W00DY / Stevie Richards / Sleep Clinic / In-House Pharmacy
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASonoptik & Human Resources present euphonic journey W00DY Stevie Richards (aka Cleaning Lady) Sleep Clinic In-House Pharmacy FREE FREE FREE There will also be an installation in place by Stalgia Grigg for all to enjoy. -------------- W00DY https://w00dy.bandcamp.com/ W00dy from Pittsburgh is attempting to bring absurdity to the dance floor with fast bpm’s, high energy […]
Stalgia Grigg: is a weapon and we
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAopening reception: fri june fourteen : seven to ten on view sat june fifteen—tues june eighteen : noon to six The ideological ground that Logic and Rationality stand on is slipping away. Liberalism has rallied to defend the sacred ground of "truth," while slowly realizing it may have been a constructed fiction all along. At […]
Magma Chamber: A Night of Volcanic Rhythm
Magma Chamber: A Night of Volcanic Rhythm |APAHM Phase: Zah, Nihar, Kohinoorgasm, Raver Baba Zah https://bit.ly/2VNdAvM Nihar https://bit.ly/2AIztTv Kohinoorgasm https://bit.ly/2Y8E7Ry Raver Baba https://bit.ly/2VQNDLE Doors at 8p // Show at 9p Sliding Scale $0-$15 Drinks $2 // Free Water All Ages Wheelchair Accessible Except for the Upstairs Bathroom _______________________________________________________________ #APAHM PHASE, an #AAPI alternative arts series, […]
Crom, Persekutor, Beyond Pain, Forest Lawn
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAChurch of the 8th Day Presents: Saturday June 8th 2019 at Human Resources CROM PERSEKUTOR BEYOND PAIN FOREST LAWN 8pm / $10 / 21+ / FREE BEER
ZOOM LENS PRESENTS ᴿᴱᵀᵁᴿᴺ
ZOOM LENS PRESENTS ᴿᴱᵀᵁᴿᴺ a reclamation of the fragmented past Ceramiks (w/ String Ensemble) https://www.instagram.com/ceramiksmidi/ https://twitter.com/ceramiksmidi oh my muu https://instagram.com/ohmymuu https://twitter.com/ohmymuu “trying my best” Video: https://youtu.be/iEm6HaPpfIk Reinabe https://www.instagram.com/abewav/ https://twitter.com/abewav “In The Object” Video: https://youtu.be/9CBM-U3EZcg Plaster Cast https://www.instagram.com/xplastercastx/ https://twitter.com/Plaster_Cast Sonoda https://www.instagram.com/lisasonoda/ https://twitter.com/SonodaLisa + Special Guest DJ PINK FERRARI (London/Manila) VJ by Moogil https://www.instagram.com/moogil9 Follow the Official […]
Office Hrz
Stop by Office Hrz at HR to see the filming of new work by Saturn (formerly Saturn Risin9), the culmination of a week-long residency at HR. gallery hours: 12pm-10pm donations: $5 at the door or venmo
Cody Putman, Marta Tiesenga, Amanda Bonaiuto, Gabriela Escovar
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAPerformance, installation, and screenings 8pm Free
Queer Intimacy and States of Emotion / Cross-Continental Friendships
SELF#2 by Telémachos Alexiou Group Show Fundraiser/Art Sale curated by Telémachos Alexiou Join us for a one-day fundraising exhibition combining works by established and emerging queer artists from Berlin and Los Angeles. Exhibiting artists include: Ron Athey, Lucas Bihler, Cassils, Alex Chaves, Zackary Drucker, Spilios Gianakopoulos, Monilola Ilupeju, Young Joon Kwak, Eva Mitala, Tyler Matthew Oyer, […]
WALKING IN THE SUN
Exhibition Dates: May 17th - May 19th, 2019 Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday 12:00 – 6:00 PM or by appointment Human Resources LA presents Walking in the Sun an exhibition that centers the experiences of Filipinx American artists and their shared experiences navigating the complexities of colorism in the Asian American Pacific islander (AAPI) communities. […]
Phil Minton & Audrey Chen • Swinging Chandeliers • Corey Fogel
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND presents PHIL MINTON & AUDREY CHEN (London/Berlin) SWINGING CHANDELIERS COREY FOGEL doors 8pm sound 9pm donate $10 PHIL MINTON / AUDREY CHEN DUO ✶ Los Angeles debut ✶ Phil Minton (b. 1940, Torquay, England) is a improvisor whose contorted vocal emissions have pushed beyond the boundaries of genre. The past four decades have heard […]
Theo Triantafyllidis: Anti-Gone
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAnti-Gone A Performance in Mixed-Reality by Theo Triantafyllidis May 11th & 12th, 7pm Duration: 3 acts, 60mins, no intermission In a post-climate change world, environmental catastrophe has become normalized. Cities are sunken, yet the vestiges of late-capitalist culture – consumerism, inequality, social unrest – live on, clinging like barnacles to the ruins of civilization. Spyda […]
