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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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SUMMARY:Marcia Bassett\, Alison O' Daniel\, Kathleen Kim\, Angel Chirnside\, Varese Group
DESCRIPTION:so·cial res·i·den·cy\nthe fact of living in a place with living organisms   \nDue to public health concerns around the spread of coronavirus\, Human Resources has made some adjustments to upcoming programing.  Social Residency will proceed with an opening Friday March 13 from 8-11pm. We have cancelled the performances that were a part of that event. \nBy appointment only\, until 3/20\, pending further notice.  \nIdeas as inventions\ncalled artifacts [Buckminster Fuller]\nSocial Residency is an artifact\nCalled ideas as notes \nRevealing threads\, bleeds\, crossings\, streams of conscience\nFrom a group of artists housed virtually\nExchanging notes\nProcessing\na single part\na reference point\na collective meeting\na window into\nan inter-related experience\nPresently formulating\nan error\, a filter\, a trial\, a misunderstanding\, a slur\,\na natural and artificial sound colliding\nTrying to relate\nconfusion\, vision\, miscommunication\nliteracy\, clarity\, exposure\nA variable non-static artifact \nuntune and Human Resources present Social Residency\, March 13 – 17 – an all new iteration of what initially began in 2017 at untune with Alison O’ Daniel\, Kathleen Kim\, Marcia Bassett\, and Angel Chirnside.  Joined by Fiona Connor and other members of the Varese Group\, artists reconstruct separate ideas involving tone\, slur\, entropy\, action\, and residency under the binding umbrella of Social. \nSocial Residency attempts to shift the structure of an artist residency into a process – one that develops\, much like a group exhibition does – through ongoing conversations\, discussions\, feedback\, and exchanges\, with emphasis placed on the interactions between individual process and group interventions that have formulated remotely. \nMarcia Bassett\, given the concept Social Entropy\, explores the idea of social theory where social and natural worlds have constantly shifting relationships.  Sound collected from participants and the environment will be assembled\, collaged\, processed and transformed into a quadraphonic sound installation.  She will be activating her installation with a live performance on Saturday March 14th\, 9pm. \nThroughout the exhibition (at times TBA)\, Alison O’ Daniel\, given the term Social Tone\, will be processing a series of Skype sessions – a live collaboration with hard of hearing friends where repeated\, indecipherable\, and filtered communication of parts of her film script will then be utilized as new text\, dialogue and sound within the script. \nSocial Slur presented by Kathleen Kim\, a prolific advocate for civil and immigration rights\, will present an impromptu dialogue on social justice themes present in her work while allowing for sound improvisation involving audience participation to blur and bleed into the conversation – a starting point for communication about social issues.  This will take place on Sunday March 15\, 4-6pm followed by a cosmic grooving with an Avant Jazz ensemble later in the evening at 8pm\, providing a capstone to Social Slur. \nAnd as most stories have a beginning\, middle\, and end\, Angel Chirnside will prove otherwise. Intercepting with Bassett’s relational intersections\, Chirnside provides the most significant building block to Social Action – literacy.  In a participatory intergenerational (kid-friendly) reading room\, she will facilitate storytelling with visitors\, with special attention to kids\, utilizing colorful felt cutouts she has made\, with no scripted story in mind\, that can be rearranged by visitors to tell new stories with varied outcomes.  The felt pieces provide catalysts for a variety of narratives. You’ll be able to find her in the reading room at various times between 11am and 1pm on the 14th\, 15th\, and 16th. \nBringing forth and integrating the very essence of the term Social Residency\, we are also extending a warm welcome to the Varese Group\, founded in 2017 by Fiona Connor with an intention to meet consecutively until 2021 in Northern Italy.  Taking the form of one-week symposiums\, the group consists of artists\, designers\, architects\, writers\, and curators\, engaging in dialogue and conversation about ideas and their projects\, intercepted by shared meals and excursions. The materiality of location is a central aspect to their exchanges.  