Human Resources

An evening of music videos premieres from Eddington Again and Tolliver with live performances by Eddington Again Tolliver Hunger City DJ Bae Bae Special guest TBA   Eddington Again Eddington Again describes themselves as "African American Indigo excellence here to transcend the mundane". Their lyrics speaks on adventures in the East Hollywood/Downtown LA community, navigating […]

$3.33 Dan Joseph Hakim Muhammad Saturday March 10, 7 PM Free / All Ages Organized in conjunction with the Charlemagne Palestine exhibition at 356 Mission Made possible with the help of a grant from Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Dan Joseph is a composer, curator and writer based in New York City. He began his […]

Shoes off, please. Limited Seating. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Kyoko - Jinjabrew (https://www.kyokotakenaka.com/) Joyce S. Ha (http://joyceha.com/) Diana Daeun Choung (http://dianachoung.com/) Robben Muñoz(http://www.robbenmunoz.com/) Rosalee Bernabe (http://rosaleebernabe.com/) Charlotte Nguyen (https://www.charlotte-nguyen.com/) Jenevieve Ting(https://www.tingroll.space/) Olufemi O. Taiwo Travis Walker (https://soundcloud.com/iamtraviswalker/) XANA (http://www.xa-na.com/) ​$8 Earlybird $10 DOOR DOORS / EXHIBITION 7PM PERFORMANCE BEGINS AT 7:30 PM Tickets: ​https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rooted-love-an-evening-of-music-visual-performance-art-tickets-42516050652 Info: https://www.kyokotakenaka.com/shows ​

Performance: 8 pm sharp $10 suggested donation PRICE is a hybrid fictional character born from the sea of information, who explores the emotional disorientation of a generation having grown up with mass culture, neoliberalism and the omnipresence of the internet. By probing the mechanisms of pop, PRICE’s musical stories evoke instability, fear, and romantic disillusion. […]

Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian, and hopefully with your vote, a future disgraced Politician. After touring the world with original stage and guerrilla performance, Kristina realized her artful spectacles could no longer compete with the shock of real life. Therefore, Kristina has decided to move her performances onto the public stage and run […]

Music by Tashi Wada, performed by Charles Curtis, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Tashi Wada and Julia Holter This program collects three long-form works by composer Tashi Wada that explore diverging aspects of tuning and tonality. Valence (2016), written for cellist Charles Curtis, isolates and reharmonizes the natural overtones of a single string, destabilizing and fusing tone and […]

an evening of short performances by von curtis Nikki Darling Bryatt Bryant Guan Rong 8pm free event with donations for the artists welcome

photo by Tyler Matthew Oyer photos by Erika Katrina Barbosa https://vimeo.com/253929621 Human Resources and Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA present ENCOUNTER #43 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Sunday, January 14 4-7pm (followed by a communal meal) Interdisciplinary artists from Los Angeles are joined by international guests to engage in a […]

Back by popular demand, Los Angeles' Human Resources welcomes the most talked about wrestling show in the multiverse: Telefantasy Enterprise's FUTURE LADIES OF WRESTLING! Future Ladies of Wrestling AKA F.L.O.W. is a no holds barred multimedia wrestling extravaganza in which the wildest interspecies wrestlers battle for the title of Ultimate Multiversal Warrior! Get your juices […]

An evening of short performance by: Erica Magrey Amanda-Faye Jimenez Abigail Levine & Corey Fogel Pasadena House Wives Erica Magrey is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working with video, performance, music, costume, sculpture, photography, and set design. Her work playfully examines the embodiment of personas in order to inhabit familiar and foreign, human and non-human characters, […]

#HealHer is a global action by women who are coming together to break the silence on violence. Meeting in circles around the world, we create rituals dedicated to storytelling, consciousness-raising, empathetic listening, and collective healing. 2017 shifted the narrative on sexual violence. As we enter 2018, join artists, healers, performers, and activists in holding a space […]

THIS IS AN ART EXTRAVAGANZA!! SNATCHPOWER is celebrating the release of two projects: "The Brightest Oddest Strangest Star U Ever Did Saw Up Close And Afar From Planet Earth To Mars And Beyond!" is the debut album by The Uhuruverse, produced by NVSBL GVNG, which features "TWILIGHT ZONE" featuring Jupiter Black, "BAFWB", "OBEY", AND MANY […]

