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Screening: VFE with ONE Archives

Admission is free. Suggested $5 donation. Founded in 1982 in Washington D.C., Video Free Earth was the longtime sister organization of EZTV, with whom they traded videotapes for screenings and collaborated on various projects. Responding to the political climate of Reagen-era D.C., VFE’s early tour-de-force was a trilogy of drag videos that imagined an alcoholic, manic-depressive […]

Kate Gilbert

Photo courtesy of Kate Hoffman Photo courtesy of Kate Hoffman EXPOSING THE ARTIST MYTH & TWO TACKY PAINTINGS: LA Lesbian Kate Gilbert Goes Back to “Art School” Chinatown arts venue Human Resources presents “Art School”, an exhibition by LA-based artist Kate Gilbert Gilbert originally conceived the idea for “Art School” in a conversation with Human […]

On not-knowing: inquiries of temporality and place in the context of Lebanon

On not-knowing: inquiries of temporality and place in the context of Lebanon Discussion with Joanne Nucho, Suzy Halajian, and Sasha Ussef The session will explore the idea of not-knowing found within the highly contested Lebanese context. Taking Lebanon as a site to unpack ideas of not-knowing at the intersection of various temporalities -- ever shifting […]

Katie Grinnan’s The Astrology Orchestra

Exhibition The Astrology Orchestra is a multi-platform performance project that uses the system of astrology to map out her birth chart from the perspective of the planets in the solar system. These charts served as a template for Grinnan to create unique stringed instruments, each representing a different planetary perspective of the same moment in […]

RECAPS installation and public events

Short installation and series of events that generate material for RECAPS Issue 11 .See Issue 10 (launched today!) for examples of their work. http://recapsmagazine.com/2014/02/ Open to having it another weekend of course.

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 […]

The Goodness Regime

Film ScreeningThe Goodness Regime by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

Tano Ferrer

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. […]

Joel Kyack

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]