ELOE OMOE / TELECAVES / POWER MALLET / PLASTIC HAND / BRITTAIN ASHFORD
Photos courtesy of Hamo Banham ELOE OMOE / TELECAVES / POWER MALLET / PLASTIC HAND with special guest BRITTAIN ASHFORD $5 on the shortest night with no moonlight, sounds when sunlight dims out. ELOE OMOE high and heavy improv core-free bass and drum noise rock http://infrasound.org/eloeomoe TELECAVES with a menagerie of source and a range […]
Alexandro + Mateo Segade: Boy Band Audition
Ace BoiFrenzy, a pop-music producer/impresario, and his bodyguard/sidekick, DJ RainBro, return from a dystopian future to the contemporary present in order to assemble the perfect boy band - a boy band that will save the future by releasing a single that will unite the world and thwart the coming hegemonic, monocultural forces. Combining science-fiction, electronic […]
Krysten Cunningham: Under/Over — closing reception and performance
PERFORMANCE: Sunday, June 22nd, 3-5pm Flora Wiegmann and company Attire: fall/winter fashion by Nancy Stella Soto Ligthing design: Claude Collins-Stacensky For Under/Over's closing reception on June 22, 3-5 Weigmann and company will perform the choreographic instructions “in spurts” between the spaces of “Tapestry X.” Dancers will be adorned in the Fall/winter fashion line by Nancy Stella […]
Krysten Cunningham: Under/Over – workshop
WORKSHOP: Saturday, June 7th, 2-4pm “Coincidences in Space-Time” with Michelle Lai rsvp to krystenc@gmail.com Space is limited. A free workshop on relativity and the body This playful workshop is based on the idea that not many of us understand Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and the curvature of space/time, despite its profound effect on science […]
Krysten Cunningham: Under/Over
KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM “UNDER / OVER” June 5th - June 22nd https://www.hatchfund.org/project/under_over OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 5th, 7-10pm Cunningham will present two large-scale textile sculptures that also serve as performative tableaux’s -- “Tapestry X” and “Loom for Minkowski.” “Tapestry X” is a work of hand dyed and woven tapestries that hang in formation from the ceiling. […]
Chasms + Deathday + all your sisters + DJ Sarah Bernat
DEATHDAY http://deathday.bandcamp.com/ Chasms http://chasmssf.bandcamp.com/ ALL YOUR SISTERS http://allyoursisters.bandcamp.com/ Plus Sarah Bernat / Bad News DJ set Admission: $7
ENTER>TEXT – A LIVING LITERARY JOURNAL
Photos courtesy of Jason Gutierrez and Mark Bernal literary performance happening technical needs: None - We might find ways to use what's available but nothing is necessary. Directed by Henry Hoke and Marco Di Domenico Confirmed to include: Saehee Cho, Kate Durbin, Jen Hofer, Jen Hutton, Andrea Quaid, Joseph Mosconi, Kestrel Leah, Andrew Choate, Stacy […]
LA composers collective
New Strings is a concert dedicated to the exploration of the string quartet in all its facets. Economical but lush, traditional but often avant-garde, the string quartet is unique among ensembles in its ability to embody a composer's vision in distilled form. For this reason, the string quartet has historically been a proving-ground for composers eager […]
save music in chinatown / castelar benefit
benefit / performance technical needs: PA, lights, benches, carpet squares where: downstairs only about: benefit for castelar elementary school music and art programs, kid-friendly performances
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.
Ted Byrnes + Corey Fogel, w/ Joseph Mosconi, Janice Lee, and Jacob Wick
Words: Joseph Mosconi Janice Lee Sounds: Ted Byrnes Corey Fogel (spatial drum duo performance) Sounds: Jacob Wick (solo, unamplified trumpet) $5
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, […]