Psychogeography - Lee M Walton

02 August 2022

Fingerboard Orchestra: Amplifying the Sounds of ShreddingCollaboration with Derek Toomes The Fingerboard Skate Park Orchestra brings ...

Rules and Hints For Community Engaged ...

08 July 2020

Rules and Hints for Community Engaged Arts Gracious contributions by 14 community engaged artists dedicated to social justice.If you would like ...

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 ...

Open Engagement: Emergent Futures

22 September 2019

Open Engagement 2019 / Emergent Futures: State of the FieldThree days of exchanges and social research in North Carolina's Triangle & ...

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 ...

When The World's On Fire

15 May 2018

When the World’s on Fire, Collaboration with Jon Rubin, 2017We Are The Common, Public Art Work, Cambridge Commons, Cambridge, MA I was ...

Life/Theater: Art In General (NY)

15 May 2018

Life/Theater: Art In GeneralPart of the “Experiential Project" the inaugural installment of Art in General’s New Commission program. ...

Red Ball

17 April 2018

Red Ball was an early net-based participatory project that asked the public, "Where in the city of San Francisco can we put this little red ball?" ...

Experiential Project: Art In General

02 April 2018

The Experiential ProjectArt in General, Project Space, 2005These postcards became the access points for experiential interactions with shop owners, ...

Listening To The C

15 February 2018

Listening to the C, Collaboration with Laurent Estoppey, 201812X12 Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC Listening ...

FREE THROW COMPETITION

09 February 2018

Free Throw Competition: Lee Walton vs. Shaquille O’Neal2005 Season Shaquille O'Neal and I competed in a season long free throw ...

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

Last Pick

31 March 2017

On Sept 20th, the night of the opening of the exhibition 'Art of Sport' at CEPA Gallery (Buffalo, NY), 69 visitors decided they wanted to compete to ...

MUSIC FOR GAS STATIONS

20 December 2016

Music For Gas Stations For Music For Gas Station, I toured with Ensemble Babel, an experimental group from Switzerland. As the video artist, I ...

LIFE/THEATER: HOT DOGS

15 December 2016

Life/Theater: Hot Dogs, 2014Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio As part of the exhibition ...

Getting Up Over and Over Again

02 December 2016

Getting Up Over and Over Again Performed by Students at MIT2008 The Score Lay down, rest, then get up. Then lay ...

YELLOW PEPPER

02 December 2016

Yellow Pepper: The Experiential Project, 2015UNCG School of Art, Faculty Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Yellow ...

LAST PLACE: 2001 Walton Derby

14 November 2016

Last Place: The Walton Derby. 2001 + 2003Lee Walton teams up with Silent Gallery to have a pine car race.The objective is simple. Build the ...

AND THE WINNER IS

23 October 2016

AND THE WINNER IS And the Winner Is, 2012Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA And the Winner Is was a curatorial ...

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 ...

Pruning Dis-ease

17 September 2016

“Pruning Dis-ease” a metaphorical journey on race and ecology masquerading as a horticulture workshop on tree pruningScript Written By ...

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 ...

GLIMPSE

16 August 2016

Glimpse, Collaboration with Derek Toomes, 201712X12 Artist Salon Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC The ...

CHARCOAL CHESS TOURNAMENT

15 August 2016

Charcoal Chess Open Tournament, 2015Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, CA The Charcoal Chess Open ...

SUPER G EXPERIENTIAL RESIDENCY

30 June 2016

THE SUPER G EXPERIENTIAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM The Super G Experiential Residency ProgramThe Super G Experiential Residency Program was an active ...

The City System

13 June 2016

THE CITY SYSTEM is a game-based tool for meandering aimlessly around a city. Each journey is unique to the user and determined by occurrences, ...

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.

PEOPLE'S BIENNIAL

10 June 2016

Mr. Coppers at The People's Biennial, Collaboration with Harriet Hoover, 2014Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI The People’s ...

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 ...

WORLDS LONGEST SELFIE STICK

03 June 2016

World’s Longest Selfie Stick, 2015Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA The World’s Longest Selfie Stick was an interactive ...

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 ...

PLACES WEVE NEVER BEEN

24 May 2016

Objects from Places We’ve Never Been, 2014RAYGUN LAB, Sydney, Australia In response to an invitation to create a solo-exhibition at RAYGUN ...

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 ...

ANGRY BIRD DRAWINGS

15 May 2016

Angry Bird DrawingsTranscriptions, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, 2012 The Angry Bird drawings were in response to the popular game Angry ...

DESTINATION SCULPTURES

15 May 2016

Destination Sculptures invite the public to remove sculptures from the exhibition space at specific times. Clear instructions for the final resting ...

FASTBALL

15 May 2016

The Art of Sport, (4 Projects), 2012CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Curated by Craig Smith and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the ...

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 ...

EXPERIENTIAL DECLARATIONS

15 May 2016

Experiential Declarations, 2012The First Annual Experiential Festival, RAYGUN LAB, Toowoomba, Australia In response to an invitation to create ...

