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SUMMARY:Dead Thoroughbred
DESCRIPTION:DT a non-band band. \n\n\n\nDT never; not happening. \n\n\n\nDT heavy evasion—worthless. \n\n\n\nDT so goth\, born black. \n\n\n\nDT at least sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDead 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 hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. The series was supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation Grant.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/dead-thoroughbred/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:Like Spiders Spinning Light
DESCRIPTION:X-TRA Presents: Like Spiders Spinning Light a conversation between David Weldzius\, Britt Salvesen\, and Jon Leaver\, Saturday\,  December 17th\, 2023. \n\n\n\nA conversation around “Like Spiders Spinning Light: Reflections on Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach’s Guernica Tapestry at the UN\,” written by artist David Weldzius for X-TRA Volume 24\, Number 2. During the conversation\, Weldzius will be joined by X-TRA Editor Jon Leaver and LACMA Curator Britt Salvesen\, who will reflect on the duplication and circulation of the Guernica Tapestry by Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 5 pm \n\n\n\nRead Weldzius’s essay\, “Like Spiders Spinning Light: Reflections on Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach’s Guernica Tapestry at the UN” here. \n\n\n\nDavid Weldzius is an artist based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited at Kordansky Gallery\, MAK Center\, and Stephen Cohen Gallery\, among other venues. In 2012\, he was an artist resident at the Terra Foundation of American Art in Giverny\, France. His work is in the collection of the California Museum of Photography. David’s work has received critical attention from writer Jan Tumlir and art historian Eric Mazariegos\, Jr. To date\, David has published two essays with X-TRA. David teaches courses in photography and printmaking at Occidental College\, Los Angeles. \n\n\n\nBritt Salvesen is the curator and department head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints & Drawings Department at LACMA. Recent exhibitions include *3D: Double Vision* (2018) and *City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907* (with Leah Lehmbeck and Vannessa R. Schwartz\, 2022). \n\n\n\nJon Leaver is a Professor of Art History at the University of La Verne\, and editor for X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal. Born in the UK where he studied and began his teaching career\, he moved to California 20 years ago. His research covers a wide range of art history and visual culture from nineteenth-century French painting to the contemporary art of Los Angeles. He has written extensively on the painter Édouard Manet\, and the art critic Charles Baudelaire\, as well as subjects as diverse as the aesthetics of soccer and the history of World’s Fairs and Expositions.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/like-spiders-spinning-light/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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SUMMARY:Sam Rowell: Call Of The Chromophore
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n UPEND Presents \nSAM ROWELL:CALL OF THE CHROMOPHOREA series of performances in light and sound \nDecember 9-16 \nFinal Performances: Friday December 16\, 8PM & 10PM \nFREE \nLimited Capacity / Prompt arrival recommended \n– \n“An abstract investigation into the quantum nature of color and the relationship between perception\, metaphysics\, and language” \n– \nWith a site-specific installation of lights\, and an array of audio electronics\, Sam Rowell navigates trips through undulating fields of color\, flurries of flash\, and patches of pitch darkness. Simultaneously improvising sequences of deep hues and alien soundscapes\, hers is an expansive practice of perceptual play – literally spectacular and sensational. \nFor Call of the Chromophore\, Rowell has created within Human Resources an ad hoc theatre of light and sound to stage a series of 8 performances over the course of 8 days\, at 8pm each evening. Each show comes with a tasty title – and a heady introduction – providing a set and setting for the journey. Exploring themes around electromagnetic radiation and the cosmos\, Rowell is also literally playing with the material of such\, bouncing photons off the wall to explore specific frequencies of visible light\, and – of course – vibrations within the human range of hearing. \nRowell’s preference for group reception and live performance are key to her inquiry into the subjective. Rather than just color itself\, her palette includes the varied perceptions of audience members’ sensations of color. How do we talk about what we see? Do we see the same thing\, or are words a compromise to forge a consensus reality? \n– \nSam Rowell lives and plays in Los Angeles. Recent solo light and sound performances include: Dissolving the Sky\, Hunter Shaw Fine Arts (2021); Dark Energy & Spectral Redshift: A History of the Universe\, as told by Cosmic Radiation\, Dem Passwords & And/Or Gallery\, Los Angeles (2021); Looking Through the Gravity Lens: An Evocation of Sound as Radiant Energy\, Work Related\, Austin\, TX (2019); Trichromatic Phenomena in the Service of Induced Color\, Eternal 30 Festival\, Houston\, TX (2019). Rowell is the bassist for celebrated radical improv duo Eloe Omoe\, produces the live sound collage broadcast Special Collections\, and is part of the creative and engineering team of Lookout FM. \n– \nFriday December 9The Electromagnetic Enigma \nSaturday December 10Wells of Poison\, Columns of Smoke \nSunday December 11Newton Invented Indigo \nMonday December 12Lovecraftian Perceptual Color Theory \nTuesday December 13Earth People: Controlled by Gamma Light \nWednesday December 14Color Confusion \nThursday December 15Roses are Red\, Violets are Blue: Blackbody Radiation as it Relates to Hue \nFriday December 16\, 8PMWhite Light Unimagined by Dark Matter \nFriday December 16\, 10PMThe Bringer of Night Borne Intelligence
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/sam-rowell-call-of-the-chromophore/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:performance series
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SUMMARY:Walk Out UC Strike Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fundraiser sale of artworks by MFA students to support the UC academic worker strike. There will be a cash bar\, performances\, live sound\, and other refreshments. All works are 200 dollars. 100 percent of all proceeds collected will be donated to a specific fund providing relief to students impacted by the strike. Help striking workers hold the picket-line. \nARTISTS\nCarlos Agredano\nZack Benson\nAntonio Bever\nBrian Bowman\nJohn Burlte\nWilliam Camargo\nMisha Davydov\nAlex Delapena\nAnastasia Denos\nGrant Frederick Speich\nLauren Goldenberg\nEmily Babette Gross\nMichael James Gross\nNorma Hernandez Peña\nInès Kivimäki\nLaura Li\nAlberto Lule\nMaria Mathioudakis\nAcacia Marable\nDavora Martine\nAnthony Martinez Galvan\nBrice Matisse James\nAndy Montiel-Phillips\nAlyssa Rogers\nJamie Ross\nEddie Salinas\nCielo Saucedo\nJosh Schaedel\nEllen Schafer\nLiz Stringer\nJoshua Thomen\nAgo Visconti\nDevin Wilson\nChristopher Yang \nMUSICIANS\nDakota Higgins\nMicheal James Gross\nSpencer Pepke
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SUMMARY:Jimena Sarno: aeolian
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: \n\n\n\nFriday\, November 4*\, 6PM – 9PM\n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Wed – Sun noon-6PM\,\n\n\n\nMon – Tues by appointment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I can make wind\,” Gluskabe admitted shamefacedly\, “but I can’t make it stay.” \n\n\n\nThen God blew\, so powerfully that Gluskabe fell down and lost all his hair. \n\n\n\n–Genesis Volume 1 (Memoria del Fuego) Eduardo Galeano  \n\n\n\nConsidering how sound travels\, aeolian thinks through wind and breathing as manifestations of air as sound. The installation takes inspiration from the significance of wind in mythology. Taking its title from Aeolus – the keeper of the wind in Greek mythology and his gift of a calm wind as a ‘safe return home\,’ – it reflects on power distribution\, breath as lifeforce\, and sovereignty. The installation brings together four hand-felted horn speakers pointing at the four directions. The four speakers play a composition with songs performed by vocal artists\, from which only the breathing sounds of inspiration have been isolated. While the inspiring sounds appear to be pulling the air out of the space\, the felted speakers absorb some of the sound vibrations\, accentuating the senses both through the tactile process of making the work and its experience with the viewer’s breathing in the space. \n\n\n\nVocal artists:\n\n\n\nGemma Castro \n\n\n\nRosa Evangelina Beltrán \n\n\n\nMaya Paredes \n\n\n\nMolly Pease \n\n\n\nJimena Sarno is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Buenos Aires\, Argentina. With a focus on spatial and sonic experience she works across a range of media including installation\, sound\, video\, text and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at MASS MoCA\, 18th Street Arts Center\, LACE\, Vincent Price Art Museum\, Visitor Welcome Center\, The Museum of Latin American Art\, The Mistake Room\, Human Resources and San Diego Art Institute\, among others. A recipient of the 2021 California Arts Council Individual Fellowship\, she is a 2019-2023 Lucas Artist Fellow in Visual Arts at Montalvo Art Center. She is Assistant Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEverything in Air\n\n\n\nHuman Resources LA presents Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. The series was supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation Grant. \n\n\n\nFeatured photo by Christopher Wormald
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CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Geneva Skeen - Channels (#1 Pittsburgh / Los Angeles)
DESCRIPTION:open gallery hours: tuesday-thursday noon-7pm \nChannels (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles) is a technical cover-song to artist and composer Maryanne Amacher‘s City Links series\, adapted for a high-speed interconnected world of streaming\, liveness\, and hybridity. This project\, similar to Amacher’s original\, brings together live hi-fidelity audio from multiple sites into a new situation. Here\, the sites happen to be multiple water channels amidst constructed industrial infrastructure—the Los Angeles\, Monongahela\, Allegheny\, and Ohio Rivers. \nThe sounds from remote spots along these bodies of water coalesce at the separate\, third site of Human Resources. Using two portable A/V stations consisting of high-speed mobile wifi hotspots\, solar paneled power–banks\, condenser mics linked to mobile camera phones\, and audio software\, the resonant concrete architecture at HR becomes a hub and amplifier for ongoing signal receipt—a live mix for place\, perception\, and waters to recombine in presence and present-time. \nArtists and musicians from each location have been invited to “join” the audio stream throughout the installation as follows: \nOctober 18: Patrick Shiroishi (LA)\nOctober 19: Machine Listener (Pittsburgh) \nGeneva Skeen is an artist and composer. Influenced by écriture féminine\, alchemical metaphors\, and a range of musical traditions ranging from holy mysticism to industrial\, Skeen works with sound\, voice\, architecture\, video\, sculpture\, and software. Her recordings\, performances\, publications\, and installations focus on site-specific landscape studies as a means to highlight complex interdependencies between perception\, attention\, and trauma. Through linkages made between our finite physical landscapes and their infinitely permutable digital representations\, these works explore qualities of embodiment amidst climate catastrophe and late capitalism. Skeen has released musical works on Room40\, LINE Imprint\, Touch\, Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, and Crystalline Morphologies\, which have been reviewed in The Wire Magazine\, Pitchfork\, Bandcamp\, Foxy Digitalis\, and others. She has presented work at LAXART\, the Broad Museum\, Open Space SFMOMA\, LAND AND SEA\, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions\, the Center for New Music San Francisco\, REDCAT\, and LACMA. She was the founding curator of Sequencing\, an online transmedia publication series for Fulcrum Arts which explores the intersection of art\, science\, and social change\, and is a member of VOLUME—a curatorial collective focused on sound and time-based practices. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. \nwww.genevaskeen.com \n\n \nChannels (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles) is presented at Human Resources as part of Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. \n\nThis project was supported in part by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant\, the Carnegie Mellon University Frank-Ratchye Further Fund\, and a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Artist Project Grant. \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/geneva-skeen-channels-1-pittsburgh-los-angeles/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:HRLA Divas Live!
DESCRIPTION:A two night gala for HRLA: October 14th & 15th \n \nfeaturing performances by \nAmelia 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 . \n \nTickets available here
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-divas-live/
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:Haig Papazian: 1000 strings at rest / this song is currently not available (in exile)
DESCRIPTION:كان يا ما كان \nկար ու չկար \nthere was and there wasn’t \nOver two days\, Haig Papazian will build a new machine/instrument which he will play on Saturday\, Oct 1. \nDoors open at 8:30pm\, performance at 9:00pm. \nHaig Papazian (beirut 1986) is an artist\, composer\, and performer whose body of work include architecture\, music\, composition\, performance art\, storytelling\, and multimedia installations. His most recent body of work explores and challenges the multifaceted meanings of what makes a home\, and ways in which this story could be told. Variations of his Space Time Tuning Machine project have been presented at Joe’s Pub in New York\, SXSW in Austin\, and The Broad Museum in LA. \nHaig is a founding member and violinist of Mashrou’ Leila\, the Lebanese band whose electro-pop anthems about political freedom\, race\, gender and modern Arabic identity have questioned the status quo of the Middle-Eastern music industry. They have performed at sold out venues and festivals around the world. The band has recently collaborated with MIKA\, Hercules and Love Affair\, Yo-Yo Ma and Joe Goddard from Hot Chip. With a musical career that spans 13 years\, Haig has been an artist in residence at NYU\, campaigned with Greenpeace in an initiative to promote solar energy and participated in the BLOCK 9 & BANKSY Creative Retreat alongside fellow musicians Brian Eno and Roisin Murphy\, and has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as part of Oliver Beer’s Vessel Orchestra. He has held public talks at NYU\, Columbia University\, Concordia\, Dartmouth College and Sciences Po in Paris. \nHaig has been a grantee of Sundance institute’s 2021 Interdisciplinary artist fund\, selected SHIM:NYC 2021 resident artist at Westbeth in New York. and the public theater’s New York Voices Commission recipient from Joe’s Pub\, and has completed residencies at Brooklyn College center for the performing arts\, The  LAB residency at Long wharf theater\, and Greenwich house Uncharted residency. \nHis most recent writings include an op-Ed in the New York Times\, and essays in The Guardian\, and France Culture. He is based out of Queens in New York\, with his cat Beau.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/haig-papazian-1000-strings-at-rest-this-song-is-currently-not-available-in-exile/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:fault lines
DESCRIPTION:fault lines\n\nFriday\, September 23rd at 7 pm\nSaturday\, September 24th at 2 pm and at 7 pm\n\nTickets can be purchased here\n\n \n\nfault lines: activation #3 at Human Resources Los Angeles\n\n \n\nHuman Resources will host Bay Area based dance company pateldanceworks and the spirit Blue CHiLD. in a week-long experimental movement residency that culminates in three performances from Sept 23-24\, 2022. pateldanceworks and Blue CHiLD. have been collaborating on an ongoing\, emergent\, multidisciplinary series of performances and experiential activations entitled fault lines. Each offering emerges from its last evolution\, and includes different constellations of members tethered to pateldanceworks. This iteration of fault lines at Human Resources is performed by Bhumi B Patel and Elizabeth Sugawara. It is a ritual portal – a doorway across generations and geography\, a metaphorical opening of the earth returning us home. Together\, they ask: What does it mean to make home and migrate\, as the earth burns and the ground beneath our feet continues to orient and re-orient? How do we find and create stability for one another\, and for the planet\, during rapid change\, irreversible loss?\n\n \n\nfault lines has been performed at RoundAntennae (Berkeley\, CA) and Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference (Manoa\, HI) and will be shown at Urban Arts Space/Hybrid Arts Lab (Columbus\, OH) later this year. In 2023\, the work will be performed outdoors at Fort Funston in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (San Francisco\, CA).\n\n \n\npateldanceworks (PDW) is directed by Bhumi B Patel\, a queer\, desi\, home-seeker\, science fiction choreographer\, movement artist and writer (she/they). In its purest form\, her performance works for PDW are a love letter to her ancestors. PDW moves at the intersection embodied research and generating new futures\, using improvisational practice as a pursuit for liberation. \n\n \n\nElizabeth Sugawara (she/they) is a dance artist and movement maker\, currently pursuing her MFA in Dance at The Ohio State University. She is a multi-layered\, ever curious artist who enjoys the feeling of making\, the attentive focus\, and awareness that goes into creating a world. She dances to honor her ancestors\, actively listen to surrounding ecosystems\, and to allow the ripples of internal sensations to seep to the external. She understands movement practice as a multisensory\, multitasking activity and is interested in researching the constant patterns and movement transitions in her kinesthetic\, improvisational process. Elizabeth questions through movement and storytelling: What does generous intentional adapting and active listening look like within improvisation as a performer?\n\n \n\nBlue CHiLD. is a vibe and a spirit. Born from a blue plant and the dust you carry beneath your feet\, they are both here and there\, everywhere and nowhere. They are shy and jealous\, irreverent and feral\, creative and always pregnant\, but never a mother. They are most expressive when they find themselves in relation to optimal sentience. Blue CHiLD. is limitless\, spiritual\, post-lingual\, in process\, in feeling\, nebulous\, on their journey\, and in love. 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/fault-lines-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220909T173000
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SUMMARY:Hanieh Khatibi: Space has always reduced me to silence
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 9th 5:30pm — Saturday\, September 10th 11pm \n  \nSpace 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 unraveling. The performance will be live streamed in its entirety at HRLA.  \n  \nHanieh Khatibi (b.1985\, Tehran\, Iran) is an LA-based artist whose work considers the continuity\, resistance\, agency and interrelationships that exist in nature and society through sculpture\, performance\, and video. Her work has been exhibited at the Echo Park Film Center\, Track 16\, Commons LA\, Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery\, CalArts\, among others. Khatibi was a participant of the 2020 ArtCenter DTLA Residency Project\, Love’s Remedies.  \nSpecial thanks to Vardui Sharapkhanyan for curating\, Javid Ghaem Maghami\, Bita Fayyazi\, Pouya Parsamagham\, Mohsen Shahmardi\, Fardin Ali-Asghari\, Ahmad Khatibi\, and Sodabeh Amini who made the project possible. \nSpace has always reduced me to silence is funded in part by the Foundation for the Arts\, Emergency Grant. \nThe performance takes its title from a line in The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/performance-by-hanieh-khatibi/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts
DESCRIPTION: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.
