Lisa Walcott

Project Type: Archive

  • Hot Pants

    Hot Pants

    Hot Pants, 2013table base, motor, wood, white table cloth

  • Breathing Room

    Breathing Room

    A full room installation in which piles of soap bubbles accumulate from removed knots in the wooden floor animating inaccessible spaces while giving the viewer room to contemplate poetic depth in architecture. All “action” in the room comes from the negative spaces including the air flow, lighting and the soap bubbles from the knots in…

  • My Pleasure

    My Pleasure

    My Pleasure is a site specific installation at Land of Tomorrow Gallery in Louisville, KY. Within an empty room with an old installed wooden floor, a brown paper bag extending from the wall expands and contracts creating a rhythmic crinkling sound. It mimics hyperventilation, but is also tender and fragile. At the same time, soap bubbles appear and collect around a hole in the floor; a miniature black object swings…

  • Dough

    Dough

    Dough, 2011 performance flour, water, yeast, heat element, tea pot, kitchen table, flour sack towels, timers, wooden platform Many batches of bread dough were created throughout the course of an evening (as many as possible within the physical limits and time constraints). The platform contained all of the action and materials needed to created the…

  • Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge or Vice Versa

    Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge or Vice Versa

    Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge or Vice Versa, 2011motor, string, rubber ball A red, rubber ball attached to an elastic string extends up to the rafters where a spinning mechanical arm continuously yanks the string upward. The ball bounces on the floor in a bored manner producing a monotonous tapping in the space.

  • 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.