Human Resources

we will live stream the olympics and play improvised soundtracks, foley effects, and commentary--responding, interpreting, adding color and context to events as they happen.

Human Resources presents Divorcio USA, a night of recent work by Jacinto Astiazarán hosted by the curatorial collaborative AFTA (“Art For The Americas”). Mexico City-based artist Jacinto Astiazarán will screen two new video projects, which introduce his investigation into mutual responsibilities in cultural relations between Mexico and the U.S. While assimilation continues its progressive adaptation in both directions, these works highlight some of the mutations that can inevitably develop as part of this evolution. Though formally very different, the two videos fill in gaps for each other and create a platform to contemplate underlying problematics of exchange.

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This latest green screen adventure finds Dynasty Handbag on a dating game show where she must choose between 4 contestants vying for a spot in her vast cosmic emptiness. The bachelors are: an aggressively ambitious professional golfer, a hard-luck stray dog, a disembodied brain, and, of course, the grim reaper himself. All have attractive qualities and perhaps sustainable methodologies for dealing with life, but must she choose just one? And why are these her only choices?

Join us for the first US presentation of: UIQ: A SPACE ODDITY A lecture / performance by Paris-based artists SILVIA MAGLIONI & GRAEME THOMSON (originally produced by Bétonsalon, Paris as part of the Otolith Group exhibition "A Lure a Part Allure Apart") Following the publication in 1980 of Mille Plateaux, a work that for many […]

HIGH PLACES, PHAROAHS, LA VAMPIRES, SUZANNE KRAFT, WHITE CAR

Please join Eileen Myles and Chris Kraus as they read from their new books.

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Combining the anarchy of Lenny Bruce with the pathos of Judy Garland, Penny Arcade is provocative, intellectually stimulating, perceptive and hilariously funny." The List UK

DUNES Release Party // 11 - Video Screening

TOURING NEW YORK FILM SERIES SCREENS GENDERFUCK PROGRAM IN CHINATOWN GALLERY WITH MANY, SPECIAL GUESTS FEMALE TROUBLE: Artists Rick Castro, Zackary Drucker and Narcissister in person.

The following performance and installation were held on January 26, 2012 at Human Resources Los Angeles - HRLA Participants: Rafa Esparza, Oscar Miguel Santos, Alex Black, Tamala Poljak, Allen Bleyle, Larissa James, Paloma Parfrey, Alice Cunt Installation: Rafa Esparza, Alice Cunt, Oscar Miguel Santos, Jeffzilla Organized by Oscar Miguel Santos Psychic Director: Asher Documentation: Donovan […]

A Lax Riddle Unit, (Los Angeles Premiere) Cry When It Happens, My Tears Are Dry and Footnotes to a House of Love Filmmaker in person

Screening of L.A. Plays Itself begins at 7pm Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, […]

Year Long Loop runs continuously from November 19, 4pm until November 20, 4pm Artist Reception, Saturday November 19, 7-10pm Doughnuts and coffee will be served for the final 2 hours on Sunday, November 20 About the Video Recorded between October 2004 and September 2005, Year Long Loop documents the sound and view as experienced from […]

A RAY ARRAY is a new video directed by Sarah Rara that examines forms of visual and aural interference: from the failure of a message to be discernible, sudden interruptions, visual disturbance, the interaction of 2 sound signals, instability, and optical effects. Structured like a collection of short stories, the work is composed of 16 […]

Alejandra Herrera "Sagrado y Profano" (2011) Photo credit: The Action Bureau THE ACTION BUREAU is pleased to present FREE CLINIC #2, the second installment in an ongoing series of of action-based, body-centric performance events. FREE CLINIC #2 will take place on Thursday, October 13, 2011 from 6pm-9pm and is hosted by Human Resources, the performance-focused […]

NUT is structured like a nut: a fruit with a skin, meat, and a seed. NUT speaks to our relationship with dance, as practice and as a discipline. NUT is MGM’s first dance created during the winter months. It questions the aesthetics of produced dance, and how it is expected to affect an audience and a venue. NUT takes cues from diverse performance cultures and historical influences such as Motown, elements of the mid-90’s NYC dance improvisation scene and Tommy DeFrantz's dance class for undergraduates at MIT.