Sentence examples for installation playing from inspiring English sources

The first was the opening of David Byrne's installation, Playing the Building, at the Roundhouse in London.

On August 7 the musician and general avant gardeist will be here to premiere his interactive sound installation, Playing the Building, at the Roundhouse in North London.

Well before Talking Heads officially disbanded in 1991, Mr. Byrne had begun a busy solo career that has encompassed song albums, soundtrack scores, films and artworks like his current installation, "Playing the Building".

The sunk-in-darkness installation plays up the underground, lunar aspects of Cornell's art and life, but there was sunlight in the picture too.

Michael Ricardo Andreev's multifaceted wall installation plays wonderful romanticized, seafaring, mythological mind games, while in "Crusades" (1958) Joop Sanders takes us back down to the nitty-gritty of Abstract Expressionism.

Her installation plays havoc with the stuff of prepubescent feminine dreams: a life-size stuffed-doll horse lies on the floor as if dead; an assortment of frilly sachets serve as pedestals for toy race cars.

According to the museum, the installation "plays with time and space, guiding the public through constantly changing stages of light, sound and moving elements".

Although created before the recent Ebola outbreak, the installation plays on our fears of the microbiological and our sense of powerlessness when confronted by nature".

Other installations play with personal space: the sculptor Ry Rocklen's tiled floor piece speaks to the work of the mosaic artist who is hosting him, and Bettina Hubby (above) has created curtains - depicting her "living" inside a Montecito Tudor - that will hang outside the windows, "providing privacy for the owners but exposing me," she says.

His immersive installations play on viewers' perception of subtle differences in the gradation of light, and several of his most intense works plunge visitors into what at first appears to be total darkness.

The resulting installations played with space, breaking it up in new ways for people to experience, and offering a glimpse into another world.