Stories for 1001 Nights Cast: A durational performance by Barbara Campbell (2005-2008)
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Trail, Margaret and Campbell, Barbara (2008) Stories for 1001 Nights Cast: A durational performance by Barbara Campbell (2005-2008). [Video]
Abstract
In her durational performance, 1001 nights cast, Barbara Campbell cast a story into the ether every night for 1001 nights from 21 June 2005 to 17 March 2008. Each story had been written for her during the day by a pool of (by the end) 243 writers scattered across the globe. With only a few hours to write and a limit of 1001 words, each writer was responding to a writing prompt Campbell had extracted from one of that day’s newspaper stories about events in the Middle East. At sunset (according to Campbell’s location), she opened the live webstream on the 1001 nights cast website and told the new story to unseen audiences in unknown locations. The stories, as spoken, could only be witnessed in real time, but in text form, they remain on the website as ghosts of their one-time voicing.
| Additional Information | Fifteen 1000 word stories told over the period 12 September 2005 to 18th February 2008 |
| Item type | Video |
| URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/40931 |
| Official URL | https://1001.net.au/about/ |
| Subjects | Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Communication and the Arts Historical > FOR Classification > 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing |
| Keywords | performance art; voiced stories, Middle East |
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