The Back Porch

Flour

Site-Specific Performance

Trade Union Building

Budapest, Hungary

2005

Flour, was a 1-1/2 hour performance done in the stairwell of the outdoor atrium in the Trade Union Building in Budapest, Hungary, which began at 8pm. In this performance I wore a dress containing 50 pounds of baking flour, which I made. The performance began with a video projection on the dress. After 7 minutes the video ended and I started to shake the dress. I continued shaking and beating the dress till all the flour was completely emptied and accumulated on the floor and stairs around me. This performance was viewed by an audience from the floor above where they stood on the outdoor veranda.