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Tricks in a Cessna, 2005, DVD, 12 minute loop |
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I hired a pilot to take me up in a cessna over Vancouver Island. The pilot preformed snap rolls by cutting the engine at 5000 feet. The plane falls freely. A horn sounds. The plane turns as the engine re-engages to complete the manouvere. We climb again. Cut the engine and nose dive to produce the experience of zero gravity. Assistant curator Kathleen Ritter included this work in an exhibition called How Soon Is Now at the, running from February 7 to May 3, 2009, accompanied by the following text: |
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"In 2005, LucyPullen hired a pilot to take her up in a Cessna ovre Vancouver Island, and then captured the event through the lens of a camera. With an impromptu flight plan, the pilot performs smap rolls by cutting the engine at 5000 feet. An alarm sounds as the plane falls freely. Pullen splits th view between the pilot's actions and the spectacular landscape outside the airplane's window. As the plane takes a nose dive, the sensation of zero gravity is produced, demonstated by an object that hovers for a moment in mid-air above the pilot's hand. Irreverent and daring, the video stands as a document of a unique event and an unconventional representation of the West Coast landscape." -K Ritter
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2500 Superballs (1997) collaboration with Sandy Plotnikoff |
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2500 Superballs dropped from the top of a 7 storey parking garage. The work was executed collaboratively with Sandy Plotnikoff at 7am on April 27, 1997. Superballs reasonably represented our collaborative process, as we bounced ideas off each other to renegotiate our role as artists in our city. This work was a generous and effective act. After the fact, the work belongs to the public imagination. | |
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Snowmobile (2000) A life-size sculpture of a car carved from 100% snow in a suburban parking lot. A second snowfall covers the completed sculpture. On several occasions the work was mistaken for a car buried in snow prompting friendly, if pessimistic comments like, "you will never get that it out of there", as though the work were not a life-size snow sculpture but, instead, a real car. |
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Intervention with Garage Doors (1993) | |
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The site was chosen because of the complimentary color scheme (red and green) presented by two garage doors in a residential neighbourhood. To paint the green door red (and the red door green) proposed a formal, painterly response to a banal urban environment. The work, though unrealized was intended as a generous surprise for the community. | |
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Eat Your Words (1994)
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Eat Your Words is a public remake of Bruce Nauman's 1966 work entitled 'Eat Your Words'. In the original work, the artist eats a piece of toast cut into the shape of the word 'words'. In the public remake, the pubilc eats sugar cookies baked in the shape of the word 'words' thus, assuming the reflective role of artist and completing the work. 150 cookies were packaged in groups of three. The edition was dissemimated through the same stores from which the ingredients came. Of 50 packages, 18 were sold (or re-sold) and 22 were collected by the authorities. Results from Health Canada proved the work was delicious, not malicious. A public debate about what art is took place in the newspapers, |
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