The Difficult Patient Machine is a machine programmed to respond to the laugh track of popular 90s sitcom Seinfeld Episode #139, Season 8, Episode 9 in which doctors refuse treatment to protagonist Elaine for a rash because she is perceived as a "difficult" patient. Each time the laugh track plays a servo motor mounted below a hole in the wall is activated to shove a test tube filled with hand sanitizer, from an assembly-line of test-tubes, through the hole. On the other side of the wall the tubes project from the hole and shatter on images of broken glass and goo printed on ceramic tiles.
Installation shots from group show "Crampus Clarus" at Random Access in Syracuse, NY in January 2017.
