Installations - Lucy Cash

A Place Less Imagineable

Site specific video installation.

A Place Less Imagineable is the second in a series of performative video installations which gives space to an audience to engage with the elements presented, as well as the possibility to imaginatively complete the work.

Songs I've Been Sung

Songs I've Been Sung was a performance installation created by Lucy during a Rules and Regs residency at South Hill Park. The work explored social interactions and encounters between two strangers. What does it mean to present a song that you love to a stranger? What is it to attempt to learn a song by heart? A thirty-year study in Scandinavia discovered that singing is one of three activities that contribute to a happy old age. (The others are camping and dancing).

Songs I've Been Sung consisted of two parts: a sound installation of songs sung to Lucy by members of the public during her month long residency in Bracknell Gallery, and also a one to one performance in which Lucy invited audience members to teach her a new song which she attempted to learn. Songs included a traditional Persian song about the moon and a Scottish army song.

REAP

Lucy was one of 19 artists invited to make a work for Southwark Park Environs for artist Anne Bean’s year-long REAP project.

this waltz, which holds me: a nine x one minute site sensitive video installation.
2 x performances by Geoff and Elsie McGarry.

We began in response to a piece of music. The piece of music was never played.

The roundness of the bandstand inspired a waltz: 'waltzen' – to 'turn'.
The rhythm of the waltz is thought to mimic the body’s venous flow: the return of the blood to the heart. The slight pause before the second, lighter beat (1, 2, 3) like a valve, opening.
The video installation loosely follows a rondo structure (as do many waltzes).

A Last, A Quartet

A forest.
An empty auditorium.
A moving camera.
A double take.

Taking material from Goat Island’s final work, The Lastmaker, this four-screen installation folds the material into a new work which explores the continuities and discontinuities of film and performance, unravelling the seams between the two mediums.

Shortlisted for the EMPAC award, 2007, A Last, A Quartet has been funded by small awards from the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster; Dance4, Nottingham and by the generosity of donations from numerous individuals in the UK and abroad.

Everything That Happens Here Happens Here Today

As well as live performance, this work included an installation of photographs, and the residues of five daily performances in three different spaces.

Daynightly... (remixed)

A re-mixed version of the work for 'Takeover' - the opening exhibition at the new Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago.

Playfully alluding to the gallery's geographical position at the intersection of Streets Cornell and 50th, the work allows a (Joseph) Cornell(ian) influence to invade its re-assembled collage.