Seven Planets Seven Days – La Porscha & Ossian
Photos courtesy of Jeff Jefferson Performance Series with Accompanying Installation Seven Planets Seven Days is a Series of Planetary Invocations presented as seven distinct Performance Pieces. In classical Astronomy, Seven Planets were recognized: The Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and The Sun. (although confusing to a modern audience The Sun and The Moon […]
URN IS THE IMAGE – CHOREOGRAPHED BY SOPHIA CLEARY W/ KATE BERLANT
Sunday April 13th 7pm doors and refreshments 7:30pm performance w/Kitten Meditation by Johnnie JungleGuts urn is the image is a performance about a woman who will have to share her urn when she dies. In this performance, the urn is explored as an object of interiority; its presence on stage symbolizes feelings related to security, death, shared […]
Between A Rock & Hard Plastic: Aesethetics of the Anthropocene
BETWEEN A ROCK & HARD PLASTIC: AESTHETICS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE with Sylvère Lotringer, Heather Davis, and Etienne Turpin Thursday 3 April, 2014, 7:30PM In 2008, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dumped 400,000 black plastic balls into the the Ivanhoe Resevoir to block out the sunlight, which was said to be causing […]
Paradigm of the Precipice: Dead Hippie
Esoterica by Sylvie Spencer (Upstairs), with performances presented by Experimental Half-Hour (downstairs): Diva, Geneva Jacuzzi, GX Jupitter-Larsen and After Hours.
The Goodness Regime
Film ScreeningThe Goodness Regime by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle
The—Family (by Wojciech Kosma)
Performance
Stom Sogo:film series in tribute to the filmmaker
3-evening film series in tribute to the filmmaker Stom SogoNYC Anthology Film Archives DK ASH AL
UCLA class screening
Short film screening and facility tour for Spencer Douglass's UCLA art class. Will be finished by 12pm.
SENSES ON LEAVES: The Fall of Perception
Comprehension-scrambling shorts for your untapped awarenesses. Doors at 7 pm, screening at 8, discussion at 9 Free. Stupid Pills takes a field trip to Human Resources in downtown LA for an evening of cinematic misunderstanding. Discover uncharted territories of experience, fertile areas of creativity, and, with luck, the sublime. The shorts: Pasadena Freeway Stills, dir. […]
HECUBA: CRIME
HECUBA – CRIME a collaboration with John Knuth.
John Knuth: Fading Horizon
The floor of the gallery will be covered with Mylar thermo blankets, light bulbs and mounds of sugar. As the light bulbs heat the sugar, the sugar caramelizes and creates small volcanoes which mark the blankets underneath.
BASE : Session I
BASE is a series of choreography exhibitions. These Sessions incorporate performance, workshops, video, and material research. Featuring work by Niv Acosta, Gina Dell’Amico, Nick Duran, Lauren Davis Fisher, Madeline Hollander, Arley Marks, Temra Pavlovic, Mårten Spångberg, and Sylvie Spencer.
Fault Lines
Performance and video installation “SYMPATHETIC RELEASE” by Barnett Cohen & Jules Gimbrone, with select performances by FAULT LINES contributors.
La Pocha Nostra + Alejandra Herrera
La Pocha Nostra Alejandra Herrera, photos by Andrew Thompson This evening was a real lesson in performance art for me. These two performances extended beyond every pre-conception I have toward performance art. The “stars” of the show was La Pocha Nostra. They are an internationally recognized performance art troupe led by the shamanistic Guillermo Gómez-Peña. […]
Interval / Habitat, Byron Westbrook
Memory can play as much of a role in the experience of a moment as the immediate elements that form the moment. The filmic “cut” is an increasingly present element in our lives, causing constant intervallic shifts in perceived environment and mental states. Interval/Habitat considers the idea of the interval as a quality of environment, […]
SISTER ACT: PERFORM CHINATOWN AFTER-PARTY
Nao Bustamante and Karen Tongson from Crime Scene, photo by Sarah Kessler Nao Bustamante kicked off Human Resources LA’s July 27th benefit and Perform Chinatown After-party with characteristic mischievous flair. In the preamble to her performance, as she was thanking HRLA for inviting her and thanking us for being there to support the benefit, she […]
Yann Novak-curated: Pinkcourtesyphone, Steve Roden, Frank Bretschneider
Pinkcourtesyphone, Steve Roden, Frank Bretschneider, Robert Crouch
Rafa Esparza: El Hoyo
"el hoyo is a hole. a hole that sucks time." In "el hoyo" Rafa Esparza engages with trash and discarded items, using el basurero/ the dumpster as a framing device wherein he negotiates his relationship to memory and time. The evening will move in three parts, with brief intermissions in between. "el hoyo" will begin […]
Ron Athey: Messianic Remains
This performance is the fourth installation in the Incorruptible Flesh series. “Messianic Remains” extends Athey's exploration of the continuation of his own post-AIDS body. Previous installments were done in collaboration with the late Lawrence Steger, (who died of AIDS in 1999), and in the new millennium with London-based artist Dominic Johnson. Between 1996 and 2007, […]
JAAP BOOK release
from Chiara
Film screening: Zoot Suit
HR hosts a fundraiser for a DREAMer Scholarship on behalf of Immigration Law Society of Loyola Law School. $10 admission for the screening and reception afterwards. All proceeds will go to CHIRLA's scholarship fund for undocumented youth seeking higher education.
DANNY GRODY + CHUCK JOHNSON + DANIEL BACHMAN + AMPS FOR CHRIST
Danny Paul Grody Danny Paul Grody is a solo musician and founding member of San Francisco based bands Tarentel, The Drift, Believer, and Moholy-Nagy. He is a self taught guitarist, and the melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of West African kora, Tacoma style fingerpicking and all things minimal, […]
STEWART HOME book reading
co-production with Penny Ante and Tiny Creatures
Symposium/JD
9am-5pm 2 panels, 2 artists talks