BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Human Resources - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Human Resources X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.h-r.la X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Human Resources REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T230000 DTSTAMP:20191009T191325Z CREATED:20190730T000704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T191325Z UID:4615-1565683200-1565737200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Abe Hollow•Rose Droll•Sam Gurry's "Winners Bitch"•Borey+Essyre DESCRIPTION:$10 // bring your friends // Doors at 8pm\, Sets at 8:30 \n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Hollow (Oakland)// Abe Hollow is the new songwriting project of Oakland-based composer and producer Adam Hirsch. His songs are a sublimation of his skills as a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer\, his experimental tendencies toward collaboration and improvisation\, and his continual obsession with family history and the mythologies of the Jewish diaspora. \nhttps://abehollow.bandcamp.com/album/a-palace-in-time \nRose Droll (San Francisco)//  multi-instrumentalist pop-oddity bringing an assortment of mesmerizing\, rich\, and quirky tunes that escape a proper genre. Her latest album ‘Your Dog’ is a beautiful collection of beat-tinged bedroom pop filled with deeply personal lyrics colored with whispery vocals\, clicky drum machine\, guitar\, cello\, and keys. \nhttps://rosedroll.bandcamp.com/album/your-dog \nSam Gurry (Los Angeles) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. They are from New Jersey and think Bruce Springsteen is just the best. Their work has screened at the Toronto International Film Festival\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, SXSW\, Ottawa International Animation Festival\, Slamdance\, Big Sky\, Pictoplasma\, and more. Their films consider identity\, texture\, and cultural detritus. They are one half of the performence duo Saint Victoria’s Incorruptible body and organize various events around Los Angeles. They graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts and their Mom is super proud about it. They will be screening their 2018 animated film ‘Winners Bitch’ \nhttps://vimeo.com/270542005 \nBorey + Essyre (Los Angeles)- Borey & Essyre is a project born of little tunes and ditties from two long lost cosmic siblings\, now united\, Borey Shin and Serena Caffrey. Revolving around simple melodies that push and pull from ethereal to carnival\, Borey & Essyre are here to bring you new jazz pop. Featuring Borey Shin on synth\, accordion\, and melodica\, Serena Caffrey on ukulele and voice\, Nick Hon on percussion\, Antonin Fajt on synth and slide guitar\, Jessica Li on bass and viola\, but rumor has it they like to switch things up. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/abe-hollow%e2%80%a2rose-droll%e2%80%a2sam-gurrys-winners-bitch%e2%80%a2boreyessyre/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Untitled-design-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190817 DTSTAMP:20190725T180655Z CREATED:20190625T234246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190725T180655Z UID:4519-1565848800-1565935199@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Marcia Bassett + Samara Lubelski / Kaori Suzuki + John Krausbauer / Rogue Squares DESCRIPTION:Doors 8 / Music 9\nAdvance tickets available here \nMARCIA BASSETT (guitar) and SAMARA LUBELSKI (violin) first performed as a duo in 2009\, improvising musical scores to films by Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton at X-Initiative\, Next Years Model series at DIA. Since their initial collaboration\, Bassett and Lubelski have continued to draw from their like-minded approach to improvisational music; creating personal interplay with the environmental surroundings to expand on abstraction\, chromatic noise\, and long form drone. Both Bassett and Lubelski have extensive backgrounds in the East Coast / NYC sub-underground. Bassett has performed in experimental music projects for over twenty years including Un\, GHQ\, Hototogisu\, Double Leopards and her solo project Zaïmph. Lubelski is best known as a solo artist with eight full-length releases\, but she has also been involved in various art-music provocations\, Hall of Fame\, Tower Recordings\, as a member of Thurston Moore’s band\, and in her associations with the long-standing German collective Metabolismus. The 2012 release of their first LP Sunday Night\, Sunday Afternoon\, on KYE Records\, was praised as having “ … incredible expanses and delicately menacing interplay with an increasingly satisfying audaciousness upon each subsequent listen.” — Paul Haney\, Tiny Mix Tapes. The latest LP\, ‘Live NYC’\, Feeding Tube Records (June 2017)\, “Elegantly shows just how much brain damage you can do using only a guitar and a violin… A tale of twinned and lightly fuzzed tones\, twirling and blending…The threads of sound absolutely phosphoresce. It’s an incredible mix of motion\, stillness and power.” – Byron Coley. The duo will have a new LP release on Drawing Room Records Fall 2019. \nKaori Suzuki (US/JP) and John Krausbauer (US) will present music for voices\, amplified strings\, electronics\, and bell percussion. Their work originates from a shared interest in ecstatic and spiritual musics as well as the “avant-garde”. Utilizing sustained tones\, alternate tunings\, long durations/playing endurances\, and stroboscopic lighting\, their music explores the parameters and possibilities of psychotropic ‘experiential’ environments rather than the strictly ‘musical’. \n \nKaori Suzuki is a Tokyo-born music maker/composer living in Oakland\, CA. Her spiraling sound visions often take form in long durations\, using electroacoustic sound technologies\, intensely high register electronics\, modified acoustic instruments\, and tape. She seeks to create heightened listening states\, emphasizing finding ‘music’ within activated space-time. She currently performs solo and plays drums in the Oakland based Minimalist psych-punk group\, Night Collectors; amplified strings in the Ecstatic Music Band; and collaborates with partner\, John Krausbauer\, on immersive light/sound happenings. She has toured and performed her music across the US\, Japan\, Europe\, Mexico\, and Canada\, and has released her music on independent labels in Germany and the US. \nJohn Krausbauer is a composer/multi-instrumentalist/improviser based in Oakland\, CA and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing label\, Besom Presse. A long time purveyor of the ur-drone and trance-psychedelia\, his work involves audio transmissions for TOTAL/immersive sensory experience. Transcendence through repetition\, duration\, alternate tunings\, maximum volumes\, and stroboscopic lighting. He has performed and presented his music across N America\, Europe\, and Japan in a multitude of settings – from basements\, sidewalks\, and rock clubs to colleges\, churches\, and art museums. Over 20 recordings of his have been released on independent labels in the US\, Europe\, and Japan. His group and solo music can be found on Important\, Beta-Lactam Ring\, ANTS\, Fabrica\, Debacle\, Autumn\, Thin Wrist (upcoming)\, and a number of other international labels. His current music projects include the Ecstatic Music Band (a 10+ member-collective of strings players); solo music for voice\, violin\, and synth; his collaboration with partner\, Kaori Suzuki\, with bells\, voices\, strings\, tape; the Minimalist psych-punk group Night Collectors; his systems-based phase compositions; and ongoing duo collaborations with Kentuckian steel bodied resonator guitar player R. Keenan Lawler\, NYC bagpipe player David Watson\, and Tokyo based guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/marcia-bassett-samara-lubelski-kaori-suzuki-john-krausbauer-rogue-squares/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HRLA_Wavesflyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190817T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190817T200000 DTSTAMP:20190813T185810Z CREATED:20190809T153201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190813T185810Z UID:4629-1566072000-1566072000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Matt Weston (Albany) w/ Shook/Byrnes\, yek koo\, Casa Berenice DESCRIPTION:Doors at 8\, Music begins at 8:30\nAll Ages\n$10 (advance tickets available here) \nHuman Resources is pleased to welcome MATT WESTON (percussion/electronics) from Albany\, NY. \nMatt will be joined by WILSON SHOOK (saxophones) and TED BYRNES (percussion) for a combined set of solo\, duo\, and trio improvisation. \nYEK KOO (Helga Fassonaki) and CASA BERENICE TRIO (Heather Lockie\, Clay Chaplin\, Sepand Shahab) will help integrate the evening.\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nMATT WESTON (Albany\, NY)\nMatt Weston plays percussion and electronics\, and has performed throughout the US\, Canada\, and Europe. \nHe has collaborated with Arthur Brooks\, Bill Callahan/Smog\, Bill Dixon\, Kevin Drumm\, Paul Flaherty\, Charles Gayle\, Milford Graves\, Mary Halvorson\, Le Quan Ninh\, Ben Miller (ex-Destroy All Monsters)\, Roger Miller (Mission of Burma)\, Jim O’Rourke\, Jeff Parker\, and many others. \nHe uses a tympani instead of a snare drum. \nIn addition to his solo work\, Weston is currently a member of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V; and Arc Pair with drummer Amanda Kraus. \nhttps://mattweston.bandcamp.com/\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nWILSON SHOOK (L.A)\nWilson Shook makes music like a moth fluttering at a street light. Graceful\, frantic\, persistent and sometimes tragic\, it is music absorbed of its own inscrutable purpose. It finds serenity in immediacy\, escape in acts of radical presence. It is here\, and then it is not. \nA self-taught improvising saxophonist\, Wilson often performs as a soloist\, with sustained collaborations including Greg Kelley (nmperign)\, Dave Abramson (Diminished Men\, Master Musicians of Bukkake)\, Andrew Scott Young (Tiger Hatchery)\, Ben Bennett\, A. Vitacolonna (Widow)\, Ryan Jewell\, Jacob Wick\, Carol Genetti\, Gust Burns\, Patrick Neill Gundran (Uneasy Chairs). Sporadic collaborations have included many other creative voices in contemporary weirdness.  For 10 years Wilson helped to organize the performance space Gallery 1412 in Seattle. He relocated to Los Angeles in 2017. \nhttps://otherghosts.net\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nTED BYRNES (LA)\nTed Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston\, MA\, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation\, new music\, electro-acoustic music\, and noise. \nTed primarily works in ad hoc improvisational settings\, but has standing improvisational groups including: a group with John Wiese\, a duo with Jeff Parker\, a duo with Chris Cooper (AQH)\, a duo with Charlie Mumma\, a duo with Sam McKinlay\, a duo with William Hutson\, a trio with Jacob Wick and Michael Foster\, among others. Additionally\, Ted has played in duo/trio/or ensemble settings with: Mazen Kerbaj\, Matt Weston\, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten\, Charlemagne Palestine\, Alfred 23 Harth\, Arrington de Dionyso\, Jaap Blonk\, Torsten Muller\, Kim Myhr\, Jim Denley\, Lloyd Honeybrook\, Chris Schlarb\, Mike Watt\, Paul Masvidal\, the LAFMS (including Smegma\, Airway\, Ace Farren Ford’s Artificial Art Ensemble\, Rick and Joe Potts\, Fredrik Nilsen\, Tom Recchion\, Vetza\, etc)\, Sissy Spacek (the band)\, Maher Shalal Hash Baz\, and more. \nhttps://tedbyrnesdrums.com\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nYEK KOO (LA)\nyek koo is the solo project of Los Angeles artist\, composer\, and performer Helga Fassonaki. yek koo transverses the visual and poetic\, through the exploration of space\, body\, voice\, and movement.  