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Ghost Tower
Beginning at 8:00 PM OCTOBER 27 1978 at the San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Richard Irwin will perform an action taking place in SFAI TOWER. The entire action may be witnessed LIVE via Video on a monitor located inside STUDIO 10 (inside…
Installation at his house
Bearing an address rather than a title, David Ireland’s major project of the past five years is an endeavor of distinctly personal archeology and architectural preservation. In 1975 Ireland became the third owner of a two-story Victorian house at 500…
David Ireland's House
“It is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that I place the following pages before the public; but those of my friends who happen to have heard of my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so often urged me to write an account of my…
The Restoration of a Portion of the Black Wall, Ceiling, and Floor of the Main Gallery of the Museum of Conceptual Art
In 1975 I did a show called “Second Generation” with artists who had been students of the artists of my generation. One of the artists [Daryl Sapien] painted a large section of the back wall, ceiling, and floor white to set up a space for…
Reconstruction of a Portion of the Sidewalk at 500 Capp Street
The first work that honored his identification of the ordinary as an idea for art was the repair of the sidewalk outside 500 Capp Street in 1976. His preparation of the site, mixing and pouring of concrete, and subsequent restoration of the sidewalk…
Street Virus
In conjunction with 80 Langton Street’s outdoor month, I installed a series of sidewalk drawings in tempera and powdered pigments. These “drawings,” created specifically for the corner of Folsom and Langton Streets were extended and modified weekly…
Within the Nucleus
Two performers wearing video camera headmounts assembled a thirty-two foot tall double helix ladder suspended on a floor to ceiling armature of tightened ropes. Inside a cylindrical plastic curtain each performer ascended his red or green ladder as…
Summer Offensive
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Synthetic Ritual
Opposing forces, represented by two performers painted opposite colors, emerge from walls at either end of a room. Blindfolded and connected to ropes extending from the walls they meet at the center of the room inside a circle of steer manure where…
Split-Man Bisects the Pacific
Split Man Bisects the Pacific seemed an epic reenactment of some forgotten myth or legend. It took place on a foggy night at the bottom of the “Lands End” cliffs west of the Golden Gate. There Sapien had built a white wooden wheel nine…