Ex Tortion₇
Ex Tortion₇ On Thursday June 11th, please join us for the sixth installment in Ex Tortion, an improvised performance series where performers engage around/inside a sculptural enclosure. Audience members are encouraged to move around freely during the performance. Performance begins promptly around 8pm and runs approximately 40 minutes. Featuring: Jeonghyeon Joo - Haegeum Henry Gonzalez (from Silverlake […]
RAGE Thormbones / Toil to Gather
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CARAGE Thormbones: Breaking Ships.They play loud. RAGE Thormbones will be playing Breaking Ships, which is from their record of the same name: https://triptickstapes.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-ships RAGE Thormbones is Weston Olencki and Mattie Barbier. Toil to Gather Nicki Chen (Viola) and Nicholas Deyoe (guitars)
Dorian Wood: Canto (Versión Juanga)
Doors at 7:30PM Performance begins at 8:00PM $15 / sliding scale : Friday Tickets - Saturday Tickets Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources for two nights only with an immersive performance that interweaves music from her newly-released album Canto de Todes (New Amsterdam Records) with iconic songs by the legendary singer/composer Juan Gabriel. Loved by millions around the […]
Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a Bridge
Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a BridgeAmelia Charter and Sam Wentz Friday May 29th, 7pm Saturday May 30th, 7pm Sunday May 31st, 4pmAmelia Charter and Sam Wentz collaborate for the first time in an evening-length performance at the intersection of movement, object practice, and sound. Gathering a growing body of materials, organic and inorganic, […]
Who Makes Chinatown?
The Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA) builds community power and develops youth leaders to advocate for immigrant and refugee families, protect affordable housing, and fight displacement. To understand Chinatown and the layered complexities of this working-class neighborhood, students from Lincoln and Downtown Business Magnets High Schools interviewed Chinatown residents and workers on topics related to […]
Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon Reading
Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon ReadingHuman Resources Los AngelesMay 16 th 12-7pm Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon Reading is a durational performance, live reading, and space to gather and honor the life and legacy of Bob Flanagan (1952–1996). Flanagan was a poet, artist, performer, and sadomasochist with cystic fibrosis. Over the course of his 43 […]
Collective Choreographies – Maura Chen
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm Collective Choreographies exhibits thirty-six labanotational ink drawings of line dances. Using a taxonomy of tiny and precise lines, each notation corresponds to a movement within standard line dance choreography. These movements are typically specified by “stepsheets,” written instructions popularly circulated through open-source websites to learn and teach […]
MIRRORS OF RESISTANCE
MIRRORS OF RESISTANCE WHEN: 7:30 PM, May 10 COST: $12 The WAWOG LA community invites you to join us for a night of Palestinian film to raise funds for journalists in Gaza. Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is a coalition of media, cultural, and academic workers who are committed to the horizon of […]
YEARS AS RUIN: A History of Los Angeles Art
Presented by East of Borneo and Hard to Read, YEARS AS RUIN highlights L.A. art through the ages, bringing together a dynamic group of East of Borneo contributors past and present for an evening of words, music, and visuals. With readings by Norman Klein, Allison Noelle Conner, Thomas Lawson, Emma Dexter, Vivian Chang and Dr. […]
Songs to Quell the Monster Program 1 of 4: A Mother’s Lullaby
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASaturday, May 2nd. Doors open at 6PM, Starts at 6:30PM. Pay What You Can (Suggested $10) TICKETS Growing up, we are first held by the voice of our mothers—its rhythms teaching us how to listen, how to imagine, how to feel our way through the world before we fully understand it. A lullaby can soothe, […]
HRLA BirthDay / MayDay Extravaganza
Celebrate May Day & HR's 16th Birthday WithAjani BrannumCassia Streb & Jennifer BewerseHuntrezzJay CarlonMaria MaeaOlivia MoleTzotzona Tickets Free for HR members
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and Charles Curtis
Bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis perform live-in-concert – at an event pulled by UPEND – premiering a new version of Tashi Wada’s 2017 Witness, originally written for Vicente-Sandoval on bassoon and now including accompaniment by Curtis on cello. In Witness, a series of microtonally inflected scales and tetrachords are explored through repetition, variation, and improvisation. At this intimate concert, […]
LOCAL OCCURRENCE
Tickets LOCAL OCCURRENCE, is a project that I, Henryk Golden, am starting together with the violinist Myra Hinrichs and the percussionist Corey Fogel, performing written and improvised music. The goal is to work with a set group of artists based in Southern California, including the trio itself, Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío and Daniel Allas […]
BUTCHONA – A Queer Cumbia Dance Party
homeLA x Human Resources Schedule6:30–7:30 PM — Dance Instruction with Jasmine Flores7:30–9:30 PM — DJ Set + Dance Party with Butchona Tickets$20 — Lesson + Dance Party (6:30 PM entry)$5–$10 — Dance Party Only (7:30 PM entry) homeLA and Human Resources are teaming up for a night of queer cumbia—dance, rhythm, and collective joy—presented in […]
SPRINGCLING
SPRINGCLING is the latest experiment in curation by local percussionist-artist Corey Fogel, challenging & augmenting what fits in a gallery, on a "music program", within an acoustic setting, and at an event. "Salon" may best describe this happening that marries artists from all corners of the country; of Corey's creative friend circle; of the media sphere. Proceeding these prepositions is a preposterously proposed presentation of presumably preferred praxes. P'rhaps we'll see you […]
Cumbia de mi Tierra
Gallery Hours: Friday- Sunday, April 12th - April 26th, 12pm - 6pm Opening event on Saturday, April 11 from 4pm - 9pm. Opening event on Saturday, April 11 from 4pm - 9pm RSVP Dance performance by Club Inspiración Mexico. Sonidero performances by Sonido La Rumba and El Tropical San Pancho. Live music by cumbia group Dolores […]
SHAME
$15 tickets SHAME is a deliberately subversive nightlife concept created by curator Peter Kalisch after stepping away from booking Queerspace LA. Framed as a reaction against the excess, vanity, and image-driven culture of Los Angeles nightlife, the party rejects hedonism and performative self-indulgence in favor of introspection, discomfort, and raw authenticity. Rather than offering escapism, “Shame” […]
*autonomous together
a proposition about autonomies and their meanders by gloria galvez, fran ilich and clara lópez menéndez – with contributions from the larger Los Angeles organizing community Opening March 7th, 4 - 8pm For all related public programs please see bottom of this page autonomous together* autonomy is an act in motion, a practice, an attitude […]
Lynne Marsh: after-lived
Friday, February 27 –Opening Performances 6–9 pm Saturday, February 28 –Performances 1–5 pm Sunday, March 1 –Performances 1–3 pm, Conversation 3–5 pm These poor nymphs of the present, distorted by the endless screens they must pass through before finding themselves in something resembling “the real world.” Unaccustomed to the weight of what we might call […]
David Dove • mattie barbier • Rowell/Bell/Shook
On Monday, February 23rd, David Dove – the Houston-based improviser, composer, and trombonist – makes his Los Angeles solo debut at HRLA at a show pulled by UPEND. Via drones, heavy and deep, Dove will tap into the architectural resonances of Human Resources with Subwoofer Trombone, his improvisational project that explores sub-bass frequencies using trombone, […]
A World Without FIFA’s World Cup (Part 2)
"Nobody earns a thing from the crazy feeling that for a moment turns a man into a child playing with a balloon, a cat toying with a ball of yarn, a ballet dancer flying through the air with a ball as light as a balloon or a ball of yarn, playing without even knowing he’s […]
Tom Marioni – ACTION AND TALK
Free rsvp A progenitor of West Coast conceptual art, Tom Marioni will present a critical re-engagement with the ontological foundations of California’s avant-garde. Marioni, the founder of the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) in San Francisco (1970–1984), will perform two definitive “actions” that collapse the boundaries between temporal duration and physical residue: Out of Body Free Hand […]
the body draws the room
the body draws the room is a performance by Carmen Argote that transforms the gallery space into an immersive drawing environment through the body. Using a combination of shaving cream and black oil paint, Argote creates large-scale marks on walls and floors as she moves through the space by crawling on her back and tracing […]
Espera
