MGM Grand: NUT
NUT is structured like a nut: a fruit with a skin, meat, and a seed. NUT speaks to our relationship with dance, as practice and as a discipline. NUT is MGM’s first dance created during the winter months. It questions the aesthetics of produced dance, and how it is expected to affect an audience and a venue. NUT takes cues from diverse performance cultures and historical influences such as Motown, elements of the mid-90’s NYC dance improvisation scene and Tommy DeFrantz's dance class for undergraduates at MIT.
Dorian Wood and Dave Dominique of Killsonic
pick one day for an opera and Dave Dominique to perform for a night
The Action Bureau: Free Clinic #1
Free Clinic #1 Organized by The Action Bureau Joe Deutch Jeff Huckleberry Jamie McMurry THE ACTION BUREAU is pleased to present FREE CLINIC #1, the first installment in a forthcoming series which features new works in performance by contemporary artists. FREE CLINIC #1 will take place on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 from 7pm-10pm and is […]
mal-dis-tri-bu-tion – Scott Benzel
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAmal-dis-tri-bu-tion
n. Faulty distribution or apportionment, as of resources, over an area or among a group. Maldistribution is a term generally applied to economic disparity: It most often refers to
the inequal distribution of resources or capital.
It is a term that also suggests ‘bad’ distribution- a common complaint of producers of cultural artifacts: records, films, mass-produced objects. In this context, it refers to a lack of wide commercial availability of a specific product, usually through the fault of the distributor. Maldistribution has poor consequences for mass-produced objects and good consequences for their opposite in the realm of distribution: objects of art.
Queering Sex
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAQueering Sex is a performance and video exhibition that features the work of artists who are dealing with gender and sexuality. This cross-generational, trans-historical video program explores sex and sexuality via ideas and actions related to performance, and thereby highlighting a relationship between performativity and identity. The exhibition includes the participation of over 40 artists from Los […]
NewVillager’s Temporary Culture – Residency and Performance
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAN INSTALLATION AT HUMAN RESOURCES GALLERY DESIGNED FOR LIVING, SLEEPING, PERFORMING, AND AN INSTALLATION AT HUMAN RESOURCES GALLERY DESIGNED FOR LIVING, SLEEPING, PERFORMING, AND GOING THROUGH STAGES OF CULTURE.
Rats / Tes Elations / Town Hall (NY) / The Relatives (NY)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASome really great bands! 5pm (Early Show) $5 cover Rats - http://www.ratstheband.com/ Tes Elations - http://www.facebook.com/teselations Town Hall - http://townhall.bandcamp.com/ The Relatives - http://relatives.bandcamp.com/
Say You’re An Artist – Mark Roeder and Johnnie Cochran Middle School Artists
Human Resources is pleased to present Say You’re an Artist, an exhibition of new and recent work by art students from Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Middle School. Organized by artist and teacher Mark Roeder, the exhibition will feature a collaborative installation process.
