Home Balance

Interactive installation, Custom built inflatable bounce house, 4-Channel High Definition Video with Sound, Duration: 10 min 30 sec. Loop, Aspect Ratio 16:9, 2 Ch Stereo.

Home Balance was a commission for CounterCurrent 2016 by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.  

Home Balance morphs a children’s bouncy house into a contemporary art project about balance presented indoors and outdoors over the course of 4 nights during the festival of April 2016. A large inflatable bouncy house—like the one popping up on your neighbor’s lawn heralding the arrival of a child’s noisy birthday party—is custom built with walls that become glowing film screens. The walls are illuminated by videos of our family inside our own home: the artists and their children jumping up and down, breaking things, hitting their heads against the ceiling, knocking over furniture, falling, creating complete havoc. 

As the private space of the family home is made public for everyone to see, visitors can enter and bounce in the midst of the images. In a bouncy house, the goal is to maintain stability in an environment not designed for stability, while our real homes are designed for stability that our home-life can never attain. Home Balance questions what constitutes a home, and draws on childhood games to explore how family interactions challenge the desire to maintain orderly control of the structures in which we dwell.

Ten Tiny Dancers

Invited by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts to choreograph a performance for ‘Ten Tiny Dances.’ This work was a new Original Professional Choreography work in addition to a new video work titled “Home.” The work premiered at the MATCH arts center during the CounterCurrent16 festival. Choreographed by Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Gillian Bowen, Josh, Egula, Ariel Montemayor, and Thu-Mai Nguyen.