The SEA path

Stitching Together a Story: Potential Configuration in Wayfinder

This chapter examines how performers configure fragmented elements within Wayfinder, making sense of disparate objects, texts, and media to create an emergent narrative. It explores how meaning is assembled rather than dictated, discussing the performer’s role as an editor, curator, and constructor of the text rather than a passive recipient.

  • Forces performers to actively piece together meaning.
  • Highlights the instability of narrative—what’s "true" is never singular.
  • Encourages multiple interpretations, reinforcing the configurative process.

Sink.

The Sea / 
The Mother

Fluid Narratives

A poetry collection questioning our place in life. Questioning who we've become when so much is behind us, and so much is still ahead.

Float

Footnotes & References

  • Core Theoretical Foundations:

    1. Roland Barthes – S/Z (1970) – Texts are woven together by the reader, not given as fixed wholes.

    2. Umberto Eco – The Open Work (1962) – A narrative must remain flexible for reconfiguration.

    3. Lev Manovich – The Language of New Media (2001) – Digital and non-linear texts force user interaction.

  • Critical Debates and Counterarguments:

    1. Aristotle – Poetics – Narrative should have fixed structure, beginning, middle, and end.

    2. Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) – Argues for archetypal narrative cohesion.

    3. Noël Carroll – Mystifying Movies (1988) – Dismisses excessive ambiguity in storytelling as ineffective.

  • Empirical Studies & Case Studies:

    1. Cloud Atlas (Mitchell) – A novel structured like a narrative puzzle.

    2. The Stanley Parable (Videogame) – Narrative path changes based on choices.

    3. Comics as Configurative Narratives (McCloud) – Juxtaposition of panels = meaning creation.