500 Capp Street Foundation

2017 was a year filled with site-specific performance work, music, artist talks, exhibitions, workshops, and Yves Klein Blue student visits! Included here are just a few of our many fond memories from this year in review at The David Ireland House. We’re taking a look back this week as we approach celebrating our 5th anniversary this Friday! Let us know what you remember from 2017. Images: 1) Organic Logic (installation view) including works by Howard Fried, John Roloff, and... Mark Thompson, exhibition guest organized by Tanya Zimbardo. 2) Mark Thompson, A House Divided, 1989, included in Organic Logic. 3) Howard Fried, The First Prototype for a Clock of Commercial Significance, 1978, included in Organic Logic. 4) Fieldwork Collaborative discussing their spirits during one of the Organic Logic program series, 2017. 5) Earthly Bodies, a site-specific performance work scored by Brian Collentine, directed by Anna Halprin and performed by her movement lab, 2017. 6) Anna Halprin speaking to a crowd before the Earthly Bodies performance, 2017. 7) Workroom, Nayland Blake, 2017. 8) Nayland Blake brings The Spectre at large to haunt The Stud, 2017. 9) A student from UC Berkeley during a class tour, 2017 10) Isabel Nuñode Buen, Nightwalks, 2017. #davidirelandhouse #500cappstreet #historicartistshomesandstudios #sfartist #bayareaartist

We miss gathering, listening, learning, and laughing together in person! In 2017 artist Mark Thompson tested Bernie Lubell’s Somewhat in Doubt (2015) during the Organic Logic program series, an evening full of listening and laughing together. This three-part series was guest organized by Tanya Zimbardo and accompanied the inaugural project in The Garage, also titled Organic Logic, including works by Howard Fried, John Roloff, and Mark Thompson. #davidirelandhouse #500capps...treet #historicartistshomesandstudios #sfartist #bayareaartist * * * #tbt to last Thursday evening (March, 2017) during our final Organic Logic program. We loved seeing Mark Thompson try out Bernie Lubell's piece Somewhat in Doubt, 2015. Lubell created this work during a residency at Autodesk "After distributing a questionnaire asking people whether they decided how things turned out or whether their machines decided. The answers tended to the middle -- sometimes I decide, sometimes the machine does. The disappointing result revealed nothing about how anyone thought. Through a series of accidents, I wound up making a mechanized stool that was only stable leaning all the way right or left. The stool with ratchet and scales became a questionnaire that had no midpoint answer. It is a machine that makes you decide before you realize you have decided." #bernielubell #500cappstreet

Has it really been five years since we opened to the public? Our archive is filled with beatiful memories thanks to the many artists and supporters who we worked with and who contributed over the years. We’re using this week to take a look back since our opening day on January 15, 2016. Share with us what you remember from 2016! Images: 1) Mark Thompson’s Christening Action performance, January 15, 2016. 2) A crowd on opening weekend, 2016. 3) Kari Marboe’s boots after her ...20th Street performance between The David Ireland House and @southernexposuresf . 4) Kari Marboe’s letter to David Ireland, included in her performance and printed with ink from Ireland’s basement, 2016. 5) Haegen Crosby during his performance on opening weekend, 2016. 6) Installation view from Crosby’s performance during opening weekend, performance objects including in the Inagual Exhibition, 2016. 7) Visitors gathering for Douglas Dunn and Dancers @dunndance performing, 2016. 8) Douglas Dunn and Dancers performing in the evening, 2016. 9) Ursula Brookbank @ursula.brookbank , niece of David Ireland, and her late husband Jordan Biren performing in honor of Ireland’s birthday, 2016. 10) Smithsonian Falls, Descending a Staircase for P.K., David Ireland, 1987, included in the David Ireland exhibition, Walter and McBean, San Francisco Art Institute @sfaiofficial , 2016. #davidirelandhouse #500cappstreet #historicartistshomesandstudios #sfartist #bayareaartist