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SUMMARY:A Motorbike Sunbathes on a Patch of Plastic Turf
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: August 24\, 6-10pm\nExhibition Dates: August 24—September 3\, 2018\nGallery Hours: Tuesday—Sunday\, 12—6pm \nA Motorbike Sunbathes on a Patch of Plastic Turf is a series of videos\, installations and sculptures by Berlin-based Tra My Nguyen and London-based Annie Mackinnon. Drawing upon family and the artists’ Vietnamese and Chinese backgrounds\, the works focus upon identifying connections\, disconnections and nostalgia surrounding commodities within the tangling nexus of hyper-consumption. \nTra My Nguyen’s work examines motorbike culture in Vietnam\, examining it from both a Western and local standpoint. Stemming from childhood memories riding in Vietnam\, to her mother selling her motorbike to move to Germany\, the motorbike becomes symbolic of freedom to many locals. This is in contrast to Western tourist’s fascination and fetishisation\, where the image of an overstocked Vietnamese Motorbike is perceived almost as novelty. \nAnnie Mackinnon explores the idea of lying products and marketing lies: promises of reconnecting with nature through purchasing North Face Jackets. Through repurposing discarded outdoors gear into products which ‘connect you with nature’\, the videos and installations slip between nature documentary and interactions with quasi functional designed objects. Interview scenes with her Mother who grew up with nine siblings in rural China\, explore the transformation from having no conceptualisation of ‘nature’ beyond basic survival\, to an increasingly materialistic shift\, where her Grandma now parades diamanté jackets in fashion shows in her old people’s home.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/a-motorbike-sunbathes-on-a-patch-of-plastic-turf/
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SUMMARY:Color Objectivism\, Harmonic Distortion and the Illusion of the Noise-Free System\, Vol. 2
DESCRIPTION:A series of light and sound performances by Sam Rowell \nThursday\, September 6th: 8pm & 10pm \nFriday\, September 7th: 2pm\, 4pm\, 8pm\, 10pm & midnight \nSaturday\, September 8th: noon \nJoin in an investigation of the hidden nature of color. Experience the perception of light in the non-visual centers of your brain. Listen to the communal neural network. Examine your viscera through the confluence of light and sound. \nSam Rowell is a musician\, creative broadcaster\, and visual artist. She is one-half of radical improv project Eloe Omoe and curates the radio program Special Collections on KCHUNG. Neither a visualization of sound nor a sonification of color\, her sound/light practice combines lush and undulating hues with abstract and dissonant sounds to create meditative and explorative space for the eyes\, ears\, and mind. \nImage: Photo of the interior of the artist’s eye (2018)
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/color-objectivism-harmonic-distortion-and-the-illusion-of-the-noise-free-system-vol-2/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181106
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SUMMARY:A grammar built with rocks
DESCRIPTION:Image: Cauleen Smith\, Remote Viewing\, 2009\, video still\, 15:13 min. Courtesy of the artist\, Corbett vs. Dempsey\, Chicago\, and Kate Werble Gallery\, New York. \nOpening: Saturday\, September 29\, 7-10pm\nSeptember 29 – November 4\, 2018\n\nExhibition\nCarmen Argote\, Julien Creuzet\, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency)\, Sandra de la Loza\, Regina José Galindo\, Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys\, Zara Kuredjian\, Uriel Orlow\, Gala Porras-Kim\, Susan Silton\, and Cauleen Smith\n\nPublic programs\nOctober 20 & 21\, noon-6pm\nScreening\, Basma Alsharif: Ouroboros (on loop during gallery hours)\n\nOctober 26\, 7pm\nScreening and performance\, Adam Khalil\, Jackson Polys\, and KITE: The Informants\nFollowed by a conversation with Adam Khalil\, Jackson Polys\, KITE\, K. Wayne Yang\, and Oscar Gutiérrez. More info here.\n\nOctober 28\, 2pm\nConversation between Cauleen Smith and Raquel Gutiérrez. More info here.\n\nA grammar built with rocks presents artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land\, and question narratives of socioecological crisis that contribute to the displacement and erasure of people and collective formations. Through a two-part group exhibition\, public programming\, and publication\, the project aims to think with the land—materially and relationally—in order to unpack and historicize notions of waste and contamination as they relate to the politics of access\, property\, and the violence of land allotment. Together\, the featured works explore how the materiality of land permeates our identities and representational structures\, and simultaneously molds the body.\n\nThe project appropriates its title from Édouard Glissant’s writings\, as it looks to the ways in which the landscape contains\, unfolds\, and narrates its own history. It searches for traceable fissures within contested sites\, as an aftermath of violence and altering states of upheaval. The exhibition at Human Resources considers the material\, psychic\, and social relations that constitute place as a site of knowledge production\, and the “below” (below-ground\, below-surface) as emblematic of both resistance and retreat. Together\, the works and programs expose the violence inherent in geographic processes (of territorialization\, privatization\, and urban renewal) and offer artistic methodologies (of documentation\, performance\, and embodied archival practices) that surface buried histories and reorient perspectives to understand land as a bearer of relationships\, resilience\, and memory. The exhibition at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries extends this inquiry to center on the interrelation between the body and place\, exploring how discourses of value and waste (through motifs of the toxic\, the disposable\, the contaminant) influence individual and collective spatial agency.\n\nA grammar built with rocks began with research into the 1950s history of the Chavez Ravine evictions\, and expanded with the following questions:\nHow does unearthing soil\, sediments\, remnants\, and buried life-forms open up space for concealed voices and histories\, and reveal interconnected systems of power and violence on people and place? What does thinking geography relationally rather than territorially look like? How do\nmeta-narratives of development\, modernization\, and crisis contribute to practices of dispossession?\n\nCurated by Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian.\n\nThe project includes the following exhibition and programming:\n\nONE Archives at the USC Libraries\nOpening Saturday\, October 13\, 5-8pm\nOctober 13 – December 22\, 2018\n\nExhibition\nMarwa Arsanios\, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz\, Shannon Ebner\,
and Park McArthur\n\nPublic program\nOctober 13\, 7:30pm\nPerformance\, Dorian Wood: Eucalipto\n\nREDCAT\nDecember 10\, 8:30pm\nScreening and Q&A\, Jumana Manna: Wild Relatives\n\nPublication\nNewly commissioned and existing text contributors include:\nAntke Engel and Renate Lorenz\, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency)\, Sandra de la Loza\, Raquel Gutiérrez\, Shoghig Halajian\, Suzy Halajian\, Candice Lin\, and Carl A. Zimring. Design by Tanya Rubbak.\n\nA grammar built with rocks is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy\, Goethe-Institut\, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant\, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries\, and Pasadena Art Alliance.