Jaclyn Pryor's floodlines 2009

One spring day every year for the past five years, a procession of white costumed individuals floats through Hyde Park repetitively performing short acts for the neighborhood's residents and a small audience. Part performance art, part conceptual theater, Jaclyn Pryor's site-specific exhibition floodlines is once again set to be performed in Hyde Park on April 5th. Pryor came up with the concept for floodlines as a performance memorial in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Less a direct tribute to the specific casualties of 9/11, floodlines addresses the themes of loss and grief in broader strokes, encouraging its audience to contemplate the nature of permanence as performers appear and disappear in the familiar setting of one of Austin's most historic neighborhoods.

floodlines is scheduled to be preformed twice more, once this year and finally in 2010, completing the work's seven show run. Tickets for this year's performance are on sale now through Brown Paper Tickets. Audience members will travel through Hyde Park in white cars as part of floodlines' funeral procession, a soundtrack will play on each car stereo to compliment the vignettes that will be performed throughout the neighborhood.