Author: 500 Capp Street the David Ireland House

Thursday, October 27, 2016

LET’S GET WEIRD! is an audio/visual program activated throughout the entire David Ireland House. The night features curated videos, music and performances alongside a guest bartender, LET’S GET WEIRD! creates a fun atmosphere for conversation and engagement among local art enthusiasts and practitioners. This series of events is co-organized by the Foundation’s curatorial team, Diego Villalobos and Bob Linder. A short run edition of Risograph posters will be printed by COLPA press.

The idea for LET’S GET WEIRD! is rooted in David Ireland’s legacy as an active member of the Bay Area arts community and as a frequent host to events like this at his 500 Capp Street home.

The night features:

Artist Bartender: Will Rogan

Video Selection : Anne McGuire (I’d like to reach across the ocean)

Music Selection: V. Vale (RE/Search Publications)

+ “a young punk” aka Pedro Verdin, Bay Area Punk from 1977-79 via YouTube.

Bob Nickas:100 Paintings / 100 Years (1915–2015)
Thursday, November 3, 2016

New York based curator, author, and critic Bob Nickas has been writing about art since 1984 and is widely considered among the boldest and most influential voices in the field. He established index magazine in 1996 with artist Peter Halley and has organized exhibitions of work by artists including Peter Hujar, Lee Lozano, Stephen Shore, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Christopher Wool.  In this tour-de-force lecture, he chronologically profiles 100 paintings—one painting per year—engaging with art history as a game of exquisite corpse.

Lawrence Rinder on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Lawrence Rinder, Director and Chief Curator of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, has curated and written extensively about the work of Korean-American avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who engaged with notions of identity and displacement.  She created a small but mature body of work before her death in 1982. In this lecture, Rinder discusses her multi-disciplinary practice and screened some of the artist’s short films.

Margaret Tedesco: Punctuation from the Archive
Thursday, December 15, 2016

How does an archive begin—is it an active decision to become a keeper of collective memory?

Since the 1980’s artist and curator Margaret Tedesco has been developing an extensive archive of ephemera, zines, books, works on paper and objects, with particular interest in poetry, performance and queer phenomenology.

Upon walking into Tedesco’s apartment in 1995 the late artist Ann Chamberlain simply panned the living room that contained her archive and said: “These stacks seem to be well-massaged.”

For her presentation, Punctuation from the Archive, Tedesco highlights a history of performance, as well as ephemera and objects from her collection and discussed her relationship to the archive as collaborator.

The best way to observe my archive: tripping down the rabbit hole, no focus, losing attention.

The archive plays itself.

Thursday, December 29, 2016

A fantastic night that features:

• VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, Vain Hein, Qween, Silk Worm, and Meredeath
• Live show by the Bay Area’s most experimental Drag Queens  with lip-syncs inspired by the work of David Ireland.
• A “DUMB BALL” where the drag queens hit the David Ireland House-as-runway and werk, werk, werked it out!
• Featured video work by Meredeath was on view in the Accordion Shop.
• A special cocktail made by Veruca Bathsalts was so delicious that guests were “OKAYY GURRRRLLL-ing” while they listened to the gayest DJ set by Siobhan Aluvalot (GAYFACE) ever heard (voguing was encouraged).
• We had free The Punch Press is DRAG! short-run edition posters, printed by COLPA press.

Booth A16, Pier 70
January 13 – 15, 2017

The 500 Capp Street Foundation participates in the UNTITLED, Art Fair in San Francisco featuring: The premiere of David Ireland’s Schemes (1988)

The 500 Capp Street Foundation is pleased to present, for the first time, Schemes, a series of nine works on paper by David Ireland. The original works on paper, a mixture of collaged photographs, graphite and paint, are from a series of proposed site-work schemes that Ireland created for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1988. In our UNTITLED booth, a commissioned series of all nine archival pigment artist proof prints was on display.