Making Plans
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening reception: March 18, 7-10pm Gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12-6pm MAKING PLANS brings together a coalition of artists engaging with issues of labor, access, invisibility, and power through various actions. In the introduction to Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974), a transcription […]
Inside You Is Me – Jaqueline Gordon
A dynamic sculpture with moveable walls, multichannel sound pieces, and a staged performance SATURDAY EVENING, featuring FAY and Jon Mandabach. http://jacquelinegordon.net/ HOURS: Saturday Night: 6:00 - 8:00 Visiting Hours 8:00 - Jon Mandabach 9:00 - FAY Sunday: 11:00 - 5:00 Visiting Hours FAY: FAY will be premiering her new record "Deal" (release date: February 24, […]
Monster Romp Live!
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
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 […]
Sirrah’s Dream
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 […]
Ich Sehe Das Licht: Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in film, video and performance
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAKembra 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 Presents: FIGHT in HEELS
#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 […]
Yann Novak: Repose
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Reception: February 10, 7 – 10pm Closing Performances: Rebecca Bruno, Sarah Rara, & Geneva Skeen, February 18, 8 – 10pm Gallery Hours: February 11 – 12 & February 15 – 18, noon – 5pm Curated by Suzy Halajian Repose is a solo exhibition of new work by Yann Novak that explores how context changes […]
Breaking up with Amerikkka
Whether surprised by the results or not, the complete and utter shittiness of the 2016 presidential elections has made one thing clear: for many, if not most, of us, America is the worst boyfriend ever. We're tired of explaining why something hurt us only to be told we're imagining it. We're tired of insufficient apologies […]
Statues And Attitudes
STATUES AND ATTITUDES An imagined feminist vision Jade Gordon and Megan Whitmarsh with guests FRI FEB 3 - Opening Event 7pm-10pm SAT/SUN FEB 4/5 - Exhibition Open to the public 1pm-8pm plus WORKSHOPS, SCREENINGS, and PERFORMANCES (see below for details) Open during all exhibition hours: A Wider Net, reading room curated by F.L.O.W. (Feminist Library […]
Written and Bitten: Ulysses Jenkins and the Non-Ontology of Blackness
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAA screening and conversation with Aria Dean, Erin Christovale, and Ulysses Jenkins.
Corey Fogel, Dicky Bahto, and Tashi Wada
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAHuman 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.
Final Fantasy Art Show
It's not the end that matters! It's knowing that you have something to live for right now, at this moment! Something you've worked for... something that's worth protecting! As long as you have that...that's enough! - Terra Branford, Final Fantasy VI Do you like Final Fantasy? Do you like to draw? Do you like art […]
Red in the Missile Room
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAJoin 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. […]
JEFF (ZILLA) + ALICE (CUNT) Multi-Media & Junk Show
Friday, January 6th — Sunday, January 8th Doors at 7pm *Friday @ 7pm Performance by CXA + Jeff Zilla (9pm) *Saturday @ 7pm Performance by Gianna Gianna + Jeff Zilla (9pm) *Sunday @ 12pm Lounge / Free / Donation Gift Shop and Gallery Hours 12pm - 6pm
Malte Cornelius Jantzen / Lee Noble / Geneva Skeen
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThree nights, three performances, third day of the month. Beginning January Third at Human Resources.
Elliot Reed Tour Kick-off 001: Vacuum
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 […]
Suspended Susto: A La Flor
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.
Post-Election Policy Consequences on Marginalized Communities
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA6pm-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 […]
Rocket Rain موشک باران
The first solo exhibition of Iranian, Los Angeles-based artist and writer, Gelare Khoshgozaran. The exhibition borrows its title from the second chapter of the Iran-Iraq War, known as “The War of the Cities” that Iranians refer to and remember as موشک باران mooshak-baran: “Rocket Rain.”
Femmebit
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFestival and Showcase dedicated to L.A.-based female artists working in Video Art and related technologies.
