THE OVERLOAD PROJECT
Image credit: Amber Merry
Your Eyedentity
Your Eyedentity is an interactive optician’s booth that invites participants to explore taking on a new personality by trying on various themed identity glasses.
As they try on the glasses, they begin to speak to them in the voice of their new personality. In front of the mirror, they discuss with the optician if they would like to take on this new personality today.
The optician’s booth was part of Memory Mart, an immersive theatrical venue created by Connor Turansky in Metropolis at Boomtown Festival 2025.
Image credit: Amber Merry
The Personalities
The Gloopgeist
Sitting in uncertainty and the beautifully strange in-between, The Gloopgeist invites you to swim within your indecision and live within the gloop.
The Floranaut
A guardian of nature, The Floranaut guides you to feel more grounded. Rooting yourself within the soul and rhythms of the natural world.
The Loopgobbler
A collector of patterns and a devourer of habits, The Loopgobbler reveals the cycles you unconsciously repeat. They offer you the chance to notice, pause and reprogram.
The Dreamdrifter
Walking the line between sleep and wake, The Dreamdrifter catches glimpses of imagination you didn’t know you left behind, inviting you to see all dreams more clearly.
The Forkarchivist
A guardian of the roads not taken. The Forkarchivist holds onto your almost decisions. They do not tell you what might have been but remind you of that hesitation, that ‘what if?’ you once felt.
The Futurecaster
A glitching time-traveller bringing fragments of tomorrow to upgrade the now. Constantly scanning, they are always tuning the present towards what could be.
Image credit: Amber Merry
Construction
Install
Credits
Venue
BoomTown Festival, 2025
Special thanks
Connor Turansky [Artist and creator of Memory Mart]
Lewis Cherrington [Production and installation collaborator]
Amber Merry [Photography]
& the Memory Mart build team