© Lisa Lipton, RRLL, video still (2025)
Lisa Lipton
Rhythm of Numbers
From November 19, 2026, to January 23, 2027
Opening on November 19 at 6 pm
Recipient of the PRIM-Dazibao production-dissemination residency (2023-2024)
Drawing on histories of conceptual art, percussive practice, and structural film, Lisa Lipton's exhibition Rhythm of Numbers considers drumming as a language, exploring how pattern and repetition are recorded and transmitted. Through sculpture and analogue film, Lipton approaches rhythm as a structural principle, tracing how a gesture becomes a beat, a beat becomes a mark, and how rhythm shapes the ways information is organized and remembered. Revisiting conceptual artist Ian Murray's Keeping on Top of the Top Song (1973), in which a drummer performs the first ten seconds of each of the decade’s top 100 charting songs, Lipton's film These Rhythms extends this inquiry into the cultural hierarchies and representational absences embedded within systems of ranking. Across the exhibition, the drum hit and the film frame stand as equivalent units of measure, each mark an index within a system by which sound, gesture, and time are counted.
Lisa Lipton’s practice ranges from film and sculpture to performance and sound. She holds an MFA from the University of Windsor and a BFA from NSCAD University, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently, her work has been shown in solo shows at TRUCK Contemporary Art, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary), the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts (Winnipeg). Lipton has received numerous residencies and awards, including shortlist recognition for the Sobey Art Award. Originally from Halifax / Kjipuktuk, she is based in Calgary / Mohkínstsis where she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at AUArts.
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From November 19, 2026, to January 23, 2027
Dazibao thanks the artist for her generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal. Dazibao acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples. Guided by ethics of respect, listening, and awareness, Dazibao commits to a continued reflection regarding the deep-rooted and systemic challenges tied to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts and beyond, and endeavors to apply such reflections to all aspects of its activities and governance.