Human Resources

For one night only, singer/composer Dorian Wood will honor the 30th anniversary of the release of Janet Jackson's 1989 masterpiece "Rhythm Nation 1814" by performing it in its entirety, arranged for voice and piano. Says Dorian: "I was 14 when this album came out. No other music at the time sounded like it. I knew […]

https://vimeo.com/308908764 January 11th + 12th 2019 12pm - 12am Ant is a new project by Elliot Reed. 45 performers create a film in private. The resulting multi-cam footage is projected in the same room, January 11th + 12th 12pm - 12am Ant is inspired by the mathematics concept Langton's Ant. Langton's Ant proves that a […]

Letting Go A reading of a work in progress: reflections on living with harassment. Jennifer Doyle is a member of the Board of Directors for Human Resources Los Angeles. She is the author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of […]

This event is a 2 part performance. Part 1 uses text, light persuasion, and vocalization to think about the construction of collective thought, action, and belief. Part 2 is a lecture about cognitive dissonance. Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation and text. Her performance work has been in group exhibitions at […]

Moderated by Michelle Grabner with Jennifer Bolande, Neha Choksi, Courtney Fink, Galia Linn, Shana Lutker, Forrest Olivo, Paul Pescador, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya Join us for a conversation about regionality, locality, and the myriad of ways in which arts-workers find themselves living and working in Los Angeles. This panel is comprised of artists, curators, and […]

Alexander Kluge's film, News From Ideological Antiquity: Marx-Eisenstein-Capital, begins with Eisenstein's ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Capital and Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, his guests, interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisenstein's notes. Kluge's […]

Saturday, December 1, 2018 5:00pm and 8:30pm doors open 30min before the show Discounted Tix $15 before 11.23.18 with code: “pgdc”; General Tix $20 TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3625627 (de) Color-Es is an event that questions what color and marginalization is, how it is constructed by/within art and where it can go/what it can do. The project seeks to cultivate community and networks amongst artists of […]

- live in concert - solo performances Audrey Chen (Berlin/Baltimore) Nour Mobarak Conscious Summary 8pm-11pm donate eight   AUDREY CHEN Articulate down to a single vocal cord click, Berlin-based improvisor Audrey Chen hyperextends voice, mining material in between – and beyond – previous utterance. Finding sound via microtones of larynx squeak, blowing wind turbulence with […]

Join us for the launch of Nikki Darling's debut novel Fade Into You With guests Luis J Rodriguez and Raquel Gutierrez. (You can read an excerpt here)  

This night is an official benefit for Maps.org to help raise awareness and money for their efforts to help make psychedelic assisted therapy a legal treatment option in America, this is something they have made great strides towards completing and has garnered lots of support worldwide. All the performers, Artists and organizers are donating their […]

“The greatest amount of change appears when singing is most pervasive and the effort of each singer is most intense.” — Katy Payne Since they were first recorded by hydrophones in the late 1960s, the haunting songs of humpback whales have been objects of human inquiry. These “long, complexly organized patterns of sounds,” which include, […]

VOLUME presents legendary composer, video artist, recording engineer, and multi-instrumentalist Maggi Payne (Oakland). Joining the lineup are Maria Chávez (NYC), Kaori Suzuki (Oakland), and Los Angeles local Joseph Hammer for what will surely be a night of focused and sustained immersive listening. Payne will present several works from recent years, including Heat Shield (2018), Black Ice(2014), and Quicksilver (2011). Black Ice and Heat […]

Erika Bell, Astor, and a trio performance by Sean McCann, Alex Twomey, and Matthew Sullivan. Erika Bell will be presenting a new, four-channel work titled Saint-Girons, which was inspired by a recent field recording she took in a workshop led by Christina Kubisch. The recording captures both the electromagnetic sounds (via Kubisch’s headphones) and the […]

A night of synesthetic journey Tom Hall Anthony Baldino Ellan Phan + Nisa Karnsomport Sleep Clinic Doors 8pm / $5 Tom Hall is an Australian audio/visual artist, residing in Los Angeles. His practice involves micro exploration into place, space and time. Inspired by peripheral space, he focuses on using multiple approaches to engage and recontextualise […]

