Dean Spunt & John Wiese:《The Echoing Shell》
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOn Memorial Day, UPEND presents veteran L.A. noisemakers Dean Spunt and John Wiese live in concert as they celebrate their new record《The Echoing Shell》released this month on Drag City Records. […]
PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0
In light of a violent attack on the exhibition, LYLEX 1.0, by PHILTH HAUS, presented by the Feminist Center For Creative Work, the exhibition will not reopen at HRLA. A […]
FUJIIIIIIIIIIITA • Tashi Wada
UPEND presents, the U.S. Premiere of Japanese sound artist and instrument builder FUJI|||||||||||TA and a special performance from L.A.’s own Tashi Wada. FUJI|||||||||||TA Japanese sound artist Yosuke Fujita wanted to […]
Performances
Skylar Haskard Liz Nurenberg | Anthony Bodlovic Karla Ekatherine Canseco Carlos Agredano Paul Outlaw | Joe Seely Kristina Wong Saturday June, 25th 7-11pm Descriptions of perfromances: Skylar […]
Run, Run, Roxie Pickle! by Holly Harrell
Join us on Thursday, June 30th at 7:30pm for a performance by Holly Harrell: Run, Run, Roxie Pickle! Holly Harrell adapts past videos into a live performance. Through successive […]
Trans Prom
Time to pull out your best looks. It’s prom night! Join us for a trans centered queer dance night at HRLA on July 3rd, from 8pm-midnight. From your black tie, to […]
Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza: Soft Traces
Soft Traces An exhibition by Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza. Opening July 8th, 6-9pm Walk-through w the artists & Jennifer Doyle: Sunday July 10, 3pm Gallery is open daily […]
Soft Trace/Line Break
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Fidelia Lam – New seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX.
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening: Saturday July 23, 2022, 7-10pm On view weds-sun 12-6pm, July 23-31 and by appointment. New seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX. grapples with the affective and aesthetic legacies of empire […]
Poetry at HRLA
HRLA presents a night of poetry this Friday, July 29th at 7pm with the poets: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Kata De la Rosa Lupita Limón Corrales Viva Padilla *A 5 dollar […]
Casey Kauffmann & John de Leon Martin
Human Resources LA presents a two person show of painting, drawing, video, and sculpture by visual artists Casey Kauffmann and John de Leon Martin. The exhibition opens Saturday, August 6th […]
Very Be Careful — Silver Anniversary
Very Be Careful — 25th Anniversary Celebration & Photo Exhibition August 26 - September 4 Very Be Careful, the Vanguards of Vallenato for Los Angeles, celebrate their 25th year together […]
FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts
FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts is a series of nine vignettes performed in parts by an ensemble cast. Exploring an individual's informed and uninformed autonomy within perceived dimensions of […]
Hanieh Khatibi: Space has always reduced me to silence
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFriday, September 9th 5:30pm — Saturday, September 10th 11pm Space has always reduced me to silence is a site-specific, durational performance that explores the politics of domestic space and the […]
fault lines
fault lines Friday, September 23rd at 7 pm Saturday, September 24th at 2 pm and at 7 pm Tickets can be purchased here fault lines: activation #3 at Human […]
Haig Papazian: 1000 strings at rest / this song is currently not available (in exile)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAكان يا ما كان կար ու չկար there was and there wasn’t Over two days, Haig Papazian will build a new machine/instrument which he will play on Saturday, Oct 1. […]
HRLA Divas Live!
