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SUMMARY:Underwear Shopping Spree
DESCRIPTION:Community screening: Friday\, January 3\, 7pmClosing reception: Thursday\, January 9\, 7pm \n\n\n\nOpen gallery hours: Thursday\, January 2 – Sunday\, January 5: 1 – 6pmMonday\, January 6: closed Tuesday\, January 7: 3 – 6pm \n\n\n\nSome of your underwear has holes.Protect your bone marrow! Protect your stem cells! Plug the holes!If you’re too slow\, you will become irradiated. If you’re successful\, win a shopping spree and compete for the high score. \n\n\n\nComposed of soft sculpture and interactive projection\, Underwear Shopping Spree is about fabrics that protect the wearer from extreme weather. Begun during the now yearly hottest summer on record\, the work was born from the delirious feeling of being dehydrated\, irradiated\, and overexposed.  \n\n\n\nA community screening will take place on Friday\, January 3 at 7pm. Short films about the weather and the sun from local independent filmmakers will be shown. A closing reception will be held on Friday\, January 9 from 7 to 10pm\, and will include live performance. Full lineup TBA. \n\n\n\nAnnapurna Kumar is a filmmaker based in Ventura County\, California. She is formally trained in animation\, and was taught to machine sew by her mother and grandmother. After spending a year designing digital clothing for a previous short film\, she is now sewing IRL underwear\, soft sculpture\, and quilts.Annapurna is a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA Design Media Arts and a Special Faculty Member in the CalArts Experimental Animation Department. She is an alumni of the Yaddo Residency (2023)\, Wedding Cake House Residency (2024)\, and The Independent Imaging Retreat / Film Farm Residency (2019). Her most recent short film\, Mirror Products Catalog\, premiered at the Walker Art Center. She is currently collaborating on an illustrated memoir for the experimental animator Paul Vester.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/underwear-shopping-spree/
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SUMMARY:Cristóbal Gracia - Paladio / Palladium
DESCRIPTION:Opening February 18\, 6-8pmGallery hours: Saturday and Sunday\, 12-5pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this video\, Cristóbal Gracia digs into futurist mythologies to offer a critical characterization of the identity drive: a product? an artifice? a ritual of seduction? Perhaps\, simply\, a speculative dance to captivate the gaze of the great Other. \n\n\n\nEn esta pieza de video\, Cristóbal Gracia excava en mitologías futuristas para ofrecer una caracterización crítica de la pulsión identitaria: ¿un producto? ¿un artificio? ¿un ritual de seducción? Quizás\, simplemente\, una danza especulativa para cautivar la mirada del gran Otrx. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAt the beginning of this century\, a unique spectacle took place at the Palladium club in the port of Acapulco. A ritual that brought together visitors from the upper middle classes of Mexico as well as spring breakers who\, knowingly or not\, had inherited the exotizing impulse of beatnik poetry. What they witnessed was a kind of postmodern black mass\, where nostalgia for pre-Columbian grandeur and the certainty of a futuristic dystopia were intertwined. At the center of it all\, a prehispanic warrior with silver skin holding a torch in his hand. His mouth repeated a dark litany\, full of references to science fiction films\, video games and comic books. With it he prepared his body for the frenzy that lit up the night with neon lights and strobes\, merging with the decades of splendor of Acapulco\, the tourist destination par excellence of the Mexican republic; a glory that already had its days numbered. \n\n\n\nIn this video installation\, Cristóbal Gracia brings back the mythical show of the Azteca de Plata (Silver Aztec) to offer a critical characterization of the identity drive. First\, by showing the laborious protocols of prior preparation and subsequent cleaning\, it is possible to see the degree of artificiality and effort required to embody a construction of this type. As a result\, what is obtained is an ideal\, both physical and political\, impossible to sustain in a prolonged manner: the existence of this Promethean being is ephemeral by definition. On the other hand\, by recreating this spectacle on at least three levels—on camera\, replicated by one