Human Resources

Join Michelada Think Tank on Monday, June 29 at 7pm for the launch of Race, Art, & Survival. This project is part of our summer residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and in conjunction with Chats About Change. In this kick-off session we pose the question, “If there were a PoC Survival Guide for artists, […]

Heaviness from the midwest, expansiveness from the west. 9pm/$5

Doors at 8PM SONOPTIK & HRLA presents an evening of smeared electronics and ambient force fields. CEDIE JENSON - An electronic producer from Brisbane, Australia, that has spent the last few years fusing soundscapes with pop. Visting LA for the first time. http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/08/cedie-janson-in-the-light-official-video/ http://thump.vice.com/en_au/article/musical-reflections-and-refractions-listen-to-light-works-from-brisbane-producer-cedie-janson http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/interviews/cedie-janson-talks/ ANENON (Non-projects/Ghostly) -  http://soundcloud.com/anenon http://www.facebook.com/anenon TOM HALL (Sonoptik) - http://tomhall.com.au/ […]

Doors at 8PM, $5 more jazzy weirdness than you can shake a stick at

$7 solo trumpet from far out, funneled thru NYC 8:30 PATRICK SHIROISHI'S BLACK SUN SUTRA - soaring saxes and clashing drafts of drums and bass... swirling images adrift in the haze of memory 9:15 COREY FOGEL - drums and guns... well no guns actually 10 PETER EVANS - "New York City - based trumpeter, composer, […]

$7 gives you entry to a lovely night of sights and sounds, sips and slips.... 8:30 - BERARDI/LIEBIG duo Improvised textures, rhythms and atmospheres for bass, drums and a steaming pile of electronics from these two local magicians. history is littered with the corpses of unrequited genius™ 9:30 - HELENE RENAUT - Video Release - […]

L'INFERNO: A GROUP ART SHOW / LIVE FILM EVENT FRIDAY, JUNE 12th $5 DONATION / DOORS AT 8:30PM; PERFORMANCES AT 9:00PM ALL AGES +ALL PROFITS BENEFIT WEST LA ANIMAL SHELTER+ A full multimedia art show in the vein of last year's acclaimed 'Try To Forget' show, the 'L'Inferno' event brings together some of the most […]

Doors 9PM / $7 Organic tension noise composition; emphasis on being in the moment — minds, bodies, rooms. Our terms. Discomfort, anxiety, struggle, obsession, dynamic, and intention through sound — and the necessity to create our own vocabulary within it. Discarding what doesn’t hold resonance while refining what does. Aesthetic integrity. Line in the sand. In […]

2PM-2AM help us help you come listen to new and exciting music, eat some hot dogs, drink some drinks in the evening part of the show... life is good two shows in one... bring what you can and we'll take care of the rest.... but remember this is a benefit and we need dough to […]

Doors at 9PM; $7 all ages life is good This article is about a secretion of mammalian genitals. For the substance that covers the skin of a baby at birth, see Vernix caseosa. For the experimental noise band, see Smegma (band). MSHR is beyond anything we have ever seen and heard... craftsmanship of alien proportions... intensity […]

Doors open at 6PM, Screening at 6:30PM; $8 suggested donation Vanessa Roveto, Excitability, 32 min., 2013 Michael Robinson, Light Is Waiting, 11 min., 2007 Michael Robinson, All Through The Night, 4.20 min., 2008 Michael Robinson, These Hammers Don't Hurt Us, 13min., 2010 Michael Robinson, The Dark, Krystle, 9min., 2013 Queer pop cultures collide in the exciting video work of Vanessa […]

May 1st, 2015 - Doors at 8pm - $10 An evening of contemporary and experimental music and performance. A Solo Voice by Odeya Nini is an investigation of extended vocal techniques, resonance and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of […]

Doors at 8PM, $10 all ages. Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes duo, touring in support of 'Matterings', their new record on Erstwhile Records Ted Byrnes and Scott Cazan duo James Rushford and Tashi Wada duo Florent Colautti ABOUT JEPH JERMAN I grew up in a military family, so we moved around a lot, a different […]

COMMUNITY FORUM & Book Launch for Manuel Vason's Double Exposures. Tuesday April 28, 7:30PM Join us a community forum exploring the relationship of performance art to photography, and photography's relationship to performance art. This forum celebrates the publication of Manuel Vason's Double Exposures, a series of collaborations between the London-based photographer and some of today's […]

8PM One week across five different cities we will introduce you to Max 7 and its creative possibilities. Whether you’re a seasoned user or have only thought about downloading our 30-day demo, we want to hangout with you and talk about Max. Not since the introduction of Max 5 has a new release included so […]

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Saturday April 25th 2015 Sarah Harron / Jenny Sayaka NONO / Divided Daughters a night of performance, sound and video curated by Oscar Miguel Santos. DOORS at 10pm STARTS at 1030pm ***** Sarah Harron’s work is narrative based and system seeking. Composed of controlled structures that once setup beget their own chance and destiny.  Her […]

The publication includes feature essays and reviews by: Jonathan Griffin Travis Diehl Anthony Pearson Anna Breininger Eric Morse/ Alexandra Grant Barnett Cohen Mateo Tannatt Kate Wolf Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal Keith Vaughn Evan Moffitt Catherine Wagley Aaron Horst and Cal Siegel And new editioned series by : Nora Slade (Waggy Tee) Ben Medansky Lauren Cherry & […]

Doors at 9PM; $5, all ages. An expansive experimental tour of psychedelic trance to jump cut tape music. A RARE chance to see two of Finland’s most acclaimed sonic adventurers – neither have ever performed in California before! ARTTU PARTINEN member of Avarus, Amon Dude, Heteroskeleton. “If heaven exists, Andy Kaufman and Hunter S. are […]

Doors at 9PM; $5 FLESHTONE AURA with live projections by WINSTON HACKING “Fleshtone Aura serves his spicy dinner with a tangle of source cassettes and electronics that deploy the deeply arousing aromas of both a series of poignant and extraordinairily well timed belches and farts (or the equivalent thereof) AND the grandest gestures of the […]

Join HRLA as we welcome Chicago-based artist Keijaun Thomas. This is Thomas's first performance in Los Angeles. Sunday evening, April 19. 6PM-8PM. 10-15$ suggested donation. Partitions of Separation and Trespassing Section 1. Selective Seeing Part 2. Looking While Seeing Through Section 2. Painted Images, Colored Symbols Part 3. Sweet like Honey, Black like Syrup   […]

Doors at 9PM; $7, all ages welcome. I SPEAK MACHINE - music/ film duo from Los Angeles that create sci-fi/ horror short films that are screened with the score performed live. Tara Busch will be playing the live scores to THE SILENCE and GAGGLEBOX plus a few extras! The soundtrack to their first film, THE […]

Doors at 9PM; $5. Mike Tamburo (Pittsburgh, PA) - https://miketamburo.bandcamp.com/ East coast hammered dulcimer, gong and meditation master comes to float your boat Brown bread (Beacon, NY) - https://brownbread.bandcamp.com/ Drifting nebula of a cappella vocal harmonies and keyboard swirl Dj E-Spinfiniti - https://soundcloud.com/djesp-infiniti-1 Interdimensional DJ and meditative sounds for the upliftment of all creation Kevin Greenspon - http://www.kevingreenspon.info/ Ambient […]

Directed by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie, this expansive project utilizes a mobile television studio to explore the artist dialogue with broadcast transmission, analog and digital media, and televisual liveness. E.S.P. TV’s live TV studio hybridizes technologies old and new to realize synthetic environments for performance that also expose the process of production. Each live […]

Doors at 8:30PM, music starts at 9:30, $5. ooooffff... heavy doses in triplicate three drummers and four guitars players thats it... 3 + 3 + 4 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1 unity ABOUT THE ARTISTS ALTO! Cinder Cone, a two-piece minimalist rock outfit from Los Angeles, emit a thunderous sound. Anyone can […]

Doors at 8PM, $10 all ages. An evening of 3 solo performances from Jessica Pavone (viola), Owen Stewart-Robertson (guitar), Ted Byrnes (percussion). Possibly, a trio at the very end. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Jessica Pavone (composer, viola, violin, el.bass) has performed in countless improvisation, avant jazz, experimental, folk, soul, and chamber ensembles since moving to NYC […]

Doors at 8PM, $7 everyone welcome out of this world psych and noise blowout on Easter Sunday.. .come blessed in yr sunday dress FATHER MURPHY (IT) visiting darkness XIU XIU NOISE - hometeam supergroup featuring Elaine Carey & Juliette Amoroso (Telecaves), Tamaki Ueda (Banetoriko), Shayna Dunkelman, Angela Seo & Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu). XIA - […]

Doors at 8PM, $7. Join us at HR for experimental, noise sets with Lee Noble, Park Detail's Band, Ezra Buchla, Arrington de Dionysio, and Telecaves.