She can shake up a sound field with dissonance or fill it with cyclical sufi-poetic tones that subtly color her vocal palette. With yek koo\, Fassonaki explores the body as a vehicle for the movement of sound\, utilizing it as a filtering system that pushes sound through the responsive chambers of matter\, air\, and environment\, creating experiences that can be both emotively charged and spatially transformative. \nAside from her expressive free-form guitar\, pocket trumpet\, and vocal wailings in duo project Metal Rouge (with Andrew Scott)\, Fassonaki is known to resound trails of invisible effects and echoes through cassette players and prepared tap shoes\, some of which can be heard on Head\, released on Drawing Room Records in 2017. Bridging her sound and ecological interests\, Fassonaki is currently experimenting with binaural recordings of circular vocal chanting in various natural and geological sites and one-tone compositions in restricted spaces. \nhttps://helgafassonaki.com/yek_koo/\nhttps://soundcloud.com/yek-koo/tracks\nhttps://yekkoo.bandcamp.com/\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nCASA BERENICE TRIO (LA)\nCasa Berenice Trio (Heather Lockie\, Clay Chaplin\, and Sepand Shahab) make ambient electro-acoustic improvisation. They scratch violas through electronics\, stretch field recordings\, tweak noisy oscillators\, and have been known to weave a folk song into a patient\, ambient mesh. \nhttps://youtu.be/zOmLj9f49Vs URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/matt-weston-albany-w-shook-byrnes-yek-koo-casa-berenice/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/wilson_shook_HRLA-1-page-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T203000 DTSTAMP:20190911T205632Z CREATED:20190911T205632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190911T205632Z UID:4669-1569184200-1569184200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Love 4 One Another DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/love-4-one-another/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/unnamed-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190927T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T230000 DTSTAMP:20191009T191325Z CREATED:20190917T194932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T191325Z UID:4681-1569616200-1569711600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Secret Joy DESCRIPTION:September 27th & 28th\, 8:30 pm \nWritten and directed by Brian Getnick\, performed by Dani O’Terry and Gregory Barnett \n  \nSecret Joy is a play about beheading the past to make it speak. Sculptural costumes and weaponry are taken up by the performers to transform an ancient power struggle between the crowd and leader into a psychic battle between the body and mind. \nFollowing the presentation of Punishment’s Place in the fall of 2018\, Secret Joy is the second in a quartet of performances engaging the desire for retribution played out in the transformations of monumental sculptural figures. \n5-10$ suggested donation at the door \nResearch for this project was facilitated by the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship \n  \nbriangetnick.com \n  \n*photo by Julie Weitz URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/secret-joy/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/secret-joy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T203000 DTSTAMP:20191009T191325Z CREATED:20190812T200647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T191325Z UID:4632-1569789000-1569789000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Shhh DESCRIPTION:Sadly\, in a show about quietness\, it’s my first instinct to write about getting noisy.  \nIf I latch onto a metaphor for political action\, a reader could imagine the swarming power of the colony because\, yes\, each hive is made up of little bees and so\, the modest can become intrusive\, and sure\, maybe the meek will actually inherit the earth—but after all that reversal\, how do we know the oppressed won’t transform despotic? Why was noisy my first instinct and why is it so hard to believe in an equanimous future? Is it because in lives of simple binaries\, a participant can only react to the ‘either’ and never just be? I am…so sick of thinking in opposition\, the quiet that only exists in relation to what is noisy. \nWhat about the value of just one quiet thing at a time? Here’s a show where we’re trying: one night of shuffling sound\, sitting quietly\, and praising the modest rumble. A night of addressing our loud world by checking statement pieces at the door. No promises to save the planet\, just an opportunity to be present for it. \nHope to see you there. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/shhh/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Poster_still0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T170000 DTSTAMP:20191004T150618Z CREATED:20190917T153228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191004T150618Z UID:4673-1570269600-1570294800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:HRLA Symposium I: Think Local DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day-long symposium featuring emerging critical voices in our community. This event features responses to work encountered at HRLA\, in spaces like HRLA or in museums in the region. We hope to give attendees a sense of the impact of local performances\, exhibitions and events on discourse about contemporary art; our aim is to create an engaging day of conversation about the practice of art criticism and art writing — one that is inclusive of artists\, students\, critics and scholars. \nWe welcome people coming and going during the day\, but do consider making time to be present for the whole event — our goal is to create a vibe in which the audience contributes as much to the day as the speakers. We have programmed lots of time for discussion — and hope that each session informs what follows it. \nWe are going to do more of these. Our second event will feature hybrid and experimental forms of criticism. Our third event will center writing about organizational dynamics and institutional politics (a topic that will appear in our first session). Please keep your eyes open for our calls for proposals. We want these events to feature people at different points in their work — we welcome proposals from students\, from independent writers\, journalists\, aspiring curators\, artists who want to write more than they do now\, wizened writers who want to support all of the above. \n10:00am: Coffee\, Welcome\, Introductions \n10:30-noon: A Sense of Place (90 minutes) \nNestor Guerrero\, Cesar Ruiz\, Robby Herbst \nThree presentations exploring the practice of signaling\, making and holding space. Topics include Latinx DJ collectives\, intentional music and experimental performance scenes. \n3 15-minute presentations\, followed by 45 minutes discussion \n12:10-1:30 Seminar I (80 minutes\, BYO lunch) \nJekara Govan and Rosalia Lerner are both writing articles about performances that have been staged at HRLA. If you would like to read this work in advance\, please fill out this form and we’ll send you a PDF. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Those of us who have read these works in advance will lead discussion\, give feedback and advice. This format may be particularly productive for people who are in or are thinking about going to graduate school: both writers are PhD students\, and are sharing work that will be a part of their academic portfolio. That said\, the day’s entire program is geared less towards academics than towards the greater arts community. Meaning\, the conversation should be accessible to artists — and if the writing isn’t\, this is something we’ll talk about! \n1:45-3:15pm: Material Conditions (90 minutes) \nAna Iwataki\, Andy Campbell\, Georgia Lassner \n3 15-minute presentations\, followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion \nThese three writers are writing the material conditions of art-making and the material conditions of artists’ lives. \n3:30-5:00pm: Performance Tactics (75 minutes) \nJoshua Guzmán\, Evan Duncan \n2 20-minute presentations\, followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion \nWe will conclude the day with two slightly longer presentations — here\, we will be opening up our optic as both speakers explore tactics in works they’ve encountered in Los Angeles – our last speaker is working on Adrian Piper; their work was inspired by the Piper exhibition at the Hammer Museum. \nThis program may be adjusted. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-symposium-i-think-local/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Think-Local-Progam-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191006T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191006T220000 DTSTAMP:20191009T191324Z CREATED:20190924T064407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T191324Z UID:4699-1570388400-1570399200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Bitch Slap DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 6th  7pm \n$10 suggested donation \nBitch Slap! is an evening of performance and video art at Human Resources LA\, by female identified and non-binary artists who confront contrived notions of femininity. In a time where didactic art seems like the only pathway to social justice\, these powerful works incorporate humor to playfully explore the embodiment of being a ‘Baddass Bitch. The evening is curated by Liz Miller-Kovacs and hosted by Rochelle Fabb. \nWorks by: \nNao Bustamante \nRochelle Fabb \nJohnny Forever Narwacaj \nDulce Soledad Ibarra \nXandra Ibarra \nSarah Johnson \nLiz Miller-Kovacs (with Pony Lee Musgrave and Julia Cornell) \nMicaela Tobin (White Boy Scream) \nSpecial Guests\nNAO BUSTAMANTE is an internationally known artist\, originally from California; she now resides in Los Angeles. Bustamante’s precarious work encompasses performance art\, video installation\, visual art\, filmmaking\, and writing. The New York Times says\, “She has a knack for using her body.” Bustamante has presented in Galleries\, Museums\, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited\, among other locales\, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London\, the New York Museum of Modern Art\, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance International Film Festival\, Outfest International Film Festival\, El Museo del Barrio Museum of Contemporary Art\, First International Performance Biennial\, Deformes in Santiago\, Chile and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. Bustamante is alum of the San Francisco Art Institute\, New Genres program and the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently she holds the position of Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. \nROCHELLE FABB creates original group and solo performances and intimate\, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance. Her works explore lust\, rage\, passion and power with pathos\, humor and nod to pop culture. She co-founded the performance ensemble\, Empire of Teeth and is a member of Mariel Carranza’s Encounter group. She has performed at LACMA\, Highways\, Lincoln Center\, Knitting Factory\, the New Genres Festival (Tulsa)\, Mobius (Boston)\, RAW Tempel (Berlin)\, Theatre Nogent (Marnay sur Seine\, France)\, Ex-Teresa Int’l Festival (Mexico City)\, and in galleries\, houses and public spaces. She was a touring member of the Rachel Rosenthal Company and Asher Hartman’s Gawdafful National Theater. \nJOHHNY FOREVER NAWRACAJ is a nonbinary Polish-born performance and video artist currently based between Montreal and Los Angeles. Their work weaves surrealist narrative through the manipulation of mundane objects in fantastical space\, both physical and virtual. Forever insists on the disruption of categories\, building visual allegories for liminal and ever-shifting identities. They also seek to explore love\, loss\, and longing with a particular investment in these themes as a part of radical queer and trans cultural production. \nDULCE SOLEDAD IBARRA is a multi-disciplinary artist\, curator\, designer and non-profit arts advocate based in Los Angeles with special interests in community and identity-emphasized arts and opportunity. As a practicing artist\, Ibarra discusses issues of generational guilt\, intersecting communities\, language\, and cultural identities in videos\, installations\, performances\, and participatory work. Looking through queer Brown/Latinx/Xicanx perspective\, the work is fueled by emotional labor\, persynal research and analyzation. \nXANDRA IBARRA is an Oakland-based performance artist from the US/Mexico border who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom. Ibarra uses hyperbolized modes of racialization and sexualization to test the boundaries between her own body and coloniality\, compulsory whiteness\, and Mexicanidad. Ibarra’s work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá\, Colombia)\, Broad Museum (LA\, USA)\, Popa Gallery (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Joe’s Pub (NYC)\, PPOW Gallery (NYC)\, Anderson Collection (Stanford) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) to name a few. She has been awarded the Art Matters Grant\, NALAC Fund for the Arts\, ReGen Artist Fund\, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award. Her work has been featured in Artforum\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, ArtNews and in various academic journals nationally and internationally. As a community organizer\, Ibarra’s work is located within feminist immigrant\, anti-rape and prison abolitionist movements. Since 2003\, she has actively participated in organizing with INCITE!