Lisa Walcott

Author: Lisa Walcott

  • Bubbles

  • Jeppe Hein

    Sometimes it seems like someone makes all the work you’ve ever wanted to. Jeppe Hein’s witty, poetic and sometimes off the wall body of kinetic work has me throwing my hands up in the air and shrugging. I have sketch video’s of dust bunnies being pushed around by air. The screw in the wall is…

  • Photography Ideas

  • Art Prize

    It’s official, I will be showing at WMCAT on Fulton for Art Prize! The installation will include many twitching pull strings and possibly a flickering light….stay tuned.View my public profile

  • The Press Mentions the 'Dis.place.ment' Show

    The Grand Rapids Press wrote up the ‘Dis.place.ment’ show as the UICA looks toward their new placement/location. Click here. RELATED POSTS: displacement at the uica

  • On and On

    Installed at the Holland Area Arts Council June 3-August 1, 2010. On and On, 2010 strings, motors, pullstring tips

  • Valance

  • Looking up

  • Paired

    OUT DUSK STRAIGHT FULL

  • dis.place.ment at the UICA

    The Displacement Show at the UICA is up through early August! Check out my deflated installation!

  • Stillness in Life

    It’s difficult to understand stillness, let alone be still. There is a positive take on stillness which includes calmness, contemplation, meditation. The negative sense of this idea is being stuck, unable to move. This needs to be developed further for me, but for now, here are some references that are informing my ideas. Cliche? Maybe.…

  • Specific Synonyms

    bull’s eye, categorical, characteristic, clean-cut, clear-cut, cut fine, dead on, definite, definitive, different, distinct, downright, drawn fine, especial, exact, explicit, express, flat out, hit nail on head, individual, limited, on target, outright, peculiar, precise, reserved, restricted, right on, set, sole, special, specialized, straight-out, unambiguous, unequivocal, unique Specific Antonyms: general, indefinite, uncertain, vague

  • List from Mel Bochner's "Repetition: Portrait of Robert Smithson" 1966

    Referenced from the piece that is ink on graph paper, 7.5 x 6.75 inches

  • Performance Footage

    This is a long video, but I finally finished editing the full footage of the performance I did last month.

  • My Mythologies

    Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” has been a very influential text for me recently. Often it just takes a small, beautiful moment in a text or lecture or time in my day that triggers the idea for the next piece I make. “Mythologies” is chock-full of these nuggets. Barthes constantly reinvented his theory on what he was…

  • Provocative One-Liners Can Work

    Art that is only a joke runs itself thin, but the one-liner that opens up into a new bubble of thought that is funny and provocative is intriguing and hard to find. Ceal Floyer does it well in her piece “Today’s Special” (the first part of the video covers this piece and the rest shows…

  • Rope Swings are Free

    Free to use if you find them. Freeing in the way the fling you and swing you. They themselves however are the opposite of free–I’m glad for the tethering that enables me to hang. Swing-like rope in my studio Rope swing images from Google

  • Relationship?

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  • More Dusty Ideas

    RELATED POSTS: Dusty & Musty

  • Holding and Shifting

  • Notes from reading about Gober by Hal Foster

    My notes are directly related to ways that I identify myself in the ideas in Gober’s work, so this is quite slanted reporting (but it’s a blog, so that’s expected, right?). Gober creates uncanniness through moods of aloneness, voyeurism and lack of sense place and time. Primal Fantasies: the fantasy is not the object of…

  • If you, then I

    If you sniff and daydream; suspend belief; jump and remember; peek and wonder; consider then remark; identify yourself under the sheet; think of two things at once; disrupt your assumptions- then I have succeeded.

  • To Cleanse

    More pictures from the performance…

  • Burden

    I’ve got all of these phrases running through my head about burdens and not being given more than you can handle. I burdened this tree more than it could handle or at least it must be close to the threshold. I was so excited about the formations that I didn’t fully consider the destruction to…

  • Still Sprinkling

    The piece is still in progress. I am currently worried about the tree branches which seem to be really struggling with the weight of the ice. In some places the icicles are getting close enough to the ground that I am hoping they will begin to support the burdened branches. The bush is also quite…

  • Sprinkling, Freezing and Crashing

    I could actually see the sprinkler with the lights from my studio and the metal shop behind it! Things are cracking and groaning under the weight of the ice and the sprinkler is still oscillating like it’s totally normal.

  • Sprinkling the Snow

    I’ve created my own ice storm within the snow storm we’re having. The sprinkler had been oscillating for about an hour an a half when these pictures were taken. It’s dark now, so I will have to wait until morning to see what has happened in the hour and a half afterward. Sisyphus’ plight once…

  • Dusted

    There is a piece formulating in my mind using dust. I’m not sure about everything yet, but a finger wiping dust off of something is really interesting to me. The mark left is interesting with the soft dust compared to the clean, shiny surface. It’s a test of “is it clean enough”. Imagine the white…

  • a piece a day (or so)

    Here’s my latest piece. No time to crit, must move forward! *I accidentally removed this video, but am keeping the post for the sake of record keeping. There was a little bit of urgency at this point before the thesis show! (2/12/11)

  • Performance

    I did a performance piece yesterday for a crit. The props/sculptures were originally created for a video (which I still plan to make), but a critique space opened up and I really wanted to get some of these things worked out. I ended up desaturating my entire studio in order to create a sort of…