Exodus, 2012

Funded in part by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the  Idea Fund

Due to Miscommunication, Parts 1-3

_Excerpts can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/41181156

Migration Patterns During Wartime, 2011

Excerpts from Migration Patterns During Wartime can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/41174564


A Study for Migration Patterns During Wartime can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdx2oNzaFDA

Incantations of Help, 2011

Multichannel video installation using interviews with 45 San Marcos residents on the subject of help.  The text from these interviews was re-embodied by nine members of my family, filmed and looped for the exhibition. 

Excerpts can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/41183473

Creation Myth: Prequel to Migration Patterns During Wartime, 2011

Part of a larger work in progress about immigration, drag and ceremonial performance.  Filmed by Skippy Cooper.

Excerpts can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/35529219

16 Conversations with Escape Bird, 2011

This duration performance piece was broadcast to the Antena Gallery in Chicago in May of 2011.  For the performance I wore the Escape Bird costume and spoke using only gestures and nonverbal sounds while I tried to explain my intentions, goals and interests as a performance artist to 16 different people, including friends, family, and strangers.  Shot by Allen Ferguson.

Escape Bird Mini: Illness and the Shaman, 2011

The Escape Bird series investigates what it means to want to remove a part of yourself that is integral to your sense of identity.  It also asks if there there qualities that define my persona that both benefit me and destroy me, and how I deal with them.  In the work I wonder if I might separate the two impacts of these qualities or if they are permanently entwined.  The costume for Escape Bird is created entirely out of trash, recyclables and the pelt of stuffed animals demonstrating the play and humor that underscores the character's way of being in the world.  Filmed by Allen Ferguson. 

Excerpts can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/35528610

Houle as #16549, 2010-11

In this video I re-embody the text an inmate and prison rodeo participant gave during an interview I conducted with him at the Angola Prison Rodeo.  It was screened at the the Texas State University Feminism and Visual Representation Student Conference in Fall of 2010 and served as a test for the 1/24 project that I am currently developing. 

This performance was re-shot and excerpts can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/41275472

Fig, 2010

Text from a short story of a girl who eats everything she loves is written in different settings suing condiments. 
Text by Christina Houle, Music by Skippy Cooper, Performed by Skippy Cooper

Sounds and Images for Meditation, and Between Self and Self, 2010-11

Images of different toilets throughout Austin scored to the sound of waves crashing and projected onto my stomach during a performance. 
Directed by Christina Sukhgian Houle, Shot and edited by Christina Houle and Allen Ferguson

The Disappearance of Frederick the Ball, 2010

A stop motion short film about an anxious paper ball.
shot by Allen Ferguson, edited by Christina Houle, concept and story by Christina Houle

Excorsize, 2008-10

Excerpt from String Theory:
https://vimeo.com/41182395
shot by Allen Ferguson, edited by Allen Ferguson and Christina Houle, choreographed by Christina Houle