daily through writer/performer collaborations made possible by the reach of the internet. Each morning Barbara read journalists' reports covering events in the Middle East. She selected a prompt word or phrase that leapt from the page with generative potential. She rendered the prompt in watercolour and posted it in its new pictorial form on the website. Participants wrote a story using that day's prompt in a submission of up to 1001 words. (Source from website)