Art on the Edge of Fashion Performance
Photo by Kim Adams
Photo by Kim Adams
ANGELA ELLSWORTH - Addressing
the issues of private and public, "waist/waste room" took place
in the museum's first-level men's and women's restrooms. Ellsworth sat in
a stall in the women's restroom, while her voice was projected electronically
via a one- way microphone into the men's restroom. While in the stall, Ellsworth
continually ate white powdered donuts. Simultaneously, she whispered stories
about body weight and size.
The public in the women's restroom was privy to the artist's activity by either
peeping through the cracks of the stall or by periscopes positioned on either
side of the stall. The same stories were heard in the men's restroom, but
at a level less than a whisper. The public's experience in each restroom was
quite different. In the women's restroom, there was the privilege of eavesdropping
by visual means and by sound. In the men's restroom, only sound and no visual
reference. This difference encouraged discussion outside both spaces.
Actual Odor
at Token City reception
Club Extra Performance/Installation
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