Espera (2017) is a short documentary of an intimate conversation between Quevedo and an ex-lover on the eve of their separation. As the end grows nearer the two men struggle to reconcile their desires with the reality of their lives. For this one-weekend presentation at Human Resources Los Angeles, Espera will be screened as a […]
Dicky Bahto
Note: January 30's program is cancelled in honor of the national strike. We encourage people to participate in this strike and to support organizations like CHIRLA, who are doing front-line work in our communities. See below for revision of this weekend's program. A three two-night survey of moving image and performance works by Dicky made […]
The End of the World
8pm-midnightdj Eva Myra Mayplaying vintage analogue electronic music by women performances byHuntrezzMehregan PezeshkiBARRGraeae hosted byPage Person What does it mean to live in an analog world? One parallel to the world we find ourselves in; relating to signals or information represented by continuously variable physical quantities such as spatial position or changes in voltage. A […]
WINTER SALON
Tickets - Suggested donation $7-$15 COREY’S WINTER SALON is a pop-up blast-up event, collecting multivalent, multimodal local artists into one eclectic night. An unusual, adventurous cocktail. A cross-polynation of interests and friend-groups. Featuring performances of text, noise, sound installations, tarot, and food & object offerings. EMJI SAINT SPERO is a writer, performer, and pervert living in Los Angeles. They are […]
RECITAL (EPILOGUE) – AMMA
Tickets Friday - 8pm Saturday - 8pm Sunday Matinee - 3pm This iteration of RECITAL was created during a development residency at MOCA Geffen Warehouse in the summer of 2025. Over the course of 6 weeks, AMMA expanded the piece first presented at WIP LA in July of 2024. Now, from AMMA’s sweat and tears comes RECITAL (EPILOGUE). […]
A World Without The World Cup
A lecture and forum for our community as we stare down the impending World Cup. FIFA (the international body that governs soccer) is often described as the world's largest criminal organization. What does it mean for arts and culture workers to engage with this event, which operates explicitly as a bread & circus diversion from […]
bed crumb show – audioginary cinema
audioginary cinema, a night where we bring musicians together to reimagine catagory within film though sound improvisations. Each mysterious short will be live scored by 3 different ensembles/musicians: Black NASA Mountain Monastery Choir Eduardo Soto + Ce Tochtli + grump with sounds by bed crumb show* resident DJs Event is hosted by LA based radio station bed crumb […]
LAWWSS (Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share) & LAFRC (Los Angeles Field Recording Club).
LAWWSS (Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share) LP release & LAFRC (Los Angeles Field Recording Club). Tickets On Jan 18th the Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share (LAWWSS) is celebrating the release of their first Studio recorded LP (titled STUDIO on Radical Documents) with a concert at Human Resources. Joining LAWWSS in celebration will be the Los Angeles Field Recording […]
Raquel Gutiérrez – Southwest Reconstruction book launch
A night of readings and sounds to celebrate the release of Raquel Gutiérrez first collection of poetry, Southwest Reconstruction published by Noemi Press Books. Raquel will be joined by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, Joshua Escobar, Farrah Rosefang, Gabie Strong and Hidhawk. RSVP
Tzotzona | Anna Luisa Petrisko | 01168
$10 tickets
Memory Saw x Silt | Iris Ipsum | C_Robo | Cyka | Munki
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAThis Saturday Jan 10thLive sets & performance – experimental // electronic // noise-y MEMORY SAW & SILT (NY)Collab set from electronic music duo MEMORY SAW and performance artist SILT@memorysaw x @si.l.t C_ROBOLived coded / deconstructed dance music@c_robo_ IRIS IPSUMSpectral ambient idm@irisipsum CYKA @_zvzdaIndustrial post soviet product MÜNKI @pious_global"hypergrunge" Visuals @postfemale Lights @whiterabbitelectric Advance tickets are […]
Steve Kado & Joe Stewart
Steve Kado & Joe Stewart will play electronic music at Human Resources This is a free event
Every Workplace Needs A Union
In the last few years workers have led unionization efforts across the country at a wide range of companies such as Starbucks and Amazon. Workers at Natural History Museum, LACMA, CalArts and other cultural institutions in Los Angeles have recently organized, linking their struggles to the broader labor movement. Join AFSCME Local 126, which represents […]
Circles and Moons
