For Immediate Release 11-21-11
Migration Patterns During Wartime: A Free Video Installation and Performance
by award-winning artist Christina Sukhgian Houle
San Antonio/San Marcos/Austin, Texas –Called “haunting” and “fascinating” by the Austin Chronicle, video and performance artist Christina Sukhgian Houle will exhibit her most recent video work Migration Patterns During Wartime, a video about migration, “otherness,” and the search for belongingness. This duration performance and the resulting film explore the issue of "otherness" as it relates to gender, sexuality, and race in Texas, and the United States.
The FREE exhibits will run:
December 1-2, Justice Works, 113-1 Blue Star San Antonio, TX (reception and performance both days from 6-10 pm);
December 12-16, Joann Cole Mitte Gallery, TSU, 233 West Sessom, San Marcos, TX (reception and display of costume at 1 pm on 12/12).
Austin showings are by appointment only beginning 12/17.
Along with the screening, Houle will display one of her self-made unique sculptural costumes used in the film. The video features performances by Adam Sultan of Mistress Stephanie and her Melodic Cat, Matt Hislope of Rubber Repertory, Jordan Moser of Ballet Austin, choreographer Lindsay Robinson and emerging performance artists Megan McGinnis and Suzi Gonzalez.
About Migration
Six performers, dressed in sculptural costumes made primarily out of toy stuffed animal pelts, travel from San Antonio to Austin in the course of one day in four separate groups. Each group uses a different mode of transportation, one hitchhiking, one being smuggled in a car, another on a bus, and the last one walks. All of the groups intend to reunite at the Capital building before continuing onto a party to celebrate the completion of their journey, only not everyone makes it…
Migration documents both the perspective of the “creature/outsider,” as it tries to migrate to Austin, and the perspective of unsuspecting onlookers who happen upon the performance. The film demonstrates how everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their lives, and investigates how both the outsider and the “receiver” handle their circumstances and the resulting consequences. Do we always actively seek out a new place of belonging and/or family? And why do we often let fear rule us when someone “different” comes along?
Christina Sukhgian Houle has studied and performed comedic improvisation at The Second City (IL), been named by the Austin Chronicle as one of the Top Ten Dance Phenomena of 2008, worked with Creative Time (NY), and has been a visiting artist at Spelman College (GA). Her duration performance, “16 Conversations with Escape Bird,” was streamed to the Antena Gallery (IL). In 2012, Christina will present at the 222 Lodge Extern in the Netherlands. More information about Houle and her work can be seen at her website www.christinasukhgianhoule.weebly.com.
Show Website: http://tinyurl.com/Migration-Patterns
Contact: Christina Houle, 210.323.7492, beingbelushi@gmail.com
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Migration Patterns During Wartime: A Free Video Installation and Performance
by award-winning artist Christina Sukhgian Houle
San Antonio/San Marcos/Austin, Texas –Called “haunting” and “fascinating” by the Austin Chronicle, video and performance artist Christina Sukhgian Houle will exhibit her most recent video work Migration Patterns During Wartime, a video about migration, “otherness,” and the search for belongingness. This duration performance and the resulting film explore the issue of "otherness" as it relates to gender, sexuality, and race in Texas, and the United States.
The FREE exhibits will run:
December 1-2, Justice Works, 113-1 Blue Star San Antonio, TX (reception and performance both days from 6-10 pm);
December 12-16, Joann Cole Mitte Gallery, TSU, 233 West Sessom, San Marcos, TX (reception and display of costume at 1 pm on 12/12).
Austin showings are by appointment only beginning 12/17.
Along with the screening, Houle will display one of her self-made unique sculptural costumes used in the film. The video features performances by Adam Sultan of Mistress Stephanie and her Melodic Cat, Matt Hislope of Rubber Repertory, Jordan Moser of Ballet Austin, choreographer Lindsay Robinson and emerging performance artists Megan McGinnis and Suzi Gonzalez.
About Migration
Six performers, dressed in sculptural costumes made primarily out of toy stuffed animal pelts, travel from San Antonio to Austin in the course of one day in four separate groups. Each group uses a different mode of transportation, one hitchhiking, one being smuggled in a car, another on a bus, and the last one walks. All of the groups intend to reunite at the Capital building before continuing onto a party to celebrate the completion of their journey, only not everyone makes it…
Migration documents both the perspective of the “creature/outsider,” as it tries to migrate to Austin, and the perspective of unsuspecting onlookers who happen upon the performance. The film demonstrates how everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their lives, and investigates how both the outsider and the “receiver” handle their circumstances and the resulting consequences. Do we always actively seek out a new place of belonging and/or family? And why do we often let fear rule us when someone “different” comes along?
Christina Sukhgian Houle has studied and performed comedic improvisation at The Second City (IL), been named by the Austin Chronicle as one of the Top Ten Dance Phenomena of 2008, worked with Creative Time (NY), and has been a visiting artist at Spelman College (GA). Her duration performance, “16 Conversations with Escape Bird,” was streamed to the Antena Gallery (IL). In 2012, Christina will present at the 222 Lodge Extern in the Netherlands. More information about Houle and her work can be seen at her website www.christinasukhgianhoule.weebly.com.
Show Website: http://tinyurl.com/Migration-Patterns
Contact: Christina Houle, 210.323.7492, beingbelushi@gmail.com
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