Hesse Press: Mata / Matt Lifson Book Release Party
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn celebration of the release of two new books by Hesse Press: Matt Lifson "Sleep With Me And A Ghost" and Mata "No Drums No DJs No Saturdays" Performances by: WHITE GOLD (LA; Phil Blankenship & John Wiese) UNICA (LA; Maria Garcia & Nial Morgan) CARMINA ESCOBAR TAMAKI UEDA + ELDEN M Paintings by Matt […]
PR Showcase: Rachel Mason, Wizard Apprentice, Julius Smack, Restlust
Practical Records is pleased to present a showcase featuring performances by Rachel Mason, Wizard Apprentice, Julius Smack, and Restlust. The performers will be performing alongside works by artists Bailey Hikawa, Emily Lucid, and Brian Getnick to expand and question the dynamics between visual art and music in an ephemeral context. The event celebrates Rachel Mason’s new cassette Das […]
Open Reading in Solidarity
Veggie Cloud 5210 Monte Vista St, Los Angeles, CAHuman Resources, Poetic Research Bureau, and Veggie Cloud invite you to an open reading this Sunday the 13th, starting at 5pm and going till late, at VEGGIE CLOUD: 5210 Monte Vista St, 90042. This will be an informal, open forum for poetry, prose, dialogue, and information exchange about the current political situation. Implication for media makers, and local organizing to be discussed. Write something, or bring anything else you'd […]
(de) Color-Es / Primera Generación Dance Collective
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA(de) Color-Es is an event that seeks to cultivate community amongst artists of color of first (and second) generational experience in the United States through the coalition of art. Beyond the artist, (de) Color-Es is designed to revel within el desmadre (messiness) that is being an artist of color new to this country, to spaces, […]
BODY TECHNIQUE: Waverly Mandel, Rin Johnson, Juri Onuki and Si Istwa
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIN THE AGE OF DISEMBODIED COMMUNICATION, THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE BODY IS UTTERLY TRANSFORMED AND DISTORTED. - Eric McLuhan BODY TECHNIQUE is a program of performance that elaborates on the theme of communication and it’s relationship to the body. Works include: Body Technique (Reasons For Sex A - Z) by Waverly […]
FUPU (Fuck You Pay Us)
Doors at 8PM FUPU at 8:30 SHARP $5 OBO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fMz6kF6D7M
Jack Smith Rushes
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAJack Smith scholar Josh Lubin-Levy will introduce never-before-seen 8mm film rushes and improvised compositions, featuring Mario Montez, Tally Brown and Smith, alongside his short film ‘I Was A Male Yvonne DeCarlo’ (1967 - 1970s). Ranging from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, the featured films present a glimpse into significant period of Smith’s career […]
Spirit Quest: L.A. Premiere
Spirit Quest: L.A. Premiere November 5 7pm-9pm Los Angeles premiere of Spirit Quest, a movie by Colin Read. Free admission. A journey through nature, time, and space. Featuring Jimmy Lannon, Quim Cardona, Marty Murawski, Bobby Worrest, Zach Lyons, Jesse Narvaez, Vincent Touzery, Ryan Barlow, Matt Town, Leo Gutman, Taylor Nawrocki, Carlos Young, Alex Fogt, Chris Jones, Connor Kammerer, […]
John Wiese: Battery Instruments
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CABATTERY INSTRUMENTS • 4-channel video/4-channel sound (2016 version) *Debut • 4-channel video/2-channel sound (2012 version) • 8-channel sound (2009 version) Open from noon to 9pm. Reception from 7 to 9pm. Free Editions available at the event. More info TBA. The cinema of ‘pure means’: John Wiese’s Battery Instruments as history lesson. Bruce Russell John […]
Dorian Wood + String Quartet : A Dios
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOf us, repeatedly staring down into the precipice of fleeting consciousness; of milk and lust; of the breadth of celebrity death...an evening of music by Dorian Wood and conductor/arranger Danny Graziani, with art direction by Eduardo Alvarez (director of Wood's video "O"). "A fearless artist and performer whose voice inhabits a room like a choir of ghosts" […]
Southland Ensemble: John Cage 1975-77
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAA program that explores three compositions by John Cage from the mid to late 1970’s - Child of Tree, Cheap Imitation and Renga. These three works range from iconic (Child of Tree) to rarely performed (Renga), and feature three of Cage’s primary notational styles - text, graphic, and traditionally notated - yet are all equally pioneering […]
Keywords for Radicals: L.A. Launch and Discussion
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" of culture and society that reflected the vast social transformations marking the post-war period. Following Williams, Keywords for Radicals asks: what vocabulary might illuminate the social transformations marking our own contested present? How do these words shape the political imaginary of today’s radical left? Bringing together the […]
Robert Beatty • John Wiese/Mitchell Brown • Smokey Emery