of the multiple imitators of the original show and with the presence of the action figure inspired by it—Gracia points out the impossibility of keeping intact the narratives that seek to define human groups; each iteration generates difference\, nothing remains identical to itself. \n\n\n\nLet’s be clear: this appeal to the founding myths of Mexican identity was detonated to enrich the leisure of external gazes to this tale. And perhaps the greatest confrontation of this installation takes place thanks to the silence and solitude that surround the warriors because\, in their absence\, the gaze of the Other takes on all its weight. What remains\, then\, of this founding narrative when the bodies that wear themselves out to embody it do so for external enjoyment: a product? a caricature? an artifice? a toy? a ritual of seduction? \n\n\n\nFinally\, Gracia also draws our attention to the pictorial and performative gestures involved in the production and deployment of this speculative dance. In doing so\, he reminds us of the role that art history has played in the construction of identity narratives of nation-states in the West. But\, above all\, he accurately points to the prominence that identity affirmation has in current political art. Thus\, Gracia neither condemns nor celebrates. On the contrary\, in the same way as happened during those nights in Acapulco\, he invites us to dance a silent dance with that demon that is all identity. \n\n\n\nGustavo A. Cruz Cerna
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/cristobal-gracia-paladio-palladium/
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SUMMARY:BUL
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception and book launch: Saturday\, March 29\, 6 – 9pmClosing performance: Wednesday\, April 9\, 7:30pm  \n\n\n\nBUL is a multi-media installation of Christine Yerie Lee’s experimental rock opera BUL (2023) and its newly completed sequel SWAN SONG (2025). This ongoing project is inspired by both the Korean folktale of the Bulgasari\, an iron-eating monster who liberates the oppressed by devouring the weapons of the corrupt\, and the North Korean film Pulgasari (1985)\, a Godzilla-esque work that was directed by South Korean Shin Sang-Ok while being held captive by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. BUL reimagines the ancient monster and forms an untimely meditation on ancestry\, kinship\, and what the future owes the past. \n\n\n\nWritten in five acts\, BUL (2023) reimagines the monster as an orphan named BUL who finds herself in the throes of love in the City of Angels. Through pastiches of 20th century cultural forms such as the pop song\, black box theater\, and music videos\, BUL shapeshifts through different dimensions to survive the changing times. The project includes personal memoir\, collaborative scores\, choreography inspired by communist political gestures\, and an original soundtrack. Lyrics were crowdsourced from Lee’s community then stitched into a collective sonic love history by LA-based band muff. \n\n\n\nWhile BUL is built upon the harmonic melodies and lyricism of pop songs\, SWAN SONG gear-shifts into dissonance and glitches as modality. Conceived as an instrumental opera and visualized as a silent film\, SWAN SONG depicts an intergenerational encounter between a now world-weary BUL and her estranged human great-great-great-granddaughter\, CY at the Salton Sea in Imperial County\, California. Their transmission is expressed in a “monster language” composed of ancient and contemporary instrumentation and movement choreography. BUL’s voice is expressed through the saenghwang\, an ancient Korean free reed mouth organ said to echo a phoenix’s cry\, while CY is voiced by the harmonica\, an instrument that descends from the saenghwang. The soundscape merges the Korean folk tradition of pansori (musical storytelling) and the American blues\, and evokes an imaginative ancestral lineage and dialogue between past\, present and future. \n\n\n\nThe final act features five performers enacting shifting poetics of relations by using the languages of synchronized animal movements (starling murmurations\, ant death circles\, locust swarms)\, pop culture (the wave\, line dancing)\, traditional Korean dance\, and also choreography that references and abstracts geopolitical borders between the U.S.