Subtalk
Present at Conflux. Sept 2007
Project by Petra Farinha and Vaibhav Bhawsar.

 

Subtalk is a social experiment which aims to encourage social interactions in the subways of New York City.

 

It's an instruction based project where people are invited to change/exchange specific given objects, as throwaway cameras, while riding the subway trains. A kit containing instructions is given to participants on the starting points of subway lines which they must pass on to another passenger. These objects must remain underground - within the subway network. The kit function as an interface for social interactions and at the same time documents the interactions. We hope that such actions and exchanges will create happenstance interactions within the subway network.
The last person that receives the kit ( when there is no more photos in the camera) have a very special task: ensure that the kit is drop in a mailbox.