Every year a press release is produced (as the only public presentation) – this years iteration will be presented in this show as well as a screening of Ten Minutes in Binio by Sasha Portis that is comprised of a collection of 1 minute videos taken by members of the group when they met last year.  The screening will take place Saturday\, March 14 – stay tune for exact time. \nBios \nMarcia Bassett is a NYC-based musician and multi-media artist. An artist whose alternately shimmeringly beatific and uncannily intense work has resonated through the underground world\, Bassett is the exterminating and vivifying force defying boundaries of noise\, free drone and dark psychedelia to arrive at a place of heavenly radiance and hellish intensity. Working with synthesis\, processed field recordings\, electric guitar\, electronic experimentation and acoustic instruments\, under the moniker Zaïmph\, she seeks to transform\, re-imagine and find new meaning within established structure. Her solo recordings appear on a number of independent USA and European record labels\, as well as her own private-press label Yew Recordings. Bassett frequently collaborates and records one-to-one with musicians living in the USA and Europe; collaborators include Samara Lubelski\, Bridget Hayden\, Barry Weisblat\, Bob Bellerue\, Helga Fassonaki\, Jenny Graf and Margarida Garcia. Additionally\, Bassett is an active participant in ensembles that explore improvised sound and visual scores.  She has been an active member of Andrew Lafkas’ large ensemble Alternate Models; the group presented “Two Paths with Active Shadows Under Three Moons and Surveillance\,” at Experimental Intermedia and Eyebeam\, NYC; Bassett has also contributed to “Gen Ken’s Supergroup” performing at PS1 Solid Gold and Experimental Intermedia. \nRecent solo and collaborative presentations of her work include “Transitory Freezing of Perpetual Motion” collaborative improvised sound performance with Jenny Graf and dancers at Here-10 Evenings Festival\, Sweden; “Field Recording with Zaïmph”\, BOMB magazine; “Out of Line: Narcissister” live improvised sound interaction with the performance\, High Line\, NYC; “Ed Atkins: Performance Capture” at the Kitchen NYC; composition and performances of the score “One Two Sides Dirty\,” part of Helga Fassonaki’s Khal project presented at galleries in the US and New Zealand; and “Ten Ways of Doing Time”\, 2013\, Single Channel Video\, written and directed by James Fotopoulos and Laura Parnes with original soundtrack by Marcia Bassett. \nhttp://www.marciabassett.org/ \nAlison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker. She has exhibited internationally at the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art\, Moscow; Centre Pompidou\, Paris\, FR; Centro Centro\, Madrid\, Spain; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts\, Omaha; Shulamit Nazarian\, Los Angeles; Art in General\, New York; Samuel Freeman Gallery\, Los Angeles; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle\, Brest\, France; Tallinn Art Hall\, Estonia. She is a recipient of the 2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany and Creative Capital awards\, and has received grants from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation; Center for Cultural Innovation; the California Community Foundation; and Franklin Furnace Fund. She has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Writing on O’Daniel’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Artforum\, Los Angeles Times\, BOMB and ArtReview. Her film\, The Tuba Thieves\, was supported by the Sundance Creative Producing Lab and she was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. \nKathleen Kim is an experimental musician and composer who creates solo work as well as collaborative work with LA Fog and SheKhan. She has performed in joint projects in museums\, galleries and venues\, nationally and internationally. She co-founded Human Resources Gallery with her brother Eric Kim along with Giles Miller\, Dawn Kasper and Devin McNulty. Kathleen is also a full-time professor of law at Loyola Law School and a nationally-recognized scholar of critical theory perspectives on immigration and human trafficking. She is co-author of the leading casebook on human trafficking. From 2013-2016 she served as a Los Angeles Police Commissioner and was a gubernatorial appointee to the first statewide California Anti-Trafficking Task Force. In 