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/a-grammar-built-with-rocks/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Seashell Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:Seashell Aesthetics is an exhibition building upon a 2017 essay of the same name by Martabel Wasserman published in Yes Femmes. It explores catastrophes posed by carbon\, plastic\, oil and other byproducts of capitalism polluting the ocean. The shell becomes a way to think with a material that eventually decomposes into fossil fuel. It is both about materiality and possibilities for metaphor. The photographic work by Wasserman that frames the exhibition explores connections between the structural challenges we face (housing\, scare work opportunities\, high cost of living) with those facing the shelled sea critters at the who share our coast. Seashell Aesthetics takes as its subjects “bottom feeders” or smaller creatures who are less often evoked as spokes creatures in mainstream climate change discourse. The work seeks to create connections between the disintegration of shells caused by ocean acidification and desire for security and structure as the public sphere is attacked. Camp becomes the aesthetic approach\, in an attempt to mobilize humor and melancholy simultaneously as a call for increased interspecies solidarity. While Susan Sontag wrote “nothing in nature can be campy\,” the work is this show insists upon camp as a strategy to look at the ways in which nature and culture co-constitute each other. \nJoshua Thomen will be showing (If I knew how to cry) (2018) which explores his existence that lays between two poles: one where his queer brown body is systemically erased and the reality where his body is hypervisible and easily identifiable. The form shape shifts between an everyday baseball hat (à la Claes Oldenburg) to biological bodily symbols of a protective shell. Joshua Thomen uses softness as a radical idea to push against hegemonic masculinity and speak to labor of the subaltern. He is featured with his oceanic soft sculptural work in Wasserman’s photographs. Additionally\, they will be collaborating on soft sculptures of kelp\, a crucial element of coastal health. A collaborative sculptural centerpiece by Dulce Ibarra Soledad\, Thomen and Wasserman inspired by Botticelli’s Birth of Venus will visually ask how love can be reborn to respond to the multiplying crises of the anthropocene. Viewers can stand on a reinterpreted half shell and channel their desires for a flourishing future beyond sustaining the status quo. \nThe exhibition will feature sculptural installation and a night of performances\, Nature Camp\, on November 25\, in conversation with the idea of seashell aesthetics. Michelle Antonisse and Edgar Fabián Frías\, two of the curators/ performers of Nature Camp will have corresponding installations in the show. Additionally\, in the upstairs gallery Sarah Zucker will be presenting Neon Womb\, an immersive and healing experience. \nopen gallery hours are as follows: \nThurs 11/15: 2-7pm\nFri 11/16: 2-7pm\nSun 11/18: 12-4pm\nWeds 11/21: 2-7pm\nFri 11/23: 2-7pm\nSat 11/24: 12-6pm\nSun 11/25: 4-9 performance and reception \nAdditional hours can be arranged by appointment
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/martabel-wasserman-seashell-aesthetics/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181208
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SUMMARY:Terror en lo Profundo
DESCRIPTION:Opening Saturday 12/8 7—10pm\nOn view through 12/16\nGallery hours Thursday-Sunday\, noon-6pm \nArtistas / Artists: Rosalee Bernabe\, Wendy Cabrera Rubio\, Juan Caloca\, Christian Camacho\, Paloma Contreras Lomas\, El Pelele\, Elsoldelrac\, Julieta Gil\, Sebastián Gonzales de Gortari\, Abraham Gonzáles Pacheco\, Cristobal Gracia\, Madeline Jimenez\, Enrique López Llamas\, Morgan Mandalay\, Richard Mendtorr\, Irak Morales\, Jazael Olguín Zapata\, Diego Ramírez\, Marisa Raygoza\, SANGREE\, Israel Urmeer\, Lucía Vidales\, Tatyana Zambrano \nEl Popocatépetl solloza: enfurecido explosiona sus hirvientes y humeantes líquidas garras sobre tus largos campos de petróleo\, silicio y maíz. Ruge a tu montañoso rostro exigiendo una respuesta\, pero tus lánguidos labios de barro apenas pueden abandonar el llanto. Su cuerpo\, roto y abnegado\, estalla una última vez para abrir camino hacia lo profundo de tu propio terror colonial. \nDeslave se complace de presentar “Terror en lo Profundo” para Human Resources LA\, una exhibición conformada por el trabajo de 23 artistas que desde el humor\, el horror y la ficción enuncian estrategias que analizan críticamente los estragos de los mecanismos de colonización\, tanto del pasado como actuales\, blandos o violentos\, de sumisión o seducción. \nLa exposición se compone de pinturas y dibujos que dialogan\, o se oponen\, a los legados del arte occidental; objetos escultóricos que transitan entre la simulación y lo documental en relación con eventos prehispánicos o religiosos; trabajos de video que utilizan la puesta en escena para recrear\, reimaginar o deconstruir eventos históricos o mitológicos; y una serie de prácticas conceptuales que analizan la encrucijada política entre tradición cultural y territorialidad. \nDeslave es un proyecto curatorial y espacio para la producción\, exhibición y discusión de arte contemporáneo. Actualmente dirigido por Mauricio Muñoz y Andrew Roberts\, se encuentra ubicado en Tijuana desde la primavera de 2017. \nwww.deslave.art \nThe Popocatépetl mourns: enraged explodes its boiling and smoking liquid claws on your long fields of oil\, silicon and corn. Demanding an answer\, it roars to your mountainous face\, but your languid lips made of mud can scarcely leave your profound weeping. His body\, broken and self- sacrificing\, bursts one last time to open a way to the depths of your own colonial terror. \nDeslave is pleased to present Terror en lo Profundo for Human Resources LA\, an exhibition comprised of the work of 23 artists who\, from humor\, horror and fiction\, formulate strategies that critically analyze the ravages of colonizing mechanisms\, both in the past and in the present\, soft or violent\, of submission or seduction. \nThe exhibition is composed of paintings and drawings that dialogue —or oppose— to the legacies of Western art; sculptural objects that transit between the simulation and the document in relation to pre-Hispanic or religious events; video works that use staging to recreate\, re-imagine or deconstruct historical or mythological events; and a series of conceptual practices that analyze the political crossroads between cultural tradition and territoriality. \nDeslave is a curatorial project and space for the production\, exhibition and discussion of contemporary art. Currently run by Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts\, it is located in Tijuana since the spring of 2017.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/terror-en-lo-profundo/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:2019-Q1
DESCRIPTION:We thought we were going to have to move out\, now it seems we don’t. We’ll be in this space for the foreseeable future\, then we’ll be in another. Until then\, continuous grand finales! Including contributions from: \n\nAarum Alatorre\nAce Farren Ford\nAlexandria Douziech\nAlex Twomey\nAlex Zhang Hungtai\nAlice Cunt\nAllison Wyper\nAmanda Horowitz\nAmitis Motevalli\nAndorkappen\nAndre Keichian\nAndy Seven\nAng Wilson\nAnnabel Turrado\nAnna Luisa Petrisko\nAria Safar\nArne Gjelten\nAutosex\nAutumn Knight\nBaba Electronica\nBadly Licked Bear\nBapari\nBenicia King\nBite Marx\nBonemagic\nBreana Gilcher\nBrian Walsh\nBrittany Ko\nBully Fae Collins\nCamila Maria Alvarez\nCarmen Amengual\nCarolyn Castaño\nCelia Hollander\nChelsea Rector\nChen Guan-Hong (陳觀鴻)\nChequamegon Bollinger\nChris Avitabile\nChristal Perez\nChristane Oyen\nChristine Breihan\nChristopher Garcia\nChristopher Reid Martin\nChristopher Warinofsky\nClara Lopez Menendez\nConscious Summary\nConstance Strickland\nCrasslos\nDalel Bacre\nDalton Chase Goulette\nDan Clucas\nDaniel Brummel\nDanketsu 9\nDawn Kaspar\nDerek Monypeny\nDntel\nDorian Wood\nDylan Fujioka\nElliot Reed\nEmily Lacy\nEric Kim\nErika Kane\nFernando Solanas\nFlannery Silva\nFUCK U PAY US (FUPU)\nGabie Strong\nGabriel Brenner\nGary Dauphin\nGASP\nGelare Khoshgozaran\nGeoff Geis\nGrant Capes\nGregory Barnett\nGuan Rong\nHande Sever\nHausa\nHugo Cervantes-Flores\nIan E. Wellman\nIris Yirei Hu\nIsaac Prado\nItsuro Isokawa\nJahnny Wobble\nJake Muir\nJames Fella\nJasmine Sarp\nJason Adams\nJason Savvy\nJennifer Doyle\nJennifer Moon\nJessica Barrett\nJimena Sarno\nJimmy Tamborello\nJinseok Choi\nJohn Burtle\nJohn Carroll Kirby\nJonathan Silberman\nJonathan Snipes\nJulia Yerger\nKa Baird\nKari Svendsboe\nKarla Ekatherine Canseco\nKathleen Kim\nKelly Coats\nKen Moore\nKenyatta Hinkle\nKevin James Spear\nKid606\nKim Ye\nKinetic Attack\nKyle Motl\nLa Disco Es Qultura\nLA Fog\nLaub\nLiz Eldridge\nLoop Goat\nLucy Bull\nLuke Fischbeck\nMallory Soto\nMaria Maea\nMars Pharoah Ford\nMarvin Astorga\nMaryam Hosseinzadeh\nMaría Montenegro\nMatthew Sullivan\nMedium Judith\nMelba Martinez\nMichael Intriere\nMiguel de Pedro\nMike Meanstreetz\nMing Wong (黃漢明)\nMitchell Brown\nMounir\nMr California and the State Police\nMutant Salon\nNathan Hubbard\nNoah Guevara\nNour Moborak\nOlivia Buntane\nOlivia Leiter\nOrlando Greenhill\nPacoima Techno\nPastel\nPatrick Shirioshi\nPauline Lay\nPenelope Uribe-Abee\nPerwana Nazif\nProject Nongenue\nPsychic Health\nRebeca Hernandez\nRich West\nRiver Lin (林人中)\nRobert William Magill and ensemble\nRob Magill\nRogue Squares\nRoksana Pirouzmand\nRoshanak Kheshti\nRust Worship\nSahba Sazdakhani\nSaint Cecilia\nSalted Circle\nSana Shenai\nSandra de la Loza\nSarah Gail\nSarah Naim\nSara Mameni\nSean McCann\nSerena Aurora Day Himmelfarb\nSeth Kasselman\nSharkiface\nSheKhan\nSho Halajian\nSIDLE\nSister Mantos\nSkyline Electric\nSnatchpower\nSobbing Honey\nSoft Sailors\nSpring Bleeding\nSquirrel Spam\nStefano Funk\nSteve Kado\nTaleen Kali\nTheatre Roscius\nThe Deep Silence\nThe Gift Machine\nThe Goddexx Cori\nThe Uhuruverse\nTim Leanse\nTimonium\nTim Reid\nTom Hall\nToni\nTravisD\nTroyse Robinson\nTyler Matthew Oyer\nTzuan Wu (吳梓安)\nUmbra Vita\nUPEND\nVeronica de Jesus\nVeronique d’Entremont\nVictoria Sin\nVoice on Tape\nWalter Vargas\nWatermelon Sisters\nWhirlynn\nWitches of Malibu\nxTimido\nYek Koo\nYoung Joon Kwak\nYu Cheng-Ta(余政達)\n\n…and others TBD \nMore info for each program to be posted as we go…