An evening of music and performance celebrating the release of Alex Black’s Baby EP and TMO’s RELEASE DELUXE LP. The night will feature sets by both artists and a special appearance by Samuel White as Manuela. Alex Black makes pop music in his bedroom and performs once a year. Tyler Matthew Oyer, called an “interdisciplinary […]

Facebook RSVP Free Frank Simon, The Queen, 35mm, 68min., 1968 Courtesy of www.thequeen1968firstlegaldvd.com On November 18th, we lost one of the greats - Jack Doroshow / Flawless Sabrina was a fierce role model and pioneer of performance and queer cultures with a legacy that spans 7 decades of advocacy, activism and drag. In 1967 she staged […]

Performances by: Gap Girls (Member of Surf Curse) Miss Rayon (PDX- Former The Gossip, Summer Cannibals) Lunch Lady Crystales

Friday, November 10th 7-10pm and Friday, November 17th 7-10pm (2-day event)  Participants: Carmen Argote, Harry Dodge, Mariah Garnett, Jennifer Moon, Elliot Reed, and Kandis Williams with a screening of works by Ismail Bahri and Mounira Al Solh Organized by Suzy Halajian and Clara López Menéndez It was quite a fiction brings together artists and practitioners […]

Hosted by Zackary Drucker, Kibum Kim, Eve Fowler, Mara McCarthy, Jackie Tarquino, and Francois Ghebaly, with Committee Co-Chairs Holly Stanton and Andrew Greene Cocktails and Hor D'Ouvres - Full Moon Pickles, Fort Point Beer, Kikori Whiskey Performances by Anenon and LA Fog Human Resources is raising money for it's 2018-2020 schedule of programming, and would […]

Friday, November 10th 7-10pm and Friday, November 17th 7-10pm (2-day event)  Participants: Carmen Argote, Harry Dodge, Mariah Garnett, Jennifer Moon, Elliot Reed, and Kandis Williams with a screening of works by Ismail Bahri and Mounira Al Solh Organized by Suzy Halajian and Clara López Menéndez It was quite a fiction brings together artists and practitioners […]

Installation by Jeff (Zilla) performances by FUPU + Sin Quince 8pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=-IenSDOcfoM Come celebrate Diana Arterian's first full-length poetry collection PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE (1913 Press) on Friday, October 20 @ 8PM. Stellar lineup of readers/performers/participants includes: DIANA ARTERIAN DANA JOHNSON JACK SJOGREN EMILY LACY DJ EDIE SOO_N FOOD There will be reading and singing and music and dancing and booze and delicious food. Above all, […]

MERCE is a duo comprised of harpist/electronic musician Shelley Burgon and turntablist Maria Chavez. Tracing it’s roots to the artists’ time in residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance company, this project finds Maria and Shelley performing improvised pieces that employ loops and live processing. MERCE has performed at Issue Project Room, MoMA PS1 and the […]

SCREENING OF WORKS BY Morehshin Allahyari micha cárdenas & Frances Lee Michelle Dizon Guiyoung Hwang Bhanu Kapil Rashayla Marie Brown READINGS & PERFORMANCES BY Dan Bustillo Nasrin Himada Iris Yirei Hu Candice Lin “Moon Flowers don’t need invitations: They require a particular part of night” is contemptorary’s first IRL event and fundraiser. The intent of the fundraiser […]

F.L.O.W. is the no holds barred television extravaganza in which the wildest interspecies wrestlers battle for the title of Ultimate Multiversal Warrior!

a composition for 25 synthesizers by Pauline Lay Saturday, 9/2 at 9:30pm 5 x 5 is an arrangement for 25 unique players, comfortable with their synthesizer of choice (and personal settings) to explore distinct stages of reception/transmission. 1 Unreadable 2 Readable now and then 3 Readable but with difficulty 4 Readable 5 Perfectly readable opening […]

Join us at Human Resources for a night of music-related performances beginning promptly at 8pm: Lev Abramov's ENERGY TRANSFER is an action performance in two parts. Jeremy Young (Montréal) is an American sonic artist, improviser and creative strategist living and working in Montréal, Canada. His creative work includes instrumental and electroacoustic composition for recording and […]

Thursday, August 17, 2017 @ 8.00 PM Friday, August 18, 2017 @ 8.00 PM Please note: Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. NO RSVP needed. Concept and Performance: Simone Aughterlony & Michael Günzburger This performance contains nudity, Viewer discretion advised In this dirty art-making practice Simone and Michael invite a collection […]

