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Journey to the West

A Distributed-Authorship & Telematic Performance

9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art (Shanghai)

Journey to the West is a project developed with Roy Ascott for the reactivation of “La Plissure du Texte” (1984, Paris) in the Shanghai Biennale 2012-2013. For this initiative, 50 participants in different locations around the world took part in a real-time seminal work of distributed authorship that unfolds with the use of a chatting platform. Each participant is assigned a mythical character from a range of cultures (such as Greek, English, and Chinese), and takes part in a collaborative discussion that relates to Journey to the West, one of the most classical novels in Chinese literature (known in Western translations as Monkey). The text that is sent from the characters/participants is visualized in various forms using custom-developed software. The final visualization is projected at a gallery space in the Power Station of Art during the Shanghai Biennale 2012-2013. Visitors are able to virtually navigate the conversation and explore the narrative that is constructed in real-time. 3D variations of the narrative also exist and can be navigated with the use of a three-dimensional controller.