Amitié: Joyce Burstein and Léonie Guyer — Film & Video Program @ 500 Capp Street

In conjunction with its current exhibition Amitié: Joyce Burstein & Léonie Guyer, 500 Capp Street is pleased to present a program of films and videos selected by the artists in the spirit of David Ireland’s conceptual practice. Burstein and Guyer’s choices comprise works which have a relationship to Ireland’s aesthetic and ethos of allowing a thing to be beautiful and meaningful in itself—using economy of means, found materials and phenomena. These works share a regard for humble yet transformative actions constructed with rigor, extraordinary attentiveness, and subtle humor.

The program opens with the premiere of two short videos of David Ireland in action, made by Rebeca Bollinger when she was his student at the San Francisco Art Institute, and newly edited. Rarely screened works of the Bay Area Conceptual Art movement—which arose in the late 1960s and flourished in the 1970s—will be shown along with key works made by artists active in New York and elsewhere during this vibrant period.

The program expands on the exhibition’s leitmotif of Amitié, (friendship), a term used by Proust in recognition of the profound connections we apprehend between things. Tickets can be reserved here.