Human Resources

Tickets Untitled (Break Fast) centers around the durational act of squatting above a boiling pot of pho broth. Vo takes as a poetic point of departure the memory of going on a hunger strike as a teenager in order to fight with their mother for the chance to study abroad. Untitled (Break Fast) explores the fetish of […]

TICKETS: August 27 & August 28 ($15 suggested, sliding scale) Doors: 7PM Performance: 7:30PM - 8:30PM La nada que te ama (Spanish for "The nothing that loves you") is a channeling of ancestral/transcestral energy via the artist's voice and body, interwoven with sounds and imagery that ponder a broken future of/against our making. This ritual-based performance […]

Pocha 35: The Last Migration, 2025 A New Solo Performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña Featuring a Cameo by Balitronica and surprise guests. Tickets Gómez-Peña’s latest solo performance (from the series the Self Deportation Project) features texts written over the past five years chronicling a turbulent “post-democratic era,” from the onset of the pandemic to the present day. Now available […]

Un muro que parte el cuerpo en dos (A wall that breaks the body in two) is a durationalperformance by Kiyo Gutiérrez, in collaboration with Paul Donald. This work was first presented by Gutiérrez in 2018 in Guadalajara, México, as a response to the Mexican xenophobic reactions toward a Central American Migrant Caravan crossing the […]

Gallery hours: Fri - Sat, 12 - 5 pm Performances: June 27 & 28: 7 pm; June 29: 2 pm (en Español) Tickets (free, donation of $15 recommended):  Friday June 27th at 7pm; Saturday June 28th at 7pm; Sunday June 29th en español at 2pm. Safety Blue is a performative work by artist Andrea Carrillo and choreographer Melissa Herrada which […]

Performance by Linda Franke with Laura Stinger and Matthew McGaugheyTickets, $8 (via WithFriends)A score for anarchistic behavior in public space.Featuring proportions of a soft mobile rock, a cold sliding fence and spinning a fountain.Voices falling in and out of sync with colors.Moving something from one place to another.Pushing things that can´t be moved.Sliding and rolling […]

Free admission ($5-20 suggested donation); click here to RSVP A participatory performance-lecture by Héctor Alvarez, with Juniper Jones The School of Memory is now in session. But this is no ordinary classroom. Here, memory becomes both subject and teacher. Through storytelling and guided reflection, The School of Memory transforms personal genealogy into a collective exploration of how we carry—and sometimes bury—our inherited histories. Drawing […]

UPEND presents a live audio visual performance from MSHR Network Entity: A Live Rendered Sonic Sculpture System { { RSVP } } MSHR upends L.A. with back-to-back nights of performance at Human Resources, each night featuring a distinct mode of the Portland, Oregon-headquartered collective’s networked visual artwork, soundwork, feedback, and shape shift. On night two, MSHR […]

UPEND Presents MSHR Slipper Jonathan Snipes ] MSHR upends L.A. with back-to-back nights of performance at Human Resources, each night featuring a distinct mode of the Portland, Oregon-headquartered collective’s networked visual artwork, soundwork, feedback, and shape shift. On night one MSHR unfurls the latest iteration of their live sound-sculpture cycle. Performing in the round on […]

Thursday, September 12 and Friday, September 13, 7pmA surgical exquisite corpse. An eternal reoccurrence. A replica made from memory with no skills to work with.A two day participatory performance. The first night we investigate the space, take it apart and then rebuild it from memory with no references. The second night we activate the space […]

A meditation on our relationships with nature and technology, GREEN SCREEN VOCAL SAC invites attendees to use their phone/device to playback a video (accessible via QR code) to create an environment in which the artist will tell a story from a recent experience with a population of California tree frogs in the San Gabriel mountains. […]

Tickets are $5 - 20, sliding scale; click here to purchase. First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists at all stages of their creative development. This round’s artists include Will Rawls, Sophia Cleary, […]

Spiritual sessions with popper-induced trances, lycanthropic nahual strippers, anal vampiresses. Binding spells sealed with a rain of blood, satanic dances. Sexual pacts with demonic entities and orgies with transsexual "tlahuelpuchis" that produce wet nightmares. These are some of the acts on offer in this Los Angeles debut by Lechedevirgen. Lechedevirgen crosses sexual dissidence and performance art […]

Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm; Sunday performance begins at 6pm. Click here to purchase tickets. VENUS 2.0 is a large-scale multi-media music performance by Tyler Matthew Oyer. Set within a fantastic and dystopian dream-like sculptural and light installation, Oyer creates a full-length performance concert that combines their history with and research into the nightclub, […]

First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists at all stages of their creative development. This round's artists include Emma Alley, Wesleigh Gates, Kirsten Michelle Schnittker, and Kevin Wong + Mariia […]

Tickets are free of charge. Reserve a spot by clicking on the appropriate link: Friday, January 12th / Saturday, January 13th / Sunday, January 14th A three night survey of plays, written and directed by Arnold J. Kemp. Featuring an all star cast including: Carolyn Castaño, Laura Heyman, Chelsea Gaspard, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Anna Sew Hoy, […]

doors at 7:30pm / music at 8pm Corey Fogel hosts another Winter Soiree, featuring an assortment of creative musicians, both local and traveling from Portland, San Francisco, and New York. Persimmons will inevitably be involved, too.  Unity Garnish is a platform for artworks composed and produced by Derek Blackstone and Sam Klickner. Often referred to in […]

Doors at 8pmPerformance at 9pmFree (pay what you want - proceeds go to Venice Family Clinic) Kabir Carter will explore the spatial acoustics and resonant behavior of a circuit that flows between a loudspeaker, an audio mixer, a microphone, a folding chair, and his body. Kabir Carter is a research-based artist who uses sound, light, image, architecture, […]

This project emerges as an adaptation of fragments from Gamaliel Churata's indigenist avant-garde masterpiece, "The Golden Fish," viewed through the lens of Andean Futurism. It combines music, video, poetry, and performance, focusing on key scenes that depict the origins of a mythological being in the future of the Andes. Additionally, the presentation includes Pumita Andino […]

Reverb is a quartet movement based performance that thinks through ideas of queerness, kin, sorrow and the body. This performance asks the performers to question their commitment to performance, movement, and art making. How do we give and conserve energy. How do we survive in times of duress? How do we breathe amidst legislative violence? […]

We will be in TROUBLE together. This is a project hovering somewhere between concert and conversation, between dance and its presumed opposite (whatever that might be). We will learn, perhaps, what performance and performers might do on behalf of the people who gather to witness them. Tickets are available here Initiated and directed by Ajani […]

THE EAR* (*or how I became a person) is a performance by interdisciplinary artist Page Person Sunday, March 19 at 5:00 pm. At a time when the very existence of trans people is under attack, the artist describes how claiming space for their own existence healed a lifetime of being the subject of discrimination, bullying […]

DT a non-band band. DT never; not happening. DT heavy evasion—worthless. DT so goth, born black. DT at least sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin. Dead Thoroughbred is presented as part of "Everything in Air", a series of public programs at Human Resources over the course of a year—new commissions, exhibitions, performances, and forums, often in […]

A two night gala for HRLA: October 14th & 15th   featuring performances by Amelia Bande, Nikki D, Dorian Wood, Amanda Faye Jimenez, Jasmine Nyende, Sebastian Hernandez, Xandra Ibarra, Page Person, Emily Lucid, rafa esparza, Pau Pescador, TMO, Creepypasta Puttanesca, Jessica Emmanuel, and Carmina Escobar .   Tickets available here

FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts is a series of nine vignettes performed in parts by an ensemble cast. Exploring an individual's informed and uninformed autonomy within perceived dimensions of freedom and choice, conscious or unconscious role-play within these structures, the protocol of these actions, and their consequences/effect.

Hot Girl Summer (and other trans myths) A Performance by Pau S. Pescador February 24, 8 pm Hot Girl Summer (and other trans myths) is a three-act performance art event, which takes place in the optimistic summer days of 2021. Vaccines, socializing and the act of being seen! Through this solo performance Pescador utilizes costumes, […]

After two years, acclaimed artist Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources LA with three unforgettable performances.     Tickets can be purchased here, to attend      Note: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination must be presented at the door the night of the event, and masks must be worn at all times during the performance.