Human Resources

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 […]

Social event for artists, faculty, students, and allies. Join our ongoing conversation to help create a better future for higher education! Music, spiked punch, and special guests. 7PM-10PM.

Bring clothing to swap or share and help build a conversation and a language around collective style. We’re looking to challenge the idea that militancy must reflect the hyper-masculine cisheteropatriarchy. We ask that fems, hard fems, lazy fems, high fems and anyone who finds strength in their feminine energy, join us as we use clothing […]

Red themed all nighter: red attire recommended!

Ian MacKinnon and Travis Wood present a sexy night of curated performances, video, and interactive queer art at Human Resources in Chinatown.

Come join Southland Ensemble and guest duelist Jake Rosenzweig as we explore the work of Pauline Oliveros on Tuesday September 9th at Human Resources!! From tape pieces to a duel for Double Basses (with referee), these are some very beautiful and odd pieces by the wonderful Pauline Oliveros. Ticket price: $12  8PM Sonic Rorschach Thirteen Changes […]

Second in a series of three panel discussions featuring the creators and tireless purveyors of independent arts and music venues in the greater Los Angeles community. All talks are formatted as 1/3 panel discussion, 2/3 round table. Participation is encouraged by members of the community. plus KARAOKE after the panel's completion Gathered will be: Walt […]

The 16mm films of Owen Land shown chronologically over two days, with work by LA artists Deirdre O'Dwyer, Pat O'Neill, and Margo Victor. September 6 and 7, at Human Resources gallery in Los Angeles. Screening: Owen Land Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, etc, 1966 Diploteratology: Bardo Follies, 1967 The […]

get ready for something perfect! Michael Vidal & Emily Lucid (performance art set!) www.michaelvidal.bandcamp.com Golden Drugs (Twin Steps/Creepers/Oakland) www.goldendrugs.bandcamp.com NOW www.soundcloud.com/n-o-w-1/hole-in-the-wall Shitgiver www.shitgiverla.bandcamp.com ++special DJing by HABITS++ 5$

PUTILANDIA brings together artists Marcel Alcala, Rosè Hernandez, and Sofia Moreno for a night of performance and video that thrusts into the realms of culture fucking, disidentity, sploshing,voyeurism, the great escape. Experience the “value” of art amongst the remnants of post-colonial head butting. (Facebook event page.) Also with Musical Performances NEW NATIVE SEWAGE Marcel Alcala […]

Human Resources presents an evening of music featuring Mexico City's Ampersan. Special guests include Rubén Martínez, El-Haru Kuroi and Dorian Wood. Ampersan creates one of the most innovative and versatile sounds coming from Mexico City's vibrant independent music scene. Their songs evoke the Mexican countryside, weaving melodies of son jarocho, ambient electronica and haunting melodic […]

9pm doors followed by DJ set of KR 9:30pm GREGG KOWALSKY 10:15pm LOREN CHASSE into GREG BIANCHINI 11:15pm EVAN CAMINITI MIDNITE - M GEDDES GENGRAS EVAN CAMINITI - SF soon to be NYC, member of Barn Owl, prescient messiah of the modular tone and shade LOREN CHASSE - just watched him hang a crazy art […]

Three challenging acts, challenging spirits coming together in our echoing halls to create a heavenly din.

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 […]

Esoterica by Sylvie Spencer (Upstairs), with performances presented by Experimental Half-Hour (downstairs): Diva, Geneva Jacuzzi, GX Jupitter-Larsen and After Hours.