A night of improvised sonic meditations led by the Kevin Robinson Ensemble (KREation) working in collaboration with live visual art by Kenyatta A C Hinkle and live writing by Niela Orr. KREation consists of: Sarah Belle Reid - Trumpet; Christin Hablewitz - Woodwinds; Kevin Robinson - Woodwinds; Rachel O'Connor - Horn; Evan Jiroudek - Drums; […]

7:30PM "Turning”, 2012 (76 min) "You Are My Sister”, 2006 (3 min) Atlas' practice is firmly rooted in the moving image, and he is most famous for works that blur the line between experimental dance documentation and performance for the camera. In his 40-year career, he has produced dance films, experimental videos and documentary features. […]

HRLA presents Max Eilbacher's The VanderBleakin Tour Comes To The West Coast with: Max Eilbacher We have Eilbacher ripping sets of electro-acoustic shard flappery with drone-rockers Teeth Mountain, rocking a guitar and violent acts of peace with aktionist noise-rock unit Needle Gun (of which he helped found), bobbing his own head along a top a swarm […]

7:30PM “Ex-Romance”, 1987 (48 min) “Hail the New Puritan”, 1985 (84 min) As part of the ATLAS IN LA festival, a nine-day festival of film screenings, which will occur March 10th-19th at eight venues around Los Angeles, Human Resources presents a night of Charles Atlas’ two most well known dance-narratives. In Ex-Romance, Atlas’ fascination with “narrative, psychology, dance, and flights of fantasy,” […]

a stone in the middle | contemporary techno-temporal innovation I understand techno- from the Greek τέχνη. It could mean arts or craft or both.  I also understand -temporality as relative to time, in many ways. It is also a form of electronic dance music, I heard, but this is also relative to time. So what […]

MUSICAL EXPOSITION featuring Thee Oh Sees and Caldwell/Tester This will be a test run of sorts for the newly formed double drums lineup of Thee Oh Sees... John Dwyer has still got it.. he just has more thump and whack behind it. CALDWELL/TESTER are synths and electronics emotified... bring your slow dancing shoes. Doors at […]

HR and LAFMS present Being for the Benefit of Mr. Ford: A benefit and celebration for Ace Farren Ford 8PM Ace Farren Ford has been on the outskirts of the improvisational / noise scene for more than 40 years, an original founding member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society and has been with a […]

An Open Forum — closing event for The Border Again. Artists attending: Simon Pecco, Alfredo Gonzalez Reynoso, Luisa Fernanda Martinez and Reuben Torres.* CLOSING EVENT FOR THE BORDER AGAIN 3/8 Sunday, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm We would like to invite you to an open forum, an un-moderated talk at Human resources for the closing […]

This fall two large public forums gathered under the premise of “Decolonizing The White Box,” in response to artworld racism and, in specific, to the critique leveled at the Made in LA show at The Hammer Museum by writer Sesshu Foster. Both events drew large crowds. The first, led by Raquel Gutierrez, involved exercises and […]

COOLWORLD presents: P H E D R E (http://www.soundcloud.com/phedre) J A L (http://xxxjalxxx.tumblr.com/) P A P E R  S L A N G (https://soundcloud.com/paper-slang) S I S T E R  M A N T O S (http://www.sistermantos.com/) J E F F  Z I L L A (https://soundcloud.com/gaytendencies) DJs C R A S S L O […]

Decompassion is an event presented by Filmmakers Ian Randolph and Solomon Gross in collaboration with  HRLA. One half film screening, one half live concert. There will be a exclusive Los Angeles premiere screening of Ian and Solomon's film festival selected short film "Background Music". This is documentary-based film chronicles one man's struggles and successes within […]

HRLA and Volume present Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche, M. Lamar’s music theater piece for countertenor and piano emerges from the constant violent and sexualized surveillance of the black male body—plantation overseer, the NBA, police executions of unarmed black men, the United States penal system. Utilizing multiple live and prerecorded camera feeds, this plantation fantasy explores surveillance from the point […]

9pm - 2am $5-20 suggested donation to support HRLA Maricón Collective brings it's Eastside backyard party vibes to Human Resources. DJ sets by Maricón Collective, go go boys, photo backdrops, scamming room, y mas. This party will be reminiscent of a high school valentines dance with decorations, art, photo ops and of course sexy slow […]

HRLA welcomes Rocío Boliver—an iconic figure in underground performance in Mexico and an internationally renowned performance artist. This will be Rocío Boliver's first performance in Los Angeles. Rocío Boliver's work stages a direct confrontation with the ideological grid that would determine the shape and trajectory of women's lives, especially in Mexico. Her performance concludes "Overstimulated: […]

OVERSTIMULATED is an afternoon and evening of presentations by artists, concerning the theme of limits in performance — limits of the body, performance, aesthetics, material conditions, institutional practices, pleasure, or desire. What limits are imposed on performance? How are these imposed, both actively and tacitly, by institutions, or by form, by tradition or by history? […]