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 ...

FATHER AND DAUGHTER VIEW THE EXHIBITION

15 May 2016

Father and Daughter View the Exhibition, 2012More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Cheekwood ...

PLAYING APART

12 May 2016

Playing ApartCollaboration with Jon RubinPlaying Apart dismantled an entire 90 piece marching band into single performers that utilized the whole ...

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. ...

AMBULATORY GAMBIT

08 May 2016

AMBULATORY GAMBIT Ambulatory Gambit (2001) was a public art performance project that I created with Jeannene Przyblyski and her students of the ...

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.

LIFE/THEATER JERRY GORALNICK

23 April 2016

LIFE/THEATER: JERRY GORALNICK For 62 days, a professional actor performed a scripted lunchtime routine that seamlessly blended with real life at ...

EXPERIENTIAL FICTION

23 April 2016

EXPERIENTIAL FICTION Curated by Laura Mott, Experiential Fiction was a project that hid four short stories secretly in four different public ...

BATTER WINS / PITCHER WINS: A CARD GAME

21 April 2016

BATTER WINS | PITCHER WINS What you need: A standard deck of cards (no Jokers)Number of Players:TwoGame Play (9 Innings)Without looking, a ...

Just Walk Away

15 April 2016

Opening Day Video Performance

11 April 2016

The Things Challenge at HCA

10 April 2016

The Project Space (2001)(Marin, California) Headlands Center for the ArtsLocated at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Project Space is a large ...

Wappening #2

01 April 2016

WAPPENING #2February 10, 2006(New York, NY) WITHOUT ANY NOTICE, THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT WAS POSTED ON MY WEBSITE: At this very moment, ...

Book Club (With Harvery loves Harvey)

29 March 2016

Book Club (with Harvey Loves Harvey)2006 For Book Club, Harvey Loves Harvey (a collaboration between artists Jason Dean and Matthew Nash) and ...

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 ...

Trailer For A Day (In The Future)

07 January 2016

Trailer for a Day (In the Future) For this project, I collaborated with Proper Medium, a film company in Atlanta Georgia. We made a trailer for ...

MOST AVERAGE BOWLERS

07 January 2016

Lee Walton's Search for The Most Average Bowlers (2009) A public bowling tournament organized with FACE TO FACE of Greensboro, NC Over 100 ...

LAST PLACE

07 January 2016

For this early social practice project, I worked with Silent Gallery to create LAST PLACE: The 2001 (and 2003) Walton Derby. Participants ...

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 ...

When I Get There

07 August 2015

When I Get There, Washington State University, Tri-Cities (2007)A collaboration with the Digital Technology and Culture Club, Professor Douglas ...

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 ...

Wappening #3

03 April 2015

WAPPENING #3 New York, NY ORIGINAL WEBSITE ANNOUNCEMENT: On Saturday, June 9th precisely at Noon, an attractive, single and slightly ...

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 ...

Pizza Box Tops

10 January 2015

Pizza Box Top Delivery Project, 2015 The Nothing That Is – a drawing show in five parts, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, ...

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. ...

Bummed Pack

11 March 2014

BUMMED PACK in 2003, I spent a day in Indianapolis, Indiana with an empty pack of cigarettes. I approached strangers that were smoking and asked ...

Go Ask Marsha

27 February 2014

GO ASK MARSHA (How to Unlock This Piece), 2010 Upon viewing this work on paper at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, visitors were instructed to ...

Life/Theater Projects

01 January 2014

Life/Theater events are orchestrated public performances involving actors. Mixing real life and theater, actors seamlessly blur themselves with real ...

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 ...

Book Music - System For Composing Notes

14 June 2013

BOOK MUSIC (2002)A System For Composing Notes A unique system was created for each letter (A-Z) plus additional for versions for the ...

Performance Experiments in Green Scarf

28 April 2013

Average Point of Interest

11 April 2013

The "Average Point of Interest" in San Francisco (2001)According to SF Bureau of Tourism, there are 287 "points of interest" in San Francisco. I ...

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 ...

Birthday RAW footage, NY 2005

29 January 2013

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.

Objects To Be Removed From Exhibition

13 December 2011

Dispersals2006 Unable to ship anything to the exhibition space in Belgium, I asked the curator to find 6 objects around the gallery that could ...

Mato Jelic

15 October 2011

Random Videos

10 December 2010

A Series of Videos Floating Around The Web

BIRTHDAY WISHES

25 May 2009

Birthday Videos: For Friends I Don't Really Know, 2015#Awkward, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO Birthday Videos: For Friends I Don't Really Know ...

Dispersals

23 November 2008

Dispersals2006 I asked Vincent Meessen, curator of the exhibition, to select and photograph a series of objects found at the exhibition space ...

Early Social Media Projects

28 February 2006

Since 2001, I have been exploring the possibilities of the web to shape experience and create meaningful interaction. For example, Red Ball: San ...