In the online component of the project, web designers competed to make a game based on the interactive site, The Tulse Luper Journey.
Tulse Luper, a fictional character, is said to have been born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and disappeared into ever more obscure prisons and jails in Russia and the Far East in the 1970s.
His imagined life is shrouded in mystery, but it seems that Luper has been present at some of the key historical events of the 20th century, including the first nuclear tests in New Mexico, the 1968 Paris student protests and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
In many scenes multiple takes, different angles, or identical copies of the same footage are displayed simultaneously within the frame, either superimposed or in discrete boxes.
Between 2004 and 2011, a physical exhibition attached to the project was shown at galleries in Ghent (Belgium), Compton Verney, Warwickshire (United Kingdom), Fort Asperen (Netherlands) and São Paulo (Brazil).
As a writer, collector, cataloguer and professional list-maker, the character Luper is shown to be fascinated by traces, systems, maps, numbers and artifacts.
The exhibition explored the interests and life of the elusive Luper, giving partial clues to his existence, his obsessions, the people he met and the places he visited.
In 2007 in São Paulo, at the Videobrasil Festival, an artist (Thaís de Almeida Prado) created a performance, especially for the Tulse Luper Suitcases exhibition.
The project called "The Sleeper who ..." (A Adormecida que ...]) generated new components such as a diary, a blog, videos, and photographs of the performer, as well as interaction with the public through letters.