Human Resources

Screening of L.A. Plays Itself begins at 7pm Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even […]

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

The following performance and installation were held on January 26, 2012 at Human Resources Los Angeles - HRLA Participants: Rafa Esparza, Oscar Miguel Santos, Alex Black, Tamala Poljak, Allen Bleyle, […]

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

DUNES Release Party // 11 - Video Screening

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

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

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

Join us for the first US presentation of: UIQ: A SPACE ODDITY A lecture / performance by Paris-based artists SILVIA MAGLIONI & GRAEME THOMSON (originally produced by Bétonsalon, Paris as […]

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

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

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

This performance is the fourth installation in the Incorruptible Flesh series. “Messianic Remains” extends Athey's exploration of the continuation of his own post-AIDS body. Previous installments were done in collaboration […]

"el hoyo is a hole. a hole that sucks time." In "el hoyo" Rafa Esparza engages with trash and discarded items, using el basurero/ the dumpster as a framing device […]

Nao Bustamante and Karen Tongson from Crime Scene, photo by Sarah Kessler Nao Bustamante kicked off Human Resources LA’s July 27th benefit and Perform Chinatown After-party with characteristic mischievous flair. […]

La Pocha Nostra Alejandra Herrera, photos by Andrew Thompson This evening was a real lesson in performance art for me. These two performances extended beyond every pre-conception I have toward […]

Performance and video installation “SYMPATHETIC RELEASE” by Barnett Cohen & Jules Gimbrone, with select performances by FAULT LINES contributors.

HECUBA – CRIME a collaboration with John Knuth.

Comprehension-scrambling shorts for your untapped awarenesses. Doors at 7 pm, screening at 8, discussion at 9 Free. Stupid Pills takes a field trip to Human Resources in downtown LA for […]

Esoterica by Sylvie Spencer (Upstairs), with performances presented by Experimental Half-Hour (downstairs): Diva, Geneva Jacuzzi, GX Jupitter-Larsen and After Hours.

Ace BoiFrenzy, a pop-music producer/impresario, and his bodyguard/sidekick, DJ RainBro, return from a dystopian future to the contemporary present in order to assemble the perfect boy band - a boy […]

Three challenging acts, challenging spirits coming together in our echoing halls to create a heavenly din.

9pm doors followed by DJ set of KR 9:30pm GREGG KOWALSKY 10:15pm LOREN CHASSE into GREG BIANCHINI 11:15pm EVAN CAMINITI MIDNITE - M GEDDES GENGRAS EVAN CAMINITI - SF soon […]

Human Resources presents an evening of music featuring Mexico City's Ampersan. Special guests include Rubén Martínez, El-Haru Kuroi and Dorian Wood. Ampersan creates one of the most innovative and versatile […]

PUTILANDIA brings together artists Marcel Alcala, Rosè Hernandez, and Sofia Moreno for a night of performance and video that thrusts into the realms of culture fucking, disidentity, sploshing,voyeurism, the great […]

get ready for something perfect! Michael Vidal & Emily Lucid (performance art set!) www.michaelvidal.bandcamp.com Golden Drugs (Twin Steps/Creepers/Oakland) www.goldendrugs.bandcamp.com NOW www.soundcloud.com/n-o-w-1/hole-in-the-wall Shitgiver www.shitgiverla.bandcamp.com ++special DJing by HABITS++ 5$

The 16mm films of Owen Land shown chronologically over two days, with work by LA artists Deirdre O'Dwyer, Pat O'Neill, and Margo Victor. September 6 and 7, at Human Resources […]

Second in a series of three panel discussions featuring the creators and tireless purveyors of independent arts and music venues in the greater Los Angeles community. All talks are formatted […]

Come join Southland Ensemble and guest duelist Jake Rosenzweig as we explore the work of Pauline Oliveros on Tuesday September 9th at Human Resources!! From tape pieces to a duel […]

Ian MacKinnon and Travis Wood present a sexy night of curated performances, video, and interactive queer art at Human Resources in Chinatown.

