Mouthpiece

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The Mouth piece was cfreated by Wodiczko in 1993. A immigrant would wear it over their mouth. There is a video monitor and loud speakers over the wearer's mouth. The Mouthpiece is used to replace the immigrant's use of speech. It does this by showing a video of the immigrant's mouth moving on the monitor and prerecorded messages play from the speakers. It plays statements, questions, answers, and stories that are edited and electronicly perfected. The immigrant wearing it can be pulled out of isolation by expanding his/her narrative outward into a collective experience. Between 1993 and 1997 13 people wore them in  Paris, Malmö, Helsinki, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Trélazé, and Angers.