A two night gala for HRLA: October 14th & 15th featuring performances by Amelia Bande, Nikki D, Dorian Wood, Amanda Faye Jimenez, Jasmine Nyende, Sebastian Hernandez, Xandra Ibarra, Page […]
Geneva Skeen – Channels (#1 Pittsburgh / Los Angeles)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAopen gallery hours: tuesday-thursday noon-7pm Channels (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles) is a technical cover-song to artist and composer Maryanne Amacher's City Links series, adapted for a high-speed interconnected world of streaming, […]
Jimena Sarno: aeolian
Opening Reception: Friday, November 4*, 6PM - 9PM Gallery Hours: Wed - Sun noon-6PM, Mon - Tues by appointment “I can make wind,” Gluskabe admitted shamefacedly, “but I can’t make […]
Walk Out UC Strike Fundraiser
Join us for a fundraiser sale of artworks by MFA students to support the UC academic worker strike. There will be a cash bar, performances, live sound, and other refreshments. […]
Sam Rowell: Call Of The Chromophore
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND Presents SAM ROWELL:CALL OF THE CHROMOPHOREA series of performances in light and sound December 9-16 Final Performances: Friday December 16, 8PM & 10PM FREE Limited Capacity / Prompt […]
Like Spiders Spinning Light
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAX-TRA Presents: Like Spiders Spinning Light a conversation between David Weldzius, Britt Salvesen, and Jon Leaver, Saturday, December 17th, 2023. A conversation around “Like Spiders Spinning Light: Reflections on Jacqueline […]
Dead Thoroughbred
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CADT a non-band band. DT never; not happening. DT heavy evasion—worthless. DT so goth, born black. DT at least sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin. Dead Thoroughbred is presented as part […]
Hope is a Hammer
Hope is a Hammer Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 7:30pm “Hope is a Hammer” is an interdisciplinary collaborative performance directed and produced by Sharon Chohi Kim and Elana Mann. Through immersive […]
Sticker
Sticker (Michael Gross and Dakota Higgins) was born at the Stonehead Society Headquarters in Gardena, CA, into a heap of Mexican alabaster. For a year, the two lived on beans […]
claire rousay | Ben Babbitt
The wildly prolific emo ambient musician claire rousay brings new sounds to Human Resources in the new year. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday […]
Sad Girl Summer
Sad Girl Summer is a solo performance by Pau S. Pescador with opening performances and installations by Luna Fisher, Emji Saint Spero and Sammie Veeler. This event is co-hosted by […]
Patty Gone: The Opposite
The Opposite a Video Art Essay by Patty Gone with opening acts bySophia Cleary Aiden Arata Wall of Ears about The Opposite:Porn Film Festival Berlin Official Selection 2022Official TrailerWhat do ‘Seinfeld’ and […]
Gemma Castro: Monuments
Opening Saturday, 21st 7-10pm Exhibition is open Friday-Sunday, January 21-31st, 12-5pm Closing Performance: Gemma Castro + Olivia HP: Sunday January 29, 6PM Gemma Castro: Monuments Monuments is a video installation […]
Miles Peyton: Obaa
Opening Friday, February 3rd, 6-8pm
I move with a team of selves
I observe and learn from each one
Sometimes we find something to eat and feel happy
I often eat plastic beads
When we merge, our attention harmonizes into a sharp bright point
We congeal into a centralized organization
It feels good
Miles Peyton is an artist based in Los Angeles. He works with a variety of materials and systems to animate lifelike nonlife. He received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2020.
Adrian Abela: Nebula and Gentes
Nebula and Gentes were initially made for an extensive installation called CHARTI and exhibited in 2016. Nebula was also shown as part of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale […]
Amy Chiao, Gregory Barnett, José Guadalupe Sánchez III, Zeina Baltagi
New performances on a Tuesday night. Amy Chiao Chicken Bones for the Capital Soul® is an American self-help, consumer goods, and performance media group. Starting in Chiao's kitchen during the 2020 […]
Wayne Koestenbaum: Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyrean
Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyreana screening of new and recent films by Wayne KoestenbaumSunday, February 26, 20237 p.m. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum […]
Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos
Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos by mia simonović / allie miks / diana relth Human Resources Gallery Wednesday, March 1st Doors at 7pm $10 suggested donation masks are encouraged […]