\, a national feminist of color organization dedicated to creating interventions at the intersection of state and interpersonal violence. She currently lectures within the Critical Studies program at California College of the Arts. \nSARAH JOHNSON is an Los Angeles based artist working in performance\, video\, potography\, and writing. Johnson has performed internationally in galleries\, theaters\, cathedrals\, freeway underpasses\, backyards\, and otherwise. An alum of NYU in Performance Studies\, her work has been featured at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada)\, the TBA Festival (PDX OR)\, and Sub Rosa Projects (Greece). \nLIZ MILLER-KOVACS is a contemporary artist working in Los Angeles. Encompassing video\, performance\, photography and installation\, Miller-Kovacs’ work is eclectic both formally and in content. Her studio practice explores the relationship between commodity\, globalized society and the human condition. The conundrum of living in a time where our environment is becoming increasingly uninhabitable while society at large seems preoccupied with assimilating to meditated images has become a focal point in her work. Miller-Kovacs additionally examines the hypocrisy within her critique of the media and her own participation in the indulgent superficiality of commercial culture. Miller-Kovacs has exhibited her works and performed in major art centers and galleries around the North America\, Europe\, Asia and Australia. She is an Alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute where she completed her MFA in New Genres. More recently she completed a Visual Arts PhD at Sydney College of the Arts in Australia\, where she was awarded both the IPRS and IPA international scholarships for the duration of her research. \nMICAELA TOBIN is a soprano\, sound artist\, and teacher based in Los Angeles\, CA who specializes in contemporary opera and experimental voice\, composing under the moniker “White Boy Scream.” Within this project Micaela dissects her operatic singing style and extended vocal techniques through the use of electronics\, in an attempt to undermine patriarchal constructs of her classical training and reclaim the “diva.” She has performed extensively throughout the western United States\, most notably as a guest with hip-hop experimentalists clipping. during their 2017 tour in support of The Flaming Lips. Micaela’s most recent full length release\, “Remains” (Crystalline Morphologies) was listed as one of the top 10 Noise/Industrial Albums of 2018 by The Wire Magazine. \nCuration:\nLiz Miller-Kovacs \nProduction:\nMarcus Kuiland-Nazario \nProduction Manager:\nAbdiel López \nSpecial Thanks:\nHuman Resources\, Vardui Sharakpanyan\, Abdiel López URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/bitch-slap/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cat_attack.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T233000 DTSTAMP:20191016T011419Z CREATED:20190924T090904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T011419Z UID:4702-1571518800-1571527800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:somesurprises / Jessika Kenney / Jesse Quebbeman Turley DESCRIPTION:somesurprises (Seattle) / Jessika Kenney / Jesse Quebbeman Turley\nDoors 8pm\, Music 9pm\n$10-15 suggested donation\nAdvance tickets available here:\nhttps://withfriends.co/Event/2681113/somesurprises_Jessika_Kenney_Jesse_Quebbeman_Turley \nsomesurprises is the moniker of Seattle singer/songwriter Natasha El-Sergany. What once was a solo project focusing on spectral balladry and late night exploration\, somesurprises has since formed into a dynamic four-piece live band. Motorik beats\, reverb-drenched vocals\, washes of fingerpicked guitars\, and hazy synths expand El-Sergany’s delicate and blissful songwriting. \nStarting with a solo tape release of cell phone recordings on 2016’s Voice Memos\, El-Sergany then collaborated with guitarist Josh Medina (Debacle Records) for duo debut ambient album\, Serious Dreams\, released on Eiderdown Records in 2017. Serious Dreams was described by The Quietus as “a thoroughly cosmic outing. Everything is lush and smooth enough to describe as ambient music as much as folk\, almost seeming too dreamy to have ever been real.” The release also received kind reviews from Bandcamp\, The Stranger\, Seattle Weekly\, and Tiny Mixtapes. \nNext\, somesurprises took to recording as a full band with drummer Nico Sophiea (MX-80 Sound) and bassist Emma Danner (Red Ribbon)\, releasing Alt\, on LA’s Doom Trip Records in 2018. Aquarium Drunkard compared the three-song “krautpop” EP to an imaginary collaboration between Grouper and Spiritualized. In early 2019\, somesurprises put out a collaborative split tape with Seattle’s Supercandy (some candy\, released by Crash Symbols)\, with guest musicians Brenan Chambers\, Lori Goldston\, Monika Khot\, and Ambrosia Bardos weaving layers of soaring guitar effects\, cello\, vocals\, and trumpet into the mix. \nOver the years\, somesurprises has built a strong presence in the Seattle music scene\, and toured the west coast. In Seattle\, they have opened for touring artists such as Circuit Des Yeux\, Carla dal Forno\, A Place to Bury Strangers\, and the Cave Singers. This year finds somesurprises set to release their self-titled\, full-length LP on Drawing Room Records\, an exciting milestone for this aptly named\, shapeshifting project. \nsomesurprises.bandcamp.com \nJessika Kenney is a vocalist\, composer\, and teacher whose work extends the vocal traditions of Indonesian sindhenan and Persian radif into new realms by way of contemporary composition and improvisation. Internationally regarded for the elegiac timbral quality of her voice\, her practice of sphygmoresonance\, or resonance of pulse\, entails ritualistic focus and reverence for inner architecture that emanates a palpable sense of stillness. Kenney’s interest in the full spectrum experience of sound has led to collaboration with a wide range of experimentalists\, while her partnership with composer/violist Eyvind Kang has yielded five spellbinding albums of minimal\, delicate beauty. A student of radif with Ostad Hossein Omoumi\, Kenney’s music is timeless\, yet steeped in textual research\, respectful of its spiritual roots while invoking unknown futures. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/somesurprises-jessika-kenney-jesse-quebbeman-turley/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_3774-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T203000 DTSTAMP:20191009T193455Z CREATED:20191009T094328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T193455Z UID:4731-1571855400-1571862600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Protesting Seoul: Resistance in Precarious Times DESCRIPTION:  \nSpace is limited\, RSVP recommended  \nSeoul is a city of protest. On any given day\, one might see striking workers\, displaced residents\, evicted shopkeepers\, bereaved parents\, feminist\, queer and trans activists\, religious leaders\, politicians\, NGO activists and many others protesting defiantly on the streets. For those living in Korea and in the diaspora who follow political events from afar\, protest is a reliable weapon of the weak and a familiar form of civic participation. Protest images rarely make the English-speaking international press\, though\, except when protests mobilize millions\, like during the 2016-17 Candlelight Protests when millions gathered over 20 consecutive Saturdays in the historic centers of Seoul to demand the impeachment of former President Park Geun-Hye. This immersive lecture draws from long-term field research to go beyond the spectacle and presents some of the most remarkable stories\, sights\, sounds\, forms\, feelings\, and infrastructures of protest-making from below. The flourishing cultures of protest call into question the ongoing relations of power and inequality in Korea and highlight the urgency of resistance in precarious times. \n  \n  \n \nJennifer Jihye Chun is a labor sociologist and associate professor in Asian American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research explores the interconnected worlds of race\, class\, gender\, and migration through a comparative and critical ethnographic lens. She is the author of the award-winning book Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (Cornell University Press\, 2009) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on Asian immigrant women and community organizing; precarious work and labor unions; and gender\, migration\, and care work. Currently\, she is writing a book monograph on protest cultures in South Korea with Ju Hui Judy Han. \n \nJu Hui Judy Han is a cultural geographer and assistant professor in Gender Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her comics and writings about (im)mobilities\, faith-based movements\, and queer politics have been published in journals including Critical Asian Studies\, positions: asia critique\, and Journal of Korean Studies as well as in several edited books including Q&A: Queer in Asian America (1998)\, Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South (2015) and Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (2018). She is currently working on a book manuscript on queer temporalities and the political order in Korea and co-writing another on protest cultures with Jennifer Chun. \n\n  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/protesting-seoul-resistance-in-precarious-times/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/unnamed-2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T233000 DTSTAMP:20191009T191324Z CREATED:20191004T204130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T191324Z UID:4714-1572552000-1572564600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:410 Cottage Home DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 30th  8pm \nThursday\, October 31st   8pm \n\n\nInstallation by Jeff Zilla\n\n+ performances by Myriad Slits & Twin Schism\n\nJeff Zilla is music and performance art curator deeply invested in the queer and experimental scene of Los Angeles. Content creator across multiple platforms with expertise in podcasts\, djing and viral video creation. Known around the world for playful\, controversial and hilarious works of music and performance. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/410-cottage-home/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/unnamed-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T233000 DTSTAMP:20191031T181156Z CREATED:20191031T180845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T181156Z UID:4792-1572728400-1572737400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Gong Gaada • Glochids • lucky dragons DESCRIPTION:UPEND presents \nGong Gaada\nGlochids\nlucky dragons \ndonate eight\ndoors at nine \nat\nHuman Resources\n410 Cottage Home Street\n90012 \nGONG GAADA \nInspired by gamelan traditions as much as the contemporary experimental scenes of Indonesia\, Gong Gaada is a Los Angeles-based trio exploring a hyrbrid form of their own devise. Utilizing a couple reyong – the arrays of metal gongs used in Balinese gamelan – and suling – bamboo flute – and modular synthesizer\, the group lays out familiar and creative patterns and tones as a matrix for departure. The analog electronics pick up and process of the acoustic drama in real-time\, honing in on certain frequencies\, the modular output augmenting their sounds with new-found harmonics and psychedelic flitter. Groove intact\, noise rips and punctuates in step with the hypnotic rhythms of their struck metal attack. This fresh ensemble has performed just few times locally\, and this summer took their sound to the east coast\, including a performance in Vermont at Gong Brattleboro: Experiments in Gamelan. Gong Gaada is Matthew Clough-Hunter – Reyong and Suling\, Hirotaka Inuzuka – Reyong\, Cordey Lopez – Modular Synthesizer. \nGLOCHIDS \nGlochids is the aural ecology of Oakland-based artist James Roemer. Via sounds captured and made\, gently tugged and pulled\, Glochids intuits without regard for the lines between the organic and mechanic. This diaristic audiosphere draws from environmental recording\, concrète and electronic sounds\, paced with savvy edits and flow. In live settings\, the play table fills with selections from a cache of vernacular electronics and dead media. (On occasion – for example – the artist utilizes a magnetic stripe card reader to store simple samples and warble possibly imperfect playbacks.) Acoustic emanations are also in the cards\, as gamelan sounds have cameoed live and on record. Roemer’s affinity to the Indonesian form is subtle but evident in Glochids tonal and aesthetic predilections. A sonic lifer and veteran of the road\, Roemer continually experiments in the field. This year he resided and worked through the Austral Summer in Antartica\, followed by a musical tour of Indonesia\, bringing inspiration full circle into sound. Glochids has released on labels including Ascetic House\, Weird Ear\, and Phinery. \nlucky dragons \nFor this event lucky dragons will play spectral symmetries of soul. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/gong-gaada-%e2%80%a2-glochids-%e2%80%a2-lucky-dragons/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gongflyer_hr.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000 DTSTAMP:20191026T194104Z CREATED:20191026T194104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T194104Z UID:4788-1574280000-1574280000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Yann Novak\, Byron Westbrook\, Robert Crouch\, Ian Wellman DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles artists Yann Novak\, Robert Crouch and Ian Wellman return home from their west coast tour and are joined by Byron Westbrook. Yann Novak will present his new work Slowly Dismantling which reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America and explores these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation. Byron Westbrook will present the LA premiere of a new series of compositions for electronics using just intonation and custom tuning systems. Robert Crouch will perform new work inspired by poet Ted Berrigan\, that explores the tensions between collective listening and personal reflection. Ian Wellman will be performing segments from his latest offering\, Bioaccumulation\, and new material comprised of recordings made around Southern California\, Sierra Nevada\, and Lake Azeui\, Haiti. \nYann Novak is a queer interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Los Angeles. His work is guided by his interests in perception\, context\, movement\, and the felt presence of direct experience. Through the use of sound and light\, Novak explores how these intangible materials can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on our present location in space and time. Novak’s diverse body of works—audiovisual installations\, performances\, recording\, and prints—ask participants to reclaim the present moment as a political act. His work has been experienced through exhibitions and performance at AB Salon\, Brussels; Armory Center for the Arts\, Pasadena\, California; The Broad\, Los Angeles; Commonwealth & Council\, Los Angeles; Danspace\, New York; de Young Museum\, San Francisco; Fylkingen\, Stockholm; The Getty Villa\, Pacific Palisades\, California; Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; The Henry Art Gallery\, Seattle; Human Resources\, Los Angeles; Iklectik\, London; Institute of Modern Art\, Brisbane; LACMA\, Los Angeles; Mutek Festival\, Montreal; Norton Simon Museum\, Pasadena\, California; SFMoMA\, San Francisco; Soundfjord\, London; and The Stone\, New York\, among others.His works have been released by 901 Editions\, Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, LINE\, Room40\, and Touch\, among others.\nhttps://www.yannnovak.com \nByron Westbrook is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles\, CA. He has been performing and showing experimental sound work internationally since 2008. His work focuses on dynamics of perception using sound\, lighting and video to interact with architecture and landscape\, often pursuing routes that involve social engagement. He holds an MFA from the Bard College\, where he studied with Marina Rosenfeld\, Marcus Schmickler and David Behrman. His work has been presented at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)\, ICA London\, Cafe OTO (London)\, MoMA PS1\, Fridman Gallery\, Abrons Arts Center\, Pioneer Works\, Experimental Intermedia Foundation (NY)\, MaerzMusik Festival (Berlin)\, Human Resources (Los Angeles)\, Disjecta (Portland\, OR)\, Instants Chavires Art Space (Paris)\, Fylkingen (Stockholm)\, the LAB (San Francisco)\, O’ (Milan)\, Suoni Popolo\, Akousma Festival (Montreal) among many others. He has recordings with Root Strata\, Umor Rex\, Hands in the Dark and Sedimental Records. Westbrook has been in residence at Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, Banff Centre for the Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Clocktower Gallery\, Diapason Gallery\, Wassaic Project and EMS Stockholm. He is currently Visiting Faculty with Pratt Institute Fine Arts Dept and International Center of Photography.\nhttps://www.byronwestbrook.com \nRobert Crouch is an artist and curator whose work encompasses sound\, performance\, and technology. As an artist\, he locates his work with the intersection of post-phenomenological listening practices\, conceptual sound art\, and contemporary electronic music. At its core\, his work can be understood as a conversation between tonality\, context\, history and subjectivities. Similarly\, Crouch’s curatorial work focuses on the overlapping disciplines of sound\, technology\, movement\, and performance. Crouch is currently the Executive and Artistic Director for Fulcrum Arts and the Artistic Director for the A×S Festival. His works have been published by Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, LINE\, and Touch\, among others.\nhttps://www.robertcrouch.com \nTaking influence from ethnographic film\, bioacoustics\, and noise music\, Ian Wellman merges real and imagined worlds to create consuming acoustic portraits. His work is created from single tape loops\, effect pedals\, and field recordings\, often focusing on themes based on the environmental collapse. Wellman’s solo efforts have been released on Room 40\, Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, Touch Radio\, and Industrial Coast. Along with Aaron Bartell\, he is part of the collaborative listening duo Zzyzxzyzz\, which focuses on electromagnetic and other inaudible by ear sound worlds. Ian is an IATSE 695 production sound mixer for film/video by trade. Ian Wellman works and resides in Los Angeles\, CA.\nhttps://ianwellman.com URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/yann-novak-byron-westbrook-robert-crouch-ian-wellman/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191130T190000 DTSTAMP:20200615T225107Z CREATED:20191123T081316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200615T225107Z UID:4841-1575129600-1575140400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Living in the Age of Uncertainty and the Pending Climate Crisis DESCRIPTION:Please join us in conversation with Catherine Malabou\, Kenric McDowell\, Jaden Adams\, Christine Meinders and Matthew Donovan to discuss new forms of life that enable the acceleration of climate change\, how the political landscape is mediated by the climate crisis\, and foundational anthropocentric assumptions in technology paradigms and recent attempts to expand design thinking to include non-humans along with their implications for culture at large. \nThis discussion is a part of Ecology of the Edge\, on view November 29th-December 8th. \n__________ \nAbout the speakers: \nCatherine Malabou is a French philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University\, at the European Graduate School\, and in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine\, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting figures in what has been called “The New French Philosophy\,” Malabou’s research and writing covers a range of figures and issues\, including the work of Hegel\, Freud\, Heidegger\, and Derrida; the relationship between philosophy\, neuroscience\, and psychoanalysis; and concepts of essence and difference within feminism. \nKenric McDowell has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for over twenty years. Kenric co-leads the Artist + Machine Intelligence program at Google Arts & Culture\, where he facilitates collaboration between artificial intelligence researchers\, artists\, and cultural institutions. Kenric is a regular conference speaker and consultant to think tanks and arts organizations\, helping groups connect artistic practice and technology production with larger traditions of human understanding. \nJaden Adams (aka Jason Adams) is Co-Director of The New Centre for Research & Practice and a former Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College and has been teaching classes and seminars in the arts\, media\, and social sciences for over a decade. Following the publication of his book Occupy Time: Technoculture\, Immediacy\, & Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013)\, and his co-edited Deleuze & Race (Edinburgh University Press\, 2013)\, he is presently revising the final manuscript for his second authored book Virtual Virilio: Speed\, Politics\, Potentiality (Under Review\, 2018). Adams has been an invited speaker on political theory\, technoculture\, media theory\, and political culture\, at a range of universities\, research institutions\, and art galleries around the world. \nChristine Meinders is an emerging technologies designer who uses collaborative design approaches to create AI design tools and develop community-driven\, social AI projects\, from a cultural perspective. She is the founder of the community AI research and design group\, Feminist.AI\, which utilizes participatory approaches to co-create AI projects. \nMatthew Donovan(aka Teaadora) is the co-founder of The Future Left and a Fellow at Organizing For Action in Los Angeles. Within the leadership roles of these organizations\, Matthew has lead international reading-and-working activist groups\, organized educational events on LA-metro area politics with activists and politicians\, as well as co-organized Noise Against Sexual Assault\, a cultural event working to educate artists about sexual assault in the music industry. Currently\, they are pursuing a Certificate in Transdisciplinary Studies from The New Centre For Research & Practice\, articulating alternative activist and queer futures. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/living-in-the-age-of-uncertainty-and-the-pending-climate-crisis/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ecology-Speakers-copy.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T200000 DTSTAMP:20191210T225028Z CREATED:20191210T224953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T225028Z UID:4876-1576872000-1576872000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:JIJI | YOU (流) | flow | music for electric guitar DESCRIPTION:JIJI tells two stories: One\, spinning Gulli Bjornsson’s story of capsizing and falling into the ocean\, being tossed around in the waves as night approaches\, and waves of sound consume the listener. Bjornsson’s dimmar oldur risa is inspired by an ancient Icelandic poem by Jónas Hallgrímsson. And secondly\, her own piece Kintsukuo\, after the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold\, silver\, or platinum. She wrote the piece in 2016 a heartbreaking year for her. “I had massive anxiety that I was going to be kicked out of the country because of some orange guy. It also felt like the world was going to end. I lost a few friendships- things were changing and I felt broken. I wrote this piece in order to pick myself up—to heal and repair.” \nAbout Jiji\, Curator / Performer \nApplauded by the Calgary Herald as “…talented\, sensitive…brilliant\,” JIJI is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar\, playing a wide range of music from traditional and contemporary classical to free improvisation. A passionate advocate of new music\, JIJI has premiered works by composers such as Paul Lansky\, Joao Luiz\, Molly Joyce\, Krists Auznieks\, Gulli Björnsson and Evan Chapman. In addition; she is the dedicatee of three new guitar concertos by Natalie Diettrich\, Hillary Purrington and Kristz Ausnieks. She is sponsored by D’Addario Strings and Guitarlift. She currently is the head of the guitar department at Arizona State University. In her free time\, she likes to cook and make weird sounds on ableton. \n \nAbout Wild Up’s darkness sounding series: \nWhat is it about the end of the year? It’s dark already\, our clocks have jumped. And even in LA nights seem to overtake the days. Pagan and sacred holidays abound: rituals collecting themselves around the darkness. We’re hungry for something new\, for something wrapped and warm\, yet we search for a newness unbounded by the trappings of the past. In December 2019 and January 2020 Wild Up embarks on a new venture\, a series set against the darkest days of the year. We make mindful\, joyful and maybe melancholic music\, endeavoring to drone sounds of the earth. The sounds of community being drawn together in contemplation. \ndarkness sounding is made possible through generous support from Ruth Gilliland and Arthur Rieman\, and Bill Anawalt. \nAbout Wild Up \nCalled “a raucous\, grungy\, irresistibly exuberant … fun-loving\, exceptionally virtuosic family” by Zachary Woolfe of the New York Times\, Wild Up has been lauded as one of classical music’s most exciting groups by virtually every significant institution and critic within earshot. Artistic Director Christopher Rountree started the group in 2010 with a vision of a group of young musicians that rejected outdated traditions and threw classical repertoire into the context of pop culture\, new music\, and performance art. \nIn 2019 – 2020\, the group celebrates 