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SUMMARY:Very Be Careful -- Silver Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:  \nVery Be Careful — 25th Anniversary Celebration & Photo Exhibition\nAugust 26 – September 4 \nVery Be Careful\, the Vanguards of Vallenato for Los Angeles\, celebrate their 25th year together with a photo exhibition and celebration at Human Resources LA in Chinatown. VBC friend and official photographer\, Keith Sirchio\, has been shooting the VBC scene since 1999 from Coast to Coast and across the Seas. Sirchio’s photography traces the band’s earliest moments living in New York\, touring Japan\, and up to the present at their home in Los Angeles. \n  \nGallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday\, 1pm-6pm \nOpening reception Friday August 26th\, 2022\n7pm-12am\nFull Bar \nMusical Performances by:\nVery Be Careful\nEl Haru Kuroi \nand Featuring:\nLas Sucias Social Club\nMarionettes – La Smiley & El Triste\nDJs – Linda Nuves & Cisco\nReception tickets $25 available  \n \nAdventure has never been a task for VBC.  A Caribbean soul and a California heart have sustained two decades of ceaseless romp-downs and raucous times for L.A.’s vallenato veteranos\, inciting 10s of 1000s of men\, women\, children\, and even some wild animals\, to boogie to the Colombian coastal beat. From the debaucherous streets of: Austin’s SXSW\, Germany’s WorldCupTour ’06\, L.A.’s Sunset Junction Street Fair; to the cultural pinnacles of: Chicago’s Summer Dance Series\, New York’s Central Park Summer stage\, L.A.s’ Grand Performances & Levitt Pavilion\, London’s Hammersmith Apollo; colossal concerts: L.A. Sports Arena Cumbia Fest\, Glastonbury Music Festival & Bestival UK\, Fuji Rock Festival & Asagiri Jam Japan; clubs and hubs: N.Y.’s SOBs\, L.A.’s HOBs\, backyard BBQs\, Very Be Careful has tamed the beasts within or unleashed the ones without\, helping to popularize the beauty of the 1950s-1970s sound of Colombian vallenato and cumbia. \nBootlegged across the Americas\, pumped in the clubs\, and ripped in cyberspace and the airwaves around the world\, VeryBeCareful forges ahead globetrotting alongside legends and antiheros: Joe Strummer\, Alfredo Gutierrez\, Antibalas\, Carlos Vives\, Grupo Niche\, Kronos Quartet\, Gogol Bordello\, Buena Vista Social Club\, Jack White\, Celso Piña\, Vampire Weekend\, Fruko Y Sus Tesos. Their infamous fifteen year traditions hosting old school “dances” for Valentine’sDay\, NewYear’s Eve\, 20 de Julio\, Halloween\, and the legendary July Fourth Brooklyn “Cumbia Under The Sparks” rooftop affair\, has brought together people from around the globe itchin’ for those early roots sounds that prove a stripped down parranda is the fiercest and funnest way to party. \n  \nKeith Sirchio moved to New York in 1992 to study cinematography at the School of Visual Arts. He began working as a camera operator on independent films and music videos from the likes of Elliott Smith to Wu-tang Clan\, but soon found himself more intrigued taking stills of what was happening behind the scenes; between the takes. Since then\, Keith was chosen for a residency program at the Camera Club of New York\, interned at the prestigious Magnum Photos Agency and has photographed album covers for music labels such as Universal Decca\, Epitaph and Fat Beats. His work has been featured in Hamburger Eyes and Upper Playground’s “Backyard Shakedown” along with dozens of other publications. His most recent solo exhibition\, “Soft Tissue\, Hard Bones” at Lorimoto Gallery in NYC documented Muay Thai fighters from 2015-2017 in Chiang Mai\, Thailand. Keith met Very Be Careful by chance at a Brooklyn loft party they crashed over 20 years ago\, just a few months after they migrated from the West. His lens has been capturing their Cumbia capers ever since. \n \nAll images by Keith Sirchio
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/very-be-careful-silver-anniversary/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Casey Kauffmann & John de Leon Martin
DESCRIPTION:Human Resources LA presents a two person show of painting\, drawing\, video\, and sculpture by visual artists Casey Kauffmann and John de Leon Martin.  \nThe exhibition opens Saturday\, August 6th from 6-9pm  and will run until  Saturday\, August 20th. Gallery hours: Wed-Sun\, 12-6pm. \n  \nThis show was initiated by Jeann Bofwel\, who saw similarities in the maximalist fascination with pleasure and suffering in both Kauffmann and Martin’s work. Both Martin and Kauffmann take on the dual roles of critic and fan\, investigating media consumption as an interpersonal act. While Kauffmann’s digital video collages utilize images from reality television and other limitless online resources to examine culture’s relationship with the feminine\, Martin’s paintings and drawings\, largely inspired by his love of Dungeons and Dragons\, employ fantasy tropes to create sites of queer possibility and pain. The landscapes of California\, both emotional and actual\, also loom subtextually in both artist’s work- They appear in the faces of Kauffman’s Hollywood stars and the Redwood Dryad that centers Martin’s oil painting If You Were a Tree\, What Kind of Tree Would You Be? \n  \nPerhaps the greatest commonality between Martin and Kauffmann is that they are both collagists\, constantly mining from the media and experiences they love. In 19th and early 20th century Europe\, in works like the Cottingley Fairy photographs or the collages of Lady Filmer\, collage was a format utilized by mostly female artists to evoke the otherworldly and call into question the treachery of images. It was considered a hobbyist craft not to be taken too seriously by the artistic elite. But why? Perhaps because a recurring mode of western art has been to present art works as the product of a singular artist who in solitude plumbs each creative idea from the depths of their genius.  Collage\, with its direct acknowledgement that not everything in an artwork is created by the artist\, instead points to the interrelated nature of life.  Perhaps in some ways this threatens that aforementioned premise of artistic solitude? It is Kauffmann and Martin’s hope that you will feel threatened by this show in similar ways.  \n  \nCasey Kauffmann is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing\, installation\, video\, and a variety of digital mediums. She is a lecturer at the University of California San Diego. Kauffmann was born in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles\, California in 1989. She lives and works in Oceanside\, California and received her MFA from The University of Southern California in 2020 and her Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington. Her work has been featured in publications such as Artnet\, Artillery\, LAWeekly\, The New Yorker\, I-D Vice\, and Hyperallergic. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries such as Transfer Gallery\, Centro de Cultura Digital\, the Brand Library in Glendale\, Lyles and King\, Coaxial\, Arebyte\, Cirrus\, and more. Kauffmann’s collage Instagram project @uncannysfvalley\, which she started in 2014\, features digital collage works and GIFs created using only her iPhone. The pieces Kauffmann posts to this account are an ever-accumulating collection of material from all corners of the internet\, sourced from Tumblr\, Instagram\, and Google. This Instagram account and body of work has been exhibited in many galleries\, written about in several esteemed publications\, and led to her admission to the MFA program at the University of Southern California. Kauffmann’s drawing practice functions as an inquiry into the representation of femme emotion and hysteria in both art history and popular culture.  \n  \nJohn “Johnnie JungleGuts” de Leon Martin is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing\, installation\, painting\, and performance. Martin was born in Riverton\, New Jersey in 1987. He lives and works in Highland Park\, Los Angeles and received his Bachelor of Arts from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia\, California. Martin’s primary goal as an artist is to express enthusiasm and hope\, although he has also started to allow feelings of anxiety and fear to be present in his visual art. As a result\, Martin’s work often straddles the line between artist and fan. He curated a cosplay fashion show and a panel discussion on Pokemon as part of Kchung Radio’s Hammer Museum Residency and Made In LA exhibition. Martin is also a fan of animals- he has volunteered hands on with a variety of primates\, canids\, turtles\, and cats both big and small. In 2011 Martin was awarded the Michelle Lund artist’s residency at Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary in Idaho. His work has been displayed at MOCA Geffen\, Night Gallery\, Machine Project\, and on an episode of A&E’s Storage Wars where he appraised a collection of My Little Ponies. His work has been featured in publications such as Artforum\, The New York Times\, and Art in America. He has been a frequent guest lecturer at Calarts and was a guest lecturer at Cornell University in 2021. In his work for this show Martin utilizes fairies\, preternatural beings which are a part of nature but mysterious to society at large\, as a metonym for being gay.  \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/casey-kauffmann-john-de-leon-martin/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Poetry at HRLA
DESCRIPTION:  \nHRLA presents a night of poetry this Friday\, July 29th at 7pm with the poets: \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nKata De la Rosa\nLupita Limón Corrales\nViva Padilla \n*A 5 dollar donation is encouraged* \nMasks are encouraged inside the gallery. \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/poetry-at-hrla/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220802
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SUMMARY:Fidelia Lam - New seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX.