Laida Lertxundi: Words, Planets
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThis film applies the six principles for composition delineated in ‘Opinions on Painting by the Monk of the Green Pumpkin’, written by the eighteenth-century Chinese painter Shih-T’ao as referenced in Raúl Ruíz’s essay ‘For a Shamanic Cinema’ (for example, ‘draw attention to a scene emerging from a static background’ or ‘add scattered dynamism to immobility’). […]
William Basinski + Lawrence English: Selva Oscura
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND presents William Basinski + Lawrence English: Selva Oscura Wednesday May 8th at 9pm Please note: this is a special seated performance with limited capacity. Advance tickets are recommended. ticket link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-basinski-lawrence-english-selva-oscura-tickets-61247423693 facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/2425987850747632/ From their respective bases in Los Angeles and Brisbane, William Basinski and Lawrence English – two crucial figures of […]
Jennie MaryTai Liu with Alana Reibstein: Nemeton
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CANemeton is a durational choreography which makes a thicket of words, positions, and breath. Nine bodies listen and voice words spoken by nine other bodies— artists no longer living— experiencing what language can make present, and what it shrouds. performed by Stacy Dawson Stearns, Jessica Emmanuel, Cristina Fernandez, Maria Maea, Coral Lobera, Jasmine Orpilla, Alana […]
Greg Kelley/Jessika Kenney • Rob Noyes • Wilson Shook
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND presents GREG KELLEY / JESSIKA KENNEY DUO ROB NOYES WILSON SHOOK donate 8 doors at 8 sound at 9 Facebook Event Page https://www.facebook.com/events/1203512939823489/ GREG KELLEY / JESSIKA KENNEY First time meeting of a surely astounding duo of two key figures in sound: Trumpet player Greg Kelley – on tour from Seattle – and Jessika […]
Echo Park Film Center
On view daily from 2-7 pm Closing potluck party: Thursday, April 25, 7-10 pm, with performances at 8:30 Echo Park Film Center takes over HRLA's galleries for three days and nights—with media installations, performances, and programs of films and videos made by the Film Center's Co-op, as well as artists who have participated in their […]
Guionnet & Khouri • Chen & Sadja • Guionnet & Kennedy & Hutson
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThe Unwrinkled Ear Presents Jean-Luc Guionnet and Lotus Edde Khouri - saxophone and dance AFTERBURNER: Audrey Chen and Doron Sadja - voice, electronics and light Jean-Luc Guionnet and William Hutson and Jeremy Kennedy - saxophone and electronics and drums Doors 8:30/ Music 9 Jean-Luc Guionnet returns to Los Angeles after two years, bringing with him […]
Leather Bath (Greh Holger/John Wiese) • Noise Nomads • Joseph Hammer • Sarah Brady
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND presents LEATHER BATH (Greh Holger/John Wiese) Noise Nomads Joseph Hammer Sarah Brady donate 8 doors at 9 sound at 10 Facebook Event Page LEATHER BATH holger and wiese convene their end-of-the-world sound duo in L.A. for the first time in six years NOISE NOMADS primal electro-acoustics and bonescrape anti-thetics. first show from jeff hartford […]
3rd International Global Karaoke World Championships with Kim Jong Un
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFriday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 Doors at 7pm Performance at 8pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Fresh from his nation's supreme victory at Hanoi—Supreme Leader of the DPRK—The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un (Seung-Min Lee) will make an appearance on the Pacific Rim of Los Angeles, California, USA at Human Resources LA to […]
Redactions (In Progress)
This is a new way to think of oneself, a body composite. No firm boundaries, not a me with space around. But one of those games, magnet shards that pull apart at a suggestion, seem whole but disperse into their millions. Think of yourself that way, a toy of many, host, hosting, little bugs, gathered […]
Public Fiction: Dylan Mira & Sarah Rara
