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.
Anenon in Performance and Conversation / Petrol Release Show
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAJoin Anenon in conversation with Todd Burns about life at the Red Bull Music Academy, which is happening this September in Montreal. Note: Event is held at LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021.
Postcommodity / White Boy Scream / Carmina Escobar
A night of experimental music with Postcommodity where they promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.
Gaymer Cave
A video game get together and video installation by Johnnie JungleGuts Bring your 3DS and max out that StreetPass! Play casual games of Smash Brothers, Pokemon and Mario Kart, or whatever the kids are into these days! Just hang out! outlets for charging will be available! This event is entirely free! Friendly to all, LGBT […]
QUEER POP
Sophia Cleary + Bradford Nordeen assemble a coterie of luminary queers for this one-off night of dance, drama and dissonance.
(Same) / Folklords / Lone Wolf
A very rare chance to see some very deep and free musicians together under one roof. Jason Ajemian's Folk-Lords is the sound of an outstanding group of New York improvisors performing six conceptual, visual & sonic landscapes. Meditative Mingus ballads, imaginary conversations between Sun Ra & Thelonious Monk, poetic takes on pop culture, and an […]
MEET & GREET 2016
MEET & GREET 2016:
A project fair & party for
new & independent contemporary
arts groups in Los Angeles
Sally Timms / Sun Foot
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAHuman Resources, in collaboration with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, presents an evening of music performed by Sun Foot (Brian Mumford, Ron Burns, Chris Johanson) and Sally Timms (of The Mekons) accompanied by Sun Foot + Money Mark.
Valentine’s Day Party / Benefit for Decolonize LA
A benefit / kick-off celebration for HRLA's Decolonize LA series.
Arcadia Missa / Dominica
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAJoin Arcadia Missa and Dominica at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive on Saturday, February 13th at 8pm for readings by Hannah Black, Sarah M. Harrison, Rin Johnson, and Arian Dean on the occasion of two new releases, and in connection with the exhibition Martine Syms: "Black Box" on view at Human Resources!
Eric Frye / Sean Mccann & Matt Sullivan / Ellen Phan / Ryo Kuramoto
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CAERIC FRYE | SEAN MCCANN + MATTHEW SULLIVAN | ELLEN PHAN
Border Labs
Contemporary artists from Los Angeles and Tijuana exchange ideas in an informal salon with works that muddle, illuminate, and transmute the Baja/Alta California border. Open discussion will follow with live interpretation by Antena Los Ángeles.
Martine Syms “Black Box”
An exhibition of sixty new and recent videos by Martine Syms.
On View February 6 - 27, Wednesday thru Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment
Phill Niblock | Carl Stone
Human Resources, in cooperation with VOLUME, is pleased to presents acclaimed intermedia artist Phill Niblock and one of the pioneers of live computer music Carl Stone.
Odwalla 88 / Headband / Gxnt Valentine / Unica
Human Resources presents an evening of performances by:
Odwalla88
Gxnt Valentine (Trinity County)
Headband (Baltimore)
Unica
Ron Athey: Invitation to Yin Yang
Invitation to Yin Yang Join us Thursday, January 28th at 8pm for a performance by Ron Athey with Darryl Carlton (aka Divinity Fudge) and David Harrow, as part of the Live Artists Live: Performance Art and the Archive program. This event is sponsored by USC's Visions and Voices Program. People with reservations should arrive between 6:30-7:30 to […]
daiKYo,furo shIKI
music performance with ‘daiKYo,furo shIKI and book launch of Felix Bernstein's work Album can be heard here: https://daikyofuroshiki.bandcamp.com/album/yuu YUU by DaiKyoFuroShiki 大凶風呂敷 (‘daiKYo,furo shIKI) is a brainbending collaboration between Tamio Shiraishi and Cammisa Buerhaus, that fuses handmade sound, free noise, and guttural blooms of tone poetry. Artist and multi instrumentalist Buerhaus plays her self built […]
“Weedeater” screening with Eden Batki
Entry is $5. All the money raised goes towards getting this film on the road. Hosted by Casey Jane Ellison Artist Auction includes: Jibz Cameron, Aimee Goguen, Molly Larkey, Edie Fake, John Batki, Yuval Pudik, Amanda Marsalis, Anna Craycroft, Nicole Eisenman, Lee Maida, Davida Nemeroff, Pearl Hsiung, Dylan Mira, Anna Sew Hoy, Eve Fowler A.L. […]
BILL NACE . JAKE MEGINSKY . KATHLEEN KIM . ANDREW CHOATE
LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd , Los Angeles, CA"the humble and unentitled" pleasantly submit solo sets by BILL NACE . JAKE MEGINSKY . KATHLEEN KIM . ANDREW CHOATE doors at 8pm sound at 9pm donate eight Los Angeles is the terminus of a January 2016 coast-to-coast tour by Jake Meginsky and Bill Nace. Though this pair of New England experimentalists have been collaborators […]
Sille Storihle: ONE MAN SHOW
ONE MAN SHOW is Berlin-based artist Sille Storihle’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The show centers on two documentary shorts, The Stonewall Nation (2014) and The Tomorrow Show (2015). Drawing on archival material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the exhibition examines the performative potential of archival documents.
Die Reihe, Ben Kudler, Farewell My Concubine, & Max Eilbacher
AT LACA (not HR) - Die Reihe, Ben Kudler, Farewell My Concubine, & Max Eilbacher - electronic music audio/visual performance
JEFFZILLA WORLD
Jeffzilla presents JEFFZILLAWORLD, a three-night installation and performance series that will transform HRLA into a fantasy fun house from beyond the pumpkin. Jeffzilla, aka Jeff Galvan, is an an LA based multi-disciplinary artist, musician and co-founder of the infamous Coolworld Party LA. **** *A queer little pumpkin, a jolly fat fellow, Stood close to his […]
Mark Golamco: Ghostlight
Mark Golamco founded and hosted a monthly performance cabaret called Ghostlight at the infamous (and now shuttered) Cafe Dancer bar in New York City. Ghostlight is an eclectic night of performance featuring exceptional artists and DJs. Each night is grounded by an intimate solo performance by Golamco self-accompanied on the viola. Ghostlight has now become […]
The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning: Video Program PART 2
Video program. Part 2, conceived in conjunction and in dialogue with the exhibition "The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning." Curated by Suzy Halajian and Clara López Menéndez, the program features works by Malin Arnell, Phil Collins, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, and Basim Magdy, followed by a Q&A with the curators and Malin Arnell, Harry Dodge, and Stanya Kahn.
Julie Tolentino: The End of the Party, 2015 + subtitled by my sister, Rita: (I Hope She Doesn’t) Fall Asleep In The Ocean
The End of the Party, 2015 subtitled by my sister, Rita: (I hope she doesn’t) Fall Asleep In The Ocean Julie Tolentino with the eternal players: Mark So, Pigpen, Maria Garcia, John Bertel, Patrick Murch, Tamaki aka Banetoriko, Leon Hilton, Ivan Ramos for N.T. and the rest of the worst of us Saturday, December 5, 2015, 11pm […]
The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning
Project curated by Suzy Halajian
with Basma Alsharif, Doa Aly, Gilda Davidian, Mariah Garnett, David Horvitz, Hiwa K, Mark Leckey, Klara Liden, Christine Rebet, Julie Tolentino, Erika Vogt, and Hanna Wildow, texts by Doa Aly, Janine Armin, Shoghig Halajian, and Litia Perta, & a video program organized with Clara López Menéndez
The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning: Video Program PART 1
Video program. Part 1 SAT NOV 14 & SUN Nov 15: SCREENING: Peter Watkins’ La Commune (Paris, 1871) and Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk’s Out on the Street This program is conceived in conjunction and in dialogue with the exhibition The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning curated by Suzy Halajian and […]
carlin wing (lecture)
Machine Project and Cabinet magazine team up to present two new episodes in the life of bounce from artist (and former professional squash player) Carlin Wing – hosted by Sabrina Chou’s experimental sporting exhibition, HR. Following the workshop at 5pm, we’ll head to the bleachers for Episodes in the Life of Bounce, an illustrated talk by […]
carlin wing (workshop)
From 1pm to 4pm, join us for a Live Ball Orchestra! Artist Carlin Wing, assisted by Luke Fischbeck, will lead a workshop about the sonic and musical properties of bounce. Participants will use balls of all types to sound out the architectural space of Sabrina Chou’s exhibition at HRLA. We will explore the aural characteristics […]
Manuel Solano, Johnnie Jungleguts, Guan rong
performances and readings on desire, yearning, love, and sex. Manuel Solano http://manuel-solano.com/ Guan Rong www.onehousearts.org/ Johnnie Jungleguts http://johnjungleguts.tumblr.com/ performances start at 8:00 sharp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMF3ackBvE
Semiotext(e) Book Launch for Dodie Bellamy + Jennifer Doyle
Join us for a celebration of the publication of Bellamy's When the Sick Rule the World, and Doyle's Campus Sex/Campus Security
$3.33, lucky dragons
Sound performances at HR, in the exhibition "HR" by Sabrina Chou
HR Clara Lopez – Chantal Ackerman Screening
On Sunday October 25 we want to pay tribute to Chantal Akerman, a filmmaker that has changed our lives and our eyes to see cinema, to be cinema. We can’t believe and don’t want to accept her disappearance.