DESCRIPTION:Opening: Saturday July 23\, 2022\, 7-10pm\nOn view weds-sun 12-6pm\, July 23-31 and by appointment. \nNew seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX.  grapples with the affective and aesthetic legacies of empire and colonialism as they continue to shape the racial architectures of Asian diasporic femme subjectivities. The exhibition features new multimedia works that speak to\, with\, and nearby speculative ancestral figures\, drawing on Anne Anlin Cheng’s theory of ornamentalism to create sites for grieving\, honoring\, and queering modes of synthetic personhood. Playing with recursive processes and speculative rituals\, the pieces arrive in formations of plastics\, light\, and digital technologies to meditate on the racializations of matter and inter-textual modes of being. \nDear Ghost in my Shell which points are we passing pass by reference only please Dear wiring and connections our encodings have too many channels and have started to fray Dear OS update to use new features we are made obsolete our ram is getting slower Dear Major you are enmeshed with the synthetic sentience of the Puppets teach me your navigational practices Dear Minor Dear Method Dear Margaret\, have you found your robot yet? Would you help me find mine? Look at my errors at my seams at my torn pixels they might point the way \nFidelia Lam is a Canadian multimedia artist and scholar whose work attends to the shared ground of Asian/American diaspora\, aesthetics\, technology\, and urban space through recursive assemblages of code\, animation\, projection\, sound\, bodies\, and critical inquiry. \n(image: Still from when stillness culminates (2022)\, interactive installation.)
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/fidelia-lam-new-seed-xxxxxx-new-seed-xxxxxx/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220715T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220715T210000
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SUMMARY:Soft Trace/Line Break
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\n\nefren castro\n\naimee goguen\n\ngennyvera pacheco\n\np staff
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/soft-trace-line-break/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220708T120000
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SUMMARY:Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza: Soft Traces
DESCRIPTION:Soft Traces \nAn exhibition by Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza. \nOpening July 8th\, 6-9pm \nWalk-through w the artists & Jennifer Doyle: Sunday July 10\, 3pm \nGallery is open daily 12-6pm till Sunday\, July 17th. \n  \nSoft is delicate\, supple\, pliable\, velvety\, cushiony\, flexible\, fleshy\, yielding. Trace is a fragment\, a hint\, a shred\, a breath\, a vestige\, a snippet\, an intimation\, a marking.  \nSoft Traces is an exhibition of new works by Daniel Arthur Mendoza and Alex Delapena. It is an invitation to be marked\, to be flesh\, to be breathed\, to yield.  \nIn one of Delapena’s photographs\, a tender paper cut out of a human gazes over a stretch of abstracted landscape under a moon\, considering a future\, or the remains of a past\, hope and grief mix here. Quickly\, the infamous almost redundantly poignant political slogan “Another world is possible” comes to mind. This image transports me to more  \nresistance\, less fear\, more action\, more accountability\, away from screens\, capital\, deception\, failed leadership\, scorned bodies. The past\, or is this the future?  \nMendoza and Delapena’s works’ gentle and accessible wants are fulfilled\, carrying a viewer close inside a canopy imbued with hope\, history\, and possibilities for change. In this shelter\, we are asked to examine the weightiness of the visual propaganda instilled by capitalist patriarchy. Cartoonish bodies laid on sheer fabric and naive cut out forms stilled in images immediately allow us entry. Malleable methodologies\, such as the pliable placing and puppeteering of paper\, stitching\, and quilting\, suggest possibilities for an editing and an altering\, of our realities and social norms that are all too fixed by forces outside of ourselves. The artists signal our need to boldly reformat our realities\, forge\, stage or construct what we want to see in the world\, and they propose a call to step into these new shapes.  \n“Our strategy should be not only to confront the Empire but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen… With our art\, our music\, our literature\, our stubbornness\, our joy\, our brilliance\, our sheer relentlessness–and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.” – Arundhati Roy  \nSensitive histories spill out from both artists’ practices\, from material levity we land in their dense if not urgent politics\, yet we are cared for here. Mendoza meticulously celebrates queer history and its historical veiled-ness within the confines of daily life. Animated imagery and abstractions stitched from repurposed bed sheets and gauzy fabrics: affect\, violences\, intimacies\, glamor and vulnerability merge here. Reconstituted materials\, as always\, point to resistance. Meanwhile\, Delapena images spirits and historical traces from his complex home of Hawaii. Together photographed paper forms and soft monochromatic landscapes sensitively interrogate Hawaii’s oppressive colonial history as well as its landscape’s potency. Some of Delapena’s images point to the system of categorization and domination\, wherein plantation laborers from different ethnic groups were distinguished by bango tags\, in varying shapes and sizes. (We too are marked here). Images of sugarcane invite your body\, but the stalks are also starkly reminiscent of human bones as the landscape widens to include more of what has been hidden. (We become flesh here). Then\, Mendoza’s luscious hanging circular work persuades you effortlessly to commune inside of it. (Respite\, be breathed here). On this hanging monument\, illustrated quilted bodies belong to each other. Soft welcoming faces and embraces brim forth from glowing purple fabric\, evangelized by light. A space for layered corporeal bliss\, a space all too needed.  \nA shared deviation from genre specific making allows for Delapena and Mendoza to confront the masculine blunt edges of the digital\, the technical\, the proficient\, the automated. It’s in their denial of directness\, in their responsive gestures\, the sheerness\, the naive\, the poetic\, the papery\, the camouflage\, the feeling\, in the shadows\, where these artists position themselves. As I consider these works\, in this moment\, when bodies increasingly lay under siege\, as I wander through the diaphanous\, the malleable thinking\, the handmade-ness–- I feel the hands of the artists. And I am reminded that art making is a physical gesture of love\, and to this love\, we may also choose to yield.  \n-Zoe Koke \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/alex-delapena-daniel-arthur-mendoza-soft-traces/
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SUMMARY:Trans Prom
DESCRIPTION:Time to pull out your best looks. It’s prom night! Join us for a trans centered queer dance night at HRLA on July 3rd\, from 8pm-midnight. From your black tie\, to your blue jeans\, or even that puffy dress you haven’t time to wear\,  we want to see you dress for the queer prom of your dreams. There will be dancing\, drinks\, photobooth\, and a themed costume competition where we will be crowning our “Prom Deities”. All profits for this event will go to the Trevor Project! \nTicket prices: $5-10 Sliding Scale \nDrinks: Venmo\, cash bar \n21+ over\, proof of covid vaccination is required to attend this event. \nPURCHASE TICKETS!
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/trans-prom/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220630T193000
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SUMMARY:Run\, Run\, Roxie Pickle! by Holly Harrell
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 30th at 7:30pm for a performance by Holly Harrell: Run\, Run\, Roxie Pickle!  \n  \nHolly Harrell adapts past videos into a live performance. Through successive layers of interpretation\, Harrell’s monologues are transformed by a recursive\, increasingly abstract vocabulary of words\, symbols\, and gestures. Like some halter-topped John Cougar heroine\, Run\, Run\, Roxie Pickle! enacts a hectic\, chameleonic social and personal history steeped in pathos\, histrionics\, and myth. The piece stars Holly Harrell and Bryan Morello\, and features Jonathan Chacon as Jonathan Chacon and Luis Ortega Govela as the tree.Special thanks to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, this performance is supported by the FCA Emergency Grant.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/run-run-roxie-pickle-by-holly-harrell/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220625T230000
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SUMMARY:Performances
DESCRIPTION:Skylar Haskard \nLiz Nurenberg | Anthony Bodlovic \nKarla Ekatherine Canseco \nCarlos Agredano \nPaul Outlaw | Joe Seely \nKristina Wong \n \n\nSaturday\n\nJune\, 25th\n\n7-11pm\n\n \n\n \n\nDescriptions of perfromances:\n\nSkylar Haskard\n\nCurator assembles sculpture slowly.\n\n \nLiz Nurenberg | Anthony Bodlovic \nIn the shadow of the upcoming solstice\, this performance will be an interactive ritual of connection.  Utilizing ideas of sympathetic magic\, the work acts as a a liminal play ground that moves through 3 phases: self-awareness\, connection\, and community. The piece will move between object and body in an attempt to engage viewers in both active and passive roles. In this process we bridge our two practices using connection as a commonality while bringing Liz’s sculptural forms into the process of ritual act and narrative. Anthony will act as a conduit between the sculptures and viewers by taking on the role of both object and person. The construction and deconstruction of the space will be part of the performance. \n \nKarla Ekatherine Canseco \nKarla will perform in a clay and leather armor. The armor\, resembling that between and a warrior and dog\, is the manifestation of protection for a wounded heart. She will be speaking to/from/about love as she calls for guidance from the nagual that would appear to her mother as a tall black dog in Atlixco.\n\n \nCarlos Agredano \nRoma Amor explores a genealogy of cleanliness rituals through my family’s complex devotion to soap. The performance involves a series of choreographic oppressions related to the self-comportment and respectability politics instilled in American schoolchildren.\n\n \nPaul Outlaw | Joe Seely \nDUET\nPainful\, crusty: Two seasoned satyrs wrap themselves in a velvet artifice of memory. DUET is our eleventh collaboration since 2011 (five with Asher Hartman’s Gawdafful National Theater)\, but the first time performing as a pair.\n\n \nKristina Wong \nKristina Wong is a self proclaimed Food Bank Influencer of World Harvest Food Bank at 3100 Venice Blvd.  She loves it so much she’s creating a new performance on it.  Watch as she doesn’t just throw the spaghetti against the wall\, but the boxed spaghetti close to expiry date against the wall.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/performances/