Three-part poems by artists / writers Dylan Mira and Sarah Rara will inhabit opposing sides of a double-sided marquee—the illuminated exterior sign from Public Fiction’s former storefront location in Highland Park (2010—2015)—permanently removed from its original location, now briefly installed inside HRLA's main gallery. Each day, a new section of text will replace the previous […]
When in doubt, read Nightwood: Act III
Thursday March 28, 2019 - 8PM Door: $5-7 sliding scale O Widow Lazarus. The last part of a piece developed around the Djuna Barnes novel: a hysterical break-up that breaks into song. It culls the sentiments stirred by melodramas and musicals to wonder what’s after desire. How does refusal and discarding answer the yearning for transcendence and, […]
The International Expanded Field
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn the spirit of transnational dialog in times of heightened fragmentation, competition and isolation, The International Expanded Field brings members of different diasporic communities of Los Angeles for a three day event at Human Resources. With a critical and contemporary look at the late 1960s and 1970s third world solidarity movements, the three day event […]
Betsy Hunt: Drawing Exercises
Opening at 6pm - 9pm OneHouse ArtExperience presents Drawing Exercises features three short videos - done during a one week, May 2018, residency at the Motion and Media Across Disciplines Lab (MMAD Lab) at the University of Minnesota Duluth, by Duluth-based artist, Betsy Hunt. Betsy's current research is in video art, experimental animation, and performance […]
The Death of Medea
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CATheatre Roscius (Constance Strickland) and Project Nongenue, in collaboration with and as part of Veronique D'Entremont's show Church of Art Conceived by Constance Strickland Directed by Olivia Buntane Movement Direction by Christine Breihan Performed and developed by Constance Strickland and Liz Eldridge Constance Strickland is Creative Director of Theatre Roscius, an experimental theatre company that focuses […]
A Portal Through Which Love May Enter
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAVeronique d'Entremont, Veronica De Jesus and Cole M. James will discuss and share practices for healing ancestral and family connections, discovered through art and writing. As a group, we will engage a practice based in the work of trauma therapist and theologian Kelly Germaine-Strickland, and spiritual activist Jardana Peacock, who practice ancestral healing as an […]
Church of Art
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUsing the framing of organized spiritual practice, Church of Art encompasses the work of artists who seek healing and self-actualization through various disciplines. Staged in front of an installation by Veronique d’Entremont, Gregory Barnett will perform an interactive, durational work, before the Sunday Service begins at 5pm. Sermons will be delivered by Veronique d’Entremont and Kim Ye […]
Beginning to End Fest day 3
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFREE doors at 11:30am noon - Sobbing Honey - Grant Capes and Mike Meanstreetz. tone and silence. gibbering beats and accidental blasts. don't worry, it will be over soon. 12:30 - James Fella / Seth Kasselman - visitors from the mighty desert citadel of Phoenix. Expect a diversity of unsettling sounds and pleasing juxtapositions. Jazz […]
Beginning to End Fest day 2
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFREEEEEE... we will do our best to have a few BBQs going during the day so bring something to grill if you want... nothing like snacks and music! doors at 11:30 noon - Saint Cecilia will serenade us over coffee and donuts. Sweetness and light served with a hot splash of wake-up!!!! 12:45 - Soft […]
Beginning to End Fest day 1
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFREE Welcome to the first night of the three day celebration of music and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles. 8:15pm - The Deep Silence - this guy's instagram handle is the Wizard Adam... it is fitting because of the magic that springs from his mind, his fingers and his gadgets. We run the risk […]
Alex Zhang Hungtai • Ka Baird • Yek Koo
UPEND presents Alex Zhang Hungtai Ka Baird Yek Koo as part of Human Resources Los Angeles 2019-Q1 sunday march third doors at eight - sound at nine donate $10 at the door advance tickets also available here. facebook event page ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI Alex Zhang Hungtai is a Chinese diasporic artist and musician who has […]
Mulan, Make Up!
