Known for his groundbreaking use of technology, Alexander’s new work delves into what it means to be human in the era of big data.

Overflow features a dazzling kinetic light sculpture by Children of the Light with creative technologist Luca Biada and lighting designer Guy Hoare, costumes and body artefacts by award winning designer Ana Rajcevic and an original score by Rival Consoles.

‘By 2016, 90 percent of the entire bulk of data in the world had been created in the past two years.’ *

Now a seemingly indispensable part of modern life, digital technology is radically transforming how we experience and act in the world, with profound and unsettling consequences we are only just beginning to grasp. Overflow considers the political and psychological impacts of this revolution in data capture and communication, exploring what lurks beneath our compulsions to check, share and like. Plotting an uncertain course, the piece restlessly jumps between the individual and the community, all under the watchful eye of technology. It reveals how human emotions, our desires, fantasies and vulnerabilities, are powerfully influenced by the platforms through which we communicate and, rendered as data, how they have ultimately become the raw materials of a system designed to know everything about us, while remaining unknowable to us.

*Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine