METAL_UPA performs as an archive assemblage entity, live voice narration entangled with Max/MSP rave data sonification and TouchDesigner audiovisuals, enacting a Cthulucene proposition: that oddkin can build their own archival systems from thing-power, with the will to proliferate outside dominant structures.

An archive is never neutral. It is a boundary-drawing practice, deciding what remains, what dissolves, and whose energy is considered worth preserving. This performance lecture asks what happens when subcultures are constantly redrawn by extractive powers, and how natural growth and biomimicry can reclaim open-source archives through experimental mediums. From a website to a spatial installation, it draws from alternative archival forms like the quipu or plant memory, which behave more like a weatherproof nervous system than a linear, local save.

↗Ambedo Field, the output from this ideology, is part-archiver, part-performer mechanical noise installation capturing the immaterial energy of bodies in sound subcultures, translating atmospheric data of temperature, humidity, and carbon monoxide into a situational sonic field. Since 2023, it has captured rave energy in London, China, and Singapore.

The lecture ends with Field Guide for Oddkin: a framework of world, forest, tree, branches and nodes, a proposal for archives in the post-truth realities of today.