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In Your Hands is a performance inspired by the situational approach to understanding the condition of human action and social psychology experiments such as the Stanford Prison and Milgram experiments from the 1970s, which demonstrated the transformation of human behaviour through hyperreal simulation and meticulously designed environments. In Your Hands adopts a similar approach but takes it out of the laboratory into the public arena. In the performance and accompanying video remote-controlled roller skates place the artists’ fate in the hands of the audience, creating a situation where ethical parameters are challenged. Humour and spectacle are used to lure the participants into the thrill of the event while distracting them from what is really happening, namely a subversive social experiment which questions how far people are willing to go to seek their own enjoyment.