a spiral fuels and fills at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco

I’m honored to have been a part of a cohort of artists assembled by yétúndé ọlágbajú during 2024 in conjunction with their year-long residency at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco. Culminating in an exhibition a spiral fuels and fills opens November 9 and is on view until January 9. Developed over ọlágbajú's yearlong residency, a spiral fuels and fills features bronze sculpture, video, textile works, and a sound installation, co-developed with ten other artists. 

Collaborating artists for the sound installation include Tyler Holmes, eli meza, Avé-Ameenah, Hazel Katz, Lois Bielefeld, Titania Kumeh, mata flores, Slant Rhyme, Rian Crane, and tiffany m. johnson. 

And there is an incredible zine! I'll be out there for the Dec 9 event but send me video footage in the meantime. I'm delighted to be a part of this brilliant group of artists all in conversation about what resistance looks like. 

My audio piece on view:
Predominantly a personal narrative, For Jack, weaves together seemingly disparate ideas through the common thread of repetition and difference. The work alludes to the movement of the spiral: looping by nature, but the course is always slightly shifting, honing to a central point. The differences in repetition super-charge and highlight potential. Interrogating what we inherit, Bielefeld also questions the typical arc of action/climax/resolution within musical composition and storytelling, and instead stakes a claim for the ambiguous and murky middle. Bielefeld references critical writers and thinkers, Gaston Bachelard and Sara Ahmed, and their thinking about the imprint of home on memory and how we orientate and face with a queer lens.

November 9, 2024 – January 9, 2025
Free opening reception:
November 9, 2024; 2-5pm.

a lament (performance event)
Monday, December 9, 2024
Doors open at 5:30pm, event at 6pm
$20 general, NOTALF (limited tickets)

500 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110