\, Russia\, China\, North Korea\, and South Korea. If BUL focuses on the ecstasies and tragedies of the relationship between self and other\, SWAN SONG complicates the desire to belong to something greater than oneself by asking: Where do the self and the collective body begin and end? Who defines a border? How do we become borderless? \n\n\n\nThe opening reception will also host the book launch of BUL (2025) published with FRIEND EDITIONS (New York). The exhibition closes with the open-mic event “Bulgasari LA” with permission from original event founder Lee Han-joo. Bulgasari events began in Seoul in 2003 and are an ongoing showcase of experimental music\, avant-garde art collaborations\, and improvisational performances. \n\n\n\nThe project was funded in part by the College Art Association’s Visual Arts Fellowship\, multiple grants from the California Institute of the Arts\, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. BUL is organized by Ajani Brannum.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/bul/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,music/sound,performance
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SUMMARY:10 DAY CELEBRATION FOR 10 YEARS OF COAXIAL FUNDRAISER
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: April 18th\, 6-9pmGallery hours: Thu-Sun\, 12-5pm \n\n\n\nJoin us in celebrating the 10 DAY FOR 10 YEARS OF COAXIAL at HR! This 10-day event will feature a group exhibition of work by Coaxial’s past artists-in-residence and nightly programming curated by their beloved friends and community members.  The opening reception on April 18th\, 6-9pm will include performances curated by Boss Witch Productions\, vegan tamales by Coaxial’s Founders Eva and Brock and sounds by DJ Omo. Sliding scale $25-$100\, with all donations going to Coaxial’s Arts Residency Program! Purchase your tickets here.The exhibition will feature work by:Aaron Douglas Estrada Alex Pelly Amina CruzBriana Gonzales Colin Yeo Dakota Noot Derek Holguin Dulce Soledad Ibarra Dust – Stefan Cvitanic Edgar Fabián Frías Erin Demastes Jon Clark Kamau Amu Patton Maralie Armstrong-Rial Maria Maea Melo d Mica Scallion-Ford Micaela Tobin Miko Revereza Nat Decker Rachel Jones Samantha CCShelly BadalYunuen
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/10-day-celebration-for-10-years-of-coaxial-fundraiser/
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SUMMARY:other others // rehearsals in the skin
DESCRIPTION:Touch Praxis presents other others // rehearsals in the skin\, a four-day exhibition and programming series held May 2–5\, 2025 at Human Resources Los Angeles. This programming offers a collision of fleshy proximities\, felt theory (Dian Million\, 2009) and porous encounters. other others // rehearsals in the skin brings together artists\, practitioners\, and facilitators to explore how we relate\, connect\, and feel—together. \n\n\n\nImagining curation as a process of community building\, this layered project threads conversations across bodies\, decades and continents\, bringing into contact over 40 (old and new) collaborators. other others considers anti-colonial forms of touch as a method for collectively dreaming Disability justice\, ecological repair\, Palestinian liberation\, and queer futurity. \n\n\n\nRooted in an intersectional feminist “we” (Sara Ahmed\, 2018)\, other others asks: What does it mean to be in ethical contact with one another? How do we move through physical intimacies while navigating the systemic power structures that shape every encounter? \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features tactile\, sculpture\, audio\, interactive and digital works by Genevieve Belleveau\, Lauren Bon\, Vanessa Hernández Cruz\, Nat Decker\, Anne Juren\, Ericka Lopez\, Siphiwe Mbonambi\, Liz Nurenberg\, Ashton Phillips\, Teddy Pozo\, Jaklin Romine\, Laura Stinger and Touch Praxis. \n\n\n\nTouch-based performances will be held on Sunday\, May 4th from 4–6pm\, followed by an evening reception from 7–9pm. These personalized experiences are administered by a 5-person touch ensemble (Serene Bloin\, Jessica Hemingway\, Rashaida Hill\, Rachel Ho\, Nina Sarnelle\, and Selwa Sweidan). Sessions are limited and participants must sign up for a time slot in advance. Each participant will negotiate their interactions and level of contact with the ensemble; this work exists only in your body. \n\n\n\nScreening programs feature works by Basma Alsharif\, Genevieve Belleveau\, mayfield brooks\, Linda Franke\, Mona Hatoum\, Petra Kuppers\, Ericka Lopez\, Emilija