2014\, Los Angeles Magazine named her one of Los Angeles’ ten most inspiring women. In 2016\, The National Jurist selected her as one of twenty law professors “Leaders in Diversity.” She was a recipient of the Judge Takasugi Public Interest Fellowship\, Skadden Fellowship and Immigrants’ Rights Teaching Fellowship at Stanford Law School. \nFrom Auckland\, New Zealand\, Angel Chirnside has been making queer noises in fits and starts for the past twenty years. They have had various aliases throughout that time\, most notably Jane Austen\, their long-running solo sound project which at various times has referenced animal noises\, anxiety and accordions. Born under a Libra stellium\, Angel prefers to collaborate and many of their happiest times musically have been in bands\, including: P.U.S.H\, Avanti Maria\, It Hurts\, Currer Bells and Tea Dust. In the early-mid 2010s they got into soundtracking archival film\, co-curating a series of live cinema events with Nga Taonga Sound and Vision\, the New Zealand Film Archive. This was a joyous convergence of their various interests in archival research\, amateur filmmaking and background music. These days\, Angel is pretty happy just staying cool and getting by in their job as a children’s librarian in Vancouver\, Canada\, but they still sometimes head out to howl at the moon when the time is right. Sometimes this involves playing in the ensemble Gamelan Gita Asmara. \nhttps://bluestockingsvioletpages.wordpress.com \nVarese Group\nwww.varese.group
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SUMMARY:Khal Launch - 2 Day Event (cancelled/postponed)
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \n2 day publication launch and performance event\nThursday March 19\, 7-11pm  (launch / performances)\nFriday March 20\, 7-11pm (launch / performance / dinner) \nHelga Fassonaki began the Khal project in 2014 while living in Tabriz\, Iran for a month. As a visual artist in Iran\, what she was able to share in public was restricted. Furthermore\, as a female performing artist\, the use of her voice in public performance was restricted. \nAfter the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979\, Ayatollah Khomeini “condemned all forms of music\, other than classical and traditional Persian music” as being corrupted and influenced by Western culture\, and therefore\, forbidden. During this time\, Khomeini also forbade women from singing solo in public because of “the seductive quality of the female voice”. \nSince performing as she chose was illegal in Iran\, Fassonaki sent compositions in the form of sculptural scores created in Tabriz to sixteen female artists and musicians living in different cities and parts of the world. The concept being that the scores be interpreted and performed publicly by these artists in lieu of Fassonaki’s ability to do so. \nThese “living scores” were then passed on to other participants to be interpreted and performed\, creating in the process an open book of socio-spatial exchange. Iterations of Khal were exhibited at Glasshouse (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Disjecta (Portland\, OR)\, the Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery (Christchurch\, NZ)\, the 2015 Audacious Festival of Sonic Arts (Christchurch\, NZ)\, Audio Foundation (Auckland\, NZ)\, Viewfinder (Auckland\, NZ)\, and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision (Auckland\, NZ). As the series unfolds from one event to another\, a cumulative composition of voices and actions will continue to grow until the law inhibiting artistic expression ceases to exist. This ongoing exchange and peaceful protest refers to the derogatory use of the Farsi word “khal\,” coined to describe the passage of Iranian pop music in the form of homemade mixtapes. Once pop music was no longer being produced or sold in Iran after the Islamic Revolution\, the Los Angeles Persian community sent mixtapes to residents in Iran so they could listen to their own country’s pop stars. Fassonaki remembers partaking in this movement when she was a kid residing in Los Angeles.  