LEILA HOUSTON
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  • PROJECTS
    • Encrypted Sounds of Wellbeing
    • Straightening out the petals
    • A Local Voice
    • Conversation Series
    • Dialogues
    • They believed the river did sing
    • Am I losing you or have you left already?
    • From the 12th floor
    • EC Arts
  • Video/ Sound
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LEILA HOUSTON

Sanford Biggers - lesson - moonbows do exist - in "Akademie x lessons in art & life

10/29/2015

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Love this book of Akademie x lesson s in art & life - here's a good one I can relate to mainly from my twenties (photo ) and a good lesson about stamina by Sanford Biggers. Also said " to succeed and survive as an artist one must develop serious perseverance , strength of character, an unshakable work ethic and confidence. Artistic trends , attitudes and appreciation change frequently , so you must be able to see beyond the successes and failures you may experience. Understanding where you are in a relationship with other artists is useful ; how ever, do not allow this to turn into envy or self doubt" #art #artists #lessons #akademie #SanfordBiggers #thankyou

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Creating a dialogue between separate places

10/26/2015

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The institutional, clinical images are going to be used as a vage guide to how I wish to transform one of the rooms, and specific walls and windows at the Queen of Bradgate.

Central to this will be 'The discussion recordings" , "mirrored monitors showing footage of the building and past, musical happenings by selected local artists , aswell as the physical , walk through maze I'm developing , created by the old warn 70s flooring and wooden pictureless frames and found items "the building throws up".

Really Looking forward to the arranged tutorias with the brilliant artist and lecturer Anna Lucas over the coming months. Very lucky to have her to talk about this research and development project.!

Also spending a week working in London and working at a few gallery's aswell as doing my course at Lux, studios in field recording.

This month I also welcomed a very talented new artist assistant Courtney Askey - who will be accompanying me round London for First Thursday.

At the moment I'm in France collecting old old tape s of the community centre that was knocked down down - the place I grew up in - looking forward to transferring them to hard copy's- fingers crossed there all in good working order! .

If only there was more time in a week feels tgeres so much to unpick and uncover, guess that's life!

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Some of the Artists, thoughts, authors, musicians and books I've been researching as part if the project


- " Recored discussions" as an object and an occupied space


- pedagogy of the repressed by Paulo Freire


- Marina Abramovic and thinking about "the artists is present " in terms of how it relates to the discussion recordings


-What it means to work with local people, sources and materials


- Venice Biennale including 'One. Two Three' by Vincent Meesen, who represented Belgium. "Place, sound, installation design, mirroring "


- Steve McQueen's "Ashes" seen at 56th Venice Biennale thinking about local representation of local people and distance away from media representation he creates in this work


-Mark Fisher's writing on Test Dept where left idealism and popular modernism collide


- Christopher Williams' 'Production Line of Happiness' at Whitechapel creation with the clean white wall space 





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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: LOCATION SOUND RECORDING FOR ARTISTS- with Edward Lucas at lux, London

10/13/2015

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Just got on to this course after being on the waiting list, as tgey only have 10 places. Really happy!

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: LOCATION SOUND RECORDING FOR ARTISTS- with Edward Lucas at lux, London

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Tutor- marina abramovic - lessons in art and life

10/5/2015

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 Venice Biannual, Contemporary Art,  Architecture, Presence, Atmosphere, hyper reality and tourism   

10/4/2015

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Looking forward my two meetings today for possible "sound" collaborations-Expolring at the Queen of Bradgate ! ​

10/3/2015

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Looking forward my two meetings today for possible "sound" collaborations-Expolring at the Queen of Bradgate ! ​

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Investigating important artists,  The Guggenheim Museum, Venezia

10/2/2015

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One entry from the sketch whilst in Venice at the Guggenheim Collection. We will be looking at these artists also as part of my Drawing and Painting Course at Attenborough Arts Centre-  Starting first Thursday in October 2015​
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Alexander Calder
Jean Hélion
​http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/1637
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Bottle of Rum and Newspaper (Bouteille de rhum et journal)
Juan Gris
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Pablo Picasso  
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Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc (Pipe, verre, bouteille de Vieux Marc)http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3432
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Man Ray
Silhouette
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http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/2602
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Max  Ernst
The Postman Cheval (Le Facteur Cheval), 1932
​http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/dettagli/pop_up_opera2.php?id_opera=129

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    Leila Houston (London, 1977) is a visual artist whose work investigates the social, political and historical aspects of a place.

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