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAlive in concert ROBERT BEATTY JOHN WIESE / MITCHELL BROWN SMOKEY EMERY donate eight _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robert Beatty (Lexington, Kentucky) Concurrent to crushing noise-rock norms and jockeying shattered electronics in Hair Police, Robert Beatty has – over a decade and a half – also cut a solo path of pulses […]
Seduction of a Cyborg
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAExhibition Dates: October 7-23, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7-10pm Seduction of a Cyborg explores intimacy, sex, and desire as related to technocratic fantasies of futurity, (re)production of bodies, and fractured selfhood in the digital age. The fictional and the virtual intersect, exposing narratives that activate, transform, and deconstruct our understanding of the networked and […]
Jakob Brugge
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CALaoshou Mountain in southwestern China was quarried for more than two decades. Shortly after the quarry's closure, the Funnin County Forestry department decided to reconcile the barren mountainside with its surrounding foliage. The conclusion they reached was to paint the mountain. Workers sprayed the section of land a bright, vaguely chemical green, tracing the exact […]
Lina Hermsdorf “A Biologically Immortal Living Being Can Still Die”
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAPerformed by Henry Babbage Performance September 27th, 8pm Exhibition on view from September 28th—2nd October (12pm-6pm daily) Hydras never die of old age. In the ancient Greek myth, the Hydra is a multi-headed serpent, with a specific organic talent. As soon as one of its heads is decapitated, the serpent regenerates the missing body part. Hydra […]
Noon Tran & Hannah Mjølsnes: Road River Gust
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAfter driving for hundreds of miles, past mountains, cliffs, boulders, and gravel dust, you will find a field of white dunes surrounded by blue mountains. Currents of wind move through this landscape, continuously shaping and rearranging it. When lakes and rivers dried out due to climate changes, the wind swept up the exposed bottom sediment […]
Marisa J. Futernick “13 Presidents” Book launch and artist’s talk, in conversation with Steve Kado
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn 2014, Marisa J. Futernick drove nearly ten thousand miles across America, visiting all thirteen of the country's Presidential libraries along the way. 13 Presidents is the result: an artist's book that combines photographs from the journey with a suite of short stories. Mixing fact and fiction, each President from Herbert Hoover to George W. […]
9/11 Fifteen Years
9/11 Fifteen Years A one-night exhibition happening on the fifteen year anniversary of September 11, 2001. A paradigm shift. Airplanes as weapons. America attacked. In the immediate aftermath, we saw people rush to hospitals to donate blood, and strangers talking on the street to figure out what was going on. People wanted to help. But, […]
Break It Down: Art and Resistance
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAn evening of art, community and celebration to benefit Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB).
Internet Discount Bedroom 2
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Saturday, September 3rd at 9pm, the exhibition will be on view for the duration of 24 hours, closing Sunday, September 4th at 9pm. Contributing artists include: Matt Damhave, Emma Kohlmann, Dennis Wornick, Shay Semple, Suzanna Zak, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Madison East, Elijah Funk, Taylor Doran and ”Prank Line" from Local Outreach (Van Robinson & […]
SCREAM: FUPU, DOVE, SARAH GAIL, LA PORSCHA
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM FUPU DOVE SARAH GAIL LA PORSCHA SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING HOSTED BY BDH *eardrums bleed not from sound, but truth* Human Resources August 30th 8PM SHARP $5 […]
TROPHY
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAChoreography: Kevin Williamson
In collaboration with performers: Barry Brannum, Jasmine Jawato, Kevin Le
Score: Jeepneys (Anna Luisa Petrisko)
Video Art: Cari Ann Shim Sham*
Lighting Design: Katelan Braymer
Pehrspace Benefit: Signor Benedick the Moor, Dream Panther, Amir Says Nothing, DJs Margot Pauline and Micah James
bring your friends so we can dance -------------------------------------------------- Signor Benedick the Moor Dream Panther Amir Says Nothing DJ Margot Pauline DJ Micah James Thank you, D Wing for getting it all together! $5-$10, all ages.
AFFECT: NETWORK: TERRITORY (A performance of syllogisms in motion)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAugust 10th and 11th, 8pm sharp
Performer: JOSH JOHNSON (Forsythe Company, Sad for No Reason)
Score : VIOLENCE Olin Caprison (http://soundcloud.com/vilentsiolence)
Lighting: NATHAN AZHDERIAN (Juliette Jongma gallery NL)
Dramaturgy: KANDIS WILLIAMS (http://www.kandiswilliams.com/)
With(n)essing in Motion Workshop
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAVisual artist Kandis Williams and dancer Josh Johnson (Forsythe company, Sad for No Reason) will guide a group of participants through screenings and movement exercises that will excavate the space between affective moving bodies and documentation.
Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett: Ring of Fire/Pacific Rim (Screening and Q&A)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAScreening of short video pieces by Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Jakarta-based artists who have been working together since 2010. Their tactical, interventionist approach to social issues frequently plays itself out in public space, and translate into spontaneously unfolding events through a spontaneous and self-organized approach that they describe as Urban Play. In the last […]
Nikki Darling – Temple of the Dawg
An exhibition of art therapy works by Nikki Darling, Temple of The Dawg includes 26 works on paper and a video installation.
The Stars Down to Earth
Screening, with a short introduction, Q&A with Tashi Condelee, Afia Fields, Margaret Hains & others.
Southland Ensemble presents: Soundings
Southland Ensemble presents a concert of music from the early issues of Soundings Press, an important and influential journal of experimental music published by composer Peter Garland from 1971- 1990.
Apeirophobia / Aporia
Organized by Sohrab Mohebbi and Miljohn Ruperto, With: Michel Auder, Julie Becker, David Bernstein, Jennifer Bolande, Cliff Borress, Quynh Dong, Shahab Fotouhi, Ulrik Heltoft, Joel Holmberg, Hassan Khan, Laura Owens, Maria Taniguchi, Asha Schechter, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Alice Wang, Brent Watanabe
Friends Series #5: Alice Wang and Luke Fischbeck
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAA discussion that takes as its starting point, and as a periodic interruption, the idea of a sound fossil—a material index of acoustic activity, or a way of accessing past or future time through a perpetual sonic present.
Exit Interview
Group exhibition highlighting the dialogic dimension of two years of thinking and working in relation to one another. Acknowledging the paradoxical quality of institutionalized art education, the show is conceived as a field of interferences and counterpoints, the aftermath of a vital encounter and commitment to critical discourse.
DAD DAD DAD
DAD DAD DAD is a three-channel collaborative video installation by Maura Brewer and Paul Pescador that takes Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining as a site of analysis. This film will screen for one day only on Father’s Day.
Sandy Ewen / Lucas Gorham • Ted Byrnes / William Hutson • Kathleen Kim / Bill Nace
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAThree duos - music at LACA
LFZ / OFFING / Odeya Nini / r.r. barbadas
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAMusic at LACA by LFZ (Sean Smith), OFFING (Chris Duncan), Odeya Nini, r.r. barbadas (Rona Rapadas & Robbee Barber)
The Distance Plan – Climate and Infrastructure
The Distance Plan: Climate and Infrastructure brings together work by 10 practitioners whose works address major infrastructural forms of the present—energy generation, digital frameworks and mass transport networks—in relationship to future alternatives.
REHEARSAL: Song of Eurydice
Song of Eurydice is a choral / movement piece that re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists. REHEARSAL, founded in 2011, is a works-in-progress performance series in which one artist or group shares their work with the opportunity to hear back from their audience.
Too Much Information
Please join CLOSING for a week of presentations that invite 8 artists to play with form of public address and take on the task of communicating a substantial amount of information to an audience.
Decolonize LA – QT*POC RUN
This is run is open for Queer Trans* People of Color to address issues around (dis)placement we may face in our neighborhood, communities, spirit cultivating spaces, families, etc. We will run around 5 miles in displaced communities of Chinatown, Echo Park & Chavez Ravine.
LACHSA: NEX(T)US
Works by Seniors in the Visual Arts program at L.A. County High School for the Arts. Opening Reception: Fri, May 20 5:30 - 8:30pm with gallery hours Sat, May 21 noon-5pm
The Institute for New Feeling – Felt Book Screening
The Institute for New Feeling presents a 70-min video program to complement the current exhibition in the Arts District, and celebrate the launch of the Felt Book as a complete digital anthology.
James Gamboa: 50/50
50/50 presents the question, given the chance to peer into the future of your health, would you opt in or out? Using the artist’s personal screening and diagnostics, 50/50 examines and abstracts the predictive genetic screening process, and brings the private experience into a public space.
DecolonizeLA: The Crop Project
The Crop Project is a public art piece that invites people to grow corn in USC Roski School of Art and Design from April- July 2016. The Crop Project's exhibition includes an installation of the cornfield’s digging process and found objects from underground.
DecolonizeLA – DivineBrick
DivineBrick (josie j) makes research-based existentially iconoclastic artwork. A lifetime of re-configuring views, beliefs, self-structure and modeling a research-oriented existence that explores belief and where it stems from, this is where it has lead. Bass pushing air, creaking, cracking a wooden device called the Basso, to set the bio and molecular rhythm of the space. […]
Decolonize LA – Window to the Inside
From Habeus Corpus to prison art practice, Liberated Lifers will lead a discussion about our experiences within California’s State Prisons.
