Several years ago I came across a book by body language expert Joe Navarro where he describes physical gestures and how to determine whether someone is experiencing high stress or low stress with the ultimate aim of decoding whether someone is lying or telling the truth. Pivot is a recording of these enacted gestures after a computer algorithm has randomized them. The algorithm is based on an audio recording of morning birds where the randomness of the birds chirping was used to determine the randomness of the placement of gestures in the script. The performance was recorded inside the legal reference library at Rathuas Shoneberg in West Berlin made famous in a divided Germany during the 1960’s when John F Kennedy delivered his speech claiming: Ich bin ein Berliner. I am a Berliner.
