Waist/ Waste Room
Out of the Closet: Clothing as Imagery in Contemporary Art, Salt Lake Art Center
Salt Lake City, Utah

A one-hour performance which refers to the physical and psychological aspects of squeezing the body into clothing derived from an image-obsessed culture. Locked in a women’s bathroom stall, with only feet exposed and fragments of flesh on a video screen, Ellsworth eats packets of powdered doughnuts while telling “fat stories”. Ellsworth wears a pink cocktail dress with a compartment ruffle at the waist which houses the powdered doughnuts. The compartment is complete with zippers on each side so when more doughnuts are needed, she reaches into her own stomach of flesh which houses the packets of doughnuts. She appears to eat from her own body. She eats herself.”