Tuesday, August 15, 2017 @ 8.00 PM Wednesday, August 16, 2017 @ 8.00 PM Please note: Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. NO RSVP needed. Created and performed by Frank Willens. Guest musician: Klaus Janek … or this is probably going to be a downer, or in lieu of addressing insurmountable […]

Friday, August 11, 2017 @ 8:00 PM Saturday, August 12, 2017 @ 5:30 PM Please note: Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. NO RSVP needed. Conceived, directed, set and staged by Peter Stamer Performed by Frank Willens Text by Friedrich Nietzsche Abridged and re-translated from German into English by Peter Stamer […]

Thursday, August 10th 2017, 8:00pm Please note: Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. NO RSVP needed. Concept: Tino Sehgal Danced by: Frank Willens This presentation contains nudity, Viewer discretion advised How can a society learn from choreographers? (Untitled) (2000) depicts an image of a world where dance and choreography can inspire […]

Since July 2012, a group of Los Angeles performance artists (and international guests passing through town) have met regularly to engage in a practice called Encounter, organized by Peruvian American performance artist Mariel Carranza. Encounter is a space where we encounter each other, ourselves, and the space itself. We perform with and for one another […]

A screening and discussion of the work of Johanna Went and Michael Turinsky, with Doran George, Johanna Went, Christine Wertheim, and Mark Wheaton. In celebration of X-TRA’s summer issue, a discussion and screening about looking at performance through the work of Johanna Went and Michael Turinsky. Join us for this special program with the artist […]

Please join us for a Screening + Pop Up Panel presented by critical resistance: More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a […]

Dialectics of Isolation Crystal Sepúlveda Angie Jennings Rebeca Hernandez Artemisa Clark In 1980, Ana Mendieta curated Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States at New York’s A.I.R. Gallery. The catalogue’s introduction describes the show as pointing “not necessarily to the injustice or incapacity of a society that has […]

EMOtional stand-up by, MICAHjames songs by SARAHgail TYLERholmes EDDINGTONagain hosted along with a recital by, BDH Heehee haha boohoo giggle giggle gaggle gaggle LOL OH LORD WHY US WHY US GD OMFG LMFAO OOOOO00000ooooh WEE Oh Me! Ha! HA! Bwahahaha... We laugh to keep from cryin and we cryin cause we can't keep from dyin […]

George Brecht: water: coming from, staying, going to Ulrich Krieger: Connect Daniel Corral: DISLIKE performed by: The Dog Star Orchestra This event is part of the Dog Start 13 annual festival of experimental music, which runs from June 3-17th 2017. For details on other events in this year's festival, please visit: www.dogstarorchestra.com

Over the past few years, I've written short essays in response to artworks produced by white artists, works exhibited and distributed through major art-world projects (the LA Art Book Fair, the Whitney Biennial, and the Walker's sculpture garden). Each of these artworks were meant, by the artists, to be, in some way, "about racism." Here, […]

Corey Fogel ::: http://coreyfogel.com/ Julilus Smack :::::::::: http://www.juliussmack.com/ SheKhan :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: https://shekhan.bandcamp.com/ Nick Malkin :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: https://nickmalkin.bandcamp.com/ performances will take place in EJ Hill's exhibition "A Subsequent Offering"

VOLUME partners with LINE and Dragon’s Eye Recordings to celebrate the release of Steve Roden’s new double LP ‘small songs for kack jirby’. The evening will feature sound performances by Steve Roden, Yann Novak and a very special international guest. The artists will perform alongside EJ Hill’s installation ‘A Subsequent Offering’. Yann Novak is an […]

An eclectic night of performances from AirChina Maria Maea Bitter Party Elliot Reed Laub     Performances will take place, on EJ Hill's A Subsequent Offering. Monetary donations for the artist will be excepted, but are not required

We are gathering at Human Resources to perform this piece for relaxing and energizing our community. This can also be performed remotely by anyone, anywhere, at the same time: Deep Listening Chorus: A form to activate community creative sound making By Pauline Oliveros 1. Lying on the floor, heads or feet toward center and touching, […]

FUCK U PAY US WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE ENTIRE CITY TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF OUR LEAD VOCALIST JASMINE NYENDE! WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR BENEFIT PARTY (A FUNDRAISER FOR OUR DIY TOUR IN EUROPE!!!) WE WILL FOR THE FIRST TIME PRESENT TO YOU ALL RECORDED MUSIC FOR SALE! A […]

SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2017 7pm – 9pm ** Ritual for Mutual Black Care Melanie Griffin presented by at land’s edge Black people expend precious physical, emotional and psychic energy responding to racial injustice and fighting that injustice in ways that serve all of humanity. So often these responses drain us and impact our mental, physical, […]

SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2017 4pm – 5:30pm Accidents of Birth seren sensei presented by at land’s edge We are not all the same, due to what I call “accidents of birth” that more often than not involve race, gender, class, able-bodiedness, and sexual orientation. We would be exploring this theme through a writing workshop wherein […]

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017 7pm – 9pm * Divine Creators!!! : Intro to Divination Practices for Creatives Edgar Fabián Frías presented by at land’s edge Divine Creators!!! : Intro to Divination Practices for Creatives is an ad-hoc, site-specific, and adaptive workshop meant to help support the initiation, development, and flourishing of ancestral divination techniques within […]

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017 1pm – 2pm What does intergenerational collaboration look like? Forging Pathways for Future Apsáalooke Feminists Wendy Red Star a skype/virtual lecture presented by Decolonize LA As a mother / daughter artist collaborative duo working in the realm of Native history, identity politics, cultural subversion, and reclamation, Wendy Red Star and her […]

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017 11am – 12pm Adoption, Electronic Music, and Enrollment. Elisa Harkins a skype/virtual lecture presented by Decolonize LA Artist and Composer Elisa Harkins will be showing her work, which examines the politics of the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act, enrollment and adoption, as well as sharing some of her music with […]

FRIDAY, MAY 26TH, 2017 7pm – 10 pm on the other / side Reception hosted by at land’s edge 2017 Fellows Light refreshments will be served. at land’s edge, an autonomous ontological platform for creatives to co-learn, presents its culminating reception. This exhibit, “on the other / side,” showcases works by the twelve 2017 at […]

WEDNESDAY MAY 24, 2017 7:30pm – 8:30pm Everything I Say Is True Suzanne Kite a live sound/video performance presented by Decolonize LA Everything I Say Is True is a lecture performance by Southern California-based, Oglala Lakota artist Kite. In the lecture Kite constructs a complex narrative through the use of her own family’s ephemera and […]

Readings and screenings by: Megan Auster-Rosen Muriel Leung Adrienne Walser Vanessa Angélica Villarreal YES FEMMES is a reading series and online experiment that publishes writing and digital projects working toward a femme aesthetic. We’re interested in writing that explores the limits of the body,that’s campy or fannish, that engages with witchcraft or the occult, that […]

ProjectQ is using hair as a form of social justice. This is the second 'We Don't Have Mothers Day' where we introduce the 'Didn't your mother teach you' program. Starting with poetry and creating choreography, and transforming the movement into comic books. 'Didn't your mother Teach you' is focusing on the expression of self care […]

The Experimental Music Yearbook’s 2016 issue is celebrated with a performance of Carolyn Chen’s Signs of Struggle as well as a special Los Angeles appearance by David Kant’s Happy Valley Band. Carolyn Chen "SIgns of Struggle" (2016) photo credit: Daniel Pufe Carolyn Chen’s Signs of Struggle is a piece for people listening and reacting to […]

Antiphony, Otherwise: Friday Joy Night Service 7:00pm, April 28, 2017 (FREE) TICKETS “Antiphony, Otherwise: Friday Joy Night Service” is a sound art event that brings together musicians, singers, foodies and audiences to intentionally consider the role of the senses in Black religious practice and sacred traditions. To do so, “Antiphony, Otherwise” utilizes the Hammond organ […]

live in concert: KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN SEAN McCANN JESSIKA KENNEY doors at 8 / sound at 9 $12 at the door advance tickets also available as a convenience for $10 plus fees: http://tiny.cc/KFWatHRtix KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Through more than two decades, Keith Fullerton Whitman has continuously explored and celebrated the technologies and many facets of […]

Having Left: Intersectional Perspectives on Migration Human Resources, Los Angeles Wednesday, April 26, 2017 7:00–9:00pm Transnational and intersectional perspectives on feminism encompass questions that challenge postcolonial frameworks and scrutinize the destruction carried out by Western imperialism. Several artists from the Asian diaspora will present work exploring global migration, labor, and gender identity. Christine Dianne Guiyangco […]