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SUMMARY:FUJIIIIIIIIIIITA • Tashi Wada
DESCRIPTION:UPEND presents\, the U.S. Premiere of Japanese sound artist and instrument builder FUJI|||||||||||TA and a special performance from L.A.’s own Tashi Wada. \nFUJI|||||||||||TA \nJapanese sound artist Yosuke Fujita wanted to hear sounds yet-unheard and devised a way to make them – by building an organ from scratch\, with no previous experience\, and following no lead but his imagination. With no keyboard\, and using only eleven pipes\, his invention features a bellow-like air pump called a “fuigo” – similar to those used by Japanese blacksmiths – to push air into sound. Over more than a decade\, Fujita has used the instrument to create evocative landscapes out of tone clusters\, beat frequencies\, and deft minimalist melodies\, all whilst hovering above the quiet clicking of his airpump. After years of honing\, his idiosyncratic sound pallette became more familiar to ears worldwide via a 2019 release »iki« on Swiss label Hallow Ground. \nFujita has collaborated with key figures of different generations of the Japanese avant-garde – Akio Suzuki\, Keiji Haino\, and EYヨ – and performed widely in Europe on bills with artists such as Kali Malone\, Stephen O’Malley\, and Rashad Becker. \nThis performance will be FUJI|||||||||||TA’s U.S. Premiere. \n“FUJI|||||||||||TA has created a work that operates as a beautiful nexus between the material and immaterial qualities of music. It is a lived-in dreamscape of deep\, rich tonality.” – Lawrence English \nTASHI WADA \nLong a crucial contributor to the fabric of sound activity in town\, composer and performer Tashi Wada returns to Human Resources. Via recordings and international performances – and his deft use of alternative tunings – Wada’s distinctive and highly expressive works have come to figure heavily within the flow of contemporary minimalism worldwide. Instead of latching on to a single tuning system\, he plums the possibilities of several\, including those of his own devise. Wada contemplates – literally by ear – the harmonic structure for a piece: often embracing the relative\, rather than the ballast. With pieces that utilize synthesis and a range of acoustic instrumentation\, small ensemble and duo collaborations are key to his process. On this occasion\, Tashi Wada will be joined by Julia Holter. \nTashi Wada is a composer and performer based in Los Angeles. Wada studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years performed alongside his father\, Yoshi Wada. He has presented his music internationally and collaborated with a range of artists including Charles Curtis\, Simone Forti\, and Julia Holter. Wada founded and runs the label Saltern. His most recent album Nue was released by RVNG Intl. \n“Like his father Wada is obsessed by the brain scrambling properties of sustained tones and maximalist microtonal confusion…” – Volcanic Tongue \n  \nAdvance tickets available here: https://withfriends.co/event/14425290/General_Admission
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/fujiiiiiiiiiiita-tashi-wada/
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SUMMARY:PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0
DESCRIPTION:In light of a violent attack on the exhibition\, LYLEX 1.0\, by PHILTH HAUS\, presented by the Feminist Center For Creative Work\, the exhibition will not reopen at HRLA. A schedule for the \ncontinuing phases of this project\, at NAVEL and FCCW\, will be updated and announced soon\, as scheduling for the project is now being reworked in light of this incident. \nFollowing the aforementioned attack\, HRLA regrettably mismanaged our response. Up to this point\, we have failed to listen to the suggestions of the artist and the FCCW with the necessary seriousness or care which we should have from the very beginning of our response. This is our second statement about the events that took place. It is meant to respond to the continued requests and suggestions of the artist and the FCCW to publish a statement with complete and current information.  \nThis version replaces our previous statement\, accounts for our activities in response to the occurrence\, and atones for misstatements\, the causes for which range from oversights and lack of information to a desire to minimize our culpability with regards to insufficient protection at the time of and immediately following the attack\, as well as\, in our response throughout the following weekend. \nAfter some consideration\, we are revising this statement\, with a special emphasis on acknowledging the efforts that the exhibition organizers\, and centrally\, the artist\, continue to expend in order to be heard and taken seriously regarding the level of threat the attack at HRLA on June 9th presented (described in more detail below).  \nWe now recognize that our failure to respond appropriately over the last week\, from our communications following the attack\, through the authoring of the present statement\, has perpetuated the undue and unfair labor regularly put on trans people to protect themselves from violence. \nOver the past days\, new information has come to light as part of our continuing efforts to form a complete picture of the incident on June 9th\, and its reverberating effects. Here is a more complete account: \nOn Thursday night\, June 9\, an audience member\, who was attending a music event hosted by HRLA\, intentionally and violently attacked a section of the installation in the LYLEX 1.0 exhibit. A videographer\, not affiliated with HR\, captured the last moments of the attack on video\, after the attacker\, noteably a white cis man\, pushed over the artwork and shouted disturbing language\, condemning the exhibit — which is focused on trans lives and bodies\, among other themes — as satanic and like death\, remarks\, that frightened and alarmed many members of the audience. Trusted eyewitnesses noted that they first noticed the man\, becoming aggravated in the moments before the attack\, arguing with a femme he seemed to be close to\, later identified as the man’s partner. This incident took place right before the music program was set to begin\, in the same space as the exhibit. The HRLA team facilitating the night’s event decided to continue the program\, after acknowledging the harm done in a brief introduction. The performance was thus staged around the damage. There were conflicting eyewitness reports that we can’t confirm\, but feel that it was our duty to report regardless: that the man circled the block 2 or 3 times after storming out of the space\, and that he left in a car after.  \nFollowing the performance\, HRLA shared multiple videos of the performance\, including some that showed the damaged work. We acknowledge that allowing the performance to continue put our audience members\, performers\, and volunteers on site\, at risk— a risk which we should be more especially sensitive to in light of the nation’s current climate of violence. Additionally\, we regret posting videos to our social media in the aftermath\, as this act\, regardless of our desire to share the performance\, was deeply insensitive to the artist. \nLeaders at Human Resources\, who reported the incident to FCCW the following day\, offered very limited information about the incident and aggressor\, specifically\, painting the attack as more random and circumstantial than aggravated and targeted. Additionally\, we contacted the artist directly which violated an appropriate chain of communication\, as it would have been more suitable for this violent occurrence to be conveyed with care by the FCCW. \nThe video that was captured\, along with multiple eyewitness accounts\, confirms the intensity and specificity of the threat. We recognize our error and apologize for initially misrepresenting the nature of the attack— a misrepresentation that endangered the artist\, as well as the queer staff members who returned to HRLA the following day without a full and accurate account of the incident. \nIt has also become evident that HR volunteers have not received proper crisis training\, and were unable to provide an adequate and coordinated response to ensuring attendees’ safety on the night of the attack. \nOur decisions in this incident’s immediate wake minimized the severity of the destruction\, amplifying the vulnerability of everyone working on the exhibition. We are continuing to reflect on how these actions\, as well as the tone of the earlier statement failed to live up to our aspiration to keep trans women safe. \nThis destructive act\, and our response to it\, reinforced especially trans and femme vulnerabilities within a transphobic\, transmisogynist society. We placed the artist and FCCW in a position of needing to work to raise our awareness\, and belabored them with multiple rounds of edits on our institutional statement\, a statement which we ultimately could not agree upon. In the conversations surrounding the event’s aftermath and throughout this process of drafting our initial statement\, conversations between HRLA and the artist and FCCW were marked by a defensiveness that we regret. Certain members of our team spoke over the artist\, and made attempts to compare their own suffering as well as that of HRLA as an institution\, to the harm experienced by the artist and her work. On Sunday\, we proceeded to publish this statement \nwithout many changes that were important to them. Despite these regrettable actions\, the artist and the team at the Feminist Center for Creative Work have taken the brunt of working through the damage\, and have graciously agreed to collaborate with us up through a single edit of the current document. \nWe apologize to the artists and to the exhibition’s organizers for the harm this incident has caused. \nWe apologize to the community of the artist’s supporters\, and the other institutional stakeholders who are unable to view the work in its initially iterated environment and timeline. \nHRLA is committed to the safety of our space\, this exhibition and all the people working in support of it. We are committed to uplifting this artist’s work\, and the trans and queer community at HRLA. To this end\, we are reviewing all aspects of our decision-making around this event. This is a moment for HRLA to recognize and address our own shortcomings in the handling of this crisis and to demonstrate in praxis\, and not just words\, what it means for HRLA to protect the trans community. \nActions we’ve taken to protect community members and to ensure safety going forward: \n\n Two volunteers from HRLA have since met with the man who carried out the attack. He has agreed to stay away from HRLA\, as well as the exhibition’s other two presenting partners\, the Feminist Center for Creative Work and NAVEL.