Paul Pescador
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAPaul Pescador May 14-June 1, 2011 Opening May 14, 7-10pm. Film will screen promptly at 9pm. In 1, 1 1/2, 2, the space will be used as a theater, art gallery, and screening room simultaneously. The show explores the relationship between live events, performances, everyday objects, and their photographic documents. These photographic documents are then used as the source material for the […]
Nuts in May
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAAnh Do and Kate Shoults present NUTS IN MAY Sound + performances by JON BRUMIT and DAVID SCOTT STONE Dance performance by WIFE Readings by WOLFBOY JOHN TOTTENHAM and ALEXANDER ZEVIN Dancing with DJ DINER plus FARMER DAVE'S HOT NUTS FREE
May Day Eve: Re-Opening Event
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAHuman Resources officially re-opens at its new Chinatown location, the former Cottage Home Gallery. On the eve of May Day, the re-opening event celebrates the inclusion of performance diversity with a full program of innovative theater, dance, performance art and music. The performance program begins with the dance collective, WIFE, founded and choreographed by Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristin Leahy, and Nina McNeely. Multi-faceted artist and performer, Asher Hartman, whose work engages a wide range of mediums including theater, painting and video, follows with a presentation of his thirty minute play, “The All Stars of Non-Violet Communication.” Experimental prog rock duo, Totally Serious, comprised of Jesse Appelhans (Modern Drummer Magazine’s Top Ten Prog Drummer) and bassist, Eric Kiersnowski, plays a set. Artist Paul Waddell, who has shared his boundary-pushing interactive performance nationally, also performs. Waddell is followed by the uplifting musical sounds of artist and musician Daniela Sea, Will Schwartz (of Imperial Teen), Patty Schemel and Bo Boddie Band. The program ends with a dance performance choreographed by widely acclaimed Ryan Heffington featuring the Ladyboys of Sweaty Sundays. A homemade soda by Eden Batki will be available for purchase throughout the evening. Doors open at 7pm. Admission is free.
Vessel: Suzanne Wright and Tony Payne
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAArtist Curated Projects is pleased to present the work of Tony Payne and Suzanne Wright. Each artists' work is inherently concerned with the body though their approach to the subject is vastly different.
Using text, Tony Payne’s work explores both the actual letterforms and their various levels of context - the text / image is rendered in a painterly fashion - using hand made materials (pigment) with elements directly related to the body (it's host, the interior), saliva, blood, semen. Words (often parts of lyrics, found text or elements of the artist's dreams) subconsciously emerge to become subjects. The letters somehow both stand for, and come from the body, mirroring the struggles (the elation, the power) within.
MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC!
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAChiara Giovando Mortbaladam L.A. TEX Oscar Santos Dawn Kasper Corey Fogel Thursday March 24th, 2011 Human Resources at Cottage Home 410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012-1415 doors open at 8pm show starts at 9pm BYOB $3 donation see you soon lovers love, HR
The Activity of Collectivity: Panel Discussion
This discussion includes artists, writers and curators who initiate collaborative projects through forms as varied as open-source schools, experimental curatorial and exhibition programs, and new publishing platforms. A central question will be to investigate how the activity of collectivity might generate new aesthetic forms or models today. Panelists: Miles Coolidge, moderator Stacey Allan, East of […]
Tree Farm (Video From Oregon)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CADitch Projects of Springfield, Oregon is pleased to present you with
Tree Farm, a collection of video art from Oregon. Combining the
efforts of both established and emerging artists, Tree Farm explores
Oregonian approaches to narrative and document, providing a telling
(if not thorough) portrayal of the Wonderland experience.
Divine Violence
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWhy are we attracted to violence? Why are we repulsed by it?
Can we find representations of the sort of invisible, systemic, “objective” violence that Zizek articulates in his book Violence? Does that help anything? Is the “dialectic of concealment and revelation,” as Maggie Nelson writes, crucial to our understanding (and mitigation) of violence?
Is some form of violence helpful or even necessary to achieve social or political change? In other words, can violence ever be justified (something Walter Benjamin does under the aegis of Divine Violence)?
Divining Power
music by: KINGDOM NGUZUNGUZU TOTAL FREEDOM with: a performance of not knowing by Vincente Colomar - from Madrid and Dawn Kasper It's our last hurrah at 510 Bernard so come dressed for the occasion and have a drink and a dance...
