'ACT I / The epic quest - Documents' is the first chapter of 'Proposal for resuscitating prehistoric creatures'. The heroine's odyssey is told through a collection of real and fictitious documents: letters, emails, found images, scans, interviews. This documents have all been gathered and published in a book designed by Ghazaal Vojdani. This book is now part of the MoMA permanent collection. 'Proposal for resuscitating prehistoric creatures' is an opera which sets up the rebirth of cloned creatures, their wandering and their sound epic. They are seeking to evolve in our contemporary era. The designer, who became the heroine of a quasi-mystic epic journey, aims at resuscitating the sound of prehistoric creatures by reconstructing their vocal tract. This is problematic from the scientific point of view: since the vocal tract is made of soft tissue, it does not fossilise. The only things that have been preserved through time are the surrounding bones. The inner parts have to be redesigned. For more than a year Marguerite Humeau has been discussing with palaeontologists, zoologists, veterinarians, engineers, explorers, surgeons, ear and throat specialists, and radiologists. Humeau had to overcome the difficulty of telling history, and prehistory; and also to create a work from non-existent, inaccessible, or lost data. Design, fiction, science, speculations and phantasms serve the project ambition. Advices from experts as well as predictions are used to craft the roars of the new creatures. The epic, as real as fantasised, gives birth to three semi-real roaring creatures: a Mammoth Imperator (-4,5 MYA), an Entelodont aka Terminator Pig (-25 MYA), and an Ambulocetus "Walking whale" (-50MYA). CREDITS 'The Infinite Odyssey - Book' is part of the MoMA, New York permanent collection. Book designer: Ghazaal Vojdani Special thanks: Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin; Darlene Ketten from WHOI Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Prof. Martin Birchall; Bernard Buigues; Prof. Adrian Lister; Prof. Joy Reidenberg; Alexandra Freeman; Prof. Hideyuki Sawada; and all advisers on this project.