\n We have retained the services of a private investigator\, who is also a member of HRLA’s board\, to assist in assessing the threat posed by this man and his actions\, and take steps to prevent further harm.\n We have reached out to security staff with connections to queer and trans community and specific training in de-escalation practices\, who can be on hand as needed at future events\, and directly assist us in reassessing our own safety protocols.\n HRLA is updating its volunteer orientation process to provide clear instructions for emergency situations. This is a process that had begun previously\, and is recognized as urgently needed.\n HRLA has begun an internal accountability process that holds the organization at large\, and also\, specific members of its team responsible for their individual actions while working on behalf of HRLA in the immediate aftermath of the occurrence\, including their communications with the artist and FCCW staff.\n HRLA will support FCCW and Philth Haus with costs associated with repairing or replacing the damaged artwork\, and share costs on altering plans for the project.\n\nWe are sorry that the mishandling of this incident has altered the pace\, planning\, and celebratory nature of this multi-venue project for the artists and FCCW\, presenting the artist with additional loss\, and increased burden of work. We recognize the need for continued work to repair the damage resulting from the violent and specific destruction of the artist’s work—a literal living organism and an embodiment of trans life. \n—————————————————————————————————– \nFeminist Center for Creative Work presents  \nPHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0 \nA 3-venue exhibition and accompanying program series spanning June 4–August 12\, 2022. \nOn view at HRLA from June 4th-June 19st. Wednesday–Sunday\, Noon to 6pm\, and by appointment. \n  \n  \nLos Angeles\, CA – Feminist Center for Creative Work is pleased to present LYLEX 1.0\,  a new\, three-venue exhibition by PHILTH HAUS\, a collective of 6 member-clients currently represented by ANDRA\, curated by FCCW Programming Director Mandy Harris Williams. LYLEX 1.0 will open at Human Resources in Chinatown on June 4\, 2022 before flushing and rhizomorphing to Feminist Center for Creative Work (Glendale) and Navel (Downtown LA). The installation will be accompanied by programming at each location.  \nIn advance of\, and throughout the exhibition LYLEX will develop oyster mushrooms in sculptural encasements\, fed with the blood of a person undergoing hormonal and dietary modulation therapies. Expounding on themes of exploitative globalization\, wealth inequality\, and new age therapies and their inherent privilege of certain bodily forms and functions over others\, the modified mushrooms will be transformed into pills and powders\, with branded jewelry and apparel available for sale throughout the exhibition and online.  \n  \n“Like the mushroom itself\, the development of this show has been unpredictable\, unwitting\, uncompromising. Bravely adapting throughout an unwieldy period in our history\, throughout unforeseen environments\, organizational changes and timelines\, within new collaborations\, constraints\, opportunities and designs\, Philth Haus has demonstrated a mycelial commitment to growing the ideas and objects and processes of the LYLEX show. It is our honor and a victory\, at that\, to share these fruiting labors with our members\, community\, audience\, and the Los Angeles community at large. ”  \n-Mandy Harris Williams\, FCCW Programming Director and LYLEX 1.0 curator.  \n  \nBy introducing blood into an edible “lifestyle” product\, LYLEX 1.0 hopes to confront how globalization has allowed for the mass-distribution of exploitation at a distance by certain privileged bodies onto economically disenfranchised ones. These seemingly one-way systemic hierarchies of financial and social domination are repurposed by LYLEX. Indeed\, these systems of wealthy lifestyle health-food consumption are made into a means through which the under-privileged can contaminate\, influence\, and modify the socioeconomically enfranchised.  \nLYLEX introduces the blood of an individual undergoing hormonal and dietary modulation therapies via an intermediary bio-indicator species\, the Oyster Mushroom\, which retains much of the blood nutrients and endocrine compounds upon which the funguses are grown. This provides a means through which chemicals originally found in the anonymous body of a transgender person might enter into the bodies of the economically privileged with a penchant for new age therapies which provide enhanced appearance\, psyche\, and longevity.  \nThese modified mushrooms are introduced via mobile\, for use at-home\, production cases\, pills and powders. Jewelry and apparel featuring LYLEX branding\, and a three-channel video advertisement accompany these items. Further glimpses into the mysterious world of LYLEX\, product and/or persona\, lie within an accompanying text published by FCCW\, a haunting (fictional) documentation of the experiences of one such user and her lover/friend as they embark on a relationship with themselves and the unwieldy entity that is LYLEX. \nSpecifically\, “I am an economy. I am a family.”  \n– LYLEX of the PHILTH HAUS collective \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST  \nPHILTH HAUS is a collective of 6 member-clients currently represented by ANDRA. Each member-entity instructs ANDRA on how to produce art installations\, performance\, and sonics which ephemerally embody one or–less frequently–multiple collective members. This process gives sanctity to post-anthropomorphic materials\, objects\, and systems as capable of holding the intelligences of each entity. The collective’s methodology is a material activation of the immaterial and a process of transubstantiation. Recent materials have included hormonally active waste water\, lithium carbonate\, machine learning\, blood\, and music. Through this collective\, each member hopes to transcend to a realm in which the planet and body are made one via globalized economies\, identity semiotics\, and biological contamination.  \nEach entity focuses on particular phenomenon such as artificial intelligence’s understanding of young girlhood (SYLLA)\, endocrine disruption pollution politics (COLY)\, body material market value and propriety (LYLEX)\, post-lingual ambient music (ROCO)\, maternity with disease (ANDRA)\, and intersectional chemicals used in treatment of psychopathology and in automotive production (PHILIP). \nThe collective has been exhibited in Los Angeles\, New York\, Florence\, and Amsterdam at spaces and programs such as Lo Schermo Dell’arte Film Festival (Florence)\, W139 (Amsterdam)\, Navel (LA)\, Times Square Space (NYC)\, Boston CyberArts Gallery (Boston)\, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge)\, SpaceUS (Boston)\, UCLA Performing Arts Center (LA)\, De Ateliers (Amsterdam)\, and the Amsterdam Arts Weekend\, etc. Members have featured in publications such as The Boston Art Review\, Badlands Magazine\, Trains Zine\, and Paper Magazine. Newly commissioned glass paintings will exhibit with Proxyco Gallery (NYC) Fall 2022. Finally\, their upcoming album REV will be released with the KW Institute (Berlin) Fall 2022.  \n  \nEXHIBITION DATES  \n  \nHuman Resources \n410 Cottage Home St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012  \nJune 4th-June 21st  \nWednesday–Sunday\, Noon to 6pm\, and by appointment  \n  \nNavel \n1611 S. Hope St.\, Los Angeles\, CA 90015 \nJune 24th- July 24th \nSaturday–Monday\, Noon to 6pm\, and by appointment  \n  \nFeminist Center for Creative Work  \n1800 S. Brand Blvd. Suite 111\, Glendale\, CA 91204  \nJuly 29–August 12th  \nThursday–Monday\, Noon to 6pm\, and by appointment  \n  \nPROGRAMMING  \n  \nPHASE I: SAMPLE \nExhibition Opening with Performance (I am a family. I am an economy.) \nHuman Resources: 410 Cottage Home St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012  \nSaturday\, June 4\, 6-9 pm \nOpening event for LYLEX 1.0: skate and music performance with LYLEX biological samples and unreleased tracks from ROCO’s upcoming E.P. REV.  \n  \nPHASE II: DOSE \nNavel: 1611 S. Hope St.\, Los Angeles\, CA 90015 \nFriday\, June 24\, 8 pm – 2 am \nOpening party\, presented in partnership with Navel\, featuring DJ sets by St. Mozelle\, IdealBlackFemale\, with more to come\, and with strip performances by Jolene\, a trans-inclusive dance collective.  \n  \nPHASE III: MONITOR \nExhibition Opening \nFCCW: 1800 S. Brand Blvd. Suite 111\, Glendale\, CA 91204 \nFriday\, July 29\, 6-9 pm \nOpening event for LYLEX 1.0 at F.C.C.W.\, the final site of the LYLEX exhibition series.  \n  \nPHASE IV: REPORT \nReading  \nFCCW: 1800 S. Brand Blvd. Suite 111\, Glendale\, CA 91204 \nFriday\, August 5\, 8 pm \nReading of LOGS by LYLEX via Andra. A session for discussion and questions will follow after the reading.  \n  \nLYLEX 1.0 is supported in part by the Pasadena Arts Alliance among other funders and FCCW members. This project has been made possible with production support from consultant Joseph Stewart\, Amber Ibarreche\, and Tiny Splendor.   \n  \nTop image: Render image of blood withdrawal process for LYLEX product sculpture series. Image courtesy of the artist and Feminist Center for Creative Work \nBottom image: Blood-to-mushroom Infusion Kit prototype of LYEX:isDIY product sculpture. Image courtesy of the artist and Feminist Center for Creative Work \n \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/philth-haus-lylex-1-0/
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SUMMARY:Dean Spunt & John Wiese:《The Echoing Shell》