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/2019-q1/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190129
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SUMMARY:Exquisite Rugs\, Exceptional Service: 530 N. Lake Avenue\, Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:An in-progress installation about Pasadena Rug Mart\, established in 1932 and closed in 2017\, commemorating this diasporic 20th Century shop as a personal\, cultural\, business\, and social archive of 530 N. Lake Avenue\, Pasadena and incorporating documentation and archival materials dating from the 1930s-2000s\, as well as books\, textiles\, ephemera\, yarn used to make repairs\, a c. 1932 neon sign as well as other objects telling the story of the space.\n\nSaturday 1/19 12—6\nSunday 1/20 12—8\nMonday 1/21 12–6\nTuesday 1/22 3–6\nSaturday 1/26 12—6\nSunday 1/27 12—6\n\nOn January 20\, there will be three slideshows featuring found slides created from translated annotations on each slide. Slideshows will take place at 2\, 5\, and 7pm.\n\nAdditional slideshow presentations on Saturday 1/26 at 2 and 5pm and on Sunday 1/27 and  a listening session with Arshia Fatima Haq (Discostan) will play contemplative sounds for and from the archive from 6-7:30pm.\n\n\n\nOrganized by Maryam Hosseinzadeh
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/exquisite-rugs-exceptional-service-530-n-lake-avenue-pasadena/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190319
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SUMMARY:Church of Art
DESCRIPTION:Using the framing of organized spiritual practice\, Church of Art encompasses the work of artists who seek healing and self-actualization through various disciplines. Staged in front of an installation by Veronique d’Entremont\, Gregory Barnett will perform an interactive\, durational work\, before the Sunday Service begins at 5pm. Sermons will be delivered by Veronique d’Entremont and Kim Ye and Laub will lead us in song. Church of Art will conclude with fellowship\, following the format of the bi-weekly Process Group that Kim and Veronique host at their art studio. \nIF YOU CRY\, CRY INTO YOUR SHRINE (2pm-4:30pm) Gregory Barnett\nSERMONS – Sunday Service (5pm) Veronique d’Entremont and Kim Ye\nMusic throughout by Laub\nPROCESS GROUP (6pm – 8pm) \nSunday Service – Sermons\nFollowing a visit to Foursquare Church in Echo Park\, a mega church founded by celebrity-preacher Aimee Semple Mcpherson\, Veronique d’Entremont and Kim Ye were inspired to write their own sermons examining the tension between the emotional impulses of an artist’s practice and the desire for success. Mcpherson came to Los Angeles in 1918 with a dream of becoming famous\, and quickly became the nation’s “first modern celebrity preacher\,” with audience numbers topping any other prior touring event or theater in American History.  Through their sermons\, Veronique d’Entremont and Kim Ye use the language and philosophies of self-help literature\, mindfulness practices\, ethical non-monogamy\, and 12-step recovery to transcend their ego-driven motivations\, internal conflicts and external pressures as practicing artists. \nIf You Cry\, Cry Into Your Shrine\nHoly Mother: Gregory Barnett\nSisters Of Mother: Stacy Dawson Stearns\, Laura Fuller\nIn this re-staging of La Pieta\, Holy Mother lays to rest the romanticization of martyrdom\, offering her tears as salve to those affected by this ideal. You will rest in Her lap and know peace. She will bathe you in salted water and ideas of pain as currency will wash away from your body. You will retire understandings of sacrifice as your sole path towards salvation. When She whispers goodbye (God Be With You)\, you will remember only Her sweetness\, as it is all She has given you. \nSENSORY EXPERIENCES\n(upstairs chapel)\nArtwork by Veronica De Jesus \nRue: Explorations of Ether\,Fire\, Wata\, and Gia\n(entryway)\nArtwork by Cole M. James \nGregory Barnett makes dances\, altars\, imagery\, and stories and believes he is better for it. His durational work If You Cry\, Cry Into Your Shrine\, uses repetition\, deconstruction\, and mimetic choreography to locate junctures between lineage (memory) and prayer (desire) in an effort to fortify will. In lieu of pursuing a sociology degree\, Gregory became a prostitute and children’s gymnastics instructor. He has shown work in Los Angeles and other cities since 2004. \nVeronique d’Entremont (Boston\, 1983) is a LA-based interdisciplinary artist\, invested collaborative practice and community organizing.  Through reciprocal spiritual\, pedagogical and studio practices\, Veronique investigates art as a medium for healing individual and community experiences of trauma.  Her work explores how we are shaped by the social and institutional spaces we inhabit– from our families of origin to academic\, religious and correctional institutions—and seeks to transform these spaces.  She has exhibited in Los Angeles\, New York\, Boston and Mexico City\, and has lectured at UCLA\, CalArts\, California College of the Arts\, Palomar College\, and at California Rehabilitation Center\, a prison in Norco\, CA. In 2016 she co-founded The Liberated Art Collective\, and facilitates healing art workshops with formerly-incarcerated and institutionalized individuals. \nVeronica De Jesus is a visual artist raised in several American cities. She illustrates life as an American\, in all its varied splendor. Drawing on pop culture icons\, sports\, heroes and villains\, and more\, she draws our complex world into focus. Her Memorial Drawings\, an ongoing series of illustrations complemented with text\, honor the many people who have influenced our collective culture and reflect on loss and mourning. Her work also explores identity and the ways we hide and reveal elements of our personalities. For over a decade\, Veronica has been working with artists with disabilities\, including at The Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco and NIAD (National Institute for Adults with Disabilities) in the SF East Bay. She is currently The Head Arts Facilitator of the Arts Programming and Exhibitions at UCPLA (United Cerebral Palsy of Los Angeles). \nLaub (b. 1986\, Waynesboro\, VA) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across glass\, ceramics\, wood\, textiles\, sound\, drawing\, and music. His practice often considers his personal life\, making objects\, sensations\, and worlds that speak to the difficulties and merits of human connection\, self-care\, and learning. By approaching tangible materials in creative ways\, he materializes the fleeting and transitional nature of emotion and being\, and makes visible the human necessity to process\, connect\, and care for one another. Laub’s work has recently been exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary\nExhibitions\, Visitor Welcome Center\, Armory Center for the Arts\, and Commonwealth and Council\, and has been featured in Artforum\, Los Angeles Times\, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Craft Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. \nCole M. James’ work is that of a negotiator\, navigating the African Diaspora\, circling the expanse of queerness and fumbling through womanhood.  James creates paintings\, digital prints and video work that explore the intersections between digital production and the analog collections of lived experiences. James was born in Chicago and raised in Moreno Valley California.  She received a BA from Cal State San Bernardino and MFA from Claremont Graduate University James exhibits her work primarily in Los Angeles but has shown in New York\, Miami and South Korea. She was awarded the Alfred B. Friedman Grant\, Walker Parker Artist Fellowship\, and Mignon Schweitzer Award. In addition to her art practice James is a Human Rights Advocate and community collaborative partner.  James has an installation up at the University of LaVerne titled Edifice Artifice until May 2019.  CM James works and lives in Los Angeles CA. \nKim Ye (b. 1984\, Beijing\, China) is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates performance\, video\, sculpture\, installation\, and text. She received her MFA from UCLA (2012) and her BA from Pomona College (2007). Influenced by language and aesthetics from BDSM\, drag\, and other avenues for self-actualization\, her work explores the inversion of power dynamics via situations of exchange and intimacy. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally at The Hammer Museum\, Getty Center\, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Material Art Fair\, Human Resources\, Machine Project\, Morán Morán\, Satellite Art Fair\, and Visitor Welcome Center among others. As a visiting artist\, she has taught and lectured at institutions such as Cal Arts\, Pomona College\, University of California Los Angeles\, Virginia Commonwealth University\, and Loyola Marymount University. \nChurch of Art is the first day of three days of programming at Human Resources organized by Veronique d’Entremont. \n***We apologize but the HR bathrooms and second-floor are not wheelchair accessible.***