Škarnulytė\, Maryam Tafakory\, Ryat Yezbick\, and Rima Yamazaki. \n\n\n\nA zine created for the exhibition collects haptic works by Rebecca Bruno\, Gabrielle Civil\, Megan May Daalder\, Alix Eynaudi\, Tala Khanmalek\, Petra Kuppers\, Courtney Mackedanz\, Kristin McWharter\, Postal Service for the Dead\, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes\, Hannah Rubin\, Cassie Thornton and Kim Upstill and Hana van der Kolk. \n\n\n\nA Palestine solidarity event featuring meital yaniv\, Basma Alsharif\, Mona Hatoum and For Your Viewing Pleasure raises funds for mutual aid in Gaza. \n\n\n\nTouch Praxis is a collective research project led by Selwa Sweidan and Nina Sarnelle exploring touch as a time-based medium and form of co-creative knowledge. The exhibition also includes videos from their archive of embodied interviews with Zena Bibler\, Vanessa Hernández Cruz\, Maeve Devine\, Jessica Hemingway\, Khalia Frazier\, Odeya Nini\, Tyby Reddy\, Jaklin Romine\, Tyra Wigg\, and Kim Ye. \n\n\n\nThe full program of screenings\, readings\, and performances are listed below. \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS \n\n\n\nFriday May 2Gallery Open 12:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nSaturday May 3Gallery Open 12:00 – 6:00pmSkin of the Film (screening program) 6:00 – 8:00 pm [event link] \n\n\n\nSunday May 4Gallery Open 12:00 – 3:00 pmIndividual Touch Performances (rsvp required) 4:00 – 6:00 pm [signup link]Reception 7:00 – 9:00 pm \n\n\n\nMonday May 5Gallery Open 12:00 – 7:00 pmSkin Thickens // Touching a Free Palestine (fundraiser) 7:00 – 9:00 pm [event link] \n\n\n\nTuesday May 6Gallery Open by appointment \n\n\n\nFor more information reach out to touchpraxis [at] gmail.com
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/other-others-rehearsals-in-the-skin/
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SUMMARY:LA TIME | Matt Savitsky exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, June 13\, 5-7pm (Note: HRLA is in the curfew zone\, quite close to the perimeter; curfew starts at 8pm.) \n\n\n\nPerformance: Friday\, June 20\, 7-8pm \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun 12-6pm & by appointment \n\n\n\nLA TIME uses live performance and video to reveal the space between headlines and lived experience.  \n\n\n\nBy using physical copies of the LA Times front pages\, stripped of images and held up to the Los Angeles landscape\, artist Matt Savitsky creates “picture windows” through which performers intervene in familiar public spaces. Here\, the news becomes a frame for queer expression\, with gestures that range from subtle (such as crossing a construction site) to bold (like stretching 200 feet of red fabric along a line of palm trees on a hilltop). \n\n\n\nStarted in 2021\, the project was developed in response to a lack of public space in contemporary life to grieve the atrocities carried out against our communities and locales. This work holds very special significance as it marks a return to public space after the pandemic and charts Savitsky’s reconnection to his community through performance work. This first staging at Human Resources will feature three of the project’s seven video works. \n\n\n\nThis project was funded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award\, New York\, 2022. FCA Artist Profile
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/la-time-matt-savitsky-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,performance
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SUMMARY:Arthur Cooke: Saudade Into Light
DESCRIPTION:Saudade Into Light is an exhibition of Arthur Cooke’s (b.1996-2020) prolific image-making and multidisciplinary photography practice. The presentation of works at Human Resources includes a selection of his artist prints\, self-published books\, video works\, hand sewn clothing and fabric prints. Alongside this impressive archive\, a selection of photographs have been posthumously printed by his family to be shown in the exhibition.  \n\n\n\nBorrowing its name from one of his books on view\, the show’s title Saudade Into Light\, incorporates the Portuguese word “saudade” – a word that is untranslatable in English for its complexity of feeling but references what Cooke writes as “…the love that remains when someone is gone.” In the description of his book with the same name\, which explores family archives\, Cooke continues “…this project consists of images and words based around the realization of ‘a missing\,’ in this case a person\, and the stages of recognizing\, coping and discovering through this sense of a void.” As the family of the artist organizes this exhibition\, the title assumes new meaning – through honoring and curating Cooke’s brilliant body of work\, they are tasked with finding the light within grief. \n\n\n\nAs the title suggests\, Cooke’s practice is steeped in an intuitive poeticism. His photographs read like visual poems\, mixing analogue and digital photography\, then further manipulating the photographs in post-processing\, either through effects or application of text. Through this process of editing and re-editing\, Cooke would confuse the image at every layer\, abstractly interrogating photography as a form. His photographs were often reused in his video and clothing works\, continuously changing the format of the medium he was working in.  \n\n\n\nIn an enduring search for meaning and connection in the digital age\, his work remains steadfast in its intention of capturing and exploring specific feelings through image. This ethereal sensibility characterized his digital practice – applying a combination of layering\, blurring and convoluting qualities to images he had previously taken. Oftentimes\, the original subject is natural\, like a rose\, with the photographic image then transplanted into the digital space\, removed from its logical environment and obscured into a symbol. The work becomes something that transcends its natural place and lives on\, forever changing.  \n\n\n\nBorn in Venice\, California\, Cooke formed his artistic vision at an early age. Cooke began working with images as abstractions at seventeen in class at Venice Arts\, a photography mentorship program for low-income youth. He was then awarded the prestigious National YoungArts Silver Award in photography in 2014. He went on to be accepted to NYU Tisch School of the Arts with the largest scholarship ever given in the Photography & Imaging program. He would graduate from the university in 2018 and moved back to Los Angeles shortly after. At the time of his passing\, he was working on several video and hand sewn clothing works that he was excited to debut once the pandemic ended.  \n\n\n\nHe is remembered by all who have encountered his work for its strikingly singular and evocative vision. Cooke’s images continue to evolve while staying distinctly his; marked by their foregrounding in a deep and complex emotional landscape and his applied alchemical process of transforming feeling into being through imagery.  \n\n\n\nSaudade Into Light is organized by Nicole Cooke\, Elna Cooke and Michael Cooke. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday\, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, August 9th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\nThe Cooke Family would like to thank: Lee Baxter\, Benny & Irina Chan\, Claire Dorfman\, Roni Feinstein\, Kate Kelley\, Rachael Knotz\, Scott Oshima\, Roxanne Reicheg and Issa Sharp. \n\n\n\nAdditionally\, the Cooke Family would like to thank: Arthur’s friends and those close to the family who have supported this exhibition. \n\n\n\nAbout the Cooke’s: \n\n\n\nNicole Cooke is an LA-based artist\, working in performance\, clothing design and soft sculpture. Sewing live with a Singer sewing machine that she’s converted into a musical instrument\, Cooke has previously performed at Murmurs Gallery and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Design | Media Arts at UCLA. \n\n\n\nElna Cooke is an artist\, seamstress and clothing designer from Cleveland\, Ohio. At eighteen she attended the renowned AndersonRanch Arts Center and went on to earn degrees in art studio and fashion design. For almost two decades she taught fashion design at SMC and FIDM and has currently resumed a practice in oil painting. \n\n\n\nMichael Cooke is an accomplished actor\, writer and musician. Born and raised in New York City\, he studied under the greats; jazz piano with the legendary Walter Bishop Jr. and acting with the acclaimed Peggy Feury. Cooke has worked extensively in theater\, television and film – most notably playing Herb in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/arthur-cooke-saudade-into-light/
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SUMMARY:Howl