Moontone #2   Performance: Mariel Carranza: 2pm-8pm http://www.marielcarranza.com/ Jennifer Locke: 7pm http://www.jenniferlocke.net/   Movement: Austyn Rich:  8pm https://www.instagram.com/blaqdemarco/?hl=en   Drag: Direct from NYC - Millicent: 7:30pm   Photography: Hiroshi Clark http://hiroshi-clark.com/     Curated by Marcus Kuiland-Nazario $10 Suggested donation Precise details coming soon. Shaking out to be an afternoon into evening event as we […]

Premieres by Stephanie Smith, Cassia Streb, Sepand Shahab, Eric Heep and John Eagle for the 8 channel modular sound system 'Sound House', a collaborative project with Janie Geiser, John Eagle & Cassia Streb. $5-10 donation

SEX. An homage to the 70s Vivienne Westwood store of the same name and the Gun Club's inimitable song, Sex Beat. TAPE. Every project is recorded to analog tape. RECORDS. All releases are pressed on vinyl. Sex Tape Records is the concept of Costume and Fashion Designer, Stacy Ellen Rich. As one of the few […]

Audio-Visual Program // Live Performances + Cinema   James Hoff  Free The Land  Lukas Marxt Ellen Phan & Nisa Karnsomport   curated by Tim Leanse   doors at eight – donate eight program begins promptly at 8:30     JAMES HOFF (PAN - NYC) James Hoff is a Brooklyn-based artist who tweaks systems across disciplines – […]

♥♥♥ Sunday the 27th ♥♥♥ Activities occur simultaneously in both spaces BWEPS and HRLA; and will be broadcast by livestream (we will share the link on social media).   We would present more interventions by artists at BWEPS shrunken house after our successful Kickstarter campaign to build a shrink ray. So far, we already are […]

Reggaeton, Performance Art, Magic, Dr. Simi, Cheap Drinks, and more... gratis :) Music selections by: DJ Guapis (CDMX) Baile, Liberacion, Resistencia (Mexicali) DJ Telcel (Michocan) Performances by: Gabriela Ruiz (LA) Andrew Roberts (TJ) Food by: Nehemias de Leon (LA) &  Biquini Wax (CDMX)   part of "A Dangerous Obsession" organized by Biquini Wax

Activities occur simultaneously in both spaces BWEPS and HRLA; and will be broadcast by livestream (we will share the link on social media).   Human Resources, BWEPS Originals and The Transnational Temple of Subcritical Studies are glad to present their 3rd season: ▬ A Dangerous Obsession ▬ A THRILLER OF PLASTIC MOMENTS A transnational collective […]

1964: The year that Terry Riley first performed In C, the piece that laid the foundations for the entire minimalist movement, is also the year of my birth. Turning full cycle to the present, a time when contemporary synthesis has brought the principle of variation through repetition to our fingertips, reaching for the sublime through […]

ANGELS IN AMERICA (NYC) ODWALLA 1221 PINKO SCUM JOKE NEGASHI ARMADA doors at nine / sound at ten / donate ten from New York City… ANGELS IN AMERICA (aka Miami Angels, Angels USA, etc.) "Underground" is a know-it-when-you-hear-it place. And to take us there, the instrumental and vocal duo Angels in America adhere to no […]

Activities occur simultaneously in both spaces BWEPS and HRLA; and will be broadcast by livestream. Human Resources, BWEPS Originals and The Transnational Temple of Subcritical Studies present their 3rd season: ▬ A Dangerous Obsession ▬ A THRILLER OF PLASTIC MOMENTS A transnational collective impulse of arts and literatures that takes place in Mexico City (Biquini […]

CARRIAGE by Matty Davis and Ben Gould   Sunday, May 6, 2018 7:00PM–9:00PM (performance begins promptly at 7:15PM) Human Resources, 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 FREE   Carriage is a site-responsive performance created by Matty Davis and Ben Gould that radically explores control and empathy, motored in part by the raw energy […]

“Nuestra América” celebrates the unique voices and styles of writers and poets who live in Southern California. The title of the poetry reading refers to José Martí’s seminal essay, which was first published in 1891 in La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York (New York) and then in El Partido Liberal (Mexico City). In his essay, […]

