PERFORMANCE - Lee M Walton

Meshroom

12 May 2024

Lee Walton, Caitlyn Schrader, and kt williams were invited to lead a reinterpretation of Meshroom, a captivating fusion of art, dance, music, ...

Labanotation Score of Not Knowing: ...

12 May 2024

Scores of Not Knowing: Labanotation A series of Labanotation scores I created based on what I can only guess is Labanotation. The 6 scores were ...

SMALL PLOTS

15 May 2023

Small Plots (2009)As part of SECCA's public art program, I worked with museum and community of Winston-Salem to orchestrate a series of performances ...

Virus Lecture Series

11 June 2020

Virus Lecture SeriesThis lecture performance on viruses and virus structures is my best attempt to interpret and repeat a 3-part lecture series by ...

Venice Walls

11 June 2020

Outliving My Life Insurance Policy

02 January 2020

Out Living My Life Insurance: 20-Year Term1,040 weekly updates. Each documenting a strategic action for sustaining life.This project commenced August ...

Rite of Spring Garden

18 August 2019

Rite of Spring GardenIn Conjunction with the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the UNCG School of Art Faculty BiennialIn this weekly performance, a ...

REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS

13 May 2019

Remote Instructions was new media project Commissioned by Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY.From my home, I collaborated with ...

LEE WALTON PLAYS THE WORLD

01 May 2019

Lee Walton Plays the World (On His Phone), Chess Performance in 40 Parts, 2013Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL Lee Walton ...

Getting Up Over and Over Again

08 March 2019

Always Be Around: Exhibition

29 January 2018

Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community, and PedagogyOctober 2nd through December 15th 2023The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College ...

Just Passing Through

17 November 2017

Just Passing Through" engages with several important themes in the field of contemporary art. On a surface level, the clean black lines and lack of ...

The Flower King

24 April 2017

The Flower King, 2018Public Performance and Print Series, Print Guild, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC Flower King was a printed ...

The Competitionist

15 April 2017

SITTING

31 October 2016

Currently on view at The DAAP Reed Gallery College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning on the University of Cincinnati Curated by ...

City Golf Drift

25 September 2016

The 18-hour Drift starts on Oct 21st, 8am at Bryant Park. THE OBJECT: The object of this game is to create a series of 18 spatial ...

ROB'S CAR IS FOR SALE

09 September 2016

Rob’s Car is for Sale, 2016Greensboro Project Space (GPS), Greensboro, NC Rob's Car is for Sale, 2016In the summer of 2015, I embarked on ...

GETTING A FEEL FOR THE PLACE

10 June 2016

Getting A Feel For The Place (2006) happened during a very quick trip to Belfast, Ireland.

VIDEO PERFORMANCES

04 June 2016

My video performances are often situational and involve interactions, altercations and musings with (and through) public spaces. For example, in ...

ONE SHOT A DAY

03 June 2016

(Original text from And The Winner Is, at Haverford College)In 2003 Lee Walton completed One Shot a Day, a project which, true to its title, involved ...

A LIVING RECORD

18 May 2016

Hillary Wiedemann: Living Record I performed a series of activities throughout the streets of NYC. I was followed and observed by Hillary ...

QUITTING

15 May 2016

Jason Quits His Job was a live action I orchestrated for the exhibition Revolutionary Spirit by Red 76.I placed an ad on Craiglist: "Seeking Person ...

MOMENTARY PERFORMANCES

15 May 2016

For Momentary Performances, I used vinyl text on city walls to announce ordinary moments that would take place in the future. These texts were ...

F'BOOK, WHAT MY FRIENDS ARE DOING ON ...

15 May 2016

F’Book, What My Friends Are Doing On Facebook playfully explores the relationship between mainstream social media and issues of public/private ...

SERIAL CONVERSATIONALIST

15 May 2016

For the The Serial Conversationalist, I set out to have conversations with strangers that would be archived forever.The rules were simple.Select ...

35 Pounds: Purchased and Returned

15 May 2016

35 Pounds: Purchased and ReturnedIn 2003, I purchased a 35-Pound weight from Copeland Sporting Goods Store in downtown San Francisco. I then carried ...

WAPPENINGS

15 May 2016

Wappenings (Web / Happenings) are a series of web projects that challenge the peer‐to‐peer networked public to complete a particular task or ...