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/church-of-art/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190327
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SUMMARY:The International Expanded Field
DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of transnational dialog in times of heightened fragmentation\, competition and isolation\, The International Expanded Field brings members of different diasporic communities of Los Angeles for a three day event at Human Resources. With a critical and contemporary look at the late 1960s and 1970s third world solidarity movements\, the three day event creates a platform for sustained dialogue\, and collective joy and pleasure. Through storytelling\, film and video screenings\, discussion\, personal archives\, collective dinners\, dance and music\, we come together from histories of coups\, colonization\, military dictatorships and interventions\, to collectively think about what prepares us to carry on. \nThe event is organized by Gelare Khoshgozaran and Jimena Sarno with contributions by Carmen Amengual\, Carolyn Castaño\, Gary Dauphin\, Sandra de la Loza\, Arshia Haq\, iris yirei hu\, Andre Keichian\, Roshanak Kheshti\, Sara Mameni\, María Montenegro\, Jennifer Moon\, Amitis Motevalli\, Sarah Naim\, Perwana Nazif\, Aria Safar\, Hande Sever and more. \nOpening: Saturday\, March 23\n4:00 PM The Affective Temporalities Of Waiting\, a group discussion guided by María Montenegro \n5:00 PM Screening: La Hora de Los Hornos – Parte I: Neocolonialismo y Violencia\, Fernando Solanas\, Argentina (1968 English subtitles) \n7:00 PM Collective dinner catered from Savage Taste\, Revolutionario\, and Spain ($10-$20 suggested donation) RSVP here. \n8:00 PM Narratives from the Expanded Field: Introduction to Participants \n10:00 PM Dessert + Karaoke \nHan Karaoke: Conceptualized around han\, a Korean word for of an emotion that has no direct translation in English and often characterized as grief\, resentment\, suffering\, and also pride and faith\, Jennifer Moon invites everyone to conjure their no-words-can-describe emotions via Karaoke!  \nSunday\, March 24\n1:00PM Amitis Motevalli screens Reinas the Los Angeles\, a film by Byron José. Conversation with Byron following the screening. \n3:00 PM Hande Sever screens Günler Yürüdüğünde\, an experimental film bringing together found footage from the TRT archives and prison letters of her mother.  \nPerwana Nazif: Afghan Tapes + Their  Poetry ― Selections from her parents’ cassette collection  \n4:00 PM Screening: La Estrategia del Caracol\, Sergio Cabrera (Colombia\, 1993\, English subtitles) \n6:00 PM Lecture-Screening: The Veil Manifesto\, Roshanak Kheshti & Sara Mameni \n6:30 PM Picada Argentina (Virgo style): workshop by Jimena Sarno. A picada is an excuse to gather around snacks and wine for conversation. You’ve seen the picadas on Instagram\, now it’s time to make your own! Picada includes cheese and olives plus pretty much anything you may have at home\, but presentation is key. \n7:00 PM Collective dinner/Collective Picada | RSVP here. \n8:00 PM Arshia Haq: “Use by ۸۷”―a Short Visual Interlude of Expired Desires \n8:30 PM Gary Dauphin Victory Conditions―What does it mean to win? Three theses borrowed from Haitian revolution\, football\, and exile: 1950 FIFA World Cup Group 2 – USA-England; 1974 FIFA World Cup Group 4 – Italy-Haiti; EA Sports FIFA 16 – Real Madrid campaign mode \n9:00 PM Tea+dessert with Carolyn Castaño spinning a selection of her late father’s records from Colombia \nClosing Night: Monday\, March 25\n7:00 PM The Veil Manifesto by Roshanak Kheshti & Sara Mameni \n7:30 PM: Fragmentos de Argel / Fragments from Algiers (work in progress)\, Super 8 transferred to Digital\, 4:36 min.\, 2019\,  Screening and live reading by Carmen Amengual \n7:50 PM: Arshia Haq: “Use by ۸۷”―a Short Visual Interlude of Expired Desires \n8:00 PM The International Expanded Potluck  \nOngoing\nTeahouse with contributions from Aria Safar\, Sandra de la Loza and Sarah Naim \nQuilt by iris yirei hu \nCyanotype tabletop\, a collaborative project by iris yirei hu and Sandra de la Loza \nSlide projection: The University of Art\, Gelare Khoshgozaran  \nTable with puzzle: un rompecabezas\, Andre Keichian \nSarah Naim shares Teta voicing her love\, a selection of her grandma’s poems sent as audio messages from Sweida\, Syria.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/international/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T120000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
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SUMMARY:Public Fiction: Dylan Mira & Sarah Rara
DESCRIPTION:Three-part poems by artists / writers Dylan Mira and Sarah Rara will inhabit opposing sides of a double-sided marquee—the illuminated exterior sign from Public Fiction’s former storefront location in Highland Park (2010—2015)—permanently removed from its original location\, now briefly installed inside HRLA’s main gallery. Each day\, a new section of text will replace the previous one\, stepping through each poem part-by-part. On view continuously from noon on Thursday April 4th until noon on Sunday April 7th\, the gallery doors will remain open around-the-clock for the duration of the exhibition.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/public-fiction-dylan-mira-sarah-rara/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190427
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
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SUMMARY:Echo Park Film Center
DESCRIPTION:On view daily from 2-7 pm\nClosing potluck party: Thursday\, April 25\, 7-10 pm\, with performances at 8:30 \nEcho Park Film Center takes over HRLA’s galleries for three days and nights—with media installations\, performances\, and programs of films and videos made by the Film Center’s Co-op\, as well as artists who have participated in their artist-in-residency program. \nWe’ll have multi-channel video installations\, slide projections\, sculpture/video hybrids\, sound work\, and paintings by artists Nesanet Abegaze\, Dicky Bahto\, Marco Braunschweiler\, Madison Brookshire\, Tuni Chatterji\, Brenda Contreras\, Paolo Davanzo\, Kate Lain\, Alima Lee\, Lisa Marr\, Beaux Mingus\, Alee Peoples\, and Mike Stoltz. \nThroughout the space there will be looping programs of films and videos by artists Kate Brown\, Emett Casey\, Caitlin Díaz\, Kate Dollenmayer\, Karissa Hahn & Andrew Kim\, Gemma Jimenez\, Gelare Khoshgozaran\, Sandra de la Loza\, Nerve Macaspac\, Gina Napolitan\, Will O’Loughlen\, Alee Peoples\, Anna Luisa Petrisko\, Chloe Reyes\, Adee Roberson\, Troyese Robinson\, Jennifer Saparzadeh\, Cosmo Segurson\, Carly Short\, Sharmaine Starks\, Nicole Ucedo\, and Penelope Uribe-Abee. \nFinally\, we will have a potluck closing party the night of Thursday\, April 25 from 7-10 pm\, with performances at 8:30 by Jennifer Saparzadeh\, Eve LaFountain and Jonathan Almaraz\, and other surprises.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/echo-park-film-center/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190620
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20190517T183935Z
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SUMMARY:Stalgia Grigg: is a weapon and we
DESCRIPTION:opening reception: fri june fourteen : seven to ten\non view sat june fifteen—tues june eighteen : noon to six \nThe ideological ground that Logic and Rationality stand on is slipping away. Liberalism has rallied to defend the sacred ground of “truth\,” while slowly realizing it may have been a constructed fiction all along. At the same time\, a reactionary Right (including a nascent fascist movement) has weaponized fuzzy logic\, finding a unified front in the incomprehensible. In this cultural space\, the Left struggles with the stasis generated by an inability to resolve a contradictory multiplicity\, much less shift this resolution into a true consensus. \nIn his first US solo show\, Stalgia Grigg exhibits work which draws upon a long lineage of artistic practices that reject sense-making. He extends this tradition with game engine simulations\, emergent non-human intelligence\, and machine-generated political outrage. This is not for its own sake\, but towards an understanding of how contradiction\, incoherence\, and looping logic can serve the Left in escaping the stasis of history.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/stalgia-grigg-is-a-weapon-and-we/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190619