CROM: The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989
In celebration of the LP/CD re-release of The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989 on To Live A Lie Records, CROM will be performing the album in its entirety at their first Sumerian […]
Christine’s 2022 Schedule C
Christine's 2022 Schedule C Christine Tien Wang Human Resources is ashamed to present a performative lecture by Christine Tien Wang. She will walk audiences through 12 years of filing taxes […]
Page Person – THE EAR* (*or how I became a person)
THE EAR* (*or how I became a person) is a performance by interdisciplinary artist Page Person Sunday, March 19 at 5:00 pm. At a time when the very existence of […]
Matt Savitsky: March Readings (2020-2023)
Matt Savitsky reads seven issues of the Los Angeles Times, dated March 19 - March 26, 2020. This project began in 2020 as thirty daily performances done live on Instagram […]
Ryat Yezbick, Sarah Gail, Isidro Pérez García, Jmy James Kidd
New performances on a Tuesday night. Jmy James Kidd dog - fly free - sing, Jmy dances on a felted flying carpet Isidro Pérez García Performing as the character Tuleño, the […]
Ajani Brannum – TROUBLE
We will be in TROUBLE together. This is a project hovering somewhere between concert and conversation, between dance and its presumed opposite (whatever that might be). We will learn, perhaps, […]
Fuerza del desierto. The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-6pm An exhibition focusing on the The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club curated by Natalia de la Rosa. The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading […]
Reimagining Art Institutions and Community
Reimagining Art Institutions and Community Saturday, April 15th at 4:00 pm This public panel will bring together artists, curators, arts organization leaders and community organizers from LA and beyond to […]
Blood is here: Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova, & Dorian Wood
Blood is here is a collaborative manifestation between vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood. It is an idea born from a recent collective performance within Wood’s touring […]
lily, rose
lily, rose is an installation and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles that brings to life the world of Kelly Link’s short story through live music and theatrics by M.A. Harms, […]
Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh
The first week of Human Resources Summer Screening Series includes video and animated works by Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh. Camera direction, collage and […]
Wednesday Summer Screenings
A casual series of moving image works, presented every Wednesday night at 9 free image by Aimee Goguen
Antoni Hervás – the awakening
May 12 - June 4, 2023 –– Wednesday through Sunday, 12 - 6pm Opening: May 12, 6 - 10pm Cuero Amanecer: a celebration of queer clubs, sexy dancing, leather and […]
Greetings Friends
Greetings Friends is a full-length essay film made by Pau Pescador, titled after a Disney Studio produced film. In 1941, the United States government created the Office of Inter-American Affairs […]
Bijou – 1972
Presented inside Toni Hervas' exhibition the awkening
Prima Sakuntabhai & Olivia Leiter
This weeks Wednesday Night Summer Screening Series features short videos Olivia Leiter and Prima Sakuntabhai. Olivia LeiterDrawing from archival materials and phone interviews, Amalgamated explores cooperation, unions, the 60s and 70s New York City tenant movement, compromises, […]
Aki Onda: Spirits Known and Unknown
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAki Onda “Spirits Known and Unknown” featuring Eyvind Kang "Spirits Known and Unknown" is a performance featuring various kinds of brass bells. It examines the materiality and spirituality of these […]
Aki Onda: Spirits Known and Unknown
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAki Onda “Spirits Known and Unknown” featuring Eyvind Kang “Spirits Known and Unknown” is a performance featuring various kinds of brass bells. It examines the materiality and spirituality of these […]
Macula Dog • Bromp Treb • Mas Guerrero
On Saturday June 10th MACULA DOG – the enigmatic, electronic, off-kilter, self-contained band and performance unit from New York City – bring themselves and their holographs to Human Recources Los […]
Ari Brostoff & Emily Segal in Conversation
This event is a conversation between Ari Brostoff, author of Missing Time, and Emily Segal, author of Mercury Retrograde, about their respective books--two reflections on the cultural and political vertigo of the 2010s. Possible discussion […]
