Lisa Walcott

Archives: Projects

  • Yawn

    Yawn

    Over 100 yawns captured in plastic bags and floated across the water.

  • Plenum

    Plenum

    Plenum, 2010site specific installationstrings, paper pullstring tips, plastic buckets, water, ceiling tile, sprinkler, motors

  • And then I was like

    And then I was like

    A cup sits on a laminate countertop extension subtly and constantly steaming. The piece recalls still moments from home and an object left behind.

  • Dunnit

    Dunnit

    Dunnit, 201112x10x7 incheskitchen knife, fly swatter A still sculpture with dynamic thrust.

  • Threshold

    Threshold

    A doorknob rotates occasionally pushing away from the wooden surface. The planks are simply leaning against the wall in a haphazard manner making the subtle, constant motion of the doorknob quite uncanny.

  • No Vacancy

    No Vacancy

    No Vacancy, 2010site specificdehumidifier, steel bucket, single burner, motors, wood, soap, cigarette, string A smoking cigarette lays discarded, a rocking bucket sizzles away drips that fall from above, soap bubbles emerge from a knot in the wooden platform and a pull-string bounces as if it has just been tugged. The empty space and gestures are…

  • On and On

    On and On

    A pull-string bounces over and over as if being tugged on and off. The simple pull string references attics, basements, luminescence and progress opening up the ideas around and relationship with this simple utilitarian object.

  • Double Dutch

    Double Dutch

    Double Dutch, 20104x10x5 feetsteel, plexi gears, drill motor, jump ropes and handles A large kinetic sculpture with two ten foot jump ropes spun egg beater style. Absence and presence are found in the spherical space defined by the spinning ropes as well as the vacant positions of play.

  • Rinse and Repeat

    Rinse and Repeat

    A nine minute performance on a small wooden platform. I bow down, insert a drinking straw into a removed knot in one of the planks and begin exhaling into the straw. A minute later soap bubbles push through the cracks and cover my face making it increasingly difficult to inhale.

  • Turn On

    Turn On

    Turn On, 2009string, paper pullstring tips, motor