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CACelebrate the winter solstice with a moon gazing durational performance by Rachel Beetz and Jennifer Bewerse. We will observe Jennifer’s real-time films of the year's 12 full moons while listening to an expanded version of Rachel Beetz’s auditory hallucination drone, Pareidolia, through the 12 musical keys. Each season will be infused with a different scent. Beginning […]
eloise deluca –– pursuit of play
a movement workshop led by Eloise DeLuca pursuit of play This movement based workshop will offer participants an embodied approach to play, game theory, practice and performativity. By analyzing how we approach, strategize, and consider choice making through playing games we can learn about our own negotiations and relationships to one another in space. What […]
Acacia Marable: trash flag
Found matter elicited a certain detachment from the object itself. It could be sold for asong, traded, or given away but also could be returned to the streets, to the land, or to thejunk pile. Sometimes it was left to ripen, and sometimes it was just left.—Kellie Jones, South of Pico: African American Artists in […]
Enter Ear
A night of music to celebrate the release of Enter Ear's first album tickets Enter Ear https://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/visitors Synsor (Steve McQuarry) https://piqued.fm/artist/synsor David Ralicke https://www.ralicke.com Sean Smith https://elefzed.com/about
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. […]
Anh Vo – Untitled (Break Fast)
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 […]
Pedestrian Deposit | Jordan Blankenship | The Zero Collective | Hidhawk & Panica | Dohoon Kim | The Benders Circuit
ticket link Pedestrian Deposit @pedestriandeposit Jordan Blankenship @jordanblankenship The Zero Collective @thezerocollective + @viola.wav Hidhawk & Panica @ayddhid + @leah_van_bach Dohoon Kim @dohimkoo 3D Projections by The Benders Circuit @thebenderscircuit Doors 7:30 Show 8-11 $15 NOTAFLOF
CAREROTICS: on giving and taking
Panteha Abareshi at Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) Press Preview: Friday, October 31, 2025, 7–9pmExhibition Opening: November 1, 2025, 12–6pm (gallery hours), 7–9pm (opening reception) Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6pm or by appointment LOS ANGELES — Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) presents CAREROTICS: on giving and taking, a solo exhibition by Panteha Abareshi that examines how […]
Chester Vincent Toye: THE EDGE
THE EDGE is a two-day installation, screening, and healing experience that explores race, masculinity, mental health, and spirituality by artist, filmmaker, producer, and creative coach Chester Vincent Toye. The program includes a feature-length non-fiction film, THE EDGE (74 mins, produced by Chester Vincent Toye & Marion Tanis), and an accompanying video installation, THE EDGE: METHOD […]
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 […]
Valencia
Tickets: available online and at the door (5-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds). A portion of the night's proceeds will be donated to Bay Area Workers Support. Valencia is an experimental feature collaboration of 20 directors each adapting a chapter of Michelle Tea's award-winning, underground classic memoir of the same […]
La Jumelle de Jésus, On Air: Purity, Corruption & Pollution, Pluto Is Raging
An evening of two short film screenings by artist Margaret Haines, paired with readings from cast & friends. Tickets available online and at the door: $10-$15 suggested donation no one turned away for lack of funds At 6pm, La Jumelle / On Air: Purity, Corruption & Pollution (20 min, 2024), a retelling/prophecy of the life […]
HOWL: a night of performance
Tickets Live performances and readings, including choral performance by Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir; an original movement piece by Beatrice Gosse; a site-specific grappling hook performance by Sadie Greyduck; a non-linear lecture performance on trans horror by Wesleigh Gates; Xina Xurner. This program is a part of HOWL, curated by Ashton S. Phillips. HOWL brings […]
Nina Sarnelle: Breath Work
Tickets ($5-15, no one turned away for lack of funds) Nina Sarnelle's Breath Work is an experimental opera exploring breath as a medium for resistance. Part documentary, part ritual, it was made collaboratively by community members in Long Beach, California, next to one of the largest ports in the world. Shipping infrastructure, railyards, freeways and […]
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 […]
OPEN STUDIOS: DANCES ON PAPER by Jay Carlon
