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SUMMARY:KEN EHRLICH: DYSFUNCTIONAL FURNITURE
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, January 31: 7–9pm\n\nClosing event Sunday\, Feb 16: 4-6pm\nMusic by Adam Samuel Goldman\, toasts\, conversation about living with dysfunction.\n\n  \nGallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday noon-6pm\nand by appointment [contact ken at kenehrlich dot net]\nnote: the Firecracker 5K/10K  goes right down Broadway on 2/16\, but should have finished before noon.\n\n  \nHuman Resources is pleased to present Dysfunctional Furniture\, an exhibition of new work by artist Ken Ehrlich. The show presents a range of works that are at once sculptural and in direct conversation with furniture design. Made from gleaned building materials\, objects range from playful to aggressive\, displaying a rough\, informal aesthetic and refined craftsmanship. Many balance precariously and pose a slight sense of danger: Glass juts out at unexpected angles\, sharp edges lean uncomfortably\, and weight and balance seem unsteady. The installation toys with the tension between the utility of furniture and the perceived uselessness of sculpture.\n\n\n  \nIn the months preceding the exhibition\, the artist asked Los Angeles writers to ‘host’ one of the dysfunctional furniture pieces in their home for a period of time and reflect on daily life with that object. The exhibit includes a pamphlet of their writings and a series of diptychs\, which present the works in situ alongside a portrait of each host.\n\n\n  \nIn conceiving the project\, the artist was inspired by several texts from 1972\, which is also the year he was born. In that year both The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James and the seminal exhibition catalogue  Italy: The New Domestic Landscape were published. In The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community\, a collaboration between an American and an Italian thinker\, the writers begin by analyzing the role of the housewife in the political and economic context of Italy in the 1970’s. This text eventually offers an expansive critique of the dynamics of housework\, the family\, care work and the politics of gender more broadly within a capitalist economy. Texts by designers Gae Aulenti and Enzo Mari in the catalog from Italy: The New Domestic Landscape question to what extent design can meaningfully alter behavior in a capitalist context and examine the ways that experimentation in design circulates around economic questions. Putting feminist critiques in conversation with radical Italian design from the same period generates a series of questions that move back and forth along the edge of contemporary art and design\, placing the fine grain of individual daily life against the backdrop of broad social and political dynamics.\n  \nWriters who participated in the project include Gabrielle Civil\, Andrew Culp and Eva Della Lana\, Jennifer Doyle\, Amy Gerstler and Benjamin Weissman\, Maya Andrea Gonzalez\, Maya Gurantz and Allison Yasukawa. Copies of the pamphlet will be available at the exhibition. \n  \nKen Ehrlich was born in Taos\, NM and received a BA from New College of California and an MFA from CalArts. His wide ranging practice in sculpture\, photography\, video and performance has been presented internationally\, including at the California Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, The Hammer Museum and High Desert Test Sites. His writing has been published widely\, including mostly recently a text on networks\, infrastructure and logistics in Blind Field Journal as well as a forthcoming text on networks in Drain Magazine. He co-edited the Surface Tension book series for Errant Bodies Press. He currently hosts the bi-monthly radio show *segments* on KCHUNG Radio and is on the organizing committee of The Public School\, Los Angeles. He has taught at UC Irvine\, Woodbury University\, CalArts and UC Riverside.
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SUMMARY:Lúcia Prancha: CASA DO SOL
DESCRIPTION:Opening: Thursday\, February 20th\, 8–10pm \nExhibition Dates: February 21st–March 1st\, 2020 \nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun\, noon-6pm and by appointment \nThe Body of the Text\, a reading circle & seminar: Saturday\, February 22\, 2-5pm \nHuman Resources is pleased to present CASA DO SOL\, an exhibition of new work by artist Lúcia Prancha. \nPrancha’s installation explores the work and legacy of Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004). Often described as the Marquis de Sade of Brazil\, her astonishing work takes up mysticism\, insanity\, embodiment\, eroticism\, and female sexual liberation. Hilst is one of the most important Portuguese ­language authors of the twentieth century. Nevertheless\, her work is virtually unknown in our community. \nCASA DO SOL is the name of Hilst’s home. During her lifetime\, her residence was an important gathering site for writers\, artists and intellectuals. Today\, CASA DO SOL holds her archive\, and hosts an intimate residency program which allows writers and artists to breathe in the compound’s earthy magic. \nPrancha’s video installation\, CASA DO SOL\, was shot on location at Hilst’s house and gardens during summer of 2019 and uses the text of one of Hilst’s short stories. This experimental video explores sexuality and the colonial through the political and poetic militancy of Hilst’s writing. \nAs a part of this exhibition\, HRLA will host The Body in the Text on February 22\, a reading circle & conversation about writing\, sex\, transgression and Hilst’s writing. \nLúcia Prancha (1985\, Portugal) obtained her MFA from CalArts (USA) in 2015\, after completing BA studies in Lisbon (PT\, 2009) and MA in São Paulo (BR\, 2012). Lúcia Prancha explores the tensions between aesthetics\, perception and politics\, often by rethinking specific historical and social sites through sculpture\, video and printed matter. Her work has been exhibited at LACA–Los Angeles Contemporary Archive\, Los Angeles\, USA\, Hordaland Kunstsenter\, Bergen\, NO\, Serralves Foundation\, Porto\, PT; Galeria Leme\, Sao Paulo\, Brazil and Galeria Baginski\, Lisbon\, Portugal. In 2016\, her film SEBASTIAN\, THE GHOST was screened at Les Rencontres Internationales Nouveau Cinéma et Art Contemporain in Paris and\, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin; and the 24th Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival\, Portugal. In 2017\, Prancha was in residency at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht\, NDC. During the Spring of 2020\, Lúcia is a Visiting Artist Faculty at CalArts–California Institute of the Arts. Lúcia Prancha lives and works in Los Angeles. \nThis show is possible with the kind support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation\, Portugal.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/lucia-prancha-casa-do-sol/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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