The Building Site: You Pay, I Pay, We Pay, This Is Payment // LFA

About

Explore the tiny Lithuanian forest installed in the square just in front of the St. Paul’s Cathedral, together with an outstanding performance of Milda Lembertaite and Amelia Prazak.

Milda Lembertaitė and Amelia Prazak, born in Lithuania and Switzerland respectively are a duo based in London. Their practice draws upon repeated themes concerning the interfacing between the body and technology. Where everyday objects of contemporary technology become subject to a playful shapeshifting; the flat screen at once mirror; a plane upon which to inscribe one's innermost desires, an extension of the self and a doppelganger for a piece of ancient black reflective rock.
This work sketches out the entwinements between our bodies and the shifting nature of the natural and urban landscape beneath our feet: the ever-undulating body of gentrification into which we find ourselves at sea; or dropping, like a stone pulled via gravity to the earth. However, unlike the stone, if we fall, we get a bruise.
 

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The Building Site is an urban intervention and design installation at the London Festival of Architecture. It questions the changing ownership of public space in London and invites to reflect on the impact of rapid urbanization on local communities and natural ecosystems. The installation occupies a significant piece of public space to create a new ‘building site’—a signature mark for London in transition. However, fenced off with construction site hoarding, The Building Site provides an unexpected forest-like experience inside.

We invite you to visit this hidden experimental garden in the heart of London and connect with the power of nature. Each weekend, The Building Site will host poetry readings, music performances, video screening, and debates. During these events, visitors will have a chance to explore the diverse and unique interpretations of human relation to nature.