Sabrina Chou
An exhibition of new work by Sabrina Chou consisting of backdrops, equipment, furnishings, and clothing. The exhibition proposes an ambiguity around these objects, and how they might oscillate between aesthetic proposition, functional use, and absurd adaptation.
The Adonis Project – PERFORMANCE
The Adonis Project: Masquerade Saturday, October 10th, 2015 For the second year in a row the notorious Adonis Theater, legendary gay adult movie house will be creatively resurrected for one night only as artists from the LA queer community descend on Human Resources to share their hot visions around themes of Gay Sex and Queer […]
My Body Is a Prison of Pain so I Want to Leave It Like a Mystic But I Also Love It and Want it to Matter Politically
ohanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory proposes that sick bodies are the 21st century’s sites of resistance: chronic, pathologized, and historically feminized illnesses ought to be read as modes of protest against the unlivable conditions of neoliberal, imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist cis-hetero-patriarchy.
Karen Anzoategui- Catholic School Days
Karen Anzoategui brings their solo show Catholic School Daze to Human Resources LA in Chinatown, Oct 2nd-4th, 2015. Catholic School Daze is an autobiographical solo performance that tells the story of ‘Karen’ who finds humor and pain while surviving the challenges of gender norms, sexuality, and faith. Karen is forced to take the blame for […]
It’s Just the Beginning
Hong Kong Forum Los Angeles presents a multi-disciplinary exhibition of the Umbrella Movement in Chinatown. The exhibition serves both as a reflection and a projection of Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy. It highlights moving moments from the protests, and the feverish creativity that blossomed throughout the strikes and occupations. It also offers an opportunity for the LA HK community to process and raise awareness about what is happening in our city collectively.
It’s My Party!: Tribute Show to Girl Groups of the 1950s & 60s
He loves me. He loves me not. He's from the wrong side of town. Parents don't understand. Boys are good. Boys are bad. These issues defined the sweet and sassy songs of girl groups from the 1950s & 60s.
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan
In connection with the exhibition Keith Rocka Knittel: Let it Yellow, Human Resources is pleased to present a performance of Carnatic vocal compositions by Gautam Tejas Ganeshan.
“Let it Mellow” Keith Rocka Knittel
The work in Let it Yellow is process driven - performances build objects creating a syntax as gestures break down their materiality, starting the process over again. Art objects exist equally as both a means of representing the present and a remnant of the past, both combined to reflect upon the future.
“What It Means to Learn” Johanna Jackson & Dana Dart-McLean
“What It Means to Learn” Johanna Jackson & Dana Dart-McLean September 4th—September 6th, 2015 Opening Friday September 4th 7-9pm At the opening, Peter Hernandez, Busy Gangnes, and Nickels Sunshine will dance in a collaboratively choreographed piece, using sculpture by Dana and Johanna. In addition to their individual work, Johanna Jackson and Dana Dart-McLean have used […]
Adam Laiben – “Home Again”
Adam Laiben screens his 2011 film HOME AGAIN, an adaptation of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's 2009 French documentary, HOME. A six-minute short film by Laiben will accompany the feature film. Also, come early and stay late for live music by Izapa.
HARVESTER SCREENING
Harvester is a screening of this strangely meditative film, a look at worldwide food production with dj Nick Malkin and percussionist Corey Fogel
Sissy Spacek
Free Show
“A Man of Average Means” group show organized by Thomas Torres Cordova and Eric Kim
A Man of Average Means Opening Reception: August 2nd 4-7pm with a performance by Dawn Kasper at 5:30PM Closing Party & Performance: Viola Yesiltac + Kathleen Kim 7:30PM In 1978, frustrated by his country’s inability to produce quality films, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il embarked on a plan to appropriate proven foreign resources. […]