DecolonizeLA: Project Q
Project Q presents: 'We don't have mothers' a 1-day art installation at Human Resources LA.
I will be cutting hair for the kids as well as Patty Wack Vintage giving them clothing. Music workshops and yoga class all at once. I really hope you can be apart of this homage to homeless queer youth and possibly be a person that they can also look up to!
DecolonizeLA – Critical Resistance LA
Lynwood Women’s Jail [Century Regional Detention Facility] 11705 Alameda Street, LynwoodJoin the LA No More Jails Coalition on Mother’s Day! We will be at the Lynwood Women’s Jail (Century Regional Detention Facility), hosting a rally and interactive event to build opposition to the proposed women's jail in Lancaster and LA County’s $2.3 Billion Dollar Jail Plan.
RecolonizeLA- Isaac Ledesma: New Los Angeles
This event is part of the DecolonizeLA series, and was made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.
DecolonizeLA: Un-casting colonization from our dreams, casting spells, igniting our decolonized collective dreams through dance and plants w/ Charmaine Bee + Joy
Join us to co-create change collectively as well as release restrictive and oppressive structures that limit expansion. Together let's un-cast the nightmares of colonization!
DecolonizeLA : Suzanne Kite’s “Sources” and “Some Numbers”
"Sources" is a performance that takes a body through an environmental simulation of the Oglala Lakota cosmologyscape. "Some Numbers" is a lecture/performance that asks the question "WHY?" "Why are there so few Indigenous working artists? Why are there so few Indigenous art school graduates?"
Decolonize LA – Cura Tierra Cura presents: DIS * Locate
A participatory performance where rocks, pollinators, plants and animals weave participants through critical conversation on displacement in our city and share healing practices of toning, movement and visualization for the future.
Decolonize LA – Michelada Think Tank
MTT member Shefali Mistry, as part of her graduate Public Practice thesis project, has conducted a series of interviews on the experiences of artists of color in graduate school. From these discussions, Michelada Think Tank (MTT) continues the “PoC Survival Guide” project with a public conversation about higher education and art school.
DecolonizeLA
Between May 3 and May 11th, HRLA will host an exhibition of work from artists who applied to the DecolonizeLA call for proposals. The work will be shown in the lobby, and second floor space.
DecolonizeLA – The Hag
The Hag, “worship, brainstorm sesh + pizza party” The Hag is suspicious of the myth of progress. We are inviting like-minded individuals, also wary of the propagation of expensive, exclusive “arts & culture initiatives,” to discuss their own qualms with top-down hierarchies at the institutional level, as well as to worship at the altar of […]
DecolonizeLA – Song of Eurydice
Song of Eurydice re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists, emphasizing a discourse between Eurydice (mecca vazie andrews) and the deity of the underworld, Persephone (Carolyn Pennypacker-Riggs). Picking up where the ancient tale left off, as Eurydice descends into the underworld and grapples with re-arranging established ways of […]
ETERNAL TELETHON: 55+
“Eternal Telethon: 55+” will broadcast non-stop from 1:00pm on April 28th through the evening of May 1st. The broadcast can be watched live online at EternalTelethon.com and will feature a wide range of creative contributions from over 150 artists.
Friends Series #3: A Conversation Between James Benning and Sharon Lockhart
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CASharon Lockhart received her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1993. She has been a Radcliffe fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a Rockefeller fellow. Her films and photographic work have been widely exhibited at international film festivals and in museums, cultural institutions, and galleries around the world. She is currently […]
Alex Romania: Jerk
This physically vulnerable choreography frames the male body between violence and pleasure -- a microphone is bound to the body and swung from the pelvis evoking forms in the realm of BDSM, pornography, athletics, games, and flagellation. Through genital hypnosis and rigorous discomfort, this is a dance of (narcissistic) pleasure and (quiet) longing, (self) mutilation and (self) care. A dance to flatten and complexify the male body, to tenderize the flesh, to move beyond and to newly inhabit — a phallic solo to recompose the phallus.
WHO IS BABY?