DESCRIPTION:On Memorial Day\, UPEND presents veteran L.A. noisemakers Dean Spunt and John Wiese live in concert as they celebrate their new record《The Echoing Shell》released this month on Drag City Records. with a special performance and multi-media event. \n\nThe event will feature a the duo in quadrophonic sound\, a video presentation by Wiese\, PLUS a video presentation from Nicole-Antonia Spagnola (P22\, Purity) and a live performance from Nial Morgan (Free The Land\, Race to the Bottom\, etc.) \n\n《The Echoing Shell》is Spunt and Wiese’s “debut as collaborators by drawing from the rumble and crash of Dean’s drumkit\, finding dimensions of hiss and crunch on beyond his No Age style. A fantastic conception in contemporary musique concrète; alternately ripping and discriminating music\, dry humor\, word shapes\, meaning\, and astonishing depth of field.” \n\nAdvance tickets available via: \nhttps://withfriends.co/event/14392586/General_Admission
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/dean-spunt-john-wiese-present%e3%80%8athe-echoing-shell%e3%80%8b/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Madison Brookshire - Double or Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Madison Brookshire \nDouble or Nothing (2022) \nA new performance for two 16mm projectors\, harmonium\, sine tone\, and voice \nDoors open at 8p \nMadison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles\, where he makes films\, paintings\, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. More information: www.madisonbrookshire.com
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/madison-brookshire-double-or-nothing/
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: I Would Prefer Not To (Stay Cool)
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun noon-6PM\nWe highly recommend emailing everythinginaaair@gmail.com to make an appointment to view the exhibition.\nThe installation employs Amacher’s work on “psychoacoustics” alongside “acousmaticism” (psychoacousmaticism) through the lens of Herman Melville’s short story Bartleby\, The Scrivener. Considering Herbert Marcuse’s notion of the “Great Refusal” as an indictment of emergent military-cum-consumer technology being weaponized against citizen-civilian populations\, it provides a quiet blueprint for protecting oneself from such phenomena. I Would Prefer Not To (Stay Cool) makes deliberate misuse of a decommissioned military-issue Long Range Acoustic Device\, or LRAD*\, (specifically\, LRAD 500x)\, its ability to transmit sound\, pre-recorded or live\, is baffled by placing six inverted riot shields\, mounted to oscillating fans in front of it. These inverted shields not only deflect the sound from a potential aggressee\, but their inversion also refracts the sound back to its source with the same intensity. The placement of the shields on indeterminately oscillating fans also physicalizes the sentiment of cool\, steely refusal put forth by Bartleby’s repeated utterance\, “I Would Prefer Not To\,” enacting a chance-operation in which these “refusals” go in and out of phase. The project was funded\, in part\, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.\n*Often referred to as “sound cannons\,” LRAD’s have been deployed by police forces across the United States\, including NYPD\, as a “non-lethal” sonic weapon against civilian populations engaged in peaceful protest as far back as 2004.\nClosing Performance and Conversation\nWednesday\, May 25\, 7PM\n\nPerformance by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, followed by a conversation between the artist\, Jennifer Doyle and Gelare Khoshgozaran.\n\nJeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, Get Low (The Fall / The Drop)\, 2021\n\nJeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (b. 1984\, Baton Rouge\, LA) MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College. He currently lives and works in New York\, NY and Tucson\, AZ.\n\nSelect exhibitions include: “Set It Off\,” ICA @ Virginia Commonwealth University and 1708 Gallery\, Richmond\, VA (2021)\, “Devo (Listenin’ Out The Top Of Ya Head)\,” Berlin Atonal\, Berlin\, DE (2021)\, “Pendulum Music: An Arrangement for Four Performers and Geodisic Dome\,” MoMA PS1\, Queens\, NY (2018); “Club\,” Performance Space New York\, New York\, NY (2018); “Evil Nigger: A Five Part Performance for Julius Eastman\,” The Kitchen\, Brooklyn\, NY (2018); “Study Of ‘Study Of Three Heads’\,” Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Philadelphia\, PA (2018); “Evil Nigger Part IV and Evil Nigger Part V\,” Issue Project Room\, Brooklyn\, NY (2017); “Who Needs To Think When Your Feet Just Go+ Never Not Doing\,” The Studio Museum in Harlem\, New York\, NY (2016).\n\nSelect awards and residencies include: Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellow (2022)\, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence (2021)\, Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design (2018); Issue Project Room Artist-in-Residence (2017); Jerome Foundation Airspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center\, New York (2019); Rauschenberg Residency 381 (2019). He is also a founding member of the performance collective Wildcat!.\nEverything in Air\n\nHuman Resources LA presents Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. The series was supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation Grant.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jeremy-toussaint-baptiste-i-would-prefer-not-to-stay-cool/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork & Laetitia Sonami — Fingers Caught in a Field of Moss
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday May 3rd & Wednesday May 4th\, 5:00 – 9:00 PM\n  \nSound 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 created in real time by the artists evoke an organic unfolding of layered scales of time. The ten-channel audio installation incorporates loudspeakers\, subwoofers\, directional speakers and anechoic sculptures to manipulate the natural resonance of Human Resources architectural acoustics. Both artists would like to acknowledge the pervading influence of Maryane Amacher’s groundbreaking work in their own unique practice. \n  \nAudience is invited to come in at any point during the durational live performance-installation. Use of phone is prohibited during the performance \n  \nLAETITIA SONAMI\nLaetitia Sonami is a composer\, sound artist\, performer and researcher. Born in France\, Sonami studied electronic music with Eliane Radigue before moving to the United States in 1977 to continue her electronic music practice.Sonami’s sound performances\, live-film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation.  She applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound\, place and objects.A pioneer in wearable technologies\, Sonami has devised new gestural controllers for performance. Best known for her unique instrument\, the elbow-­length lady’s glove\, which is fitted with an array of sensors tracking the slightest motion of her hand and body\, she has performed worldwide and earned substantial international renown. Her latest instrument\, the Spring Spyre\, is based on the application of machine learning (AI) to music performance.Recent projects include a third live film with SUE-C\, a  collaboration with harpist Zeena Parkins\, and an electronic improvisation duo with James Fei.Sonami received the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts (2000) and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Awards (2002). Sonami lives in Oakland\, CA and is currently a guest professor at the Center for Contemporary Music\, Mills College.\n \n\n\nJACQUELINE KIYOMI GORK\nJacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s hybrid practice combines work in sound installation\, sculpture\, and performance with the aim of reconfiguring traditional hierarchies between audience\, performer\, and architecture.  Kiyomi Gork studied sound art and new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and researched the history of communication technologies\, acoustics and computer music at Stanford University. Kiyomi Gork has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Empty Gallery\, Hong Kong; 356 Mission\, Los Angeles; François Ghebaly\, New York; Queens Nails\, The Lab and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, San Francisco. Kiyomi Gork has participated in group exhibitions at Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (Made in LA 2020); SculptureCenter\, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is a recipient of a 2021 Art + Technology Lab Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. \n\n\n\n\nEverything in Air\n\nHuman Resources LA presents Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. A near-mythic figure whose situated methodology and speculative embrace of technology continues to defy formal and disciplinary boundaries\, Amacher generated an artistic and conceptual milieu that encompassed sound and installation art\, networked culture\, and feminist technoscience. Invited artists\, whose own engagements with sound\, structure\, and situation move freely across disciplines\, are encouraged to trace the resonances they find with Amacher’s ideas—from perception and duration\, to embodiment\, place\, and listening—towards new formal and conceptual territories. The international and intergenerational group of artists will take up residence using HRLA’s architectural\, organizational\, and social structures as an instrument\, both physically—using the entire building itself as a tool for making (sound or otherwise)—and figuratively\, “instrumentalizing” HRLA’s structures to resonate\, modulate\, filter and amplify signals\, gestures\, and ideas. Invited participants include Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda\, Jimena Sarno\, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Laetitia Sonami\, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, Chiara Giovando\, Dead Thoroughbred (keyon gaskin & sidony o’neal)\, Kali Malone\, Geneva Skeen and others to be announced. Black Hole will be a participating partner.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jacqueline-kiyomi-gork-laetitia-sonami-fingers-caught-in-a-field-of-moss/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,exhibition,performance
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SUMMARY:May Day
DESCRIPTION: Human Resources’ 12th birthday \nSarah Rara\nCorey Fogel\nGelare Khoshgozaran\nNikki Darling\nRebeca Hernandez & Crystal Sepúlveda\nEloe Omoe\nSuzy Halajian\nAjani Brannum\nMariel Carranza\nOhan Breiding\nJohn Biortle\nJohnnie Jungleguts\nIdealBlackFemale\nAdam O\nLA MOCA Union \nAnd the launch of La Crónica Libre a sporadic newspaper for the greater Los Ángeles\, edited by Wes Larios & Clara Lopez Menendez. \n  \ntickets are available on a sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/may-day/