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAMulan, Make Up! (轉世花木蘭), a queer exhibition curated by artist Yu Cheng-Ta (余政達) and organized by Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles (洛杉磯臺灣書院), delivers perspectives on body politics and highlights nakedness of gender fluid through visual art and performance. The special screening and performance party of Mulan, Make Up! features several experimental short films created by artists […]
Medium Judith: The Plumbing Tree
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThursday, February 28 8pm Friday, March 1 8pm Tickets: $10, Buy online to reserve a seat as tickets are limited!! Tickets will also be available at the door if we do not sell out online. buy here The Plumbing Tree is a three-act play, told through the perspectives of an eccentric family plagued by dogma. Each act is […]
The Uhuruverse: WHO KILLED KENISHA
YOU ARE The Uhuruverse is releasing their Sophomore Album, “Who Killed Kenisha” on February 25th, 2019 at Human Resources LA. An evening of: BDSM 101 with The Goddexx Cori Opening Performance by FUCK U PAY US (FUPU) DJs: Bapari, Mounir Closing Performances by The Uhuruverse This album release party is a joint birthday celebration. […]
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: The Evanesced
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn The Evanesced, 100+ drawings, large scale paintings and a suite of performances bring attention to a painful subject: missing black womxn in America and the African diaspora, from history to the present day. Abstract "un-portraits" of elusive figures are conjured up--drawn with handmade brushes and while the Hinkle improvises dances to blues, hip-hop, and […]
Crinkle
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CACRINKLE is a project exploring sensory perception and themes surrounding multi-sensory integration, particularly the binding of taste and sound. An attempt at understanding the phenomenon of synesthesia moves one to question, what does a taste experience sound like? How might a sound experience taste? In asking, this collaboration between artists Jonathan Silberman and Jasmine Sarp […]
A RAVE Is A Rave is a rave
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWith tunes by amazing djs Baba Electronica, Tyler Matthew Oyer and Toni and bargain prices!! FEB 16 10pm - 4am Door: $5-10 sliding scale BYOB Come dance those bones! A RAVE Is A Rave is a rave!! And please invite everyone and anyone!! The more the merrier since that space is generally gigantic.
tell no lies / claim no easy victories
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFebruary 15, friday - 7 - 10pm | Free & BYOB performance-in-progress night with Karla Ekatherine Canseco & Christal Perez Jinseok Choi Maria Maea Roksana Pirouzmand Pacoima Techno image credit: Roksana Pirouzmand, Painting Pond, 2009. Video still. event organized by Clara López Menéndez
Dorian Wood: Color From God-lung (Larkwat 00)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAColor From God-lung is an endurance-based opera series in which the performers create an intense yet minimalist environment through the use of their bodies, and how they relate to each other. Inspired from a dream by Dorian Wood, the opera unfolds within the petrified carcass of a giant celestial elephant, one of thousands strewn across […]
There is almost not an interval
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWe will walk along an unplanned route, departing from HRLA at the end of the Golden Dragon Parade (3pm) on Saturday February 9th, and then again at 3pm on Sunday February 10th. Each walk will begin in silence, with conversation arriving in response to the territory covered and the pace of walking. Live audio from […]
One, Again / Against One
One, Again / Against One is a group show interested in the osculation of being one and many. Oriented towards the processes and conditions that enable relations to be skewed, at times awkward, or not necessarily there, but almost, is the exhibits domain. The title of the show riffs off of Jackie Wang’s Against Innocence, […]
THE DAMAGE + 24 HOUR MOVIE MARATHON
Cinema began in wonder, the wonder that reality can be transcribed with such immediacy. All of cinema is an attempt to perpetuate and to reinvent that sense of wonder. ... Until the advent of television emptied the movie theaters, it was from a weekly visit to the cinema that you learned (or tried to learn) […]
Exquisite Rugs, Exceptional Service: 530 N. Lake Avenue, Pasadena