BABY: WHO IS BABY Friday, April 22 - 7:30PM Saturday, April 23 - 7:30PM BIO Baby ... is “ummmmmm” & “ahhhhhhhh” & “please be quiet” & “sighhhhh” & “why you gotta be like that” & “noooooo” & “okay, okay” & “lets do it” & “reeeeeeealllllllllly” & “shhhhh don’t tell” & “you are so weird” & […]
Telémachos Alexiou: The Culture of Refusal
EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursday, April 14, 6-9pm
Friday, April 15, 12-6pm and 8-11pm
Saturday, April 16, 12-6pm
SCREENING: Queen Antigone followed by conversation between Alexiou and Zackary Drucker
Friday, April 15, 8-11pm
Chantal Akerman: Contre L’Oubli/Against Oblivion
An evening of rare filmic treats, a bar, an accordionist, a Yididish interlude, and a reception to follow. Presented as part of Chantal Akerman: Contre L'Oubli/Against Oblivion
- with a lecturette by film maker and programmer Courtney Stephens
Embarrassment Envy Euphoria Excitement
Come join us for a night of ---- Embarrassment Envy Euphoria Excitement Pretend you are someone else for a night Dress up as your favorite whatever (preferably from the 1920s, Victorian, Rococo or Elizabethan era) You will be filmed There will be lots of fog 3 lovely hosts (who only speak in riddles) will help […]
Everything Will Be: Film Screening and Discussion
Join Chinatown community members, community stakeholders, and Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) members for a movie screening of a film called "Everything Will Be", a film that presents stories of different community members in Vancouver Chinatown. After we watch the movie together, we will have a discussion about similarities and differences between the stories […]
MACULAR Showcase
Evening of live audiovisual performances and experimental abstract films by the Dutch media arts collective Macular and a selection of Dutch filmmakers.
KCHUNG Presents: BRUJAJA
KCHUNG presents BRUJAJA, A Gathering of Witches "First, there has been the desire to rethink the development of capitalism from a feminist viewpoim, while, at the same time, avoiding the limits of a "women's history" separated from that of the male part of the working class. The title, Caliban and the Witch, inspired by Shakespeare's […]
Anya Liftig, Gracie Devito, Samuel White
Performances by:
Anya Liftig
Gracie Devito
Samuel White
YES FEMMES (AWP ’16 off-site reading + party)
This series of readings and performances includes work that explores the limits of the body, aims toward transformation, seeks plants and animals as models or collaborators, expresses saturated or hysterical emotion, embraces femme aesthetics, and moves toward the horizon of queerness (after José Muñoz).
Andrew Berardini “Shades of Gray”
Performances at 7:30 and 9pm Shades of Gray is an excerpt from Andrew Berardini's work-in-progress the Standard Book of Color to be read in Alice Wang's exhibition, with music by ?Luke Fischbeck? / Lucky Dragons?. ?E?ach shade will be ?read in immersive atmosphere by a different voice.?? The Standard Book of Color is a compendium […]
Friends Series #2, Erin Christovale and Henoch Moore
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAErin Christovale is a curator and film programmer based in Los Angeles.
Henoch Moore is an LA based creative and entrepreneur inspired by music, culture and the black experience.
They will be speaking on black soundtracks and the parallels between rap and house music.
alice wang
Opening Reception: Friday March 25, 2016 7-10pm Hours: Weds - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment
Ruth Angel Edwards “Derivatives and Futures”
"I'd just like to point out that if anybody cares to look at the video evidence, at no point was my bare backside revealed. So therefore the fact he says he's seen it totally negates the credence of what he said in the previous part of the answer....I'm glad I've got that off my chest – it's been bothering me, that."
CoH / Pinkcourtesyphone / Brandon Nickell / Cameron Shafii
CoH (Sweden) (Ge-stell) http://www.post-pop.org/ CoH (Cyrillic) is a Russian sound artist, based in Sweden, who has been active since 1998. He has released numerous works on esteemed experimental labels like raster-noton, Editions Mego, Coil's Eskaton, and more. He is well-known for his collaborations with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Coil, among others. His works explore texture, atmosphere, […]
This Unwieldy Object: A Modern Research Drama by Anna Zett
In the trans-genre film "This Unwieldy Object" the animated dinosaurs of Hollywood cinema meet the petrified ghosts of colonial science. You follow the protagonist on a road trip into the dusty heart of the USA, where fossil traders, sculptors and scientists are trying to reconstruct the plot of natural history, the plot of progress. Organized by Clara López Menéndez.
David Kanaga / Ben Babbitt
Oakland based experimental music composer, new media artist and active writer, David Kanaga exploring interactive possibilities of music in games and other dynamic environments joined with Ben Babbitt.