Stasis
Within Horizon's Urban Gallery, 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.
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About the Urban Gallery
This work is part of the Festival Precinct, where we invite you to wander and wonder through our Urban Gallery every day of Horizon 2025.
Situated in Ocean St, Maroochydore (Kabi Kabi Country), you’ll find a diverse collection of works nestled into streets, laneways and Big Top Shopping Centre — blurring the lines between physical, artistic and digital realms.
Suitable for all ages, this free-to-enjoy 10-day art-trail will feature inspiring work from visionary Queensland and Australian contemporary artists, including First Nations artists.
Experimenta: Curatorial statement
The festival's provocation of radical hope is the inspiration for Experimenta's public art presentation. Radical hope is a transformative framework that challenges us to move beyond passive optimism, instead embracing collective action, shared goals and resilience.
Radical hope is rooted in the belief that social change emerges from community-driven efforts. It calls on diverse groups to coalesce, transcend societal limitations, and actively imagine and walk towards a just and equitable future.
The works featured in this presentation by Experimenta, as part of Horizon 2025, reflect this ethos. These works go beyond a single act of art making; they are part of long-term projects embodying the artists' acts of radical hope.
Creative Team
- Artist – Kenneth Lambert
- Experimenta Curator – Lubi Thomas
- Experimenta Creative Producer – Anna Nalpantidis
Kenneth Lambert
Lives and works on Wangal & Gadigal Peoples Country
Kenneth Lambert’s experimental practice embraces disintegrated matter and the inexorable expressions of the human condition. His conceptual approach captures the contemporary zeitgeist by transposing technological strategies to illuminate pressing social issues and the rising anxieties of our time. At the intersection of technology and the humanities, Lambert’s investigations delve into subjects like particle acceleration relating to climate change, and data visualisation technology, which he employs to investigate displaced narratives. His transdisciplinary practice spans digital media, film, expanded drawing, painting, installation, and performance.
With a professional background in museum and exhibition design, as well as film production, Lambert integrates his diverse skills into artistic practice. Since 2016, he has exhibited regularly in solo and group shows with notable ARIs and commercial galleries, including Artereal, Articulate Project Space, COMA, and Galerie Pompom. His work has been featured in award exhibitions across Europe, Australia, and the USA. His most recent commission, 'Without a Trace', for Edge X Biennale of Sydney, resulted in his work being showcased at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London as part of the international Lumen Prize.
In Australia, Lambert has been a finalist in prestigious awards such as the Churchie Emerging Artist Prize, the Alice Prize, the Dobell Drawing Prize, the Incinerator Gallery Prize for Art and Social Change, the Fisher’s Ghost Prize, the Kilgour Art Prize, and the Mosman Art Prize. Lambert has also participated in artist residencies across Europe and Australia. Most notably, he completed a 6-month self-directed residency with Amnesty International followed by a residency at Bundanon on the south coast of NSW, which culminated in the development of his latest surface painting series, Augmented Intervals. This body of work continues his exploration of memory, displacement and the human condition under strain.
Experimenta
Experimenta is Australia’s leading organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting and touring contemporary art driven by ideas and shaped by technology.
In the age of technological acceleration, Experimenta’s role is vital to understanding what it is to be human. Their programs, exhibitions, and events encourage the exploration of contemporary issues through visual arts engagement.
Lubi Thomas – Curator for Experimenta
Lubi Thomas is an experienced digital/new media curator whose practice has significantly contributed to the cultural landscape through exhibitions, projects, festivals, residencies, mentorships, and transdisciplinary programming.
With over forty exhibitions — several touring nationally and internationally — Lubi has extensive experience collaborating with a diversity of artists through various programming structures and deliverables. Her curation focus resides at the intersection of ‘Art – Technology – Science – Society’, allowing her to engage with artists who explore cutting-edge art forms, tools, and concepts relevant to the issues of the environment and society. Lubi’s adaptable approach to curation, programming, and presentation has enabled her to successfully showcase projects in both traditional galleries and unconventional spaces.
Lubi’s key curation tenet is that Art is a language of ideas, and through this she aims to present contemporary art that ignites emotional and intellectual responses within the broader community.
Acknowledgements
Stasis is curated by Experimenta and presented by Horizon 2025 as part of the Festival Precinct Urban Gallery supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland Big Top Shopping Centre.
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.
This work is presented outdoors in the evening for a standing audience.
It is suitable for all ages and there are a number of food and beverage options along Ocean Street.
Wheelchair Accessibility
This event is wheelchair accessible.
Level Access
This event will take place in a public place on Ocean St, Maroochydore, where there is level access.
Bathroom Access
This event takes place in a public space. The closest public facilities are available inside the Big Top Shopping Centre, Solbar, Old Soul and other open restaurants along Ocean Street.
Any other access requirements
We welcome all audiences to Horizon and strive to make every event and performance as accessible as possible.
We are always open to discussing your individual requirements to assist wherever possible. If you’d like to speak to someone about your access requirements, please contact us during business hours at (07) 5475 7272 or [email protected].
If you are travelling by car there is free, three-hour parking available at the Big Top Shopping Centre carpark located on Ocean Street. Parking is limited, we advise you use alternative transport, carpool or park and walk.
Solbar is within easy walking distance of the Maroochydore Station Bus Interchange. Plan your journey to festival from the Translink Website.
Car Parking is limited on Ocean Street so ride your bike to the Duporth Ave bike parking hub. You can lock your bike in the Council facility that has 24hr security cameras active.