Collaborative real-time internet writing project. 2007. Collaboration with Adrian Heathfield and selected writers.

First presented at Serpentine Gallery, London as part of Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Experiment Marathon, Saturday 13/Sunday 14 October 2007. With writers Tom McCarthy, Deborah Levy, M. John Harrison, Shelley Jackson, Fiona Templeton and Simon Bayly.

Long Relay is a real-time call-and-response writing project conducted remotely over the internet in which an initial text is constantly transformed, refracted, distorted and reinvented by a sequence of writers in turn continuously over a single 24 hour period. The project explores the idea of parallel worlds; the alternate realities or versions that can emerge or grow in reaction to a single starting point. It also explores the art of writing itself; its processes of evolution, creative extension, reversal and upheaval. Archive of the Serpentine presentation of the project is here.

www.serpentinegallery.org/thelongrelay