Red themed all nighter: red attire recommended!

Bring clothing to swap or share and help build a conversation and a language around collective style. We’re looking to challenge the idea that militancy must reflect the hyper-masculine cisheteropatriarchy. […]

Social event for artists, faculty, students, and allies. Join our ongoing conversation to help create a better future for higher education! Music, spiked punch, and special guests. 7PM-10PM.

NATURAL GIRL is a new ongoing dance night and lounge showcasing natural t-girl beauty, grace, brilliance and creativity. A safe space for trans women to flirt and mingle with sexy […]

The art world often trades in exclusion. Continuing the conversations broached at the first LATFA, held at the 2012 Anarchist Bookfair, discussion will include: art world exclusion, careerism, racism, gentrification, […]

An evening of screenings, music and new work by Matthew Anderson, Avery McIntosh, and Daniel Kaufman.

An evening of music and performance by LA–based and International artists Easter, Dinner, Alex Black, Julius Smack, and TMO.

Started in Chicago in 2010 and transplanted to Los Angeles in the spring of 2012, the Oriental Picture Factory churns amazing, weird and schizophrenic collages on a weekly basis. In order to showcase some of these gems as well as to raise money for materials, the Oriental Picture Factory is throwing an art show/fundraiser!

A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF COMPLIANCE by Jennifer Doyle  1PM Public employees working in California must complete a training program designed to educate them about sex/gender anti-discrimination law. The University of […]

Video screening by Suzy Poling and performances by Filthy Nuns and I I'm Eye My.

An evening of music with Fountainsun, Fletcher Tucker, Amps for Christ, and Jeff Parker / Ted Byrnes Duo.

This is the fourth in a series of fundraising concerts organized to pay for music education at Castelar Elementary School. Established in 1882 and sitting right in the middle of Chinatown, the inner-city campus serves mostly immigrant kids who don't get much exposure to performing arts or creative outlets.

For the first time in Los Angeles, our creative community can become participating creators. You can participate directly in an international exhibition by creating and drawing on a surface that is thousands of kilometers away. This event is organized by Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) , Koganecho Bazaar and the artist UuDam Tran Nguyen.

Barbra Streisand Portrait Bender, Las Vegas: Fear and Loathing Returns to the Flamingo is a tribute to Lucy from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.

A community forum exploring the experiences of artists, audiences and art workers of color in/around the art world. Expanding on collective response to the whiteness of recent surveys of contemporary […]

I got a dance scholarship. I went to Paris and took a method acting workshop. I was reading Aliens and Anorexia. I went to L.A. I met Brian in the workshop I […]

COOLWORLD PRESENTS HUMAN RESOURCES BENEFIT PARTY! w/ T H E G R E A T S A D N E S S (Kathy Cooper + Stephen McNeely) H U M […]

Join us for a live taping of experimental music and video curated by Obfuscated Records in collaboration with Experimental Half-Hour.

Fresh off his European tour, Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources to present a rare, intimate solo performance. Dorian will present a series of compositions that explore the emotional landscapes […]

A roundtable and musical performance featuring: Members of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network Filmaker Alex Rivera Musicians Los Jornaleros del Norte and special guests TBA Organized and moderated by […]

Fun & Fury with the Empty Orchestra: Karaoke Protest, Karaoke Pleasure Join us for an evening of karaoke—or “queeraoke”—with a protest-song-meets-party-anthem bend. Sing your favorite anthems of dissent, as well […]

Sinn + Form (Meaning + Form) The project is based on the idea of a fundamentally chaotic world, as we know from mathematical or physical theories and models (dynamical systems, […]

WHITE MAGIC (with band) Mathew David's Mindflight Moomaw ∆ 8PM 7$

RezErect: On Native Erotica Gwaai Edenshaw and Kwiaahwah Jones are the co-curators of the RezErect: Native Erotica exhibit at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. They will be speaking about […]

L.A. Drones Live performances / filming for ¨Subterranean L.A." a film by Gabriel Velazquez L.A. Drones Nervous Gender Shekhan Native Fauna The Centimeters Little Debby Nora Keyes The Department of […]

