Karolina Lebek & Susannah Stark | Unnatural Wealth | Dusk #9

About

Susannah Stark and Karolina Lebek present new work exploring empire, language and spam, culminating in a hybrid installation with sound, moving image and live performance, made in various locations in Scotland and London.

Exploring the growth of luxury apartments and residential properties in areas shaped by interwoven histories and the cohabitation of low-income communities, the work will focus on the changing relationship of women to domestic space with regard to such luxury developments - existing as the backdrop for conversation about the relationship to the home, a ‘haunting’ of the idyll. Aiming to recast such architecture as mutating virtual projection, hollowed out and reinserted with voices both real and imagined, there is a constant oscillation between two-and three- dimensions, alluding to material instabilities. Using sound as a sculptural material they aim to bring about a situation where the boundaries of public and private spaces blur and the voices of past and present could interface with one another, creating a palpable illusion of space in the disjunction between digital visuals and low-fi sound effects.