Art Metropole

07 May 2025

Reactivating the Archive 7: Matt Nish-Lapidus on Duane Linklater's untitled walk

Time

6:00-8:00 PM

Please join us on Wednesday May 7th from 6–8PM for Reactivating the Archive 7, in which artist Matt Nish-Lapidus will be responding to Duane Linklater’s record untitled walk, published by Art Metropole in 2014. untitled walk is a recording documenting walks that Duane Linklater embarked on near his home in North Bay Ontario. Linklater was searching for a specific bird with a specific song — a song known as sikwan to the Omaskêkowak people who use this word to refer to a specific period in the spring season. Please join us at Art Metropole for a collective listening engagement followed by a talk and activation by Matt Nish-Lapidus.

Reactivating the Archive is a series of artist talks and performance lectures by artists and curators responding to works published by Art Metropole over our 50-year history. This series expands Art Metropole’s past lecture series Activating the Archive, which ran from 1989–1995.

Matt Nish-Lapidus’ varied practice probes the myth that computers should be useful rather than beautiful through examining contemporary technoculture and its histories, politics, and impacts. His work results in diverse outputs including publications, recordings, installations, performances, software, and objects. Matt has performed and exhibited with ACUD Macht Neu, Electric Eclectics, MOCA (Toronto), InterAccess, ZKM, and more, including many DIY community spaces. You can find Matt online and away-from-keyboard under various aliases and collaborations including emenel, New Tendencies, and .