About This Video

Performance artist Andrew Dawson ends the night with the story of a roller derby player who shattered her middle finger in a fall. What followed was months of recovery, which included the insertion of bone from a cadaver to replace her shattered finger, and the retrospectively amusing social dilemma of having one’s middle finger constantly extended. The Articulate Hand is a media-rich, on-stage portrayal of patients whose peculiar impairments—physiological and neurological—provide stunning insights into just how we humans are wired, and how adaptable that wiring may be.
Warning: Contains explicit language
More from this series: The Articulate Hand

Image courtesy of Chris@APL; Recorded June 2011; Posted January 2012