HRLA presents CORSANO + KOLOVOS + GIFFONI solo and trio plus UN CIEGO 9PM/$7

Featuring: Ali Tobia The Puissance of the Human Energy Field: A Yogic Look at Energy Possibilities for When the Polar Ice Caps Melt and Fossil Fuel Supplies Deplete; Joseph Hankins, author of Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, on the Buraku, the “untouchable” social class, the workers at Fukushima

FREE though donations for non birthday having musicians would be appreciated. There will be free beverages and snacks come on down and enjoy the Tiger Munson exhibit whilst checking out mine and several other fun acts all are welcome catered til it isn't 11:30p CVI - six beings, name very close to CVS and with […]

VOLUME presents a very rare performance by acclaimed artist and electronic musician Terre Thaemlitz. Terre will present selections from Soulnessless, her 32 hour opus described as the “world’s longest album in history.” Described by Thaemlitz as “a deconstruction of notions of spirituality, meditation, superstition, and religiosity perpetuated through audio marketplaces that insist upon judging audio in […]

SAVE MUSIC IN CHINATOWN 5 benefit with MIKE WATT and the SECONDMEN + THE GEARS + STEVE SOTOTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/save-music-in-chinatown-5-steve-soto-solo-acoustic-the-gears-mike-watt-the-secondmen-tickets-14636916411 Advance ticket sales end at noon on Sunday, January 11. If we do not sell out, there will be tickets at the door. THE SHOW This is the fifth in a series of fundraising concerts organized […]

BASTARD NOISE (FARGHER/WOOD) AMPS FOR CHRIST WITCHES OF MALIBU CONSCIOUS SUMMARY DSE JASON WADE (screening original 16mm/ super 8 films featuring live accompaniment by RELAY FOR DEATH/ SENAToR BUTTHOLe JOHNSoN) $5.00 doors at 7:30. Door prizes for he first 25!! https://soundcloud.com/dse_davidschafer/dse-noise-action-at-human-resources-la-ca

Please join us for this special 'matinee' show with the trio of Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Jeff Parker and Ted Byrnes. 2PM/7$ About Ingebrigt: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (b. 1971, Oppdal) - studied Jazz at the Music Consevatory in Trondheim, Norway (1992-1995) under the tutelage of bassplayer Odd Magne Gridseth. A muscular player whose tone and attack […]

Experimental doom-drone, post-rock, noise-rock. 9pm/$7

8:30pm. Performed by Kenneth Nicholson. Musical arrangement by WYNN. view documentation excerpt on vimeo, courtesy the artist Ligia Lewis, Minor Matter, 2015. Performance view, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles, January 8, 2015. Photo: Sammy Loren. Read a review of the performance by Catherine Damman in ArtForum here.

Maria Garcia + Clare Kelly (score by John Wiese) (LA) infinite body (LA) Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (SF) Elaine Kahn (Oakland) $7 Maria Garcia is an LA-based performer and noise/sound artist. She performs as Unica with Nial Morgan and Bronze Eye with Patrick Murch, and is co-founder and director of MATA Gallery. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist […]

A very special benefit night supporting MATA Noise, a fellow collective dedicated to experimental sound. This event will featuring prime noise performances and art by some of Mata's nearest and dearest.

Nixed Media at HRLA: Invisible Path + The Royal US + Lee Noble + Marcus M. Rubio Ensemble + Joe Newlin. 8PM, $5 This series opened in 2014 with Lee Noble, Marcus Rubio & Joe Newlin; it closes the year with the same, plus special guest stars Invisible Path.

An ECONO TEXTUAL OBJECTS book launch and performance. 7PM Nikki Darling is a music journalist/poet/experimental writer. ECONO TEXTUAL OBJECTS is experimentation within economic means for writers and artists pursuing aesthetic adventures grounded in working class realities. Celebrate the release of The Pink Trumpet!

L.A. Drones Live performances / filming for ¨Subterranean L.A." a film by Gabriel Velazquez L.A. Drones Nervous Gender Shekhan Native Fauna The Centimeters Little Debby Nora Keyes The Department of Descriptive Services Kimbo Panthar Sister Mantos Jeffzilla https://youtu.be/RQI288VmpwY https://youtu.be/Ew91-ofp4fc

RezErect: On Native Erotica Gwaai Edenshaw and Kwiaahwah Jones are the co-curators of the RezErect: Native Erotica exhibit at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. They will be speaking about their exhibit, Native American sexuality and Indigenous curatorial practices. Gwaai Edenshaw is a Haida artist known primarily for his metalwork, as well as bone, slate […]

