The phrase "a sort of installation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or functions like an installation but may not fit the traditional definition.
Example: "The artist created a sort of installation that transformed the gallery space into an immersive experience."
Alternatives: "a type of installation" or "a kind of installation".
The bride turned the room where the ceremony took place into a sort of installation, first emptying it of all its furnishings, then hanging her paintings on the walls and creating a huppah from blossoming cherry boughs.
Suddenly, there seem to be lots of images of babies everywhere: a Chinese woman plays with a gleeful, noisy brat on a TV monitor; and images of a baby used as a sort of installation prop (he sits surrounded by cutlery, or squats inside the toilet bowl), recorded in a number of photos taken in a Warsaw flat in the early 1970s.
The weird, kinetic and dizzyingly ambitious Terror Nullius – a sort-of installation project and sort-of documentary from the two-person collective Soda_Jerk – is one of the Australian film events of the year.
There's no signup process, and, as it's a web app, it works across a ton of smartphones and mobile devices without any sort of installation.
At one point, he was kneeling on the wood floor, lighting candles and spilling some of the wax to create a sort of improvised installation art in front of a large display case containing a dress form swaddled in a motorcycle jacket.
It wasn't long before Basquiat's apartment -- a place he shared with his then-lover, Alexis Adler -- became a sort of living installation, filled with the marks of his fiery imagination.
And indeed, playing as a sort of temporary installation along a wall above a bathroom sink was the story of a man of Dutch extraction in the Australian outback whose ancestors came as part of a colonial wave, and then settled among Aboriginal people, in turn becoming both a symbol of assimilation and its limits.
Birth of a Nation - in which four artists offer their healing powers to a wounded nation - was greeted by hoots at the Royal Court as a skit on pretension: Monica Dolan's face gleams with foundation-free zeal; Toby Jones ('I do a sort of art performance installation sort of bonkers thing') is twisted like a corkscrew by the force of his jovial sincerity.
A sort of gesamtkunstwerk, Darboven's installation feels like a visual encyclopedia chronicling a menagerie of social, political, and personal histories of the artist.
Established in 1945, the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik (Frana Supila 23; 385-20-426-590; ugdubrovnik.hr) includes nearly 2,500 works, mostly tied to the region, from the transfixing oil portraits by Vlaho Bukovac, a sort of Croatian Manet, to an installation involving a faucet and a plastic elephant nose by the contemporary Split-bred artist Zlatan Dumanic (entry, 30 kuna). 2 p.m. 11.