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAn in-progress installation about Pasadena Rug Mart, established in 1932 and closed in 2017, commemorating this diasporic 20th Century shop as a personal, cultural, business, and social archive of 530 N. Lake Avenue, Pasadena and incorporating documentation and archival materials dating from the 1930s-2000s, as well as books, textiles, ephemera, yarn used to make repairs, […]
Dorian Wood: Rhythm Nation 1814
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFor 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 […]
Elliot Reed: Ant
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAhttps://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 […]
Jennifer Doyle: Letting Go
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CALetting 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 […]
Autumn Knight: Yes + No: A Cult
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThis 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 […]
2019-Q1
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWe thought we were going to have to move out, now it seems we don't. We'll be in this space for the foreseeable future, then we'll be in another. Until then, continuous grand finales! Including contributions from: Aarum Alatorre Ace Farren Ford Alexandria Douziech Alex Twomey Alex Zhang Hungtai Alice Cunt Allison Wyper Amanda Horowitz […]
Kayla Tange: Defining Boundaries
Performance and Opening December 20th 8pm Gallery Hours December 21st, 12-5pm Human Resources (HRLA) presents a multimedia installation and performance by Kayla Tange. Defining Boundaries explores the construction of boundaries that protect sacred interiority. Tange’s performance utilizes ritual, sound, ephemeral architecture and collected confessions (including her own) in an attempt to establish psychic, emotional and […]
Views from Here: Los Angeles | A panel discussion about being based in LA
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAModerated 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 […]
Terror en lo Profundo
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Saturday 12/8 7—10pm On view through 12/16 Gallery hours Thursday-Sunday, noon-6pm Artistas / Artists: Rosalee Bernabe, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, Juan Caloca, Christian Camacho, Paloma Contreras Lomas, El Pelele, Elsoldelrac, Julieta Gil, Sebastián Gonzales de Gortari, Abraham Gonzáles Pacheco, Cristobal Gracia, Madeline Jimenez, Enrique López Llamas, Morgan Mandalay, Richard Mendtorr, Irak Morales, Jazael Olguín Zapata, […]
Alexander Kluge: “News from Ideological Antiquity”
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAlexander 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 […]
(de) Color-Es 2018/ Primera Generación Dance Collective
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 […]
Audrey Chen • Nour Mobarak • Conscious Summary
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA- 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 […]
Nikki Darling: “Fade Into You”
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAJoin 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)
Perpetual Drone
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThis 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 […]
Seashell Aesthetics
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASeashell Aesthetics is an exhibition building upon a 2017 essay of the same name by Martabel Wasserman published in Yes Femmes. It explores catastrophes posed by carbon, plastic, oil and other byproducts of capitalism polluting the ocean. The shell becomes a way to think with a material that eventually decomposes into fossil fuel. It is […]
Barry Markowitz: Some Fundamental Changes To Majestic Objects
Barry Markowitz: Some Fundamental Changes To Majestic Objects November 9 - 11 Reception: Friday November 9, 7 – 10pm Gallery hours: Saturday, November 10 1-6pm Closing party: Sunday, November 11 12-5pm
Whale Song: A Workshop
“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, […]
Conversation between Cauleen Smith and Raquel Gutiérrez
Sunday, October 28, 2pm Organized as a part of A grammar built with rocks The event brings together Cauleen Smith’s 2008 video work, Remote Viewing, which is currently on view at Human Resources, and Raquel Gutiérrez’s newly-developed essay on the border wall prototypes, to discuss intersecting themes of land art, monumentality, and the racialized erasure […]
Maggi Payne | Maria Chavez | Kaori Suzuki | Joseph Hammer
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAVOLUME 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 […]
