Lisa Walcott

Vice Versa was a room filled with mechanized red bouncing balls attached to elastic strings hanging from turning windshield wiper motors. The motors were mounted to the 25 foot ceiling extending through the shiny, italic Zaha Hadid architecture at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

A large, mechanized mobile created site specifically for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing that mimics the motion of a swarm of flies or bugs. A single motor slowly turns a wobbly wire apparatus which supports multiple pieces of thread occasionally holding a bit of lead and black wax. As the wire lightly catches on pieces of latex tubing, the whole piece wobbles and sways making the various pieces of lead and wax move slowly but erratically like a swarm of flies. All of the threads are attached to each other in some way, so the motion of one wire, thread or lead/wax "fly" always affects the rest creating an agitating but beautiful visual manifestation of interdependence.

A doorknob rotates slowly 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.