Caffeine and Carotene
Hartnett Gallery
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York


A three-day performance featuring over nine hundred pounds of carrots, a juicer attached to an exercise bicycle, coffee, and yards of clear medical tubing. For four hours each day, Ellsworth and Takemoto perform various compulsive "tasks" related to medical treatments, health spa fitness, juice bars, and coffee culture through a spectacle that ranges from the apocalyptic to the absurd.