Blending techniques of a sing-along, sit-in, and sewing circle, artist and activist Emily Lacy invites the public to give voice to sonic resistance in challenging times. At this gathering, the rich legacy of politically active music in America is both enacted and added to, by mixing traditional protest songs from the past with new songs […]

$3.33 Tape Release of "DRAFT" on Leaving Records
Featuring an album-length screening of an original film by Miko Revereza
+ Drinks and Snacks by Chef Jazzy

UNTAMED On March 31st Human Resources LA presents the work of five female artists working in the mediums of dance, performance, visual projections and film. The evening will feature three dance films by Olivia Mia Orozco, Andrea Ordaz and Rebeca Hernandez and performances presented by choreographers Andrea Ordaz, Livya Howard-Yashar, Zoe Rappaport, and Olivia Mia […]

Since 2007, US Congress mandated that Immigration & Customs Enforcement maintain a quota of 34,000 detained immigrants per day in its 250 facilities around the country. As part of the exhibition MAKING PLANS taking place at Human Resources LA (March 18 - March 26), artist duo Díaz Lewis will be holding 34,000 Pillows Workshop. Participants […]

Chess is widely regarded as an intellectual game, and often used as inspiration in cerebral artworks. This is checkers. Monster Romp originated as a short film featuring a game of checkers. Monster Romp Live!, a performance in three acts, is an extension of that film. The first is a satire of fascist militaristic displays of […]

Los Angeles Council District 1 Candidates Forum and Election Info-Session Confirmed Candidates: Joe Bray-Ali, Giovany Hernandez, Jesse Rosas and Luca Barton (write-in candidate) Also featuring social justice, environmental and political action organizations including: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Los Angeles Community Action Network, LA Poverty Department, Decolonize LA, Artist Political […]

The first episode in a new performance series by Rachel Mason called "The Moving Mountain" weaves together fiction and true life stories. Sirrah, the largest and most powerful star in the Andromeda constellation recently detected that half of the world has been obliterated. Sirrah attempts to comprehend the destruction of an impossibly distant but beloved […]

Kembra Pfahler and the girls of Karen Black present a performative screening featuring cinematic arcana, voluptuous horrors and a Q&A confessional. Through her ongoing project, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Kembra Pfahler has been performing since the early 1990s in museums, galleries and clubs the world over. Assembling an unprecedented program of film, video […]

#SNATCHPOWER (the afrofuturistic women's liberation artist collective) that brought you: FETISH WONDERLAND, ELECTRIC LADYLAND, AFROGOTH, SNATCHKAOS, & RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE proudly presents their premiere film in association with Really Not Radio: FIGHT IN HEELS. "Snatch" The only ones who heard the call were the ones it was meant for...this sci-fi tale focuses on the newest […]

A screening and conversation with Aria Dean, Erin Christovale, and Ulysses Jenkins.

Human Resources hosts a new performance by artists Corey Fogel, Dicky Bahto, and Tashi Wada. The hour-long structured improvisation will feature generative imagery on multiple slide projectors, pitched metal percussion, keyboard, bagpipe, electronics, and sirens.

Join us for a night of intimate performances in the reverberant sonic environment at Human Resources, in celebration of the release of Jonathan Silberman’s new solo saxophone album Red in the Missile Room. Performances by: Jonathan Silberman Laura Steenberge Jake Rosenzweig Eric Kiersnowski About the performers: Jonathan Silberman will be performing solo on tenor saxophone. […]

Three nights, three performances, third day of the month. Beginning January Third at Human Resources.

Tuesday, December 27th 7—11pm Vacuum an electrical appliance for cleaning carpets, floors, etc., by suction. a space not filled or occupied; emptiness; void: On the occasion of his forthcoming international tour, Elliot Reed is hosting a non-traditional tour kickoff. Working within the void of Human Resources, performers were invited to stage a piece that uses […]

Susupended Susto:A La Flor is a durational performance work focusing on the tumultuous feelings and thoughts of my queer brown body and its relationships to others.

6pm-8pm Panel and Discussion 8:30pm-10:30pm Performance Program Join Human Resources for a gathering of leading social justice scholars as they discuss post-election policy consequences on marginalized communities. Law and policy experts will address immigrant and refugee rights, racial justice, criminal justice reform, reproductive rights, marriage equality, LGBTQ rights and climate change. They will suggest ways […]