THE INFORMANTS
Friday, October 26, 7pm Screening and performance: THE INFORMANTS Adam Khalil, Jackson Polys, and KITE Followed by a conversation with Adam Khalil, Jackson Polys, KITE, K. Wayne Yang, and Oscar Gutiérrez Organized as a part of A grammar built with rocks Through video and performance, THE INFORMANTS will examine the desire for indigeneity in the myths, dreams, […]
Astor | Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan & Alex Twomey | Erika Bell
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAErika 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 […]
Una obsesión peligrosa book release
Bikini Wax (Mexico City) and Human Resources (Los Angeles) celebrate the release of A Dangerous Obsession / Una obsesión peligrosa which features texts written for the exhibition of the same title published by Gato Negro press at Ooga Booga 943 N Broadway #203 (upstairs) Chinatown Los Angeles, CA 90012 Free
A grammar built with rocks
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAImage: Cauleen Smith, Remote Viewing, 2009, video still, 15:13 min. Courtesy of the artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, and Kate Werble Gallery, New York. Opening: Saturday, September 29, 7-10pm September 29 - November 4, 2018 Exhibition Carmen Argote, Julien Creuzet, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), Sandra de la Loza, Regina José Galindo, Adam Khalil, Zack […]
Beck+Col: The Monstern!
The Monstern! Beck+Col with von curtis + James Crawford Friday, September 21 8-10PM performance at 9PM Saturday, September 22 7-9PM screenings at 8PM The Monstern! is a performance, installation and film screening. During the performance, a dozen monsters attend a burlesque show at the Rainbow Saloon. A vicious bar fight erupts, continually interrupting the evening’s entertainment. Using […]
Punishment’s Place
Join us for the Los Angeles Premiere of Punishment’s Place. Written directed and fabricated by Brian Getnick, performed by Kathleen Keogh, Oscar Alvarez and Peter Tomka. Lighting design by Chu Hsuan Chang. Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, Sept 12th — Saturday, Sept 15th Gallery Hours: 12-6pm (The work of artist-performers Kathleen Keogh, Oscar Alvarez and Peter Tomka will […]
Sonoptik + HR present: Tom Hall | Anthony Baldino | Ellan Phan + Nisa Karnsomport | Sleep Clinic
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAA 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 […]
Color Objectivism, Harmonic Distortion and the Illusion of the Noise-Free System, Vol. 2
A series of light and sound performances by Sam Rowell Thursday, September 6th: 8pm & 10pm Friday, September 7th: 2pm, 4pm, 8pm, 10pm & midnight Saturday, September 8th: noon Join in an investigation of the hidden nature of color. Experience the perception of light in the non-visual centers of your brain. Listen to the communal […]
A Motorbike Sunbathes on a Patch of Plastic Turf
Opening Reception: August 24, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: August 24—September 3, 2018 Gallery Hours: Tuesday—Sunday, 12—6pm A Motorbike Sunbathes on a Patch of Plastic Turf is a series of videos, installations and sculptures by Berlin-based Tra My Nguyen and London-based Annie Mackinnon. Drawing upon family and the artists’ Vietnamese and Chinese backgrounds, the works focus upon […]
One-Two
Gallery Hours: 2pm - 9pm An exhibition by John Dieterich and Carlin Wing With work by Cuauhtli A talk by Leopoldo Peña on pelota mixteca and his photography series Oaxacalifornia @ 7pm on Saturday August 18, 2018 And a performance with Corey Fogel @ 7pm on Sunday August 19, 2018. One-two, give-and-go, pass the ball […]
Poison Remedy Scapegoat
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CABeginning 5pm August 16th Performance and Exhibition Open August 16th and 17th 5pm - 11pm Like a cave made out of purple and dark green walls. I roasted things in the oven and you picked at the vegetables like a bird. You’d squeeze the sponge hard so it wouldn’t sit wet and moldy on the […]
Every Unlikely Story
Image credit: Cameron Coffman, slow crawl, 66" x 22" x 34", wood, clay, resin, glass, ladybug, aphids, waterbug, plants, dirt, plastic, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 28, 7-10pm Exhibition Dates: July 28 - August 11, 2018 Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm Imagine the chapters in a long book as individual, freestanding fragments. Take this collection of […]
Arc, Wobble, Fade, Fold
