Slow, Queer, and Deep: A Regenerative Placemaking Workshop
“Be like the flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” —Bill Mollison What does it mean to be a regeneratively-minded media artist in a world dominated by speed and extraction? What does it mean to be queer/trans in a world ruled by ‘the marriage plot’? What does it mean to […]
labor & collective action as resistance
Join us for a teach-in on May 25th hosted at Human Resources! labor & collective action as resistance will explore how collective action can be applied to the spaces we inhabit. In awe of hundreds of organizing students and faculty across the US and beyond, we come together to share cooperative strategies as both lineage […]
HRLA Studies: Alan Poma “Art, Time And Rebellion In Ancient Americas”
Art, Time, and Rebellion in Ancient Americas is the second installment of HRLA Studies, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing, thought provocation, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other […]
Springing Studies
Springing Studies is the first installment of HRLA Studies, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing, thought provocation, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other HRLA programs at HRLA […]
Reading The Right to Maim
HRLA is hosting a two-part seminar dedicated to reading Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017). The Right to Maim, which argues that debilitation is a defining feature of settler colonialism, culminates in a devastating analysis of the production of Palestine as "available for injury." This seminar is an artist-centered reading group […]
So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure
Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources present So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure With guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) Due to popular demand, LA Filmforum and HRLA reprise the screening/lecture focussed on Palestinian films. Please provide proof of donation to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medical Aid […]
So Much I Want to Say: A Glimpse into Palestinian Erasure
Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources Los Angeles presentSo Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian ErasureScreening + Lecture PerformanceFor more info: https://www.lafilmforum.org/ With guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) Please provide proof of donation to Palestine Children's Relief Fund or Medical Aid for Palestinians for admission to […]
JD’s Preventing Harassment & Discrimination Training
While gallery sitting for Carlos Agredano's Smog Check, Jennifer Doyle will complete her state-mandated sexual harassment prevention training program, and livestream this exercise (via HRLA's Instagram account) while offering running commentary about the process. Doyle is the author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, a book which takes up the braiding of harassment and security dynamics. The […]
Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share & Wells Leng
This concert is presented in conjunction with Mirror Area, an exhibition of drawings by Michael Kennedy Costa (September 22 - 29, 2023). The Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share (LAWWSS) is a horizontally organized learning project that provides space for participants to learn about wind instruments through free improvisation. Wells Leng (1994-) is a multi-instrumentalist […]
Reading with José Muñoz
OnlineThis (online) seminar takes up the work of José Esteban Muñoz, a defining figure in queer theory, queer of color critique, and performance studies. We will read excerpts from his three books (Disidentifications, Cruising Utopia, and The Sense of Brown) to explore his key terms and the impact of his thinking on the work of […]
Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Studies for Artists
OnlineSaturday August 21, Sept 4, Sept 11 noon-2pm (note, schedule has shifted) Join us for a series of virtual seminars on Indigenous Studies as a paradigm for decolonial/anti-colonial art practices. This seminar will survey different threads of Indigenous Studies as a political, educational, and aesthetic movement. By engaging Michelle Raheja’s “Visual Sovereignty” as a praxis, […]