Description
A digital video oral history with conceptual artist David Ireland that takes place at 500 Capp Street, the house he has restored and which serves as a showplace for his art: background on family and education; Hunter Africa, African influences; acquiring the house, insights into ownership, documenting initial decisions; materials used in making art, concrete, wax, wallpaper, dirt; accumulations of brooms, shoes, hair, air; the dumb balls, demonstrated; collectors and galleries; beliefs about art.
Supplementary material: catalogs, reviews, background information.
Videocassettes: tape 1: 60 minute version of interview; tape 2: 15 minute version of interview; tape 3: What follows: visiting artists, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, David Ireland interview, 1992 (30 min.); tape 4: David Ireland, 500 Capp Street: a House with Much Tea, Laura J. Hoffman, director, producer, camera, 1996 (35 min.).