Image: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz, Cup and Ball, cast aluminum, 2018 Opening Reception: July 19, 7-10pm Gallery Hours: Thursday - Monday, 12pm-6pm Sasha Bergstrom-Katz Rachel Borenstein Niloufar Emamifar Miranda Javid Kyle Welker Kim Garcia Joshua Ross Eva Słapa Amy Mackay Consider the idea of the fold. It is both a gesture and a mark, a mode of concealment and of […]
Sarah Rara: Alias
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAsolar rays reached the surface without meaning depending on the day the observer melts exactly where the sun rises the heavy sun tethers to hangers-on throws them counter-clockwise the northern axis points in the direction no one yields colors de-saturate in the dark a cylindrical projection graphs the sun rolled for an eye […]
Moonstone #2
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 […]
Frau Fiber Vs. the Machines
Frau Fiber Vs. the Machines Gallery will be open noon-6pm, Thursday-Sunday. Opening reception Thursday June 7th 7-10pm The works in this exhibition document Frau Fiber's on-going battle with contemporary apparel manufacturing. In video, photography and artifacts, the exhibition makes space to witness Frau Fiber's attempt to spin yarn, knit a tube sock and knit a sweater as fast as a machine. This series of textile […]
Dog Star 14: A House is Made With Walls & Beams
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 Tape Records presents Something Wild
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 […]
James Hoff ❖ Free The Land ❖ Lukas Marxt ❖ Phan & Karnsomport
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 – […]
A Dangerous Obsession: Week 3
♥♥♥ 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 […]
Fiesta NAFTAlgia
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
A Dangerous Obsession: Week 2 Programming
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 […]
Terry Riley’s In C performed by David Harrow
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 • Odwalla1221 • Pinko Scum Joke • Negashi Armada
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAANGELS 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 […]
A Dangerous Obsessions: Week 1 programing
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 […]
Biquini Wax: A Dangerous Obsession
A Dangerous Obsession (A thriller of plastic moments) May 11th-28th Organized by Biquini Wax EPS A Dangerous Obsession (A thriller of plastic moments) Exhibition Dates: May 11th-28th Opening Reception: Friday, May 11th, 7-10pm Exhibition is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 12-8pm, and by appointment. Organized by Biquini Wax EPS During three weekends in May, writers and artists […]
Keijaun Thomas: I Knew That Was You
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn a special iteration, Keijaun Thomas will present two sections from her current project, My Last American Dollar: Round 1. Tricking and Flipping Coins: Making Dollars Hit and Round 2. Black Angels in the Infield: Dripping Faggot Sweat. I am thinking about resistance. How do we resist temptation, how do we slow down, how do […]
CARRIAGE: Matty Davis & Ben Gould
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 Poetry Reading
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 Martís 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, […]
Sherry Valence
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 […]
The Institute of Ceramics and Alliance
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAnna Delgado and Brenda Starks are Southern California ceramic artists whose art examines identity and place. Though their works differ formally, they have overlapping themes that explore heritage, transitional spaces, and the trajectory of clay as an art medium. Together, the artists have dug clay from Los Angeles county to use for their new show, […]
Christine Tavolacci and Ted Byrnes perform John Cage’s Ryoanji
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 […]
Sol Variations – A New Sound Installation by Richard Chartier
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, […]
Stephanie Cheng Smith
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 […]
Nicholas Deyoe and Matt Barbier
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 […]
Pauline Gloss: Lullabies for the Psychotic and Other Recent Work
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 […]
Elsa Trash, Igor Amokian, Zzyzxzyzz, and O.C.D.
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 […]
Beer/Sound Bath with Odeya Nini + Solarc Brewing
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 […]
Vicki Ray
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 […]