Performance at 7PM Los Angeles choreographer and visual artist Jay Carlon presents Dances on Paper, a one-night performance and exhibition at Human Resources on Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 6-8PM. In this new body of work, Carlon turns from the stage to the page, exploring charcoal, graphite, and sweat on expansive 30-foot paper landscapes. With […]
bed crumb show* presents MILFORD GRAVES FULL MANTIS
Milford Graves Full Mantis is the first feature-length portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. Tickets (sliding scale/by donation): $5-$15 Graves has performed internationally since 1964, both as a soloist and in ensembles with such legends as Albert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan and Sonny Sharrock. He is a founding pioneer of […]
Dorian Wood: La nada que te ama
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 […]
Arthur Cooke: Saudade Into Light
Saudade Into Light is an exhibition of Arthur Cooke’s (b.1996-2020) prolific image-making and multidisciplinary photography practice. The presentation of works at Human Resources includes a selection of his artist prints, self-published books, video works, hand sewn clothing and fabric prints. Alongside this impressive archive, a selection of photographs have been posthumously printed by his family […]
Guillermo Gómez-Peña – Pocha 35: The Last Migration
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 […]
Rachel Zaretsky: The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves (replica of a replica)
Rachel Zaretsky: The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves (replica of a replica) Exhibition Dates: July 18th to August 3rd, Friday to Sunday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment (Please email: info@humanresourcesla.com) Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 2025 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Spirit of American Youth Rising from […]
Mosquitoes, Cats and Other Comrades
A two program screening event in collaboration with Travelling Kolkata People's Film Festival Tickets: suggested donation - $10-20 (for one or both programs) Join us for a day of films from Myanmar and India centering the people's resistance, camaraderie, love, and the quiet revolutions that resonate beyond the two nations. This program presents four films grounded in […]
Kiyo Gutiérrez with Paul Donald: Un muro que parte el cuerpo en dos
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 […]
Abolish ICE ✊🏽 Mercado de Arte
The undoc+ (currently or formerly undocumented) community of Los Angeles is being wrongfully targeted by militarized mass deportations. Today, many fear leaving their homes to go to work or even get groceries. Countless individuals have gone missing, families are breaking apart, and our communities are no longer safe from persecution by the administration of this […]
Safety Blue: An Installation in 5 Acts
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 […]
LA TIME | Matt Savitsky exhibition
Reception: Friday, June 13, 5-7pm (Note: HRLA is in the curfew zone, quite close to the perimeter; curfew starts at 8pm.) Performance: Friday, June 20, 7-8pm Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 12-6pm & by appointment LA TIME uses live performance and video to reveal the space between headlines and lived experience. By using physical copies of the […]
Aeolian Song – Trevor Treglia / Adie San Diego
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAeolian Song is a piece for synthesizer and reverberant space by Los Angeles-based composer and instrument builder Trevor Treglia. Using phase-locked oscillators tuned in just intonation, the piece explores slowly evolving harmonic relationships shaped by the interaction of timbre, pitch, and space. Adie San Diego is a Filipina-American choreographer, dancer, and artist based in Los […]
Cine Apartamento presents Queer Currents
Cine Apartamento, a queer cinema collective founded in 2023 by Michael Anthony Hall and Ryan Luis Fuller, hosts intimate screenings of LGBTQ+ cinema in apartments and spaces across LA, fostering connection and collaboration through shared storytelling. Queer Currents: A Night of Experimentation is a one-night showcase spotlighting emerging queer filmmakers abdu mongo Ali, Markele Cullins, […]
Aggregate: a performance by Linda Franke
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 […]
Emily Barasch: Intimacy for the Apocalypse
Saturday, May 10 @ 8pm + Sunday, May 11 @ 2pmTickets are $20; click here to purchase In Intimacy for the Apocalypse, an unstable structure made of rope, slime, wooden levers, buckets, and streamers shifts over time as four dancers and a sound composer develop emergent, co-constituted logics to find stability and support within their material […]
other others // rehearsals in the skin
