Excerpt from an interview with Matthew Nash. Read the full article here.

7 QUESTIONS WITH LEE WALTON
by MATTHEW NASH

MN: In your bio, you describe yourself as an 'Experientialist', and mention humor as one of your major themes. Can you talk about how you came to create work this way, what it means for you to be an Experientialist, and why humor is a useful tool for a conceptual artist?

LW: After being referred to as a Conceptual Artist, Performance Artist and other terms, I started to get frustrated. The more I learned about these practices, the more I realized that I am not them. For example, I take Sol Lewitt's "Rules on Conceptual Art" very seriously and therefore cannot consider myself a conceptual artist. I have too much respect for those rules.

As for the term "performance artist", I could never grasp what that exactly that is? I don't think if your in front or behind a camera should determine if you are performing or not. That seems ridiculous. My relationship to my body is not any different than the tip of my pencil. It's just a tool. When you make a drawing, nobody watches the activity of the tip of the pencil and considers that a "performance". Jumping and sliding all around...

The term, "Experientialist" I like.

Its not a matter of comfort, in fact, its about being uncomfortable. Instead of lying in bed at night and knowing exactly what I am and what I do, now I lay in bed and wonder what the fuck an Experientialist is? Once I accept a title I have a job description. No thanks.