DIALOGues
Immersing her audience in carefully cultivated atmospheres, Leila Houston uses site-responsive installations to reflect on how we form ideas of society, history and culture. Utilising sensory experience and space, Houston’s work spans from the political to the philosophical, providing unique perspectives on themes of community, vulnerability and people's connections with spaces.
Dialogues invites its audience to examine the minutiae of their daily lives, showing the influence of the seemingly small, subtle and vulnerable. Dialogues consisted of three main parts: Part I – Investigating the Centre Part II – Points of Departure Part III – It's not you, it's the water thrower |
Leila Houston, It's not you, it's the water thrower, 2016
Wet clay, photography, metal trolley, water, collage photographs Image credit Andrea Jaeger www.jaegerimages.com |
Leila Houston, Investigating the Centre, 2015
Installation still: audio, empty photo frames, video projection of "Wullie" Craigmillar Playscheme film, table, x4 chairs © Leila Houston Photograph of the top floor of the Queen of Bradgate
Image © Leila Houston |
part I
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Leila Houston, Points of Departure, 2015
Installation still Interactive maze in 4 sections (wood, vinyl flooring, paper diary entries): Section 1 - Beer mats, velcro, UV pens, torch Section 2 - Monitors, video, audio Section 3 & 4 - x5 sound triggers (floor pads) © Leila Houston Leila Houston, Points of Departure, 2015
Installation still Interactive maze in 4 sections (wood, vinyl flooring, paper diary entries): Section 1 - Beer mats, velcro, UV pens, torch Section 2 - Monitors, video, audio Section 3 & 4 - x5 sound triggers (floor pads) © Leila Houston Leila Houston, Points of Departure, 2015
Film still (4.12 mins) Part of installation © Leila Houston Click here to play film |
part II
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Leila Houston, It's not you, it's the water thrower, 2016
Wet clay, photography, metal trolley, water, collage photographs © Leila Houston This project was funded by Arts Council England.
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part III
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