Crying Over Spilled Milk
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAALEXIS DISSELKOEN BRIAN GETNICK PAUL PESCADOR Organized by Paul Pescador Crying Over Spilled Milk, is a one night performance event featuring the work of Alexis Disselkoen, Brian Getnick, and Paul Pescador, Crying Over Spilled Milk, will focus on site-specific situational and interactive performances. The event will examine the creation of performative objects as a means […]
SASSAS Presents: Kim Myhr and Jim Denley
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA(LOS ANGELES) SASSAS is pleased to announce Ad Hoc, a new concert series presented in collaboration with the Chinatown based collective, Human Resources. Ad Hoc #1 takes place Friday, October 22, 2010 at Human Resources’ space in Chinatown and features the renowned experimental musicians Kim Myhr (Norway), Jim Denley (Australia) performing as Mural, and local […]
Two Performances w/Nicholas Grider, Ryan Majestic, Aaron Drake, David Earle, Elana Mann, and Juliana Snapper
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAMasculinity Cycle (Houdini) Nicholas Grider with Ryan Majestic Wed. Oct. 20th, 8pm Human Resources, 510 Bernard in Chinatown For this performance I'll restage a famous Houdini rope challenge which goes like this: three audience volunteers tie me to a chair with 100 feet of rope. Then I escape (probably). Where Houdini would have moved on, […]
Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin: A 16mm Installation by Mariah Garnett
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAMariah Garnett at Human Resources 510 Bernard St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012. October 8-19, 2010. Opening Reception: October 8, Closing Reception: October 19 info@humanresourcesla.com 213-290-4752 Gallery hours are 12-6 pm, Thursday through Saturday and by appointment Human Resources are pleased to host: Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin a 16mm […]
Rocky Point Press with Aimee Bender and Eileen Myles
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAReadings by Aimee Bender and Eileen Myles hosted by Rocky Point Press https://vimeo.com/19489038
Collective Show (NYC)
Participant, Inc. 253 East Houston St, New York, NYCOLLECTIVE SHOW is an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art collectives. This collaboratively curated "group show of group shows" features local artist-run spaces, independent curatorial initiatives, not-for-profit endeavors and web-based groups established in the last decade. Collective Show is an open-source project sponsored by Silvershed, an artist-run project space in New York and Los Angeles. The […]
Puppetry and Music w/Embarrassing Powers and Friends
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAJoin EMBARRASSING POWERS for a night of hypnotic puppetry and electronics, with members of howardAmb, blackblack, LA Fog and Chicken Skin Ranch. With a KILLER Lineup including: MISSINCINATTI docking in Chinatown, fresh from the desert http://www.myspace.com/missincinatti STLS drumcore from Portland http://www.myspace.com/stls ANNA OXYGEN getting the psychedelic dance party started! http://www.myspace.com/annaoxygen
Million Brazillians, Coppertone, Practice Band, Street Buddy, Fried Drugs, Idaho Joe Windslow
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAA rare program of punk and experimental sound and music, curated by Trulee Grace Hall.
Thee Snow Snake Orchestra, Jason Triefenbach, Cooperation
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAHuman Resources presents: In conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's interactive exhibition, The Birth of Satan, a night of music and performance art with Thee Snow Snake Orchestra, Jason Triefenbach, and Cooperation. The night will be DJ'd by the illustrious Quinn Brayton. Thee Snow Snake Orchestra - headed by Don Bolles, with 45 Grave member Paul Roessler. […]
Ghost Assisted Drawings (Christian Cummings and Michael Decker), Manlicher Carcano
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAIn conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's Birth of Satan exhibition, we present a performance of Ghost Assisted Drawings as performed by Christian Cummings and Michael Decker, and Manlicher Carcano's record release for This Is Really Happening Vol. 1 on Pleonasm Music. The evening starts at 9pm, and admission is Free! It is rumored that Gustavo Herrera […]
The Exorcism of Nitai Cook as Conducted by Weirdo Club
Conducted by Weirdo Club, and in conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's interactive exhibition The Birth of Satan, THE EXORCISM OF NITAI COOK is a 12 cycle rite of exorcism applying the techniques of psychic trance algorithm, rune work, empathic magic, and organized ritual. SUBJECT is Nitai Cook CONTROL is Crystal Claire DRIVE is Ignacio Genzon EXORCIST […]
Residual Echoes and Happy Birthday
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CARebekah Penny - Ante event
The Birth Of Satan – a solo exhibition by Gustavo Herrera
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human Resources 510 Bernard St. Los Angeles, Ca 90012 Opening Reception: Saturday August 7th, from 7pm-11pm Human Resources is pleased to host: The Birth of Satan a multimedia interactive art installation by Gustavo Herrera. The installation ruminates on specific cause and effect relationships pertaining to the conceptual allure of such figures as […]
PERFORM! NOW!
