Oulipo is "Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle" - an attempt to a French style of revolution (yet rebellion) that existed since 1960 on litterature and word-related artsform. For more, please check out on http://www.oulipo.net/oulipiens/O.
Instead of elaborating too much about its history and development, its spirit of exploring the possibility of creation and the opposition to the mainstream system of writing would be more worthwhile referring to...The movement was founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais supported by a group of writers and mathematicians (?!). It's experimental attempt of the S+7 style of writing is dada-like expression. Quoted from Wikipedia, the writing methodology "replaces every noun in a text with the word that falls 7 places ahead of it in the (designated) dictionary". The sentence of "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago..." from Moby Dick becomes "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago...". I am interested in knowing if the same applies to Chinese writing...try it out!
Oulipo's writer-oriented belief has carried out a long lived altitude that echoes along the historic line other "new-at-its-time" forms of arts or schools of expression that have impacted our perspective to the world.
Extended from Oulipo was the Oubapo movement initiated by the independent comics publisher L'Association from Paris in the 80's. It applies the belief to its production of anti-mainstream B&W comics. the release of a 2,000-page comic book in the millennium was gut. The world needs something different I believe, and so did you get a chance to view a bit their work in the last Hong Kong Book Fair?
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