An ECONO TEXTUAL OBJECTS book launch and performance. 7PM Nikki Darling is a music journalist/poet/experimental writer. ECONO TEXTUAL OBJECTS is experimentation within economic means for writers and artists pursuing aesthetic adventures […]

Nixed Media at HRLA: Invisible Path + The Royal US + Lee Noble + Marcus M. Rubio Ensemble + Joe Newlin. 8PM, $5 This series opened in 2014 with Lee Noble, Marcus Rubio & Joe […]

A very special benefit night supporting MATA Noise, a fellow collective dedicated to experimental sound. This event will featuring prime noise performances and art by some of Mata's nearest and dearest.

Maria Garcia + Clare Kelly (score by John Wiese) (LA) infinite body (LA) Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (SF) Elaine Kahn (Oakland) $7 Maria Garcia is an LA-based performer and noise/sound artist. She […]

8:30pm. Performed by Kenneth Nicholson. Musical arrangement by WYNN. view documentation excerpt on vimeo, courtesy the artist Ligia Lewis, Minor Matter, 2015. Performance view, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles, January […]

Experimental doom-drone, post-rock, noise-rock. 9pm/$7

Please join us for this special 'matinee' show with the trio of Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Jeff Parker and Ted Byrnes. 2PM/7$ About Ingebrigt: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (b. 1971, Oppdal) - […]

BASTARD NOISE (FARGHER/WOOD) AMPS FOR CHRIST WITCHES OF MALIBU CONSCIOUS SUMMARY DSE JASON WADE (screening original 16mm/ super 8 films featuring live accompaniment by RELAY FOR DEATH/ SENAToR BUTTHOLe JOHNSoN) […]

SAVE MUSIC IN CHINATOWN 5 benefit with MIKE WATT and the SECONDMEN + THE GEARS + STEVE SOTOTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/save-music-in-chinatown-5-steve-soto-solo-acoustic-the-gears-mike-watt-the-secondmen-tickets-14636916411 Advance ticket sales end at noon on Sunday, January 11. If […]

VOLUME presents a very rare performance by acclaimed artist and electronic musician Terre Thaemlitz. Terre will present selections from Soulnessless, her 32 hour opus described as the “world’s longest album […]

FREE though donations for non birthday having musicians would be appreciated. There will be free beverages and snacks come on down and enjoy the Tiger Munson exhibit whilst checking out […]

Featuring: Ali Tobia The Puissance of the Human Energy Field: A Yogic Look at Energy Possibilities for When the Polar Ice Caps Melt and Fossil Fuel Supplies Deplete; Joseph Hankins, author […]

HRLA presents CORSANO + KOLOVOS + GIFFONI solo and trio plus UN CIEGO 9PM/$7

OVERSTIMULATED is an afternoon and evening of presentations by artists, concerning the theme of limits in performance — limits of the body, performance, aesthetics, material conditions, institutional practices, pleasure, or […]

HRLA welcomes Rocío Boliver—an iconic figure in underground performance in Mexico and an internationally renowned performance artist. This will be Rocío Boliver's first performance in Los Angeles. Rocío Boliver's work […]

9pm - 2am $5-20 suggested donation to support HRLA Maricón Collective brings it's Eastside backyard party vibes to Human Resources. DJ sets by Maricón Collective, go go boys, photo backdrops, […]

HRLA and Volume present Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche, M. Lamar’s music theater piece for countertenor and piano emerges from the constant violent and sexualized surveillance of the black male body—plantation overseer, the […]

Decompassion is an event presented by Filmmakers Ian Randolph and Solomon Gross in collaboration with  HRLA. One half film screening, one half live concert. There will be a exclusive Los […]

COOLWORLD presents: P H E D R E (http://www.soundcloud.com/phedre) J A L (http://xxxjalxxx.tumblr.com/) P A P E R  S L A N G (https://soundcloud.com/paper-slang) S I S T E R  […]