Kenneth Lambert
Stasis

Kenneth Lambert, Stasis, 2023. Curated by Experimenta in partnership with Horizon Festival.

Discover how to visit ‘Stasis’ at Horizon Festival here

Stasis combines generative art and data visualisation as a medium for expressing complex human stories, fostering connection, and building understanding and compassion across communities.

Starting from a series of data portraits presenting the stories of refugee and asylum-seeking youths in Australia, Stasis presents these personal stories of displacement and prolonged detention in the form of disintegrated interviews. Lambert manipulates the original data to a place of distillation and fragmentation – a level of abstraction – that allows the audience to hear, see, and then move beyond the individual stories to a place of shared humanity.

By humanising data and amplifying the voices of marginalised communities, Stasis seeks to foster empathy among strangers and reveal the transformative power of art to build bridges of understanding and social change.

Artist: Kenneth Lambert
Experimenta Curator: Lubi Thomas
Experimenta Creative Producer: Anna Nalpantidis

Funding credits

This project was created in collaboration with STARTTS and supported by Amnesty International and Australia for UNHCR. Stasis was made possible through the support of Create NSW and Creative Australia.