Touch Praxis presents other others // rehearsals in the skin, a four-day exhibition and programming series held May 2–5, 2025 at Human Resources Los Angeles. This programming offers a collision of fleshy proximities, felt theory (Dian Million, 2009) and porous encounters. other others // rehearsals in the skin brings together artists, practitioners, and facilitators to […]
HRLA | 15 Years | Everyone
$3.33, _____ Daniel, (de) Color-Es, (Same), #HealHer, #Not1More, #SNATCHPOWER, +Dog+, 0ll668, 75 dollar bill, A.B.S., A.K. Burns, A.L. Steiner, A$AP Bari, Aaron Drake, Aaron M. Olson, Aaron Meyers, Aaron Turner, Aaron Wrinkle, Aarum Alatorre, Abby Cunnane, Abby Findley, Abdul Hamid Royal, Abe Holllow, Abe Vigoda, Abhora, Abigail Bouchet, Abigail Levine, ABJECTFAILUREEXHRISTDCVR, Abraham Ávila, Abraham Gonzáles […]
10 DAY CELEBRATION FOR 10 YEARS OF COAXIAL FUNDRAISER
Opening reception: April 18th, 6-9pmGallery hours: Thu-Sun, 12-5pm Join us in celebrating the 10 DAY FOR 10 YEARS OF COAXIAL at HR! This 10-day event will feature a group exhibition of work by Coaxial's past artists-in-residence and nightly programming curated by their beloved friends and community members. The opening reception on April 18th, 6-9pm will include […]
BUL
Opening reception and book launch: Saturday, March 29, 6 - 9pmClosing performance: Wednesday, April 9, 7:30pm BUL is a multi-media installation of Christine Yerie Lee’s experimental rock opera BUL (2023) and its newly completed sequel SWAN SONG (2025). This ongoing project is inspired by both the Korean folktale of the Bulgasari, an iron-eating monster who liberates the oppressed by devouring the weapons […]
Héctor Álvarez: The School of Memory
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 […]
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 […]
Cristóbal Gracia – Paladio / Palladium
Opening February 18, 6-8pmGallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm In this video, Cristóbal Gracia digs into futurist mythologies to offer a critical characterization of the identity drive: a product? an artifice? a ritual of seduction? Perhaps, simply, a speculative dance to captivate the gaze of the great Other. En esta pieza de video, Cristóbal Gracia […]
DOCUMENT NO.007 : LUNAR NEW YEAR EDITION
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAltima Down presentsDOCUMENT NO.007 : LUNAR NEW YEAR EDITION Live PA:Touriszt (Berlin, DE)Midnight Climax (Berlin, DE)SpiderwrapProsperityPatrick Durkin Vinyl Selections by:DJ Stolen Valor Visuals by:Lucid Interval Proceeds raised will be donated to the SGV Humane Society. Sliding scale $10 - $20
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: […]
Underwear Shopping Spree
Community screening: Friday, January 3, 7pmClosing reception: Thursday, January 9, 7pm Open gallery hours: Thursday, January 2 - Sunday, January 5: 1 - 6pmMonday, January 6: closed Tuesday, January 7: 3 - 6pm Some of your underwear has holes.Protect your bone marrow! Protect your stem cells! Plug the holes!If you’re too slow, you will become irradiated. If […]
internal monologues
Free entry; doors at 6:30pm, screenings at 7pm internal monologues’ is a screening event organized by Hea-Mi Kim that draws themes from Samuel Beckett’s seminal work, Not I. Beckett uses unconventional storytelling and internal dialogue to tell a story of a woman who has suffered trauma. The older woman discusses four distinguishable violent events from […]
Rocío Boliver in conversation
This conversation will take place over zoom. Please register this link to join. Rocío Boliver (La Congelada de Uva) will be joined by John Bartel and Amelia Jones to discuss her performance practice. The conversation will specifically focus on two works performed in Los Angeles, her 2015 Valentines Day performance at HRLA with Thibault Delferière, […]
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 […]
Structures of Feeling
Opening: Friday, December 6, 6 - 9pmGallery hours: Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm or by appointmentStructures of Feeling is a group exhibition featuring Jamil Baldwin, Janna Ireland, Arlene Mejorado,Luis Motta, Adee Roberson, Polo Silk, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva and Al-Ameen Archives organized byKeko Jackson. It considers works that are made using family photographs as material […]
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 […]
First Draft
First Draft is an evening of experimental works in process for Los Angeles based performing artists. This season’s lineup includes Jeremy Guyton, Katherine Helen Fisher, Eleanor Erdman (with Laura Bartczak and Kendra Adler), and William Ruíz Morales. Purchase tickets here.
