liberating the human face
from tyranny of the brain

Elsenaar mixing in with the beer drinking crowd and Federico D'Oracio taking some video-shots of the lip twitch.

Artificial Handicap

creation date: 1994

Stealth performance taking place at the opening of "A Night at the Show", Zürich, Switzerland. An artificial disability is created by wiring the lower lip invisibly and programming it into an incidental left/ right twitch or lip tremor.
An experiment to induce contact avoidance behaviour at the people present.