10 years of bringing people together around the belief that no music is off limits\, that classical music concerts can defy convention and address the need for heart-wrenching\, mind-bending experiences. \nOver the past decade the group: accompanied Björk at Goldenvoice’s FYF Fest; premiered David Lang and Mark Dion’s “anatomy theater” at LA Opera; played the scores to “Under the Skin” by Mica Levi and “Punch Drunk Love” by Jon Brion live with the films at L.A.’s Regent Theater and Ace Hotel; premiered a new opera by Julia Holter at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust; premiered a new work of avant-pop icon Scott Walker and celestial loop-maker Juliana Barwick at Walt Disney Concert Hall; played a noise concert as a fanfare for the groundbreaking of Frank Gehry’s new building on Grand Avenue and First Street in downtown L.A.; was nominated for a Grammy for their 2019 Chris Cerrone portrait “The Pieces That Fall to Earth; and held performance and educational residencies at the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, the Colburn School\, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra\, National Sawdust\, University of North Carolina\, and the Hammer Museum\, among others. \nadvance tickets available here URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jiji-you-%e6%b5%81-flow-music-for-electric-guitar/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DSCF9087-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191222T070000 DTSTAMP:20191219T231408Z CREATED:20191219T231408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T231408Z UID:4897-1576944000-1576998000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Wild Up | darkness sounding | solstice sounding | dusk til dawn DESCRIPTION:Description\n\n\n\nWe play drones in the dark from sundown to sun-up\, during longest night of the year. \nThe cast of performer-composers includes: trombonist Matt Barbier\, cellists Derek Stein and Tal Katz\, poet Mandy Kahn\, guitarist Chris Kallmyer\, violinist Andrew Tholl\, guitarist Jiji\, vocalists Catherine Brookman and Kathryn Shuman\, guitarist Seth Olinsky\, saxophonist Marta Tiesenga\, Lucky Dragons and oscillatorist Lewis Pesacov. \nNOTE on blankets and sleeping bags: please bring blankets\, sleeping bags\, coats\, pillows\, other cozy outfit stuff. It’s a cold space\, which we’ll be working hard to heat up. You’re welcome to stay all night\, and to sleep over etc. \nAbout Chris Rountree\, Curator / Performer \nWe see Lady Macbeth in a dozen crooning silhouettes washing blood out of rags over bright porcelain sinks; see dozens of watermelons fly off of Disney Hall; listen to three minutes of “Le nozze” for twelve hours; and hear the sound of rose-petal jam making as music. Conductor and composer Christopher Rountree\, is standing at the intersection of classical music\, new music\, performance art and pop. Regarded as one of the most iconoclastic conductors in the field\, Rountree’s inimitable style has led to collaborations with: Björk\, John Adams\, Yoko Ono\, David Lang\, Scott Walker\, La Monte Young\, Esa-Pekka Salonen\, Mica Levi\, Alison Knowles\, Sigourney Weaver\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, L’Rain\, Caroline Shaw\, Saul Williams\, Ryoji Ikeda\, Du Yun\, and many of the planet’s greatest orchestras and ensembles including: the San Francisco Symphony\, Chicago Symphony\, Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Opera national de Paris\, the Washington National Opera\, Los Angeles Opera\, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Rountree is the artistic director and conductor of Wild Up\, the ensemble he founded in 2010\, and artistic director of an interdisciplinary ambient series in an oak grove in LA\, called SILENCE. for more about Chris \nAbout darkness sounding \nWhat is it about the end of the year? It’s dark already\, our clocks have jumped. And even in LA nights seem to overtake the days. Pagan and sacred holidays abound: rituals collecting themselves around the darkness. We’re hungry for something new\, for something wrapped and warm\, yet we search for a newness unbounded by the trappings of the past. In December 2019 and January 2020 Wild Up embarks on a new venture\, a series set against the darkest days of the year. We make mindful\, joyful and maybe melancholic music\, endeavoring to drone sounds of the earth. The sounds of community being drawn together in contemplation. \ndarkness sounding is made possible through generous support from Ruth Gilliland and Arthur Rieman\, and Bill Anawalt. \nAbout Wild Up \nCalled “a raucous\, grungy\, irresistibly exuberant … fun-loving\, exceptionally virtuosic family” by Zachary Woolfe of the New York Times\, Wild Up has been lauded as one of classical music’s most exciting groups by virtually every significant institution and critic within earshot. Artistic Director Christopher Rountree started the group in 2010 with a vision of a group of young musicians that rejected outdated traditions and threw classical repertoire into the context of pop culture\, new music\, and performance art. \nIn 2019 – 2020\, the group celebrates 10 years of bringing people together around the belief that no music is off limits\, that classical music concerts can defy convention and address the need for heart-wrenching\, mind-bending experiences. \nOver the past decade the group: accompanied Björk at Goldenvoice’s FYF Fest; premiered David Lang and Mark Dion’s “anatomy theater” at LA Opera; played the scores to “Under the Skin” by Mica Levi and “Punch Drunk Love” by Jon Brion live with the films at L.A.’s Regent Theater and Ace Hotel; premiered a new opera by Julia Holter at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust; premiered a new work of avant-pop icon Scott Walker and celestial loop-maker Juliana Barwick at Walt Disney Concert Hall; played a noise concert as a fanfare for the groundbreaking of Frank Gehry’s new building on Grand Avenue and First Street in downtown L.A.; was nominated for a Grammy for their 2019 Chris Cerrone portrait “The Pieces That Fall to Earth; and held performance and educational residencies at the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, the Colburn School\, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra\, National Sawdust\, University of North Carolina\, and the Hammer Museum\, among others. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/wild-up-darkness-sounding-solstice-sounding-dusk-til-dawn/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-19-at-3.06.27-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200102T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200102T230000 DTSTAMP:20200101T012339Z CREATED:20191219T220945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200101T012339Z UID:4893-1577995200-1578006000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:ptxs launch/listening event DESCRIPTION:– private event to launch limited edition zine by ptxs: jovan\, gabriela ruiz\, vine a incendiar este lugar\, dorian wood \n– sound composition by ptxs \n– separate sex positive space \n21+ only \nrsvp only URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/ptxs-launch-listening-event/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ptxs_flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T200000 DTSTAMP:20200106T205020Z CREATED:20191230T041446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T205020Z UID:4907-1578772800-1578772800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Xina Xurner / M Lamar / Johanna Hedva / Pauline Lay + Gabie Strong DESCRIPTION:Xina Xurner\nM Lamar\nJohanna Hedva\nPauline Lay + Gabie Strong \ndoors at 8\, sound at 9\n$7 suggested donation\, no-one turned away for lack of funds.\nadvance tickets available here \n\nXina Xurner​ is an experimental music/performance collaboration between Marvin Astorga And Young Joon Kwak\, whose cathartic performances combine DIY and power electronics\, mutated vocals\, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies. Their music combines a variety of genres (including happy hardcore\, industrial\, drone metal\, and techno)\, in order to create sadical and sexperimental noise-diva-dance anthems that evoke a sense of transformation\, rebirth\, and renewal. Xina Xurner released their debut album “DIE” in 2012 and their follow-up\, “Queens of the Night\,” was released in April 2018. Xina Xurner will make you sweat.\nhttps://xinaxurner.com/\nPhoto by Christopher Richmond \n\nM. Lamar is a composer who works across opera\, metal\, performance\, video\, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical becomings. Lamar holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Yale School of Art\, sculpture program\, before dropping out to pursue music. Lamar’s work has been presented internationally\, most recently at The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art\, Funkhaus Berlin Germany\, Kunstgebäude Stuttgart\, The Meet Factory in Prague\, National Sawdust New York\, The Kitchen New York\, MoMa PS1’s Greater New York\, among others.\nPhoto by Johnny Q \n\nJohanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer\, artist\, musician\, and astrologer\, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches\, and now lives in LA and Berlin. They are the author of the novel\, On Hell (2018\, Sator Press) and their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy\, The White Review\, and Black Warrior Review. Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London\, Performance Space New York\, the LA Architecture and Design Museum\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Their album The Sun and the Moon was released in March 2019. Since 2018\, they’ve been touring Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House\, a drone metal guitar and voice performance influenced by Korean shamanist ritual.\nhttp://johannahedva.com/\nhttps://bighedva.bandcamp.com/\nPhoto by Mengwen Cao \n\nGabie Strong is interdisciplinary\, conceptual artist exploring sonic constructions of drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of feminist meaning. She uses the guitar in acoustically violent ways to create noise as both an exploration of bodily listening and as a critique of femininity.\nhttp://gabiestrong.com/ \n\nPauline Lay\nviolin and electronics\nhttp://paulinelay.com/ URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/xina-xurner-m-lamar-johanna-hedva-pauline-lay-gabie-strong/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HR_sm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T163000 DTSTAMP:20200124T082153Z CREATED:20200118T204059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T082153Z UID:4975-1580049000-1580056200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:EDGE: A Session on Pornography DESCRIPTION:Event\, 2:30-4:30\, conversation from 3-4pm \nSublevel Magazine invites you to join in Session— a Live Cam conversation with Johanna Fateman\, Lorelei Lee\, and Tiana Reid. Their respective work lies at the intersections of sex-feminism\, labor and pleasure\, the legal dimensions of pornography and prostitution\, politics of representation\, archival research\, and queer potentialities. This conversation will be recorded and published in the upcoming EDGE issue of the magazine. \nEDGE: The Pornography Issue\, will launch in March 2020 and considers what constitutes the pornographic today. How do we conceive of pornography as a material form? An affective register? Where do conversations on the pornographic figure into contemporary gender politics? Edging is a question of mediation between the virtual and the real\, so come cam with us! \nSpeaker Bios: \nJohanna Fateman is a writer\, art critic\, and owner of Seagull salon in New York. She writes art reviews regularly for The New Yorker and 4Columns\, and she is a contributing editor at Artforum. She is a 2019 Creative Capital awardee and currently at work on a novel. \nLorelei Lee is a writer\, sex worker\, and community organizer. She serves on the steering committee of Red Canary Song and is a researcher and policy analyst with Hacking Hustling. \nTiana Reid is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her writing has been published in or on Art in America\, Bookforum\, The Paris Review\, T Magazine\, Vice\, Vulture\, and elsewhere. She is also an editor at The New Inquiry and Pinko. \nAbout the Magazine: \nSublevel Magazine is an online literary magazine devoted to the nexus of literature\, poetry\, art\, criticism\, philosophy\, culture\, and politics. Based in the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies—an innovative and interdisciplinary environment dedicated to the experimental impulse in writing and thinking—Sublevel is a literary publication immersed in the world of art without being in service to it. We make no hard distinctions between creative and critical enterprise\, instead celebrating writing of any kind that we find stimulating\, timely\, or otherwise compelling. Each academic calendar year\, we publish eight features comprised of original essays\, interviews\, roundtables\, poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction works on a theme. We also publish an annual limited-edition print component\, the Sublevel B-sides\, which reflects the content of the online magazine and questions the need for print in the digital era. Sublevel Magazine was founded by Janice Lee and Maggie Nelson in 2017. \nLauren Mackler is its Managing Editor.