The steady flow of cassettes soon became state-approved in Iran\, an example that gentle poetic actions can push through governing law. \nAfter years of gathering and communicating with a growing number of participating voices\, Fassonaki is thrilled to present a dedicated publication – a living archive of drawings\, interviews\, compositional notes\, and recordings\, published by Sming Sming Books and  Drawing Room Records. \nHuman Resources is pleased to present a two-day publication launch and exhibition on March 19 and 20\, featuring the publication hot off the press\, an installation of sound\, artifacts and drawings\, a video screening featuring one of Maryam Bagheri Nesami’s interpretations for “One Song Two Sides Bold Breathing – The Missing Score”\, and a video archive featuring public performances of every artist who performed one of the scores. \nPreserving Fassonaki’s original idea where each presentation of Khal is a new iteration as well as an ongoing archive\, the launch will include live performances by new artists who have been chosen by some of the original recipients of the scores. The two-day launch will conclude with a special dinner hosted at Human Resources that will mark the beginning of spring and the Persian holiday of Nowruz.   Details on both events will be announced soon. \nThe original recipients of Fassonaki’s scores include Matana Roberts (New York\, NY)\, Kelly Jayne Jones (Manchester\, UK)\, Kali. Z. Fasteau (New York\, NY)\, Gabie Strong (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Christina Carter (Austin\, Texas)\, Chiara Giovando (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Heather Leigh (Glasgow\, Scotland)\, Rachel Shearer (Auckland\, NZ)\, Jenny Gräf (Copenhagen\, Denmark)\, Purple Pilgrims (Coromandel\, New Zealand)\, Angel Chirnside (Auckland\, NZ)\, Marcia Bassett as Zaïmph (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Ashley Paul (London\, UK)\, Kathleen Kim (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Rachael Melanson as Ro Sen (London\, UK)\, and Shana Palmer (Baltimore\, MD). \nAdditional participating artists include Maryam Bagheri Nesami (Tehran\, Iran / Auckland\, New Zealand)\, Gemma Syme as Instant Fantasy (Christchurch\, New Zealand)\, Fariba Safai (San Francisco\, CA)\, Sarah Kelleher as Misfit Mod (Christchurch\, New Zealand)\, Beth Ducklingmonster (Auckland\, New Zealand)\, Tina Pihema as Piece War (Auckland\, NZ)\, Yasi Alipour (New York\, NY)\, Nazanin Daneshvar (New York\, NY)\, Julia Santoli (New York\, NY)\, Suki Dewey (Califon\, NJ)\, Laura Sofia (New York\, NY)\, Ella Chau Yin Chi as French Concession (Christchurch\, New Zealand)\, Elizabeth Mary Maw (Auckland\, New Zealand)\, Mira Billotte as White Magic (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Hermione Johnson (Auckland\, New Zealand)\, Zahra Killeen Chance (Auckland\, NZ)\, Jo Burzynska as Stanier Black-Five (Christchurch\, New Zealand)\, Helen Greenfield as Mela (Christchurch\, New Zealand)\, Joan Sullivan (Baltimore\, MD)\, twelve anonymous artists (Tabriz\, Iran)\, Jessika Kenney (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Pauline Lay and Ang Frances Wilson (Los Angeles\, CA)\, and more as the series continues. \nThe publication of this project was made possible\, in part\, by a recently awarded Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. \n__________________________ \nHelga Fassonaki is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator of Iranian-Azeri decent\, born and currently residing in Los Angeles. Her work crosses fields of nature\, sound\, video\, performance\, and installation. She performs solo as yek koo\, a project begun in 2006\, exploring the body as a vehicle for the movement of sound and duo in Métal Rouge (with Andrew Scott)\, formed in 2005.  In 2017\, Fassonaki founded untune\, a socio-curatorial project with a series of programming dedicated to the term “Social“. Her work solo and in collaboration\, has been presented at MOCA (Los Angeles)\, LACA (Los Angeles)\, Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the Whitney Biennial 2014)\, LACE galleries (Los Angeles)\, Human Resources (Los Angeles)\, Audio Foundation (Auckland)\, Blue Oyster gallery (Dunedin)\, Box Gallery (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Disjecta (Portland)\, Zebulon (Los Angeles)\, Café Oto (London)\, Vox Populi (Philadelphia) among many others.  Fassonaki is currently working on an ongoing series called 100’ Circles\, which attempts to address the changes/transitions/cycles (historic\, social\, natural\, environmental) of specific land masses around the world. So far she has created a 100’ Circle in Vanier Park\, Vancouver;  Joshua Tree\, California; and the Berkshires\, Western Massachusetts.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/khal/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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