Tongue- manipulating machine

»due to circumstances i have ask you to be an audience. we all know that a show is not real that images shown in a theatre-space or in a studio like this one are not real. That they represent another reality. (…) I would like to represent you my machine. A machine that doesn’t exist yet. (…)
now, what about this so called ‘tongue-manipulating’ machine? Well the basis for all my work is the human body in all its forms. when I saw this tongue, I knew I loved the idea working with it. At this point in my life I am interested in machines. So I wanted to make a machine that is able to physicly manipulate the tongue. But before experimenting with a machine or before even constructing it i had to find out what the possible mouvements of a tongue were. …«

Ugo Dehaes