I wrote a very short story for this project last night, which was then performed by the artist Barbara Campbell (while I was asleep far away in a different time zone).

“1001 nights cast

In 1001 nights cast, Barbara Campbell performs a short text-based work each night for 1001 consecutive nights. The performance is relayed as a live webcast to anyone, anywhere, who is logged on to this website at the appointed time, that is, sunset at the artist’s location.

A frame story written by the artist introduces the project’s nightly performances. It is a survival story and it creates the context for subsequent stories generated daily through writer/performer collaborations made possible by the reach of the internet.

Each morning Barbara reads journalists’ reports covering events in the Middle East. She selects a prompt word or phrase that leaps from the page with generative potential. She renders the prompt in watercolour and posts it in its new pictorial form on the website. Participants write a story using that day’s prompt in a submission of up to 1001 words.”

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You can see the ‘prompt’ I got and read my story here (the performance part you can only see live as a webcast):

http://1001.net.au/Prompt/1299

And search other stories, check out the project in other ways at http://1001.net.au/

You can also submit stories to the project.