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SUMMARY:Maral + Brenna "Ground Groove" / Eva Aguila "Photon Playground"
DESCRIPTION:UPEND presents\n\nLive premiere of “Ground Groove” – an audio video collaboration between L.A. based beat dealer Maral and Portland\, Oregon based video artist Brenna Murphy (of MSHR.) An album featuring this special project will be released by Leaving Records in the Fall of 2022!\n\nPlus the premiere video screening of “Photon Playground” – a new video by Eva Aguila\n\nAdvance\, sliding scale tickets available at:\n\nhttps://withfriends.co/event/14248116/
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/maral-brenna-ground-groove-eva-aguila-photon-playground/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy
DESCRIPTION:Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy – Installation\n  \nFeaturing Nika Milano\, Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton \nGallery Hours:\nSaturday April 9th 6pm-9pm*\nSunday April 10th Noon-6pm\nWednesday April 13th 3pm-9pm\nThursday April 14th 3pm-9pm\nFriday April 15th 3pm-9pm\nSaturday April 16th Noon-6pm\n\n*opening reception\n\nThe duration of the piece is one hour\, and is presented on continous loop. \nDoes Spring Hide Its Joy is an immersive piece by composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O’Malley\, Lucy Railton\, and video artist Nika Milano. The music is a study in deep listening and non-linear durational composition with a heightened focus on septimal just intonation and beating interference patterns. Malone’s experience with pipe organ tuning\, harmonic theory\, and long durational composition is a prominent point of departure for Does Spring Hide Its Joy. Her nuanced minimalism unfolds an astonishing depth of focus and opens up contemplative spaces in the listener’s attention. \nIn addition to live concerts performed by Kali Malone\, Lucy Railton\, and Stephen O’Malley\, Does Spring Hide Its Joy has also evolved in parallel as a site-specific sound installation featuring recordings made in the renowned Berlin Funkhaus concert hall. For this special occasion at Human Resources\, Malone invites video artist Nika Milano to exhibit an analog video work that accompanies and interprets the musical score as a fourth member. \n\nPresented as part of Human Resources’ “Everything in Air” programming.\n\nKali Malone (US – Sweden) \nThe compositions of Kali Malone implement specific tuning systems in minimalist structure for pipe organ\, choir\, chamber music ensembles\, and electroacoustic formats. Malone’s music is rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations. Her music emits distinct emotive\, dynamic\, and affective hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus. Kali Malone has performed extensively in Europe and North America at Musica Festival\, Berlin Atonal\, Moogfest\, Kanal Pompidou\, Elbphilharmonie\, Paris Philharmonie\, and Radio France. Her commission projects and residencies include the Ina GRM\, The Richard Thomas Foundation\, MACBA\, Macadam Ensemble\, Orgelpark\, Elektronmusikstudion and Tempo Reale. She collaborates and performs with various artists\, including Stephen O’Malley\, Lucy Railton\, Frederikke Hoffmeier\, Leila Bordreuil\, Drew McDowall\, Caterina Barbieri\, and Ellen Arkbro. In 2016 she co-founded the record label and concert series XKatedral\, together with Maria W Horn\, in Stockholm. \nNika Milano (Venezuela – Mexico) \nNika Milano is an audiovisual creator who works primarily with electronic media focusing on experimentation with feedback signals to develop environments that slowly spread and evolve. Her video work mixes signals from analog modular synthesizers\, video mixers\, VCRs\, and video feedback created with a hi8 video camera. Although her training originally stems from photography\, her curiosity and research have led her to work with video\, sound\, improvisation\, and analog film restoration. Milano has been a resident at the EMS Elektronmusikstudion studio in Stockholm and has performed at festivals such as Mutek Mx\, Nrmal\, Aural\, Visiones Sonoras\, among others. \nStephen O’Malley (US – France) \nStephen O’Malley is a guitarist\, producer\, composer\, and visual artist who has conceptualized and founded numerous drone and experimental music groups for over two decades – SUNN O)))\, KTL\, and Khanate being among his best-known projects. Wildly prolific\, O’Malley’s oeuvre defines remarkable breadth\, complexity and multidisciplinary interests. It includes collaborations with a wide range of experimental musicians and composers\, including Scott Walker\, choreographer Gisèle Vienne\, the authors Dennis Cooper and Alan Moore\, composers Alvin Lucier and Kali Malone\, artist Fujiko Nakaya\, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch\, experimental music research centres IRCAM\, INA-GRM (Paris)\, EMS (Stockholm) and many others. O’Malley is also a vigorous live performer and has toured around the world since 2003. \nLucy Railton (UK – Germany) \nLucy Railton has been an active performer\, programmer and music maker since 2008\, releasing albums on Modern Love\, Editions Mego – GRM Portraits\, PAN\, ECM\, SN Variations\, Shelter Press and Takuroku.  Having emerged from a long-term engagement with classical and contemporary music\, she now makes her own work alone or in collaboration with artists and musicians from varied disciplines\, including Rebecca Salvadori\, Peter Zinovieff\, Catherine Lamb\, Khyam Allami\, Kit Downes\, Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley\, and in recent years has worked with Beatrice Dillon\, Philippe Parreno\, Rhodri Davies\, Laura Grace Ford\, Alex Hills\, choreographers Akram Khan and Sasha Milavic Davies\, Yair Elazar Glotman and the film director John Lee. As an organiser she has been involved in presentations of work by Maryanne Amacher and Henning Christiansen amongst many other productions during her time as co-director at London Contemporary Music Festival and Kammer Klang\, and has performed in focus concerts lead by Pauline Oliveros\, Iancu Dumitrescu\, Mary Jane Leach\, Cally Spooner\, Matmos and many more.  Lucy has performed at festivals and venues including Dark Mofo (Tasmania)\, Blank Forms (New York)\, Cafe Oto\, Borealis Festival\, Atonal\, Koln Philharmonie\, Barbican\, Berlin Jazz\, Donaueschingen\, Sydney Opera House\, Rewire\, AKOUSMA (GRM)\, Norbergfestival\, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and CTM. \n\n\nEverything in Air\n\nHuman Resources LA presents Everything in Air\, a series of public programs over the course of a year—new commissions\, exhibitions\, performances\, and forums\, often in hybrid combinations—using key concepts within artist and composer Maryanne Amacher’s work as points of departure. A near-mythic figure whose situated methodology and speculative embrace of technology continues to defy formal and disciplinary boundaries\, Amacher generated an artistic and conceptual milieu that encompassed sound and installation art\, networked culture\, and feminist technoscience. Invited artists\, whose own engagements with sound\, structure\, and situation move freely across disciplines\, are encouraged to trace the resonances they find with Amacher’s ideas—from perception and duration\, to embodiment\, place\, and listening—towards new formal and conceptual territories. The international and intergenerational group of artists will take up residence using HRLA’s architectural\, organizational\, and social structures as an instrument\, both physically—using the entire building itself as a tool for making (sound or otherwise)—and figuratively\, “instrumentalizing” HRLA’s structures to resonate\, modulate\, filter and amplify signals\, gestures\, and ideas. Invited participants include Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda\, Jimena Sarno\, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Laetitia Sonami\, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste\, Chiara Giovando\, Dead Thoroughbred (keyon gaskin & sidony o’neal)\, Kali Malone\, Geneva Skeen and others to be announced. Black Hole will be a participating partner.
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SUMMARY:Asher Hartman\, Maria Maea\, Emily Mast\, Jasmine Orpilla
DESCRIPTION:Starts promptly at 8pm \n  \nAsher Hartman with Michael Bonnabel and Philip Littell\, \nIt’s Better to Start Out Ugly is day five of a year-long project with performers Michael Bonnabel and Philip Littell\, written and directed by Asher Hartman. Two men\, one room\, shared illness\, shifting bodies\, putrid\, hateful\, delusional\, and bound are John and Alfred\, two futureless cis-gendered white gay men with strange politics and unreasonable desires. This is a scene\, an excursion into ugly acting\, into early writing\, into shaping a play on an actor\, into testing\, falling\, edging homonormativity into blah-scapes of wow. \n  \nMaria Maea \nMaria Maea is a weaver\, a pile of leaves\, a singing palm\, a shadow and a sound. \n  \nEmily Mast with Ryat Yezbick\, Reza Arzanian\, Joe Seely \nIFIF is a secular\, group ritual in the form of a game that employs chance\, dance and trance. It is one of many exercises that was born out of a methodology Emily Mast began developing during the pandemic. Mast and her collaborators employ hypnosis\, tantra\, dom/sub dynamics\, emotional attunement\, physical movement\, free writing\, and theatrical techniques to invent consent and boundary frameworks that engage the subconscious and mine it as a tool for creation and transformation. IFIF is one of many aesthetic frameworks that reveal the messy\, vulnerable side of their process. It is being shared with an audience here for the very first time.   \n  \nJasmine Orpilla \nJasmine Orpilla’s 5-minute BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION is ripped directly from the American-supremacist gaslighting language of the titular proclamation of 1898\, which prefaced the psychotic “k*ll-and-burn” policies of the Philippine-American colonial war. A near-invisible ‘first cut’ into an operatic body of sound being composed for installation in 2022 by Jasmine Orpilla\, this concentrated drop of BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION will be sung live for an adult audience contained only within the safe space of the HRLA lobby\, for the duration of 5 minutes and 30 seconds. The main gallery cracks open afterwards to reveal ‘refreshment’ and/or optional banter around the issues of race underlying fantasies of power play throughout history\, or the future of art performance in L.A.\, for example. *Warning of possible loud volumes for the highly sensitive. \n 
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