The Centre for Culture and Technology presents
counterfoil
Sarah Holloway | Matt Nish-Lapidus | Everest Pipkin | Véronique Sunatori & SK Maston (Vyk Productions)
Curated by Talia Golland
counterfoil will be on view at the Centre’s Coach House through November 30, 2026. To visit the exhibition outside of regularly scheduled gallery hours, contact cultureandtech
The Centre for Culture and Technology is delighted to announce counterfoil (October 9–November 30, 2026). Curated by Talia Golland, this group exhibition at the Centre’s Coach House features works by artists Sarah Holloway, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Everest Pipkin, and Véronique Sunatori & SK Maston (Vyk Productions). Curated by Talia Golland, this project responds to the Centre’s 2026-2027 programming theme of “Convivial Computing”, which highlights aesthetic, technical, cultural, and social practices that foster ways of living and doing differently against the backdrop of the radical monopoly of networked, always-on, always-on-us computational technologies.
The exhibition’s title comes from philosopher Ivan Illich, who in his 1973 book Tools for Conviviality proposed the concept of “counterfoil research”: an analytical framework used to “clarify and dramatize the relationship of people to their tools.” Multimedia installations by artists Holloway, Nish-Lapidus, Pipkin, and Sunatori & Maston (Vyk Productions) offer speculative and creative reconfigurations of computational devices, communication infrastructures, and networked technologies. Encountered within staged tableaus and slow-crafted from salvaged tech detritus, natural materials, and basic code, these archaeologies of imagined futures tell stories of small-scale agency within and beyond the socio-technological present’s seemingly foreclosed horizon.