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAJuly 29th to August 1st, 2010 Human Resources will be curating performances from July 29th- July 31st. Chinatown will play host to the second annual PERFORM! NOW! Festival. Upwards of 40 performances will take place inside and outside an array of Chinatown venues. The programming allows for appropriate focus, time, context and space for uninterrupted […]
Emily Lacy, Horse Thieves, films by Erica Cho
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA
A Night of Video Curated by Brian Bress
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAAs part of our Mystics Circle Exhibition, we will host a night of video with accompanying cocktails curated by Brian Bress. 8pm free!
Le Chat Lunatique w/ jessica Catron
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAA night of Music with Le Chat Lunatique, Missincinatti, and Jessica Fichot. July 15th at 9pm. $5 As unpredictable, fearless, and entertaining as their namesake, Le Chat Lunatique (Albuquerque) purveys an addictive genre they call “filthy, mangy jazz,” a signature sound that makes you want to smoke and drink a lot—if only you could get […]
Native Fauna, Learning Music, and Matt Fielder + Rachel Kessler w/DJ Eyad Karkoutly
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CACome and see Box Scheme, the CalArts MFA exhibit in Chinatown and visit HR! With: Native Fauna Learning Music and a performance piece by Matt Fielder and Rachel Kessler Dj'd by Eyad Karkoutly Starts at 9. Free!
Mystics Circle panel discussion w/ Catherine Taft, Margie Schnibbe, and William E. Jones
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAOn Sunday July 25th we will have a BBQ/screening/panel discussion with Margie Schnibbe, and William E. Jones Moderated by Catherine Taft. The event will start with some grilling of various food items around 6:00 pm, and continue when the sun goes down with various artist selected video screenings and a panel discussion moderated by critic […]
X-TRA Launch Party w/Brandon LaBelle
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAX-TRA is pleased to present artist and writer Brandon LaBelle in conversation with X-TRA 12.4 feature contributor Benjamin Lord. In addition to the new issue of X-TRA, we’ll celebrate the release of Brandon LaBelle’s book Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life. LaBelle will present a performative reading aiming for the dynamics of sound culture […]
The Mystics Circle – Group Exhibition
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAThe Mystics Circle June 19 - July 29 curated by Spencer Douglass and Devin McNulty Human Resources hosts The Mystics Circle, an exhibition of video works by Skip Arnold, Brian Bress, William E. Jones, Hilja Keading, Mike Kelley, Candice Lin, Davida Nemeroff and Margie Schnibbe. Coinciding with the summer solstice the show’s titled alludes to […]
Two Serious Ladies – “Whole Halves”
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAPremiere of "Whole Halves" by Eve Fowler and Anna Sew Hoy 8pm - 12am free Human Resources hosts the premiere of “Whole Halves,” a new video by LA-based artists Eve Fowler and Anna Sew Hoy. The program begins at 8pm, featuring a screening of Whole Halves as well as additional video projects created by the […]
RATS, JARRETT SILBERMAN, LADY NOISE
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CASISTER MANTOS
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA
QUALIA
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CACurated by Dawn Kasper, Human Resources hosts a group exhibition with works by Asher Hartman and Skylar Haskard and Jason Yates. The theme of the show is qualia. Qualia is a term used in philosophy to describe the subjective quality of conscious experience; defined as a property as it is experienced as distinct from any […]
wounded lion record release party
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAwounded lion the beets german measles neonates