\nSabrina Tarasoff is its Assistant Managing editor. \nThe editors of the EDGE issue are Rose Sheela\, Allison Smith\, Daniel Spielberger\, Sarah Stockton\, Misael J. Oquendo\, Jayne Pugh\, Sofia Benitez Villanueva. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/edge-a-session-on-pornography/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T193000 DTSTAMP:20200117T213334Z CREATED:20200117T212126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200117T213334Z UID:4966-1580067000-1580067000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Rite Nite DESCRIPTION:Rite Nite brings together three LA-based artists using solo voices to re-describe ritual. \nAlphabet Of Wrongdoing\nOdeya Nini\nFrancine Thirteen \n\nAlphabet of Wrongdoing is the newest musical project from Snowblink’s Daniela Gesundheit\, exploring ceremonial Jewish prayer songs and blessings that encircle themes of reckoning\, forgiveness\, mortality\, striving\, and atonement\, reimagined for secular audiences and secular spaces. The texts and melodies are traditional and ancient; the context and arrangements are subversive and impressionistic. This performance acts as a communal investigation of gestures of forgiveness—in the words of poet Alan Felsenthal\, an attempt to “restore dignity to experience through music.” \n  \n\nFrancine Thirteen landed from Venus in Dallas\, TX\, where she began her earthly life. She is a proud Libra/Scorpio who creates in a genre/aesthetic she calls ‘Ritual Pop’. Her current project is entitled ‘Psalms for The Queen of Heaven’. Part music and art exhibition\, the work is deeply connected to the concept of the body as both a physical and etheric space; an energy center to conjure many things. Performances of the work include her handwoven textile art worn as jewelry and played as instruments. \n  \n\nOdeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interest is performance practices\, textural harmony\, gesture\, tonal animation\, and the illumination of minute sounds\, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Her solo vocal work extends the dimension and expression of the voice and body\, creating a sonic and physical panorama of silence to noise and tenderness to grandeur. \n@alphabetofwrongdoing\n@thirteenthevenusian\n@OdeyaNini \nadvance tickets available here. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/rite-nite/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/unnamed-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T000000 DTSTAMP:20200206T223846Z CREATED:20200206T222851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200206T223846Z UID:4995-1581796800-1581811200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Feldman and Frey performed by The Koan Quartet with Katie Porter DESCRIPTION:Performance: 8pm\n$15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeldman and Frey performed by The Koan Quartet with Katie Porter\n\n\nJürg Frey; Quintet\, Clarinet and String Quartet\nMorton Feldman; Clarinet and String Quartet\n\n\n\n\nEric KM Clark & Orin Hildestad\, violins\nCassia Streb\, viola\nJennifer Bewerse\, cello\nKatie Porter\, clarinet\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuintet\, Clarinet and String Quartet\nJürg Frey\, b.1953\, Swiss\n\n\n“Silence requires one decision – sound or no sound. Sound requires a great many more decisions. These shape the sound and give it its quality\, feeling and its content. Thus silence\, in its comprehensive\, monolithic presence always stands as one against an infinite number of sounds or sound forms. Both stamp time and space\, in that they come into appearance\, in an existential sense. Together they comprise the entire complexity of life.”\nJürg Frey\, from The Architecture of Silence\n\n\nClarinet and String Quartet\nMorton Feldman\, 1926-1987\, American\n\n\nTowards the latter part of his life\, Feldman became increasingly interested in the patterns of Coptic Rugs as an influence on his music. There is a phenomena in rug making called abrash where there is a natural color variation due to the use of vegetable-based inks made in small batches. Feldman explores his fixation on abrash through the imperfect stillness designed in Clarinet and String Quartet. Patterns and shapes appear and are repeated with minuscule differences in strict\, grid-like scoring. The musicians see slow\, abstract rhythms fit into various stretched durations\, repeated sometimes four to five times. Feldman designs these complex musical patterns to naturally vary from one another to avoid the music sounding “too perfect.” As listeners\, the result is peaceful\, ominous\, introspective\, and unsettling; distant passing storm clouds. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/feldman-and-frey-performed-by-the-koan-quartet-with-katie-porter/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/feldmanfrey.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T210000 DTSTAMP:20200227T175808Z CREATED:20200112T210512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200227T175808Z UID:4938-1583002800-1583010000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Lanzamiento en Los Angeles de "Slow Down Fast\, A Toda Raja" por Cecilia Vicuña y Camila Marambio / Book Launch of "Slow Down Fast\, A Toda Raja" by Cecilia Vicuña and Camila Marambio DESCRIPTION:  \nANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO UNEXPECTED SICKNESS CECILIA WON’T BE ABLE TO BE THERE ON SATURDAY. \nCAMILA MARAMBIO AND CLARA LOPEZ MENENDEZ WILL HOST THE BOOK LAUNCH AND CHANNEL CECILIA IN A POETIC READING. EVENT STILL ON!! COME!! \nSaturday February 29\, 2020\n7 – 9 pm \nReading will start at 7:30pm\nEnglish and Spanish \nHuman Resources is pleased to present the book launch of “Slow Down Fast\, A Toda Raja.” In this slim publication two indigenous mestizas from Chile\, Camila Marambio\, curator\, and Cecilia Vicuña\, artist-poet\, engage in a translational\, intergenerational dialog on de-colonial\, non-sexist perceptions and experiences in sessions conducted in Santiago\, New York and Melbourne Australia\, where they live. \n“This is a book of the female giggling that terrifies men” \n                                                                               James O’Hern\, poet. \n“We propose to slow down fast\, a toda raja\, before it is too late\, before the nauseating speeding up of (our) destructiveness kills us all. We can perform it daily and slowly awareness that others are be doing it too will come. \nTune into the Raja\, the slit\, the opening\, the tear between your legs—to take its pulse. Slip out of time and slide into the cosmic current. Wiggle loose from the grip of the worldview based on monetary currency and swim the laps of what we really are. \nTo slow down as a symbolic/active gesture is to bring back the notion of paradise on earth. Paraíso (para-iso)\, paradise\, is to stop and lift the soul.” \n¿Qué se construye con un detenimiento y una elevación? \nEl paraíso\n              Adivinanzas\, 1966\nCecilia Vicuña \nWhat place skirts hazard and is worth the gamble? \nParadise\n Riddles\, 1966\nCecilia Vicuña \n                                (Translated by Rosa Alcalá) \n  \nthis event is organized by Clara López Menéndez with the support of Calarts and the Herb Alpert Award \n  \nCecilia Vicuña’s work has addressed ecological destruction\, human rights\, and cultural homogenization\, since her first poems and paintings\, made in Chile during the 1960s. Her performances and installations\, such as the Quipu (created in nature\, streets\, and in museums)\, combine ritual and assemblage elements in a practice that Vicuña calls lo precario (precariousness): transformative acts that bridge art and life\, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her paintings\, poetry\, and Palabrarmas (prints and collages that create new meanings by decomposing signifiers in words) all propose a free and futuristic vision considered pioneering indigenous decolonization. Her work can be found in the collections of museums such as the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York\, the Tate Modern\, London\, MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago\, Chile. Her first retrospective exhibition\, Veroir el Fracaso Iluminado/Seehearing the Enlightened Failure\, organized by the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam\, the Netherlands\, opened on May 26 th\, 2019. \n  \nCamila Marambio/ Bio according to Goldin+Senneby \nShe is 68% Southern European\, 10% Native American and 0.2% Scandinavian according to 23&me. \nShe was part of a magic circle according to Juan Esteban Varela. \nShe set up a laboratory for making time according to visitors at the IMA in Brisbane. \nShe has developed a method to communicate with beavers according to a peer-reviewed science journal. \nShe has stolen part of an artwork at Moderna museet in Stockholm according to an anonymous source. \nShe flatlined twice according to doctors. But is still alive according to multiple sources. \nShe is developing an ecology of the soul according to Cecilia Vicuña. \nShe is queering cancer according to Nina Lykke. \nShe is a character in the novel Headless according to her own account. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/lanzamiento-en-los-angeles-de-slow-down-fast-a-toda-raja-por-cecilia-vicuna-y-camila-marambio-book-launch-of-slow-down-fast-a-toda-raja-by-cecilia-vicuna-and-camila-marambio/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Camila-y-Cecilia.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200316 DTSTAMP:20200313T165806Z CREATED:20200226T055513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T165806Z UID:5064-1584165600-1584251999@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Varese Group screening / Marcia Bassett - Social Entropy DESCRIPTION:Left:  Varese Group\, film still\, Ten Minutes in Binio\, 2019  /  Right: Marcia Bassett\, photo credit – Jennifer Braun\nCANCELLED: Screening on Saturday March 14 \nIn place of the one-time screening by Varese Group\, Ten Minutes in Binio will be screened throughout the gallery hours (11am-5pm) followed by a video and a quadraphonic sound installation by Marcia Bassett\, and Skype sessions conducted by Alison O Daniel. \nVarese Group‘s Ten Minutes in Binio is a series ten 1-minute videos taken by members of the group when they met last year in Northern Italy. This is the third iteration of a project organized by Sasha Portis. Each year all are invited to contribute a video that will be screened on the last day of Varese Group\, with the following parameters: one minute in length\, a single shot\, static (no moving or zooming)\, and no editing. The clips capture day-to-day experiences as members respond to their temporary environment.\nwww.varese.group \nMarcia Bassett‘s Social Entropy Extended – has been converted from a live performance to a quadraphonic sound installation. Transformed voice and collaged sounds taken from environmental\, natural and electronic sources will be manipulated and extended in a series of sound events. Bassett invited six women to contribute voice responses to the theme of Social Entropy. These voices along with a collection of sounds that capture day-to-day moments and personal experiences submitted by the other Social Residency participants and Bassett were worked into the quadrophonic piece that is presented here as an installation. The live performance will extend that process to a durational length that is meant to be observed and experienced as a social gathering where one may choose freely to converse\, observe and move within the performance space as slowly evolving waveform transformations and isolated sound capsules reveal themselves. The live event will embrace social interaction\, ritual gestures and serendipitous configurations that take place through extended time intervals. Bassett is very grateful for the response from the six women who contributed voice to this project: Bridget Hayden\, Áine O’Dwyer\, Crystal Penalosa\, Ursula Scherrer\, Jenny Graf Sheppard\, and Eva Sidén.\nhttp://www.marciabassett.org/ URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/varese-group-screening-marcia-bassett-social-entropy/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SatMarch14_varese_bassett.