Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control
Hosted by clara lópez menéndez, Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control is a 2-day study on contemporary and historical critical perspectives on the effects and implications that our reliance on technological devices, screens, data management systems, and the internet have for our forms of socializing, governmentality and participation, and therefore our sense of politics and the self. […]
Sirens: Oceanic Sonic Hauntologies
HRLA Studies Fall 2025 October Session by Star Feliz HRLA Studies Fall 2025 October Session presents SIRENS OCEANIC SONIC HAUNTOLOGIES facilitated by Star Feliz What is submerged always endures, often returning with a piercing sound. Sirens is a series on marine, sound, mythology, theory, and ritual across the primarily Black Atlantic. Through readings, presentations, conversations, and guided meditations, we’ll […]
Howl
a collective unsilencing, a divine portent, a wail, an omen, a refusal to cower in the face of attempted erasure, a call to our ungovernable animality, a convening of artists using their voices and creative agency to resist intimidation and summon alternative worlds where transness is holy and bodily autonomy is sacrosanct, a portal built of rage […]
HRLA Studies: Law and Political Economy Now
HRLA Studies: Spring 2025presents Law and Political Economy NowMonday, March 10; Monday, March 17; Wednesday, March 196 - 9pm A conversation with lawyer and professor Kathleen Kim on the state of law, (un) justice and political economy in the current circumstances. Participants of this study are encouraged to bring their questions regarding the fast and […]
PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP with Page Person
Sign up for the workshop here Purpose: To find comfort in public speaking PART ONE - THE 5 POINT PLANThe first half of the event will be a lecture by Page Person on a variety of techniques they havelearned in order to become a confident public speaker. These are arranged in five maincategories:1. Self image: […]
HRLA Studies: Indigenous Sound Matter – Resonating Futures
Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some ideas home HRLA Studies Fall 2024 - December SessionIndigenous Sound Matter: Resonating Futuresby Alan Poma December 9, 11 & 166 - 8:30pm This workshop explores the use of sound as a medium to investigate Indigenous temporalities. Over the course of three sessions, participants […]
BEINGS IN PROGRESS
BEINGS IN PROGRESS This event is a space to share unfinished works without judgment, for artists seeking a momentary instance of community among strangers. This gathering is intended especially for those who may feel alienated from institutional forms of art critique, are needing structure and routine in practice, and those nurturing projects in a vulnerable stage […]
HRLA Studies: Race, Ecology and the Human/Nonhuman
HRLA Studies - Fall 2024 November Session by Christal Pérez on Race, Ecology and the Human/Nonhuman For the November HRLA Studies session, Christal Pérez will share a series of presentations on artists, theories and scholars who engage with ideas on ecology and its relationship to race, colonialism and frameworks that uphold what constitutes the Human and […]
labor & collective action as resistance
Join us for a teach-in on May 25th hosted at Human Resources! labor & collective action as resistance will explore how collective action can be applied to the spaces we inhabit. In awe of hundreds of organizing students and faculty across the US and beyond, we come together to share cooperative strategies as both lineage […]
HRLA Studies: Alan Poma “Art, Time And Rebellion In Ancient Americas”
Art, Time, and Rebellion in Ancient Americas is the second installment of HRLA Studies, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing, thought provocation, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other […]
Springing Studies
Springing Studies is the first installment of HRLA Studies, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing, thought provocation, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other HRLA programs at HRLA […]
Reading The Right to Maim
HRLA is hosting a two-part seminar dedicated to reading Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017). The Right to Maim, which argues that debilitation is a defining feature of settler colonialism, culminates in a devastating analysis of the production of Palestine as "available for injury." This seminar is an artist-centered reading group […]
So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure
Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources present So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure With guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) Due to popular demand, LA Filmforum and HRLA reprise the screening/lecture focussed on Palestinian films. Please provide proof of donation to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medical Aid […]
So Much I Want to Say: A Glimpse into Palestinian Erasure
Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources Los Angeles presentSo Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian ErasureScreening + Lecture PerformanceFor more info: https://www.lafilmforum.org/ With guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) Please provide proof of donation to Palestine Children's Relief Fund or Medical Aid for Palestinians for admission to […]
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 […]
Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share & Wells Leng
This concert is presented in conjunction with Mirror Area, an exhibition of drawings by Michael Kennedy Costa (September 22 - 29, 2023). The Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share (LAWWSS) is a horizontally organized learning project that provides space for participants to learn about wind instruments through free improvisation. Wells Leng (1994-) is a multi-instrumentalist […]
Reading with José Muñoz
OnlineThis (online) seminar takes up the work of José Esteban Muñoz, a defining figure in queer theory, queer of color critique, and performance studies. We will read excerpts from his three books (Disidentifications, Cruising Utopia, and The Sense of Brown) to explore his key terms and the impact of his thinking on the work of […]
Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Studies for Artists
OnlineSaturday August 21, Sept 4, Sept 11 noon-2pm (note, schedule has shifted) Join us for a series of virtual seminars on Indigenous Studies as a paradigm for decolonial/anti-colonial art practices. This seminar will survey different threads of Indigenous Studies as a political, educational, and aesthetic movement. By engaging Michelle Raheja’s “Visual Sovereignty” as a praxis, […]