First Draft
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 […]
Jules Garder and Nat Decker: Posturing Collapse
Friday, February 9th, 6pm - 10pmPerformances: 8pm - 10pmFeaturing: Jules Chimes Gårder and Nat Decker, Star Feliz and Cielo Saucedo, thai Lu, Life Em Stebbins and Jazmin Romero Gallery Hours: Saturday, February 10th and Sunday, February 11th, 12 – 6 pm Free admission; donations will be split between Sensi Skins and the Palestine Children’s Relief […]
Arnold J. Kemp: 3 Plays
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, […]
Tati au Miel: Carousel EP Release
Tickets are $10 at the door. In celebration of Tati au Miel’s latest EP release Carousel with Texan label Halcyon Veil. This EP, birthing from Tati's lived experiences and personal reflections surrounding the concepts of nomadism, migration, nostalgia, and the Haitian spiralism movement, manifests itself as a collection of electronic-experimental sound art pieces accompanied with […]
Winter Soiree
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 […]
Kabir Carter
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, […]
The Alphabet of Andean Futurism
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 […]
JD’s Preventing Harassment & Discrimination Training
While gallery sitting for Carlos Agredano's Smog Check, Jennifer Doyle will complete her state-mandated sexual harassment prevention training program, and livestream this exercise (via HRLA's Instagram account) while offering running commentary about the process. Doyle is the author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, a book which takes up the braiding of harassment and security dynamics. The […]
First Draft
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. Artists showing 8/14: Camirin Farmer, Mia Simonović, Cuahtémoc Peranda, Emily BaraschArtists showing 8/15: Sam Wentz, Joey Navarrete-Medina, Andrea Soto, Stacy Dawson Stearns Tickets […]
BIH (Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood)
Vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood return to Human Resources as BIH, expanding on their performance of Blood is here back in April. The three consider the contexts of space, public proximity and ancestral energy to construct a web-like spatial environment consisting of their interacting voices. Each artist brings their respective trajectory to this […]
Sebastian Hernandez – REVERB
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? […]
Aki Onda: Spirits Known and Unknown
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAki Onda “Spirits Known and Unknown” featuring Eyvind Kang “Spirits Known and Unknown” is a performance featuring various kinds of brass bells. It examines the materiality and spirituality of these objects and explores the uncanny and unknown. Bells are a mysterious instrument. It is said that they were born when primitive people banged on resonant […]
Aki Onda: Spirits Known and Unknown
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAki Onda “Spirits Known and Unknown” featuring Eyvind Kang "Spirits Known and Unknown" is a performance featuring various kinds of brass bells. It examines the materiality and spirituality of these objects and explores the uncanny and unknown. Bells are a mysterious instrument. It is said that they were born when primitive people banged on resonant […]
Blood is here: Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova, & Dorian Wood
Blood is here is a collaborative manifestation between vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood. It is an idea born from a recent collective performance within Wood’s touring 12-hour composition/installation Canto de Todes, in which the three artists considered the contexts of space, public proximity and ancestral energy to construct a web-like spatial […]
Ajani Brannum – TROUBLE
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 […]
Page Person – THE EAR* (*or how I became a person)
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 […]
Dead Thoroughbred
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CADT 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 […]
HRLA Divas Live!
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
Hanieh Khatibi: Space has always reduced me to silence
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFriday, September 9th 5:30pm — Saturday, September 10th 11pm Space has always reduced me to silence is a site-specific, durational performance that explores the politics of domestic space and the threshold of the personal. From dawn to dusk, artist Hanieh Khatibi will attempt to bind over 10,000 yards of thread around her childhood home before […]
FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts
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.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork & Laetitia Sonami — Fingers Caught in a Field of Moss
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CATuesday May 3rd & Wednesday May 4th, 5:00 - 9:00 PM Sound artists Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Laetitia Sonami set up in residency at Human Resources for their fourth collaboration. For Fingers caught in a field of moss they scale down natural growth events to rhythms of sonic saturation and rarefication. The synthetic textures […]
Cube – Pure Shit – Prosperity
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CACube is the electronic music project of NY-based artist Adam Keith. Live, Cube conjures a whirlwind of strobing light and video to hypnotic effect. Searing textures and violent rhythms give way to moments of hushed, eerie beauty. Musically, the project touches on industrial, dub, drum & bass, noise, and more, but does so with a […]
Pau S. Pescador – Hot Girl Summer (and other trans myths)
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, […]
Purple Glitter Slime
An evening of queer performances and works by Amanda-Faye Jimenez Aimee Goguen & Dakota Higgins John Burdole Laub Nathan Lam Vuong Zori Swanegan 7$ Doors open at 8 Performances begin promptly at 830 Tickets can be purchased here: https://withfriends.co/event/13568875/purple_glitter_slime_21222 Amanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer and comedic performer born and raised in Los Angeles. She is mostly […]
“Dorian Wood: Songs From a Palace Fire”
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.