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190623
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20190614T011454Z
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SUMMARY:Brian Getnick: Poem for the community
DESCRIPTION:Poem for the community \nsculptures and works on paper by Brian Getnick \n  \nExhibition dates: Wednesday\, June 19—Friday\, June 21 \nGallery hours: 5pm-9pm or by appointment (call 773.351.1888) \n  \nIn the fall of 2018\, artist Brian Getnick presented Punishment’s Place—an ensemble performance wherein the shattered pieces of a monument to Prometheus Bound were assembled to the beat of a chant. At the core of that script was the “Poem for the community\,” a premonition of impending violence against artists. On June 19th through the 21st\, Getnick presents a display of ceramics\, large tapestries and works on paper that further explore the precarity of artists working within an era of punitive logic. The monument to Prometheus Bound will also be on display. This event is a preview of a solo show and performance debuting at HRLA in the fall of 2019. \nArtwork will be up for sale with proceeds supporting the artist’s project and HRLA.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/brian-getnick-poem-for-the-community/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190701
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20190612T092544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T204219Z
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SUMMARY:Look Who's Talking Now
DESCRIPTION:Opening: Sunday\, June 23rd  6-10pm \nGallery Hours: Monday\, June 24 – Saturday\, June 29   12-6pm \nPerformances by Malinche and Figgy \nDJ Set by Paxico Records \nThe more intricately connected that people are to one another\, the more their ideas and projects appear to follow similar patterns. Look Who’s Talking Now focuses on painting as its principal medium and challenges homogeneity in an increasingly globalized world. By showcasing the work of artists based in Mexico City and Los Angeles\, the exhibition proposes that the ability to share diverse perspectives not only helps dismantle cultural stereotypes but also encourages a revision to the ever-evolving definition of Latinx Art. The featured artists in this exhibition have roots in Mexico\, Guatemala\, Puerto Rico\, and El Salvador. Together they explore a variety of mediums and illustrate the wide range of interests and cultural influences in their work. \nLook Who’s Talking Now begins by showcasing abstract works of art that allude to a historical break from hyper-realistic paintings\, followed by works that portray universal archetypes such as family units\, romantic relationships\, as well as contemporary mass-media images like soccer teams and fashion brand logos. The exhibition then transitions into a unique selection of portraits depicting people who have played significant roles in the lives of the artists\, including friends\, classmates\, and even strangers. Finally\, the show concludes with experimental works that move away from the canvas altogether. The artists in the last section demonstrate color theories used in modern art\, explore bodily fluids to create pigments\, and experiment with interactive video work. As the viewer progresses through the exhibition\, they will experience the disintegration of paintings that will evolve into more experimental works. \n\nThe exhibition suggests that globalization does not need to equal homogeneity and that the possibility to expand the definition of Latinx Art is endless. It views history as a living entity that requires constant reappraisal in order to present art that does not belong to a single genre or medium. \nFeaturing work by: Liza Feurtado\, Bryan Valdez\, Maria Fragoso\, Angela Leyva\, Marek Wolfryd\, Francisco Palomares\, Circe Irasema\, Jackie Amezquita\, Derek Holguin\, Ginger Quintanilla\, and Lauren D’Amato \nCurated by Nahui Garcia
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/look-whos-talking-now/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190712
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20190626T200610Z
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SUMMARY:RIDDIMS
DESCRIPTION:RIDDIMS a solo exhibition of Adee Roberson\, organized by independent curator Essence Harden. \nOpening Reception Wednesday July 3rd 6—9pm\nGallery open Thursday—Sunday 12—6pm \nRIDDIMS Block Party Sunday July 7th 1—6pm\nBBQ\, snacks\, and drinks all day. Throw what you want on the grill!\nAdee Roberson and Essence Harden in conversation 2—3pm\nPerformance by Thurmon Green at 4pm\nSounds by DJ Micah James and Designer Imposter throughout the day \n  \n  \nRIDDIMS \nWhere does spelling get us? \n  \nEcho\nGombay \n  \nVibrating tones are “of” the body rather than “of”’ sound.\nWhat are memories to this sensory experience? \n  \nwho do you come from?\nwhere do you come from? \n  \nHow far are “you” from “from”?\nHow do black/queer people come to know genealogy? \n  \nRHYTHM IS A SOURCE OF LOVE\nLOVE IS A SOURCE OF POWER\nPOWER IS A SOURCE OF FREEDOM \n  \nRhythm (vibratorial feeling)\, love (emotive feeling)\,\npower (autonomy interior/exterior)\, freedom (non language). \n  \nVISION \n  \nWhere/how do you “see”? \n  \nONE WITH THE SUN \n  \nWhat is this journey? \n  \nNEON TEMPO \n  \nIs this our sun? \n  \n“I do as my mind tells me to do”- Nellie Mae Rowe \n  \nWhere does your mind land you? \n  \n“Spiritual unfoldment” – Joseph Yoakum \n  \nWhat do you see? \n  \nAncestor telephone \n  \nwhat nigga is on the line
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/riddims/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190911
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20190819T183217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190819T190913Z
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SUMMARY:Josefina — An Installation by Fabián Guerrero
DESCRIPTION:Opening August 29\, 6-10pm\nScreening at 8pm followed by music and drinks\nOrganized by Fabián Guerrero and Clara López Menéndez \nJosefina is for and about my grandma\, Josefina. I wanted to document\, in short clips\, not only my grandma but also my family: the sounds\, movements and the house that I was raised in as a kid in Valle Hermoso\, Tamaulipas\, Mexico. This video is an introduction into filming and photographing my family’s history in my grandma’s house\, La Casa de Limón\, following a desire to keep track of their everyday living\, the survival\, the hopes and dreams and the stories of immigration that comes with it\, with us. It is also an attempt to reflect on the memories that will continue to inspire and build me\, the roots of me and my grandma Josefina––the beginning of my history. \nI am Fabián Guerrero\, a queer\, first generation Mexican American based in Los Ángeles\, born in Valle Hermoso\, Tamaulipas\, MX\, and raised in Dallas\, TX. I work with film and photography to document\, creating images that reflect on pasts\, presents and possible futures of our generation. My work both reflects and is inspired by my upbringing as first generation migrant and a queer brown individual; taking from fashion\, film\, poems and music\, the lifestyle and everyday survival\, to shed light into my family’s history and the meanders of the brown and queer communities. \nimage: Fabian Guerrero\, Sin Título (under my grandma’s portrait)\, 2019
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/josefina/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191015
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20190927T191525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T212842Z
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SUMMARY:Alexandre Dorriz - Consciousness is Code in the Occidental Vacuum
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday October 11th 7-10pm \nOn view Saturday 10/12 and Sunday 10/13 12—6pm \n  \nConsciousness is Code in the Occidental Vacuum is part of an ongoing investigation of fiber and its relations to time\, memory\, and optics through museology and dramaturgy practices. Dorriz works with the historical discovery of synthetic and semi-synthetic fibers\, and their respective chemical and organic compositions and applications in order to interpret various fibers through rhetorical lens and optical-based systems. By looking at the properties of silkworm fiber as raw protein\, Dorriz interprets the accumulation of woven amyloid fibrils in the brain which are known to cause Alzheimer’s disease through the accidental discovery of rayon (“artificial silk”) by a French chemist’s work in a darkroom. There\, there remain chemical congruences in French chemical company DuPont’s (Dow Chemical) first patents for nylon (PA-66) and the company’s concurrent development of Panchromatic Negative Film cellulose (nitrocellulose) and non-cellulosic bases and emulsions. Using new cuneiforms to interpret optical memory through these empirical findings\, Dorriz works with optical agents\, chemicals such as film developers and fixers and a noxious plant\, Syrian rue (esfand)\, historically used to ward off evil eyes in family homes\, as well as producing the dyes for carpets responsible for hallucinations occurring in weaving circles\, which has led to the expression\, ‘magic carpet.’ \nDuring the three day installation\, Dorriz triangulates these rhetorical fiber exercises through dialogical and dramaturgical interpretations of a 1975 Richard Tuttle exhibition curated by Marcia Tucker at the Whitney Museum of American Art. While Tuttle’s postminimal bodies of work would lead to strong negative reviews of the exhibition and question Tucker’s curatorial expertise by critics\, Dorriz looks to Tuttle’s fiber work\, “Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself” (1973) presented in Tuttle’s first of three rotating installations for the exhibition\, as a retrocausal lens into the events following the exhibition. Tom Armstrong\, then museum director of the Whitney\, would seem to be coerced by critics\, boardmembers\, and trustees into the wrongful termination of Marcia Tucker’s employment following the Tuttle exhibition; where\, Tucker would subsequently found The New Museum in 1977. \n1. Blanc\, Paul David. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven; London: Yale University Press\, 2016.\n2. “Our History | DuPont.” DuPont. DuPont\, n.d. https://www.dupont.com/about/our-history.html.\n3. Whitney firing\, 1976 + Corres.; Marcia Tucker Papers; Getty Research Institute Special Collections; (Box 3\, File 20; 1976) \nImage: Robert Fludd\, Ars Memoriae\, 1619
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/alexandre-dorriz-consciousness-is-code-in-the-occidental-vacuum/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191029
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20191004T212643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T030012Z
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SUMMARY:Why You So Negative?
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, October 18th  8pm \nExhibition Dates: Friday\, October 18—Sunday\, October 27th \nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun\,  12-5pm \nPerformance by Nikhil Chopra: Sunday\, October 20th  7pm \n  \nWhy You So Negative? responds to institutional rebranding and removal of work by artist\, Chiraag Bhakta. The solo exhibition features the original work—an installation which examines the commodification of yoga in Western culture—in its entirety. Programming for Why You So Negative? will include a durational performance by artist Nikhil Chopra and a night of yoga.  \nThe artist’s statement and supporting essays can be found here.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/why-you-so-negative/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200127
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
CREATED:20200106T204533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200119T172625Z
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SUMMARY:LAURA PARNES: TOUR WITHOUT END
DESCRIPTION:SCREENING OF TOUR WITHOUT END (92 min.) AND LIVE PERFORMANCES INCLUDING RACHEL MASON AND BRONTEZ PURNELL\nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 17\, starting at 8\, Suggested donation $10 \nSCREENING OF TOUR WITHOUT END (92 min.) AND CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KRAUS AND LAURA PARNES\nON FRIDAY\, JANUARY 24\, starting at 8\, Suggested donation $10 \nGALLERY HOURS: Wednesday through Sunday\, noon-6:00pm and by appointment. \nPRESS PREVIEW LINK AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST\nOrganized by Jeanne Vaccaro\nPress contact: jeannevaccaro@gmail.com or tourwithoutend@gmail.com \nLOS ANGELES\, CA- Human Resources is pleased to present Tour Without End (2014-2019)\, a multi-platform installation that casts real-life musicians\, artists and actors as bands on tour\, and expands into a cross-generational\, Trump–era commentary on contemporary culture and politics. It features members of Gang Gang Dance\, LeTigre\, The Julie Ruin\, MEN\, Eartheater\, MGMT\, Light Asylum\, and more. \nShot in real environments and situations\, the core group of players improvised based on semi-scripted scenes. Because many of these performers are legends themselves in the New York City downtown scene\, they are archetypes playing archetypes.  The work revels in the sometimes hilarious — but always complex — band dynamics that the characters endure while touring\, collaborating\, and aging in a youth-driven music industry. As the players move in and out of character\, blending fiction and real life\, the film moves in and out of non-linear narrative and historical document.  Shot from 2014–2018 at over 15 DIY music spaces in and around New York City — many of which have since shuttered their doors — the film acts as an urgent time capsule for the rapidly gentrifying city.  \nThe installation version highlights the extensive and growing archive of live performance in NYC shot during the four-year production schedule and the raw footage from the improvised scenes. These include more than thirty musicians and ten underground music venues. The archive expands as the project is shown. Portraits of performers taken By Justine Kurland are central to the installation.  The feature film (92 min) will screen everyday at 12\, 1:32\, 3:04\, 4:36. The installation is travelling and was just exhibited at Burchfield Penney in Buffalo\, NY. \nThe film’s multitude of characters include:  Wooster Group founder Kate Valk\, Jim Fletcher (The NYC Players)\, musicians Lizzi Bougatsos\, (Gang Gang Dance)\, Kathleen Hanna (The Julie Ruin)\, Brontez Purnell (The Younger Lovers)\, Eileen Myles\, Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater)\, Nicole Eisenman\, K8 Hardy\, Johanna Fateman (Le Tigre) Shannon Funchess (Light Asylum)\, JD Samson (MEN)\, Gary Indiana\, Kembra Pfahler\, (Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black)\, Rachel Mason\, Tom McGrath\, Matthew Asti (MGMT)\, Becca Blackwell\, Christen Clifford\, Alessandra Genovese (Crush)\, Rogelio Ramos (Love Pig)\, Kenya Robinson (Cheeky LaShae) and Neon Music (Youth Quake). \n Laura Parnes’ critically acclaimed films and installations address counter-cultural and youth-culture references where the music is integral to the work. Her work has been screened and exhibited widely in the US and internationally\, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, NY; MoMA PS1\, NY; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art\, FL; Brooklyn Museum; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art\, Athens; The International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands; and Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia\, Madrid; and NY and on PBS and Spanish Television. Recently she had solo exhibitions at LA><\, LA\, Participant Inc.\, Fitzroy Gallery; and solo screenings at the Museum of Modern Art\, and The Kitchen\, New York City. Parnes is a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow\, a 2014 NYFA recipient\, and a 2016 Creative Capital Awardee. Video Data Bank published a box set of her work\, and Participant Press published a book of her scripts titled ‘Blood and Guts in Hollywood: Two Screenplays’ by Laura Parnes with an introduction by Chris Kraus. She has also directed music videos for The Julie Ruin and Le Tigre. \nTour Without End is made possible with funds from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, Creative Capital and the New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund\, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts\, Electronic Media and Film Program\, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/tour-without-end/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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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.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/ken-ehrlich-dysfunctional-furniture/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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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
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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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
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/social-residency/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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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
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Stoking The Flame
DESCRIPTION:Stoking The Flame brings together DJs\, Poets\, Artists\, Musicians whose work invokes new worlds imagined and forged within nightlife.  \nStoking The Flame aligns itself with artists who wield the allure and radicality of nightlife to experiment and amplify new sounds\, moves\, and ways of being with one another amidst the on-going state violence.  \nStoking The Flame will feature one artist per week over the span of the last months of 2020. In a combination of mixes\, videos\, interviews\, and other virtual experiments Stoking The Flame stages a site to add onto nightlife’s constant forging of other worlds\, of more nights\, and ways of being. \nDJ Erika Kayne \nBAE BAE \nGemma Castro \nSebastian Hernandez \nKelman Duran \nJasmine Nyende \nXina Xurner \nElliot Reed \nKaili \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/stoking-the-flame/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:exhibition,online event
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SUMMARY:ANIMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
DESCRIPTION:September 10 – 12\, 2021 \nHuman Resources in Chinatown\, Los Angeles\, CA  \n  \nANIMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA \nPresented by Authentic Children Art Association in collaboration with OneHouse Arts \n  \nCome one\, come all! The circus is in town! Marvel at the array of Animal Encyclopedia – grizzly bears\, toucans\, flying fish\, humpback camels\, Spectres of Shadow\, iguanas\, cockatoos\, and many species more! \n  \nAuthentic Children Art Association eagerly presents over 200 animal portraits by OneHouse Arts students from ages 4 to 10. Pencilless\, these artists immediately place paint brush to paper – creating bold and brave lines\, translating perceptions of their favorite creatures into being. Children’s art\, despite losing its original prestigious positioning on cave ceilings and relegated to transgressive expressions on drywall\, has resurged in the past century as the inspiration for modernism! The influence of these innovative young artists can be seen throughout the movements of contemporary art – featured prominently in the work of such adults as Matisse and Picasso. Truly your favorite artists’ favorite artists. \n  \nAnimal Encyclopedia promises entertainment for all ages of art appreciation. Bring the whole family! \n  \n~ \n  \nAuthentic Children Art Association is a non-profit project committed to nurturing genuine expression\, appreciation\, and compassion in children\, parents and educators by presenting authentic children’s art exhibitions in collaboration with schools and galleries across Southern California. \n  \nOneHouse Arts is an experimental art school and philosophy dedicated to helping children discover art on their own by asking questions about their ideas\, introducing them to various methods\, staying open to their artistic inclinations\, providing them with space to create\, and giving their art a place in the world at large. \n  \n(for parents) \nHuman Resources is a non-profit art gallery in Chinatown showcasing non-traditional forms of art and performances to engage communities across Los Angeles. \n  \n——————————————————— \n  \n美国自然本真儿童艺术协会与艺家艺术体验馆联合举办 \n  \n2021年9月8日（周三） 至 2021年9月12日（周日）中午12点 – 晚上 6pm  \n  \nRachel 老师将于9月12日周日，12-6pm， 全天在画廊与大家见面。请邀请亲朋好友前来参观！  \n  \n​​“动物世界” 儿童画展  \n  \n快來 快來！ 我們的“動物世界”來了！ \n这里有各式各樣的動物 – 灰熊、大嘴鸟、飞鱼、骆驼、熊貓、凤头鹦鹉和魔鬼魚……！ \n美国自然本真儿童艺术协会迫切的要为大家展示来自艺家艺术体验馆的200多幅动物特写儿童画，小画家的年龄在4-10岁。我们不打草稿，直接用丙烯在纸上作画，小画家们用生动大胆的线条，让脑中的动物跃然纸上。 \n  \n沉寂了一大段时间的儿艺术在过去的一个世纪里又重新兴起，其影响贯穿于整个当代艺术运动中！马蒂斯和毕加索等成年人的作品深受儿童艺术的影响！儿童艺术家是你们喜欢的知名艺术家们的偶像！ \n“动物世界”展一定会把欢乐带给全家！ \n  \n美国自然本真儿童艺术协会是一个非盈利项目，致力于通过与南加州的学校和画廊合作举办纯朴的儿童艺术展览，帮助孩子，家长和教育者彼此真诚表达，互相欣赏和理解。 \n  \n艺家艺术体验馆是一所艺术与哲学的实验学校，致力于通过提问帮助孩子开发他们的内在艺术性，教授他们不同的方法，发掘他们内在多姿的艺术方向，提供他们无限的空间并且帮助他们找到自己在这世界中的定位。 \n  \n（致家长） \nHuman Resources 是一个在中国城的公益画廊，展示非传统形式的艺术和表演，以吸引整个大洛杉矶地区的观众。 \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/animal-encyclopedia/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Harmonic Oscillation
DESCRIPTION:Harmonic Oscillation\nM.A. Guevara\nNovember 6 – 28\, 2021 \n\n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/harmonic-osculation/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220201
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SUMMARY:Apparitions: a group show
DESCRIPTION:The group stems from a virtual art salon that was facilitated by Miljohn Ruperto at the end of 2020. With their diverse backgrounds and satellite presence\, artists were invited to question the opacity in the contemporary art world while sharing their past and current works. The space of conversation is suspended through virtual meetings\, discussing peer feedback\, group readings\, along with conceptual and practical ideas in art. The salon has expanded to more guest participants –curators\, gallerists and other artists who add to the conversation and overall curiosity of a practicing artist. \n  \nClick here for the exhibition page.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/apparitions-a-group-show/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220212T220000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
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SUMMARY:Purple Glitter Slime
DESCRIPTION:An evening of queer performances and works by \nAmanda-Faye Jimenez \nAimee Goguen & Dakota Higgins \nJohn Burdole \nLaub \nNathan Lam Vuong \nZori Swanegan \n\n\n7$ \nDoors open at 8 \nPerformances begin promptly at 830 \n\nTickets can be purchased here: https://withfriends.co/event/13568875/purple_glitter_slime_21222 \n\nAmanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer and comedic performer born and raised in Los Angeles. She is mostly known for being a huge lesbian irl and online @failureprincess and for having long conversations with dogs. \nAimee Goguen (she/they) is a moving-image artist working in analog video\, hand-drawn animation\, and creative writing. She explores the grotesque and abject\, crafting scenarios that reimagine bullying as staged\, repetitive actions. Goguen’s work is anchored in imagination\, fantasy\, and escape. Goguen lives and works in Los Angeles. \nDakota Higgins is an artist\, writer\, and musician based in Los Angeles. He runs the experimental venue\, The DMV\, LA (aka The Departure from music Venue[s]). \nJohn Burdole is a queer artist. They like making work with their friends\, and making out. \n\n\nNathan Lam Vuong’s work deals with Asian-American culture\, the nuances of loneliness and confusion in dating\, and ideas of non-relationships. Born in Pascagoula\, Mississippi and raised in Florida\, Vuong received his BFA from the University of Miami and an MFA from CalArts.  Vuong produced the weekly comic strip\, Post-Ironic\, for The Heat Lightning (Miami). In 2011\, he attended the Banff Art Centre in Canada for the thematic residency “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”  Vuong has exhibited/performed at Soy Capitán in Berlin\, The Center – NYC’s LGBT Community Center\, Krause Gallery NYC\, Machine Projects LA\, LACMA (band performance with J-Lep)\, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art Newark NJ\, and Boston Center for the Arts. \n\nBuddy\, gentle like an angel sent from the heavens\, is Laub with some clown makeup on. Every once and a while he comes out of hiding to sing some songs.  He grew up Mennonite\, in Virginia\, and misses singing every Sunday\, in a congregation of people who sang in four-part harmony. He plays the guitar\, banjo\, piano or octave mandolin and sings from his iPhone\, very seriously\, like a boy in church. Laub\, also known as Taliesin is currently enrolled in massage school and needs practice. If you’d like to make an appointment or inquiries please call 562-583-5773 or DM @laublife. He has great hands and his own portable massage table. Also\, in recent developments\, Laub needs a place to live. \n\n\n\nZori Swanegan is a visual artist based in Los Angeles\, CA. She primarily makes works on paper.\n  \n  \n\nProof of full vaccination and contact info required for entry to this event\nMasks required at all times while inside the space\nThis event has a limited capacity\, pre-sale tickets are highly encouraged
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/purple-glitter-slime/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,one-time event at HR,performance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220506
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork & Laetitia Sonami — Fingers Caught in a Field of Moss
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday May 3rd & Wednesday May 4th\, 5:00 – 9:00 PM\n  \nSound artists Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Laetitia Sonami set up in residency at Human Resources for their fourth collaboration. For Fingers caught in a field of moss they scale down natural growth events to rhythms of sonic saturation and rarefication. The synthetic textures created in real time by the artists evoke an organic unfolding of layered scales of time. The ten-channel audio installation incorporates loudspeakers\, subwoofers\, directional speakers and anechoic sculptures to manipulate the natural resonance of Human Resources architectural acoustics. Both artists would like to acknowledge the pervading influence of Maryane Amacher’s groundbreaking work in their own unique practice. \n  \nAudience is invited to come in at any point during the durational live performance-installation. Use of phone is prohibited during the performance \n  \nLAETITIA SONAMI\nLaetitia Sonami is a composer\, sound artist\, performer and researcher. Born in France\, Sonami studied electronic music with Eliane Radigue before moving to the United States in 1977 to continue her electronic music practice.Sonami’s sound performances\, live-film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation.  She applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound\, place and objects.A pioneer in wearable technologies\, Sonami has devised new gestural controllers for performance. Best known for her unique instrument\, the elbow-­length lady’s glove\, which is fitted with an array of sensors tracking the slightest motion of her hand and body\, she has performed worldwide and earned substantial international renown. Her latest instrument\, the Spring Spyre\, is based on the application of machine learning (AI) to music performance.Recent projects include a third live film with SUE-C\, a  collaboration with harpist Zeena Parkins\, and an electronic improvisation duo with James Fei.Sonami received the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts (2000) and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Awards (2002). Sonami lives in Oakland\, CA and is currently a guest professor at the Center for Contemporary Music\, Mills College.\n \n\n\nJACQUELINE KIYOMI GORK\nJacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s hybrid practice combines work in sound installation\, sculpture\, and performance with the aim of reconfiguring traditional hierarchies between audience\, performer\, and architecture.  Kiyomi Gork studied sound art and new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and researched the history of communication technologies\, acoustics and computer music at Stanford University. Kiyomi Gork has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Empty Gallery\, Hong Kong; 356 Mission\, Los Angeles; François Ghebaly\, New York; Queens Nails\, The Lab and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, San Francisco. Kiyomi Gork has participated in group exhibitions at Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (Made in LA 2020); SculptureCenter\, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is a recipient of a 2021 Art + Technology Lab Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. \n\n\n\n\nEverything in Air\n\nHuman Resources LA presents Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. A near-mythic figure whose situated methodology and speculative embrace of technology continues to defy formal and disciplinary boundaries\, Amacher generated an artistic and conceptual milieu that encompassed sound and installation art\, networked culture\, and feminist technoscience. Invited artists\, whose own engagements with sound\, structure\, and situation move freely across disciplines\, are encouraged to trace the resonances they find with Amacher’s ideas—from perception and duration\, to embodiment\, place\, and listening—towards new formal and conceptual territories. The international and intergenerational group of artists will take up residence using HRLA’s architectural\, organizational\, and social structures as an instrument\, both physically—using the entire building itself as a tool for making (sound or otherwise)—and figuratively\, “instrumentalizing” HRLA’s structures to resonate\, modulate\, filter and amplify signals\, gestures\, and ideas. Invited participants include Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda\, Jimena Sarno\, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Laetitia Sonami\, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, Chiara Giovando\, Dead Thoroughbred (keyon gaskin & sidony o’neal)\, Kali Malone\, Geneva Skeen and others to be announced. Black Hole will be a participating partner.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jacqueline-kiyomi-gork-laetitia-sonami-fingers-caught-in-a-field-of-moss/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,exhibition,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T210000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053356
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: I Would Prefer Not To (Stay Cool)
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun noon-6PM\nWe highly recommend emailing everythinginaaair@gmail.com to make an appointment to view the exhibition.\nThe installation employs Amacher’s work on “psychoacoustics” alongside “acousmaticism” (psychoacousmaticism) through the lens of Herman Melville’s short story Bartleby\, The Scrivener. Considering Herbert Marcuse’s notion of the “Great Refusal” as an indictment of emergent military-cum-consumer technology being weaponized against citizen-civilian populations\, it provides a quiet blueprint for protecting oneself from such phenomena. I Would Prefer Not To (Stay Cool) makes deliberate misuse of a decommissioned military-issue Long Range Acoustic Device\, or LRAD*\, (specifically\, LRAD 500x)\, its ability to transmit sound\, pre-recorded or live\, is baffled by placing six inverted riot shields\, mounted to oscillating fans in front of it. These inverted shields not only deflect the sound from a potential aggressee\, but their inversion also refracts the sound back to its source with the same intensity. The placement of the shields on indeterminately oscillating fans also physicalizes the sentiment of cool\, steely refusal put forth by Bartleby’s repeated utterance\, “I Would Prefer Not To\,” enacting a chance-operation in which these “refusals” go in and out of phase. The project was funded\, in part\, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.\n*Often referred to as “sound cannons\,” LRAD’s have been deployed by police forces across the United States\, including NYPD\, as a “non-lethal” sonic weapon against civilian populations engaged in peaceful protest as far back as 2004.\nClosing Performance and Conversation\nWednesday\, May 25\, 7PM\n\nPerformance by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, followed by a conversation between the artist\, Jennifer Doyle and Gelare Khoshgozaran.\n\nJeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, Get Low (The Fall / The Drop)\, 2021\n\nJeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (b. 1984\, Baton Rouge\, LA) MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College. He currently lives and works in New York\, NY and Tucson\, AZ.\n\nSelect exhibitions include: “Set It Off\,” ICA @ Virginia Commonwealth University and 1708 Gallery\, Richmond\, VA (2021)\, “Devo (Listenin’ Out The Top Of Ya Head)\,” Berlin Atonal\, Berlin\, DE (2021)\, “Pendulum Music: An Arrangement for Four Performers and Geodisic Dome\,” MoMA PS1\, Queens\, NY (2018); “Club\,” Performance Space New York\, New York\, NY (2018); “Evil Nigger: A Five Part Performance for Julius Eastman\,” The Kitchen\, Brooklyn\, NY (2018); “Study Of ‘Study Of Three Heads’\,” Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Philadelphia\, PA (2018); “Evil Nigger Part IV and Evil Nigger Part V\,” Issue Project Room\, Brooklyn\, NY (2017); “Who Needs To Think When Your Feet Just Go+ Never Not Doing\,” The Studio Museum in Harlem\, New York\, NY (2016).\n\nSelect awards and residencies include: Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellow (2022)\, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence (2021)\, Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design (2018); Issue Project Room Artist-in-Residence (2017); Jerome Foundation Airspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center\, New York (2019); Rauschenberg Residency 381 (2019). He is also a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat!.\nEverything in Air\n\nHuman Resources LA presents Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. The series was supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation Grant.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jeremy-toussaint-baptiste-i-would-prefer-not-to-stay-cool/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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