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200317 DTSTAMP:20200313T173902Z CREATED:20200227T015500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T173902Z UID:5055-1584252000-1584338399@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Kathleen Kim - Social Slur (remote participation) DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 15\, 2020\nAs part of the Social Residency exhibition\, untune is proud to welcome an event organized and presented by Kathleen Kim: a public forum is re-cast here as a small workshop conducted via zoom. \n4-6pm Group Dialogue and Open Jam (email info at humanresourcesla dot com to join us via Zoom)\n8-10pm Live Improv Performance with Wynne Bennett\, Guillermo Brown\, Kelly Coats\, Orlando Greenhill and Kathleen Kim \n\n4-6pm Group Dialogue and Open Jam\n \nKathleen Kim adds Social Slur to Untune’s Social Residency. The term arose in conversation with Helga Fassonaki\, the creator of Social Residency. At the time\, Kathleen considered the term a playful albeit literal alliteration. The ambiguous connotation of slur also seemed broad enough to include the group dialogue on social justice themes blurred with music improvisation\, that Kathleen contemplated. Later conversations with Helga invoked the multiple meanings of “slur\,” from music symbol\, inebriated speech\, to racial epithet. A new friend\, Jennifer Whitson\, social psychologist and professor at UCLA\, studies power and control in social regulation and the use and recasting of slurs within marginalized groups. We hope she and you join the conversation and explore remote connection with us. Bring your ideas and instruments! (A few instruments will be made available for use by attendees.) \nCancelled: 8-10pm Live Improv Performance\n \nSocial Slur ends with a capstone performance by Los Angeles music luminaries Wynne Bennett\, Guillermo Brown\, Kelly Coats\, Orlando Greenhill and Kathleen Kim in a first-time combo. \nWynne Bennett is a virtuoso on keys as well as music composer and producer for Twin Shadow\, Janelle Monae and many others. Legendary drummer Guillermo Brown has worked with Reggie Watts\, William Parker\, and David Ware\, to name a few\, and is also vocalist\, writer and producer for his project Pegasus Warning. \nOrlando Greenhill\, a master of contrabass and electric bass\, is a prolific artist whose discography is so wide ranging it is genre bending and too long to summarize. \nFlutist Kelly Coats incorporates voice and effects in her sublime solo music and with groups LA Fog\, SheKhan\, Doctor 9 and Mi Grupo Favorito. \nKathleen Kim is a violinist and experimental composer who plays and records solo and with groups LA Fog and SheKhan. Kelly and Kathleen are longtime collaborators whose music has been featured at the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale among others. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/kathleen-kim-social-slur/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/13th-A-and-Racial-Justice-Conference-Chicago-Kent-2019-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T230000 DTSTAMP:20200327T054309Z CREATED:20200305T020006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T054309Z UID:5087-1584644400-1584658800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Khal Launch - Performances (cancelled/postponed) DESCRIPTION:image credit: video still from Angel Chirside’s performance of score “Hypocrisy”\, videotaped by Paula Booker\, 2015\n\nThis event is postponed until further notice. \n7pm – Doors/Launch Preview (gallery will also be open from 11am – 5pm)\n8pm – Performances \nSwing State (Angel Chirnside and Helga Fassonaki) will perform Khal score Hypocrisy\nJessika Kenney will perform Khal score Outside In\nWhite Magic (Mira Billotte) with Kathleen Kim on violin will perform Khal score Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum\nPauline Lay and Ang Frances Wilson will perform Khal score Armour  \n \nSwing State’s brazen punk-jazz intention emerged in the lull of summer 2010\, somewhere between a pink beginning and a meditative ending. Over the past decade the notions have only accumulated. Angel Chirnside\, the original recipient of the Khal score “Hypocrisy”\, presented Swing State with an opportunity to reinterpret the score and rehearse live as duo for the first time. \nJessika Kenney is an award-winning vocalist\, composer\, sound artist\, and teacher\, working for the last 25 years in realms of the subtle melody\, with attention to the physicality of sound\, translation processes\, and perceptions of context. Kenney’s music can be heard on Ideologic Organ\, Black Truffle\, Weyrd Son\, SIGE\, and bandcamp. She has performed her own compositions and those of many colleagues\, as well as music of Annea Lockwood\, Hossein Omoumi\, Morton Feldman\, Simone Forti\, Giacinto Scelsi\,  Jarrad Powell\, Trimpin\, Nartosabhdo\, and many others\, informed by the atmospheres and techniques absorbed through the practice of Javanese sindhenan and Persian radifs. Kenney’s ongoing collaborations with Eyvind Kang have been described as “serious\, refined music” by the New York Times. Her involvements in noise\, metal\, electronic music and minimalism include work with Lori Goldston\, Wolves in the Throne Room\, ASVA\, Alvin Lucier\, and on the Sun City Girls last record. Her 2015 gamelan-based LP “ATRIA” was released by the avant-metal SIGE label\, alongside a large-scale\, site-specific and interactive sound\, calligraphic score\, sculpture\, and video installation filling five rooms at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Kenney taught from 2007-2015 at her alma mater Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She studied sindhenan with Hajjah Nyi Supadmi in Central Java from 1997-2000\, Tembang Sunda with Hajjah Ibu Euis Komariah in 2009\, and since 2004 studies radifs with Ostad Hossein Omoumi (UC Irvine) \, with whom she recorded ‘Voices of Spring’ 2007. Kenney received the James Ray Distinguished Artist Award in 2014\, as well as the Stranger Genius Award in 2013 and the Korean American Coalition of Washington Artistic Achievement Award with Eyvind Kang in 2014\, and the Lionel Hampton Festival Best Jazz Vocalist Award in 1992. Kenney is a VoiceArts adjunct faculty member at California Institute of the Arts since 2017. \nWhite Magic is artist\, vocalist\, and composer Mira Billotte\, performing with accompaniment or solo\, the sound ranges from psychedelia to meditative\, drifting from traditional to experimental folk\, a soulful\, mystic music.  Billotte’s composition for Hum\, Hum\, Hum\, Hum\, Hum involves a meditative improv to open the textural landscape of cycling sound \nPauline Lay is an instrumentalist\, composer\, and events organizer in Los Angeles. Apart from her solo improvised violin and electronics performances\, she currently performs and collaborates with other musicians in varying iterations and genres from duets to larger ensembles.\nAngela Frances Wilson is a Los Angeles born composer\, with a practice built at the intersection of healing art\, and improvisational music. Using modern digital and analog mediums\, they investigate modes of perception\, and the impact of hybrid space. \nUsing minimal and intentional affecting of violin\, amp\, feedback\, flute\, and synth\, Ang & Pauline investigate modes of perception and the impact of uncertain space. \n  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/khal-launch-opening-performances-march-19/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hypocrisy_video_still_angel_chirnside_videotaped_paula_booker.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T230000 DTSTAMP:20200327T054128Z CREATED:20200305T064516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T054128Z UID:5105-1584730800-1584745200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Khal Launch - Performance + Dinner (cancelled/postponed) DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \n7pm – Doors (gallery will also be open from 11am – 5pm)\n7:30pm – 8 Pillars – A Free Score performed by Jessika Kenney and Helga Fassonaki\n8-10pm – Dinner \nThe two-day Khal publication launch will conclude on March 20th with a special performance of 8 Pillars – A Free Score and a celebratory feast marking the beginning of spring and the Persian holiday of Nowruz. \n\n\n\n\n \nWorking with the idea of a score as a living force containing the power to shape and reshape what enters our senses\, Helga Fassonaki reinterpreted one of her scores 8 Pillars (originally created for New Zealand artist Rachel Shearer) into a performance composition for seven women. It was filmed on Independence Day 2015 in a forested area in Oldwick\, New Jersey. The women (each representing a pillar) move in a slow and deliberate motion mirroring their meditative wordless humming of the “Star Spangled Banner” as they form a circular shape around the forest trees. The cameraperson is also one of the pillars whose motion and view is revealed through another camera frame that remains still\, documenting the process of a composition being created but never finished. The group voices fade as one voice (the missing eighth pillar) continues chanting the anthem until the song becomes unrecognizable. \nPresented as a kind of paradox\, the 8 Pillars film composition explores two sides of freedom: personal vs. political\, whilst stripping content from song until the sacredness of a singular voice is revealed. A solo voice whether banned by political law or censored by our own fears is a vessel for a powerful recalcitrant freedom\, one that is always vulnerable to attack no matter how “free” a country is. \nThe film will be screened during the launch and features Yasi Alipour\, Julia Santoli\, Gabie Strong\, Nazanin Daneshvar\, Laura Sofia\, Suki Dewey\, Helga Fassonaki\, and Julia Santoli \n \nJulia Santoli and Helga Fassonaki performed the second iteration of the 8 Pillars – A Free Score at Disjecta in Portland\, Oregon in September of 2015.  Santoli humed the “Star Spangled Banner”\, anthem until it became further unrecognizable as the notes were abstracted into solid tones of color while a spool of connected red\, white\, and blue fabric was transferred from Santoli’s body onto Fassonaki’s. \n7:30pm \nJessika Kenney will join Helga Fassonaki for a third iteration of 8 Pillars – A Free Score at Human Resources. \n8 – 10pm \nDinner will be served buffet style and include traditional Persian foods with vegetarian\, vegan\, and meat options.  Refreshments and desert are included with the dinner. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/khal-launch-performance-dinner/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HR_web.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T150000 DTSTAMP:20201206T200209Z CREATED:20201205T230033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201206T200209Z UID:5508-1607778000-1607785200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:October\, November and MARCH: How Has the Weather Changed? DESCRIPTION:October\, November and MARCH: How Has the Weather Changed? \nA Roundtable Discussion on Art & Strategy + MARCH 01 Issue Launch\nSaturday\, December 12 @ 1PM PST/4pm EST/9pm GMT\nThis event is free and online: RSVP\n\n“We are in the period of November\, when revolution seems to be over\, and peripheral struggles have become particular\, localist and almost impossible to communicate. In November\, the former heroes become madmen and die in extra-legal executions somewhere on a dirty roadside and information about it is so diffused with predictable propaganda\, that hardly anyone takes a closer look.” \nIn a scene from Hito Steyerl’s November (2004)\, we hear these words distinguish between the revolutionary days of October and “ours” as the artist is seen participating in a protest against the US and allies’ invasion of Iraq. Yet\, that ‘present’ is now sixteen years old and separated from our present by a pandemic which has caused over 1.5 million deaths worldwide\, global uprisings in defense of Black lives\, massive deportations and barring of asylum seekers\, major housing and student debt crises\, drone assassinations and proxy wars\, oil spills and environmental catastrophes – alongside  ever louder calls for the abolition of the institutions of capitalism: the police\, the prison and the military\, among others.  \nIn its inaugural print edition\, MARCH: a journal of art & strategy occupies the first issue of October (itself a direct reference to the 1917 October Revolution) in order to reopen an inquiry into the relationship between revolutionary practice\, theoretical inquiry and artistic innovation in our time. Through this process we ask: Can publication (the act of making public) be an act of protest (public making)? Can publication be thought of spatially and materially as a consequential conspirator? Incendiary insurrection? What strategies do (and can) we employ? Towards what goals? Can an abolitionist framework be applied to the institution of art? Can we avoid the pitfalls of allegorical thinking? \nThe conversation brings together perspectives from Nora N. Khan\, Serubiri Moses\, Zoé Samudzi\, Andrea Steves\, MARCH founders Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally\, and is moderated by Gelare Khoshgozaran with Human Resources for the occasion of MARCH: a journal of art & strategy’s inaugural print edition.  \n***\nHuman Resources was founded in 2010 by a team of creative individuals who seek to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art\, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Human Resources is not-for-profit and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts by encouraging maximum community access. Human Resources also serves as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art forms. We are a volunteer organization. https://www.h-r.la/ \n  \nMARCH: a journal of art & strategy embraces publishing as an act of protest to address the critical social and political issues of our time. MARCH was founded in 2020 by Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally as an expansion of their previous publication\, Temporary Art Review (2011-2019). MARCH features an annual print edition alongside an active online platform commissioning essays\, interviews\, and experimental critical writing with a global perspective. https://march.international/ \n\nSarrita Hunn is an interdisciplinary artist\, editor\, curator and web developer whose often collaborative practice focuses on the culturally\, socially and politically transformative potential of artist-centered activity. She is the co-founder and editor of MARCH\, a journal of art & strategy; artistic coordinator for Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art; and managing editor of artbrain.org. Additionally\, she is a founding member and co-chair of Liebe Chaos Verein e.V. and founding member of the queer cyberactivist collective Cypher Sex. \n  \nNora N. Khan is a critic\, an educator\, and a curator. She is on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design\, in Digital + Media\, and has two short books: Seeing\, Naming\, Knowing (The Brooklyn Rail\, 2019)\, on machine vision\, and with Steven Warwick\, Fear Indexing the X-Files (Primary Information\, 2017). Forthcoming this year is The Artificial and the Real\, through Art Metropole. She is currently an editor of Forces of Art: Perspectives From a Changing World\, alongside Serubiri Moses and Carin Kuoni.  \n  \nGelare Khoshgozaran is an undisciplinary artist and writer who\, in 2009 was transplanted from street protests in a city of four seasons to the windowless rooms of the University of Southern California where aesthetics and politics were discussed in endless summers. Gelare is a keyholder at Human Resources. \n  \nJames McAnally is a strategic critic and dependent curator based in St. Louis\, MO. He is the co-founder and editor of MARCH: a journal of art & strategy\, the co-founder and director of The Luminary\, an expansive platform for art\, thought\, and action\, and a founding member of Common Field\, a national network of independent art spaces and organizers. McAnally is a recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short-Form Writing. \n  \nSerubiri Moses is a writer\, editor\, and curator\, and currently Adj. Asst. Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Hunter College. He is co-curator of the 5th perennial contemporary art survey\, Greater New York (2021)\, founded in 2000 at MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, and previously was on the curatorial team of the 10th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art (2018). His current research focuses on theories in African visual art and art exhibitions.  \n  \nZoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic\, Art in America\, The New Inquiry\, The Funambulist\, and other places\, and she is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents. Along with William C. Anderson\, she is the co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Our Liberation (AK Press\, 2018). She is currently a fellow with Political Research Associates. \n  \nAndrea Steves is an artist\, curator\, researcher\, and organizer currently based in Brooklyn. Her recent projects deal with museums and public history\, monuments and memorials\, and the complex legacies of the Cold War. Andrea also works in the collective FICTILIS and the Center for Hydrosocial Studies\, and is co-founder of the Museum of Capitalism. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center For Capitalism Studies at The New School. \n\nimage caption: Hito Steyerl. November (still)\, 2004. See: https://vimeo.com/88484604 URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/march/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR,online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/steyerl-november-header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T180000 DTSTAMP:20210816T220433Z CREATED:20210816T155840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T220433Z UID:6266-1629550800-1629568800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:G. Brenner - Brushfire: Album Release Listening Party & Closing Reception DESCRIPTION:Photo: Amara Higuera \nHuman Resources-Los Angeles is proud to host G. Brenner’s listening party for their debut album Brushfire on August 21st. \nPlease join us for an afternoon of drinks\, a DJ set by SOLTERA\, and more celebrating the release of G.Brenner’s debut album Brushfire. This will also be the last chance to view our current exhibition Nuestrxs Putxs\, a two-part exhibition curated by Nika Chilewich and Sara Lent Frier with Anita Herrera\, curator of the Sacred Rose Mercado. Nuestrxs Putxs features works by Isabella Albuquerque\, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane\, and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger. \nSpecial thanks to Amara Higuera and Hugo Cervantes for co-organizing this event. \nPlease note that masks will be required for this event. RSVP here. \nLAR Arts: \nNuestrxs Putxs is organized by LAR Arts and curated by Nika Chilewich and Sara Frier. The exhibition is generously hosted by Human Resources Gallery\, Los Angeles. The Nuestrxs Putxs Sacred Rose Mercadito is curated by Anita Herrera. Lorena Vega designed the exhibition’s graphic identity. Jason Tyler Burns is the exhibition designer and Gerardo Delgado is the exhibition coordinator. \nG. Brenner: \nG. Brenner is the project of LA-based visual artist and musician Gabriel Brenner. Drawing on artists such as Arca\, Grouper\, and Julianna Barwick\, he crafted an idiosyncratic style that has fallen gracefully between folk\, gospel\, and experimental electronic music. Formerly known as Pastel\, Brenner released his debut EP\, It Will Be Missed\, via Manimal Vinyl in 2014. In 2015\, he released his second EP\, Bone-Weary\, via rising Houston-based label Very Jazzed. In 2017\, he self-released an EP entitled absent\, just dust\, a 5-song collection exploring language\, loss\, and identity through ambient-noise soundscapes. On Valentine’s Day 2018\, he released a one-off single “Close” to celebrate the holiday. After releasing a string of covers and remixes to close the chapter on his Pastel moniker\, Brenner is releasing “Brushfire\,” his debut single as G. Brenner. His debut album of the same name will be released August 20\, 2021 via Very Jazzed. At its core\, this album is about being immobilized by worlds collapsing at a fast-forward pace and the struggle to find meaning in the remaining ruins. \nhttp://g-brenner.com \nhttp://gdotbrenner.bandcamp.com \nhttp://twitter.com/gdotbrenner \nhttp://instagram.com/gdotbrenner \nhttp://facebook.com/gdotbrenner \nSOLTERA: \nSOLTERA is a performance and music project formed by Colombian/American artist Tania Ordoñez. Raised in the San Fernando Valley\, now based in Los Angeles\, SOLTERA is a performer\, producer\, dj and filmmaker. They make experimental dance music\, paired with Spanish vocals and dreamy synths. \nhttp://soltera.bandcamp.com \nhttp://soundcloud.com/soltera818 \nhttp://www.instagram.com/soltera818 \nhttp://www.facebook.com/soltera818 \nVery Jazzed: \nhttp://veryjazzed.com \nhttp://veryjazzed.bandcamp.com \nhttp://instagram.com/veryjazzed \nhttp://twitter.com/veryjazzed \nhttp://facebook.com/veryjazzedveryjazzed \nLand Acknowledgment Resources: \nWe want to acknowledge that we will be connecting with you all from the unceded territories and waterways of the Chumash\, Tongva and Kizh\, who are the original peoples of the land we live\, work and learn on. We enact this statement not only as an acknowledgement\, but as solidarity with the land back movement\, and recognize that our role in the work of collective liberation begins with explicit knowing of where we are at and our roles as settlers in unceded land. Additionally\, since portions of this event will be shared digitally on the internet\, this acknowledgement extends to the physical imperial presence the internet embodies as a cable network binding this planet along colonial trade routes we have come to know as the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. To borrow a phrase from artist Tabita Rezaire\, “the virtual is real” and “the architecture of violence” is embedded in the technology we may consider decentralized. We invite you to consider these histories with us as we enter in a space together and acknowledge that our materials\, our means of connection and the land we live on are not apolitical actors for our creative pursuits. We also want to thank the Indigenous labor that has guided organizing bodies to create land acknowledgements and have linked our resources for creating this land acknowledgement below. \nhttp://landback.org/manifesto \nhttp://native-land.ca \nDeep Down Tidal (2017) – Tabita Rezaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9EIywuH-LM&t=0s \nhttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/june/nicole-starosielski-undersea-cables.html \nhttps://howlround.com/intersection-digital-technology-and-live-performance \nhttps://www.active-cultures.org \n  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/g-brenners-brushfire-album-listening-party-closing-reception/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/release-party-flyer-4-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T210000 DTSTAMP:20220204T010538Z CREATED:20220125T004214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T010538Z UID:6517-1644087600-1644094800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Sylvia Wynter's The Big Pride\, (1961.) Film screening by LAND x HRLA DESCRIPTION:Mrs.Dowling (Nadia Cattouse) and Mallboy Dowling (Johnny Sekka) in The Big Pride\, (1961.) \nHuman Resources Los Angeles in partnership with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) presents a screening of The Big Pride (1961) the film adaptation of Sylvia Wynter’s play of the concurrent name. \n“Scripted by Guyanese writers Jan Carew and Sylvia Wynter\, The Big Pride is a powerful drama about the quest for freedom. Classically-trained American actor William Marshall and Senegalese-born Johnny Sekka play convicts\, desperate to escape not just the physical bars of the prison cell but also an iniquitous social order that relegates them from birth to the bottom of the heap. However the critique by Dolly Green\, in a virtuoso performance by Trinidadian actor Barbara Assoon\, exposes a third confinement\, ultimately the most devastating of all\, the imprisonment of the mind by bitterness and hatred. In the end for Sutlej and Smallboy Dowling there is no fantasy future. There is only death and surrender.” — British Film Institute \nThe film screening is a part of LAND and LACA’s (Los Angeles Contemporary Archive) course on the work of Sylvia Wynter facilitated by manuel arturo abreu. \nSpecial thanks to Blue for making the film screening possible. \nFor free tickets please RSVP to our Eventbrite here.  \nDoors open at 7:00pm with the film starting promptly at 7:30pm. \nThe screening will be followed by Q&A between manuel arturo abreu and LAND’s Associate Curator Hugo Cervantes. \nVaccination card is required for entry and attendants are required to wear a mask at all times inside the gallery. \nPlease note this film screening has limited capacity. Be sure to arrive early to ensure entry. \n  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/the-big-pride-land-x-hrla/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Untitled-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220212T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220212T220000 DTSTAMP:20220203T223949Z CREATED:20220202T202427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T223949Z UID:6566-1644696000-1644703200@www.h-r.la 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/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:exhibition,one-time event at HR,performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Purple-Glit-Slime-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR