EMILIE
HOUSSART
House Suit
From Anomalies series
This performance work entangles commercial home construction, the forest and the white female body in the Hudson Valley landscape. An unviable evolutionary anomaly of our times, this wandering hybrid is constricted to basic rectilinear motions. The performance draws in themes of safety and survival, and entangles witnessing, voyeurism and surveillance.
Salvaged materials: MDF trim, wood-look vinyl flooring, air conditioning pipes, stair banister, electrical wire, guttering, shelf brackets, pressed wood cabinet door, steel pipe, plastic outlet cover, hinges.
House Suit, video, 2021
Wildlife cameras and cellphone, approx. 5 minutes.



House Suit video stills
House Suit, live performance for Transient Shelters at Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, 2021
Audience devices, infrared binoculars, approx. 3 hours







Witness documentation