Sebastian Hernandez – REVERB
Reverb is a quartet movement based performance that thinks through ideas of queerness, kin, sorrow and the body. This performance asks the performers to question their commitment to performance, movement, […]
Sam Weinberg – Haydee Jimenez – Michael Dessen – Judith Berkson
Local percussionist Corey Fogel hosts a program of four diverse, improvising soloists from NY, Mexico, and California. Sam Weinberg is a saxophonist and improviser living in New York City. He […]
Jean Robison: Wandering Eye
Opening: Saturday, June 24, 6–9pm Exhibition Dates: June 24-27, 2023 Gallery Hours: Sunday June 25 11am - 2pm and by appointment Robison’s immersive installation showcases new work in an experimental audio/visual […]
Adrian Culverson: Smorgasbord
Gallery hours: Noon-6:00pm Smorgasbord is a collection of paintings and sculptures that revolve around abstracted formal investigations of colour, shape, and play. Hand-sewn fabric compactions augmented and calcified with heavily applied […]
BIH (Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood)
Vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood return to Human Resources as BIH, expanding on their performance of Blood is here back in April. The three consider the contexts of […]
Slowski + Squash & Biscuit: Civil Twilight along the Aegean Sea
Featuring Fmin, Dbmin, F#min, Amin, and Dbmaj in the harmonic chromatic language of soft blue, yellow, yellow-orange, soft red, and blue-green—the colors of summer sunsets along oceans and seas. Civil […]
Hothouse
Hothouse Dirty Looks Inc presents Hothouse, a program of erotic film and video art focusing on ‘realcore’ non-genital sex and symbolic eroticism. Originally curated as part of the exhibition Fulgora, organized […]
ANEMOIA
Gallery hours: 12 - 6pm “Our culture is defective. Perhaps you mean that we ought to study the problem and look for a solution. Perhaps we could, if it wasn't […]
We came to help you carry the sun
Gallery hours: 12 - 6pmOpening: Friday, July 21, 7 - 9pmPoetry reading by Jennifer Tseng and performance by Christos Tejada at 8pm Waxing & Waning enveloped letterlost in transitcall her […]
OMFG FCK82 IRL
FCK82 (FKA The Ensemble Whose Name is Uhhhhhmm… ) makes their first IRL appearance EVER with a screening of a 45-minute-long set created originally for the SPIEL! Games as Critical […]
First Draft
First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists […]
exigent webs: a night of shorts
A night of experimental documentary shorts weaving through the body as an archive, as well as a site of criminalization and/or pleasure—sites that are navigating history as present, past and […]
fan fiction about heaven or hell
a screening of video works by Hazel Katz, Jack Coventry, Stanton Cornish-Ward, Theo Cuthand, Trent Crawford, Wren Gardiner, and more : - ) Stanton Cornish-Ward is an artist and filmmaker […]
Art Spaces Meet & Greet 2023
A gathering with some of LA’s most exciting independent art organizations, presented with X-TRA Magazine. Feral art spaces will briefly present on their organization’s work and mission in PechaKucha style presentations. […]
Dorian Wood: Musa Cerdota + The angel screening
Artist Dorian Wood brings Musa Cerdota to Human Resources for its Los Angeles debut. The multisensory performance incorporates music from Wood's 2020 album REACTOR. After the project's 2022 premiere in Barcelona, music magazine Muzikalia noted: […]
Michael Kennedy Costa: Mirror Area
Gallery hours: 12 – 6pmOpening: Friday, September 22, 6 – 8pm A selection from an ongoing series of line drawings. This exhibition includes two events: a concert with Los Angeles […]
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) […]
Mirror Area, a reading
This reading is presented in conjunction with Mirror Area, an exhibition of drawings by Michael Kennedy Costa (September 22 - 29, 2023). Book launch and reading of Michael Kennedy Costa's Mirror Area, […]
Carlos Agredano: Smog Check
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 12 - 6pmOpening: Saturday, October 7, 7 - 9pm Smog Check is an exhibition of new sculptures and research by Carlos Agredano about the air-quality […]
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 […]
Zori Swanegan: In suspension, otherwise
Opening reception: Friday, October 27, 6 - 9pmOpen hours: Saturday, October 28th and Sunday, October 29th 12 - 6pm A collection of drawings, prints, and one animation serving as windows […]
Kanal Nula / Touriszt / Henrik Soederstroem / Hallasan