Recipes for the End of Empire
untune’s Fall Residency from throughout November includes creatives exploring issues concerning FOOD-history, insecurity, sovereignty, and our modern food system as a colonial one. The group navigates and learns from land, food access, mutual aid practices, indigenous seeds, ethnobotany, waste, and modes of food as study. We aim to expand the ways we might understand "consumption" outside […]
Disconsent: Faith
A participatory performance by Aliza Shvarts Human Resources Los Angeles presents Disconsent: Faith, a one-on-one performance by Aliza Shvarts on Thursday, November 15 from 6-8pm. This performance is presented off-site. Sit down and you will hear a story about a time when someone consented or dissented in the context of religion or faith. Then tell […]
mattie barbier / Trevor Treglia & Violet Hannesena
mattie barbier performs the music from their new solo record on Dinzu Artifacts, paper blown between the spaces in my ribs. (lamentations) for éliane is a long form work for prepared euphonium that they have created over the last four years utilizing under explored avenues of instrumental modification and acoustic irregularities inspired by the work of […]
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 […]
MATTHEW LAX: A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG, PART TWO
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 6:00–10:00 pmGallery hours: 12:00–5:00 pm; Friday - Sunday, and by appointment * Thursday, November 14, 7:00 pm: Historian, writer and USC professor Andy Campbell joins Lax for a public conversation and the launch of Lax's zine-essay THE HOUNDS OF LOVE HAVE GONE NONVERBAL, published by Inga Books (Chicago), which accompanies Lax's exhibition A TIRED […]
Locked in the Brick Tower
Doors at 7pm; screening at 8pm Locked in the Brick Tower presents nine short films with thematic explorations spanning horror, prejudice, and the grotesque. In literary fiction, the mythical characters who don’t ‘fit’ in society, who bear the flawed monstrosity that makes them other-than-human, are relegated to the margins of made-up worlds. They are the […]
Person2Person: Hurricane Helene Relief Fundraiser
💛 PERSON 2 PERSON 💛 Last month Hurricane Helene devastated the South and especially western North Carolina. Many people in the area lost lives, homes, jobs. The recovery is far from over; you can help by attending Person 2 Person, a hurricane relief fundraiser at @humanresourcesla 💛💛💛 410 Cottage Home st. Chinatown Wednesday October 30 […]
Basandja Coalition Free Congo Fundraiser
Doors at 6:30pm; event begins at 7:00pm$15 - $40 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds); click here for tickets Join us for a teach in, fundraiser, film screening, food from Leela and a traveling exhibition of 27 photos in visual installation taken by The Mamas - women from the east of […]
Shadow of My Shadow Book Release
A reading and reception to celebrate the publication of Jennifer Doyle's book, Shadow of My Shadow. “Shadow of My Shadow sets a new bar for autotheory. A patient, granular dismantling of the chilling relations between work, sex, and institutions—and of their systemic disavowal. With her signature generosity of thought, unflinching attention to difficult details, and riveting […]
Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles
Opening reception: Saturday, October 5th, 5 - 8pm Gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12pm - 6pm Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles is a group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet. Appearing to be both nowhere and everywhere at once, the internet’s presence […]
MIRRORED FATALITY: LABUAD MEKLOOQ
Doors at 8pm; performance at 9:30pm It’s 3034 on ECOCIDE 3URTH, and the corpses of natural ecosystems of planet Earth murdered by apathetic humans and artificial intelligence are seeking vengeance. A transmuted species formed from the lava eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a dormant stratovolcano awakened after 500 years on Philippines’ Araw ng Kalayaan during U.S.A’s […]
MSHR: Network Entity
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND 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 […]
MSHR / Slipper / Jonathan Snipes
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUPEND 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 […]
Dorian Wood: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Doors at 7pm / show at 7:30pm on all nights. Dorian Wood returns to L.A. for three nights only, performing the entirety of Sinéad O'Connor's groundbreaking album on each night. Almost one year after the iconic singer/songwriter’s passing, Wood pays tribute to her with an intimately heartfelt arrangement for piano and voice. Says Wood: "There […]
Holly Harrell: The argument at the family barbecue the day after the office St. Patrick’s Day party
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 […]
There is almost not an interval
Open hours 12-6pm Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and by appointment all other times Renee GladmanWill RawlsTheresa Hak Kyung ChaAllison ParrishJJJJJerome EllisSarah RaraLuke Fischbeck “People will never believe you are 'without events.' And that is why decay is slow, and why it is not devastation.” (1) Intervals are what a threshold makes, a here and there, […]
Secret Magic Show
Anna Hrund Másdóttir, Rollin Hunt, and Aimee Goguen opening reception: Friday, August 2, 6 - 9pmopen hours: Saturday and Sunday, August 3 - 4, 12 - 6pm
Ringdown
Tickets are $10; click here to purchase. On July 23rd, 2024 at Human Resources Los Angeles, Alex Hawthorn will present an evening of experimental electronic music performances by renowned artists, culminating in the world premiere of their new work, “Ringdown”. The evening will feature opening solo sets by Stephanie Cheng Smith (electronics), Mattie Barbier (trombone), […]