Art Metropole

19 Feb. 2025

Reactivating the Archive 4: Garrett Lockhart on Maurizio Nannucci’s Lives Here

Time

6:00-8:00PM

Mark your calendars! Art Metropole’s lecture series Reactivating the Archive continues into 2025.

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. Featuring talks on works published in the 1980s, 2000s, and 2010s, the next events in the series begin to move us beyond Art Metropole’s origins to speak to more recent AM publications.

Reactivating the Archive events will take place on the following dates:

February 19: Garrett Lockhart on Maurizio Nannucci’s Lives Here (1987)
March 13: Fan Wu on Terence Koh’s A Beaver Tail (2008)
April 16: Kiera Boult on Walter Scott’s Wendy Critical Reader (2013)
May 7: Matt Nish-Lapidus on Duane Linklater’s untitled walk (2014)

Please join us on Wednesday February 19th from 6–8PM for the first Reactivating the Archive event of 2025, in which artist Garrett Lockhart will respond to Maurizio Nannucci’s artist book Lives Here. Published by Art Metropole and Ottenhausen Verlag in 1987, Lives Here indexes images of artists’ front doors, photographed by Nannucci between 1975 and 1985. Lockhart’s reactivation of Lives Here will take the form of a collective mail art action, drawing inspiration from their interactions with addresses and front doors as a postal worker. Seating for this event is limited, so please come early to ensure that you secure a seat.

Garrett Lockhart is an artist investigating the home, the body, and the heart. Recent solo exhibitions include Shine at Pangée (Montreal, CA), The World Awake at South Parade (London, UK), Wrinkle at Hunt Gallery (Toronto, CA), Relay at Pumice Raft (Toronto, CA) and Wrought Bundle at Afternoon Projects (Vancouver, CA). Recent duo/group exhibitions include To pluck eternity along the lines of circadian rhythm at Susan Hobbs (Toronto, CA), a little, left over at Weatherproof (Chicago, USA), Doing Time at South Parade (London, UK), Dawn Draws, Dusk Drops at Joys (Toronto, CA), A word for underfoot; the sun at Hunt Gallery (Toronto, CA), and Poem Objects at April April (Brooklyn, USA).

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Lives Here Mauriozio Nannucci, front.