GIVING IT UP FOR LIFE

11 May 2016

Union Square: Giving It Up For Life On Friday, September 15th effective precisely at noon, I left Union Square Park in NY never to return again. ...

HIDING BEHIND THINGS

03 May 2016

Hiding Behind Things is a series of photos of me hiding behind things. Photos were taken by Tristin Miller.

Just Walk Away

15 April 2016

Opening Day Video Performance

11 April 2016

Following The Man In The Crowd

09 February 2016

'Following "The Man of the Crowd"' was a 24-hour walk in which Christina Ray and I, linked by text messaging, drifted separately through NYC in an ...

GARBAGE DAY

13 January 2016

Garbage Day (2006) I orchestrated a seven-hour performance called "Garbage Day". Walton scripted a performance in which Theodore Bouloukos, a ...

Making Changes

13 January 2016

For Making Changes (2006-ongoing), I drift through my neighborhood making changes.

27 Piles of Shaving Cream: One-Mile ...

13 January 2016

For 27 Piles of Shaving Cream: One Mile Radius (2012), I drew a perfect circle on a map, within a radius of 2-miles, making my home in Greensboro at ...

Early Drawing Performance

19 October 2015

Early drawing that explored movement and actions in space. This led to performance-based work, such as OPENING DAY, Below. A 3-hour video performance ...

The Animateurs

08 August 2015

The Animateurs, The Power Plant Contemporary Art GalleryExhibition: Not Quite How I Remember It (2008) For his project, I collaborated ...

DRIBBLE

09 June 2015

Dribble ProjectEach morning for the duration of 2 months, I dribbled a basketball back and forth 36th Street between 7th and 9th Avenue in Midtown ...

EXPERIENTIAL BLUES TOUR

16 May 2015

For Experiential Blues Tour, I traveled to small towns I had never been to before and signed up for the Open Blues Jams. I publicly announced ...

The Extra

14 January 2015

The Extra2004—ongoing dream A series of audition clips in which I show directors my potential to act like myself with aspirations of ...

Meme Lecture / Performance

13 January 2015

Memes and Temes: A Replicate TalkUnknown to the audience, Theodore Bouloukos, (a professional actor) is replicating a lecture given by Susan ...

Western Shift

10 December 2014

This video was created for an exhibition at Island6 in Shanghai, China. Unable to make the journey myself, I created a set ...

Relocating

10 December 2014

Off The Hook

15 April 2014

City Golf

14 March 2014

City Golf2002, San Francisco, CaliforniaA system was created to determine specific locations in San Francisco in which to perform various activities. ...

Small Plots

23 December 2013

Small Plots (2009)As part of SECCA's public art program, I worked with museum and community of Winston-Salem to orchestrate a series of ...

Performance Experiments in Green Scarf

28 April 2013

Hillary Wiedemann: Living Record

29 March 2013

Hillary Wiedemann: Living Record2007 A public performance that took place throughout the streets of NY. Witnesses only by Hillary Wiedemann of ...

Life/Theater Dash, The Baseball Game

13 December 2012

A Performance Project organized by Lee WaltonPresented by SECCA & The Winston-Salem DashSaturday, June 13, 7:00pm @ Gene Hooks Field at Wake ...

Do Nothing: 60 Minutes and 60 Miles ...

13 December 2012

Using Facebook (2010), I asked people to pick a number between 1-360 as a strategy to locate an undetermined spot 60 miles from my home. At ...

Dancing for Lotus House Shelter

07 August 2012

Heart Happening benefit for the Lotus House Women's Shelter at the Margulies Warehouse, Miami.

Random Videos

10 December 2010

A Series of Videos Floating Around The Web

Official Book Signing Event, Strand ...

02 April 2008

For this project, I coordinated and publicly announced an Official Book Signing Event at Strand Bookstore, NYC. The public could select any ...

162 Games Transcribed into Actions

29 January 2008

The notes below is an example of the transcription and movement notation for the Arizona Diamondbacks. There are notes for the other 4 teams, ...

Race Cars

13 March 2007

Stacked

05 January 2005

Dance Research

17 June 1984

Street Dance Activism: This website is a social toolkit that promotes the use of street dance as a form of ...