WHITE MAGIC (with band) Mathew David's Mindflight Moomaw ∆ 8PM 7$

Sinn + Form (Meaning + Form) The project is based on the idea of a fundamentally chaotic world, as we know from mathematical or physical theories and models (dynamical systems, probability theory, stochastic systems), and the constant attempt of man to recognize this world, and to describe, predict, control, and change it. Typical examples include […]

Fun & Fury with the Empty Orchestra: Karaoke Protest, Karaoke Pleasure Join us for an evening of karaoke—or “queeraoke”—with a protest-song-meets-party-anthem bend. Sing your favorite anthems of dissent, as well as your jolliest pop jams and smokiest ballads. Expansive songbooks will be curated and provided by our resident artists and KJ’s (or “karaoke jockeys.”) Inspired […]

A roundtable and musical performance featuring: Members of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network Filmaker Alex Rivera Musicians Los Jornaleros del Norte and special guests TBA Organized and moderated by Josh Kun (USC) and Alicia Schmidt-Camacho (Yale) as a part of the Site Resources Programming Committee for the 2014 American Studies Association national meeting.

Fresh off his European tour, Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources to present a rare, intimate solo performance. Dorian will present a series of compositions that explore the emotional landscapes of body image, gender identification, sexual politics and family-related turmoil. A completely unamplified piano and vocal performance. $10-15 suggested donation. Tickets available at the door from […]

Join us for a live taping of experimental music and video curated by Obfuscated Records in collaboration with Experimental Half-Hour.

COOLWORLD PRESENTS HUMAN RESOURCES BENEFIT PARTY! w/ T H E G R E A T S A D N E S S (Kathy Cooper + Stephen McNeely) H U M A N G E N O M E P R O J E C T (La Porscha!) S I S T E R M A […]

I got a dance scholarship. I went to Paris and took a method acting workshop. I was reading Aliens and Anorexia. I went to L.A. I met Brian in the workshop I organised. We decided to work together. We became friends then cohorts along with Simone, Samuel, Billie, Justin, Chris and Martha in an emerging work on […]

A community forum exploring the experiences of artists, audiences and art workers of color in/around the art world. Expanding on collective response to the whiteness of recent surveys of contemporary art (The Whitney Biennial, Made in LA) and the positions of artists of color within those exhibitions. A collective refusal of museum non-engagement with communities […]

Barbra Streisand Portrait Bender, Las Vegas: Fear and Loathing Returns to the Flamingo is a tribute to Lucy from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.

For the first time in Los Angeles, our creative community can become participating creators. You can participate directly in an international exhibition by creating and drawing on a surface that is thousands of kilometers away. This event is organized by Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) , Koganecho Bazaar and the artist UuDam Tran Nguyen.

This is the fourth in a series of fundraising concerts organized to pay for music education at Castelar Elementary School. Established in 1882 and sitting right in the middle of Chinatown, the inner-city campus serves mostly immigrant kids who don't get much exposure to performing arts or creative outlets.

An evening of music with Fountainsun, Fletcher Tucker, Amps for Christ, and Jeff Parker / Ted Byrnes Duo.

Video screening by Suzy Poling and performances by Filthy Nuns and I I'm Eye My.

A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF COMPLIANCE by Jennifer Doyle  1PM Public employees working in California must complete a training program designed to educate them about sex/gender anti-discrimination law. The University of California uses an on-line platform. The user is walked through potentially harassing scenarios, and given a set of multiple choice questions exploring the employee's responsibility […]

Started in Chicago in 2010 and transplanted to Los Angeles in the spring of 2012, the Oriental Picture Factory churns amazing, weird and schizophrenic collages on a weekly basis. In order to showcase some of these gems as well as to raise money for materials, the Oriental Picture Factory is throwing an art show/fundraiser!

An evening of music and performance by LA–based and International artists Easter, Dinner, Alex Black, Julius Smack, and TMO.

An evening of screenings, music and new work by Matthew Anderson, Avery McIntosh, and Daniel Kaufman.

The art world often trades in exclusion. Continuing the conversations broached at the first LATFA, held at the 2012 Anarchist Bookfair, discussion will include: art world exclusion, careerism, racism, gentrification, pandering, elitism, labor exploitation, complicity with colonialist regimes and generally how and if art can be used to dismantle the police state and capitalism. In […]

NATURAL GIRL is a new ongoing dance night and lounge showcasing natural t-girl beauty, grace, brilliance and creativity. A safe space for trans women to flirt and mingle with sexy hunks and total babes all the while breaking down the barriers between the woman of the future and her modern lover. Lounge Acts by: Diana […]