A night of extreme music with artists from New York, Berlin, Stockholm and Los Angeles. Kanal Nula (NY)Touriszt (Berlin)Henrik Soederstroem (Stockholm)Hallasan (LA) With special guest, DJ Shitfun. $10 admission to […]
The Alphabet of Andean Futurism
This project emerges as an adaptation of fragments from Gamaliel Churata's indigenist avant-garde masterpiece, "The Golden Fish," viewed through the lens of Andean Futurism. It combines music, video, poetry, and […]
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 […]
Use Me at Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline
A reading of Use Me at Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline by Gem Evans (Monica) and Evan Ibarra (Sam).The reading will be followed by a conversation about the […]
Alsea Diana Is Depicting Violence Against Women
ALSEA DIANA INVITES YOU TO AN IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION FEATURING BRAND NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORK AND A PREVIEW OF HER FEATURE-LENGTH DIRECTORIAL DEBUT PEREGRINE FALCON MUSIC – DRINKS – LOTTERY TICKETSGIRLS […]
Kabir Carter
Doors at 8pmPerformance at 9pmFree (pay what you want - proceeds go to Venice Family Clinic) Kabir Carter will explore the spatial acoustics and resonant behavior of a circuit that […]
Winter Soiree
doors at 7:30pm / music at 8pm Corey Fogel hosts another Winter Soiree, featuring an assortment of creative musicians, both local and traveling from Portland, San Francisco, and New York. […]
Tati au Miel: Carousel EP Release
Tickets are $10 at the door. In celebration of Tati au Miel’s latest EP release Carousel with Texan label Halcyon Veil. This EP, birthing from Tati's lived experiences and personal […]
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) […]
Arnold J. Kemp: 3 Plays
Tickets are free of charge. Reserve a spot by clicking on the appropriate link: Friday, January 12th / Saturday, January 13th / Sunday, January 14th A three night survey of […]
Minor Gaps Between
Gallery hours: 12 - 6pmOpening: Saturday, January 20, 6 - 9pm featuring work by:0ll668Derek HolguinJiayun ChenRodolfo Sousa Minor Gaps Between is the result of several conversations about the arcane and […]
Jules Garder and Nat Decker: Posturing Collapse
Friday, February 9th, 6pm - 10pmPerformances: 8pm - 10pmFeaturing: Jules Chimes Gårder and Nat Decker, Star Feliz and Cielo Saucedo, thai Lu, Life Em Stebbins and Jazmin Romero Gallery Hours: […]
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 […]
WHAT ARE WORDS FOR?
Join HRLA for a panel and conversation about statements and solidarity. (RESCHEDULED from 2/6) Endorsements of PACBI, calls for ceasefire, individual expressions of solidarity — what do different kinds of […]
Meejin Hong: Deluge
a screening and art show with Meejin Hong opening Friday, February 16th, 5 - 8pmGallery hours: Saturday, February 17th and Sunday, February 18th, 12 - 6pm Meejin Hong is an […]
untitled|unknown (featuring mattie barbier, Ensemble Adapter, Davíð Brynjar Franzson)
untitled|unknown Wednesday, February 21st, 8:30pm Free Admission https://ensemble-adapter.de/ https://mattiebarbier.com/ http://franzson.com/ Specifically tailored to the architecture of Human Resources, untitled|unknown is a collaborative project initiated by L.A.-based Icelandic composer Davíð Brynjar […]
para by para
para by para para by para is a (hyper)active listening party featuring performances by sound artists Slow Rose and jeremy +/ kennedy, under her new moniker D.J. Again. para by para tiptoes the edge of the event horizon, taking […]
Seven Channel Aura
Human Resources Los Angeles presents Seven Channel Aura, a night of music by Beli and Friends. Live sets by Clarion and Angel Meat. DJ sets by Stealth Angel, Jonny Mystery, […]
First Draft
First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums […]
BEING WORK Book Launch
with Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel and Mireya Lucio, moderated by Ajani Brannum Being Work is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists, edited by Dorothy Dubrule and published by Insert […]
Black Revivalist & HRLA Presents: Chocolate Babies + Days of Pentecost
In commemoration of Black History Month, Black Revivalist and Human Resources Los Angeles are proud to present a night of ‘90s underground black queer cinema. This double-header features Stephen Winter’s […]
Words for Falastin: fundraiser for Rafah
With hearts broken and malleable grief we invite you to gather with us as we speak prayers, songs, offerings for the liberation of the land of Palestine. As we tend to this […]
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 […]