Waist/ Waste Room
Art on the Edge of Fashion
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Arizona

Waist/ Waste Room also takes place in the women and men public bathrooms of the ASU art museum. For the duration of the opening reception (approximately three hours) Ellsworth positions her body in a single stall in the women’s bathroom. While eating and disposing of mini-powdered doughnuts she recounts stories of fittings and (mis)fittings of her body in flesh, clothing, and in an image-obsessed culture. Ellsworths voice is amplified in the men bathroom as less-than-a-whisper. A personal narrative in a public domain. A private and familiar activity amongst the unfamiliar public. When performed at the Arizona State University Art Musuem the video screens were replaced with periscopes.