OVERHERE 2009

Audio corresponding to twitter feeds of two characters, play through speakers embedded in common objects. Visitors move between objects, piece together fragments, or collaborate to understand a conversation. Overheredarkhorse.com allows the wider public to participate by twittering things overheard in public bathrooms.

Overhere is a piece commissioned by a canary torsi, utilizing the twitter feeds: doghebitedme and darkbloom8 written by Rozalia Jovanovic as part of Yanira Castro's live performance, Dark Horse/Black Forest, which opens in June.

Twitter feeds of two characters are converted into whispered automated voices and play through speakers embedded in objects in the lobby. The feeds are experienced separately, intimately...requiring participants to get close, to move, to listen, to work together to overhear the dialogue.

With the collective action of two or more participants, a full conversation is reformed in physical space based on the virtual communication of two fictional characters.

At overheredarkhorse.com participants twitter the things they overhear in public bathrooms. They are added to an online map of NYC, creating a visualization of the interactions, ideas, and exchanges occurring in public bathrooms.