DESCRIPTION:a collective unsilencing\, a divine portent\, a wail\, an omen\, a refusal to cower in the face of attempted erasure\, a call to our ungovernable animality\, a convening of artists using their voices and creative agency to resist intimidation and summon alternative worlds where transness is holy and bodily autonomy is sacrosanct\, a portal built of rage and grief and glimpses of euphoria\, an experiment in collaborative methods\, kinship\, and open process where shared labor becomes a form of care and the gallery becomes a staging ground for the battles we did not ask to fight \n\n\n\nFULL PRESS RELEASE \n\n\n\nfeaturing: Nicki Green\, Ashton Phillips\, Edgar Fabian Frias\, Badly Licked Bear\, Umi Hsu\, Sadie Greyduck\, Leslie Foster\, Salvador De La Torre\, Nina Sarnelle\, Alystair Rogers\, Wesleigh Gates\, Beatrice Gosse\, Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS\, Jynx Prado\, Elizabeth Frances Folk\, Johanna Hedva\, Pau Pescador\, and Luce de Lire  \n\n\n\nGallery hours noon-6pm\, Thursday September 18-Sunday September 21  \n\n\n\nSchedule of Events \n\n\n\nSeptember 14th \n\n\n\n2-3pm Procession of Divine Portent joule bricks from AutomataArts (504 Chung King Rd\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012) to Human Resources \n\n\n\nSeptember 18th \n\n\n\n7-9pm Opening of Howl with live performance by Umi Hsu at8pm and flash tattoos from Salvador de la Torre 7-9pm \n\n\n\nSeptember 19th  \n\n\n\nMobile Sewing Station activation by Badly Licked Bear during gallery hours  \n\n\n\n8pm Los Angeles premiere of Breath Work by Nina Sarnelle \n\n\n\nSeptember 20 \n\n\n\n2-4pm Mobile Sewing Station activation and participatory patchmaking session with Elizabeth Frances Folk \n\n\n\n5-6pm Open.Rehearsal with Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir \n\n\n\n7- 9pm Live performances and readings\, including choral performance by Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir; an original movement piece by Beatrice Gosse; a site-specific grappling hook performance by Sadie Greyduck; non-linear lecture performance on trans horror by Wesleigh Gates; Xina Xurner. \n\n\n\nSeptember 21 \n\n\n\n2 – 3pm artist panel on strategies for resisting silencing anderasure and cultivating resiliency in an age of fascism with Salvador de la Torre andEdgar Fabian Frias \n\n\n\n3 – 4pm: tactical magic workshop by Edgar Fabian Frias \n\n\n\ncurated by Ashton S. Phillips
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/howl/
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SUMMARY:CAREROTICS: on giving and taking
DESCRIPTION:Panteha Abareshi at Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) \n\n\n\nPress Preview: Friday\, October 31\, 2025\, 7–9pmExhibition Opening: November 1\, 2025\, 12–6pm (gallery hours)\, 7–9pm (opening reception) \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday\, 12–6pm or by appointment \n\n\n\nLOS ANGELES —  Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) presents CAREROTICS: on giving and taking\, a solo exhibition by Panteha Abareshi that examines how the disabled body is relegated to the fringes of visibility and yet made into a spectacle\, bringing a complex duality to the nature of disability as performance. For Abareshi\, the absence of autonomy makes room for fetishism to blossom\, as the disabled individual is made into a tool for the able-bodied viewer to use as linguistic metaphor and/or as sexualized fetish object. In their work\, the disabled body becomes a vessel for the taboo corporeal fears and desires of the able-bodied audience.  \n\n\n\nPanteha Abareshi’s artistic practice is rooted in their existence as a chronically ill/disabled body contending with multiple medical illnesses\, at the foundation of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia— a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain and bodily deterioration\, both of which increase with age. Their work explores the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored\, constantly examined\, and made to feel like a specimen\, critically interrogating the sick/disabled body’s place within medical institutions.  \n\n\n\nCAREROTICS: on giving and taking is curated by Jennifer Doyle\, Caroline Ellen Liou\, and Jeanne Vaccaro. Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the English Department at the University of California\, Riverside. We are also grateful to Miguel Barragan and his students at ASU Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts\, and to Alpha Medical Resources. \n\n\n\nExhibition Programs \n\n\n\nExhibition Walkthrough with Panteha Abareshi and Jeanne VaccaroSunday\, November 2\, 2025 | 2–4pm | Human Resources\, Los Angeles (HRLA) \n\n\n\nReading by Panteha Abareshi\, moderated by Johanna HedvaSaturday\, November 8\, 2025 | 7–8:30pm | Human Resources\, Los Angeles (HRLA)Panteha Abareshi shares the intimate\, the hyper-personal\, and the crip-theoretical in this reading of unreleased writing. Beginning with fictive pieces of an autobiographical nature\, the reading will also include the recitation of the poetics featured in the exhibition\, as well as new written work around the pieces presented in CAREROTICS: on giving and taking. Followed by a Q&A with writer\, artist\, and musician Johanna Hedva. \n\n\n\nFetish Material and Pornographic Screening and LectureFriday\, November 14\, 2025 | 7:30–9pm | Whammy! Analog Media\, 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles\, 90026Join us for a screening/sharing of pornographic and fetishistic materials collected and examined by Panteha Abareshi over the course of their research. The artist will lead a lecture-based discussion around the sick/Crip body’s representation in these explicit materials. This program will be an exploration of how the disabled body is made into and used as [sex] object\, and an interrogation of consent\, control\, pleasure and power through a close examination of a slew of porno vids\, fetish pics and kinky JPEGs.  Please note: 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗦𝗙𝗪 & 𝟭𝟴+\, bear in mind that we will be watching and discussing explicit pornographic material\, and some of these may be difficult and challenging to view. This program is first and foremost a safe space of non-judgement\, but also one dedicated to pushing into what is most taboo\, unknown and uncomfortable as a means of expanding how we know\, see and image the sick/Crip subject. \n\n\n\nExhibition Walkthrough with Panteha Abareshi and Ron AtheySunday\, November 16\, 2025 | 2–3pm | Human Resources\, Los Angeles (HRLA)
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/carerotics-on-giving-and-taking/
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SUMMARY:Acacia Marable: trash flag
DESCRIPTION:Found matter elicited a certain detachment from the object itself. It could be sold for asong\, traded\, or given away but also could be returned to the streets\, to the land\, or to thejunk pile. Sometimes it was left to ripen\, and sometimes it was just left.—Kellie Jones\, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017) \n\n\n\nOver the course of several months\, Acacia Marable gathered discarded objects and slowlytransformed them through assemblage\, reconfiguration\, and sculptural improvisation. Thisprocess was at once devotional and absurdist: he cleaned\, sealed\, and\, in oil\, painted each itemred\, white\, and blue—the palette of nationalism\, shared identity\, and soft power. Ranging frombanana peels to a grand piano\, the trash-objects were primarily gleaned from the streets betweenMarable’s house and studio or generated by the artist himself. Across these sculptural paintings\,the American flag repeats: at times it is reproduced in full\, at others it is fragmented\, skewed\, orreduced to its basic compositional elements\, rendered abstract. \n\n\n\ntrash flag builds on the Afro-Atlantic legacy of Yard Shows\, intricate installations of scavengeditems created by Black Southerners primarily in the wake of the Civil Rights movement.Through these exhibitions\, objects deemed valueless or otherwise obsolescent were transfiguredinto expansive assemblages with spiritual\, subversive\, and testimonial significance. Through therepetitive\, ritualistic acts of remaking and undoing the flag across the refuse of daily life\,Marable creates space for objects to belong in ways they were not intended to. Rupture isvisible—or possible—only in relation to pattern\, to a recursive act. Here\, broken\, cast-off\,jettisoned\, discarded matter is reclaimed in the form of a vast\, all-over painting\, its multifacetedsurface at turns coalescing and dissolving its primary loaded symbol. \n\n\n\nOpening Reception\, December 5  \n\n\n\n· 6–9 PM \n\n\n\nArtist Walkthrough & Cookout\, December 14• Walkthrough begins at 1 PM• Cookout from 2 PM until closing \n\n\n\nGallery HoursWednesday–Sunday · 12–6 PM
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/acacia-marable-trash-flag/
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