HRLA and The Institute of Ceramics and Alliance will host music by Sherry Valence.  Sherry Valence is an Indie Pop band formed in 2016. The band consists of vocalist Danielle Zamora, guitarist Ryan Massie, guitarist Jess Kelly, bassist Sean Kelly, and drummer Joseph Gallegos. Sherry Valence is a Los Angeles band and they released their […]

TWO PERFORMANCES - 8pm and 9:30pm Doors at 7pm $15 Suggested Donation On the surface, a comparison might be hazarded between John Cage’s mid-eighties composition Ryoanji and the untitled work at the center of “Cosm, Organization-Construction, Second Instance,” the debut Los Angeles exhibition of Bay Area artist Anja Weiser Flower. Indeed, both works share an […]

VOLUME and Human Resources are pleased to present Sol Variations, a new sound installation by Richard Chartier as part of “Cosm, Organization-Construction, Second Instance,” an exhibition of new work by Anja Weiser Flower. Chartier’s work under his own name has been widely celebrated for his groundbreaking explorations of the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, […]

Doors at 7pm, performance at 8pm Installation viewable during gallery hours, April 18 - 22, 12pm - 6pm VOLUME and Human Resources are pleased to announce an interactive multi-channel sound installation by Stephanie Cheng Smith. This will be a part of “Cosm, Organization-Construction, Second Instance,” our exhibition of new work by Anja Weiser Flower. Smith […]

TWO SETS - 8pm and 9:30pm Doors at 7pm $5-15 Sliding Scale VOLUME and Human Resources are pleased to present a performance by guitarist Nicholas Deyoe and trombonist Matt Barbier, as part of “Cosm, Organization-Construction, Second Instance,” an exhibition of new work by Anja Weiser Flower. Combining both improvisation and multi-channel electronics, both Deyoe and […]

Literary sound-artist Pauline Gloss will present an evening of new and recent work in the text-sound / sound-poetry tradition. She will perform a new piece for electronics and spoken voice, conduct a participatory language game, and present her new cycle for solo voice, “Lullabies for the Psychotic.”  Pauline’s current body of work is concerned with […]

VOLUME and Human Resources are pleased to present performances by Elsa Trash, Igor Amokian, Zzyzxzyzz, and O.C.D. as part of “Cosm, Organization-Construction, Second Instance,” an exhibition of new work by Anja Weiser Flower. Building on themes of spatial orientation and spatial concentration, this evening will feature harsh and immersive four-channel soundscapes by three notable emerging […]

This event will combine the cosmic energies of Odeya Nini's Vocal Sound Bath vibrations with Solarc Brewing's experimental beer libations.  You will have the opportunity to experience a unique dynamic system creating a whole greater than the sum of it's parts as the yin and yang of inebriating potions and sound healing meditation mixes under […]

VOLUME and Human Resources are pleased to present a performance by pianist, improviser, and composer Vicki Ray as part of “Cosm, Organism-Construction, Second Instance,” an exhibition of new work by Anja Weiser Flower. This occasion will present a rare opportunity to experience an extended, improvised sound world by one of the foremost artists working with […]

Queens Of The Night: Xina Xurner Album Release Friday, April 6, 2018, 8-11 PM Join us for a night of experimental music and performance celebrating the release of Queens of the Night, the new album by Xina Xurner. Featuring performances by Xina Xurner (with guests San Cha, Sarah Gail, and White Boy Scream), Trap Girl,  and […]

VIDEOHOUSE is a program of video projections organized by Deslave, a space for the art exhibition located in Tijuana. We're please to invite you to VIDEOHOUSE 3: "Because a great franchise always starts with a trilogy", a sample of works that will be carried out in three spaces; Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), Deslave (Tijuana) […]

image: David Horvitz, Ocean Sounds (2017) While I was also listening to Krysten, LeRoy, Julien, Jennie, Félicia, David, Yann, Luke, Sarah... La Criée, in partnership with Human Resources LA, invites seven artists to expand the notion of narrative and improvisation. Performing narrative, deconstructing storytelling; this session of While I was also listening to ... challenges the traditional […]

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 […]