Join us Friday, May 8th for an improvisational sound installation and performance featuring artist and musician Joel St. Julien. St. Julien will activate the David Ireland House in a musical dialogue that responds to Trina Michelle Robinson's parlor room installation, Liberation Through Redaction. This performance marks the beginning of a series of activations taking place between 500 Capp Street and Root Division—the two venues hosting Robinson's dual-sited exhibition, Open Your Eyes to Water. NOTAFLOF

Joel St. Julien (he/him) is a Haitian-American composer, sound and video artist based in San Francisco. Joel has written music for documentaries, short / feature films, podcasts, and dance. He is a firm believer in experimentation/fusion with acoustic and electronic elements in sound oscillating through escapism and the mysticism of the present tense: music both being art and spiritual practice. Joel has shared music at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Stanford University’s CCRMA, Gray Area, CounterPulse Festival, Land and Sea Gallery, Re:Sound, Cone Shape Top Center for Arts and Music, The Lab, and Kadist Gallery. His music has also been featured and reviewed in Resident Advisor, The Wire, Disquiet, KQED, Foxy Digitalis, a closer listen, Dublab, and many more. Joel has released music independently and on Land and Sea, Dragon's Eye Recordings, Beached Records, and CST Imprint.

Trina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco-based visual artist. Her work has been exhibited at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, ICA San José, Minnesota Street Project, New York’s Wassaic Project, Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and For-Site’s Black Gold: Stories Untold. Her work is also included in Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, a traveling exhibition co-curated by Tia Blassingame and Stephanie Sauer, which was at San Francisco Center for the Book in 2024 and in Atlanta in 2025. She had a solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a Smithsonian Affiliate. Robinson is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and was recently nominated for the 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) Award. Her print series Ghost Prints of Loss is included in the book Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?, published in 2023 by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. She received her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2022.

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