Human Resources

Greetings Friends
2023-05-17 21:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Greetings Friends is a full-length essay film made by Pau Pescador, titled after a Disney Studio produced film. In 1941, the United States government created the Office of Inter-American Affairs out of concern for the potential Nazi infiltration in Latin America. They hired Walt Disney to produce animated cartoons, most of which focused upon Latin America as subject, some of theses videos took on health issues, such as malaria, water treatment and tuberculosis as well as produced animated characters as visual representations for these countries. In Pescador’s 2017 essay film, she reconsiders these cartoons and their relationship between cultural diplomacy and colonialism. She examines some of the regions that Walt Disney visited, and attempts to understand how Disney iconography is still being culturally appropriated today.

Greeting Friends is presented as part of the Summer Screening Series, which runs every Wednesday at 9:00PM from May 3rd-August 31st.

Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh
2023-05-03 09:00 - 11:00
The first week of Human Resources Summer Screening Series includes video and animated works by Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh. Camera direction, collage and personal archive are themes interwoven throughout these works. Curated by Aimee Goguen and Olivia Taussig these films navigate landscape and the human form with an exploratory and immediate gaze.

The Summer Screening Series runs every Wednesday at 9:00PM from May 3-August 31

Artist bios:

Aimee Goguen (b. 1982) is a moving-image artist and object-maker based in Los Angeles. Her work has long dealt with themes of abjection and the grotesque in relation to the body and sexuality. Her video work has been included in such anthologies as The Oxford Companion to Queer Cinema, reviewed by William J. Simmons and Dodie Bellamy’s The Pink Place. Goguen co-curated Afterglow: Summer Video Series with Harry Dodge. She co-curated All The Reasons with Mariah Garnett at REDCAT, Los Angeles, and Lick, Stick, Leak with Suzy Halajian at 2220 Theatre, Los Angeles. She currently teaches animation at California Institute of the Arts.

Cosima Sch is an artist living and working in Mexico City. She is also known as Kinkey Delores, Sauvital Paper, and Agua de Calzón.

Margaret Haines is a Montreal born and educated multiform conceptual artist working in film, photography, publication, fashion, archive-studies and installation. Margaret earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography & Media from the California Institute of the Arts, has held numerous fellowships, and has exhibited her work internationally; in 2015-2016 she attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include MAC musée d’art contemporain in Montreal, KRIEG in Brussels, Auto Italia South East in London, 1646 in The Hague and Rozenstraat in Amsterdam. Her writing and film works have been presented at The East End Film Festival, Carroll Fletcher and The ICA in London, Today’s Art in The Hague, VISIO lo schermo dell’arte in Florence, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Western Front Exhibitions in Vancouver, and le Centre Culturel Canadien and FIAC Les Jardins Tuileries, Cinephemère in Paris. Haines’s forthcoming book On Air: Purity, Corruption and Pollution is a narrative biography of artist Cameron and pairs Haines’s formal archival work with a wider analysis of the contemporary moment and an alignment with the tangential and apophenic. Margaret lives and works in Paris and Montréal, and is currently a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris.

Peggy Ahwesh was born in 1954. She is a video artist working in live-action and animation. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Her work has been widely shown, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Balie Theater, Amsterdam; the Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Microscope Gallery, New York and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, among other venues. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Olivia Taussig-Rees (born 1986) is an artist who creates still and moving image work. Taussig creates experimental animations that draw from news headlines, sports, personal archive, and mythology. Taussig’s work has been screened at the Whitney Museum, SXSW, Melbourne Film Festival, Bermondsey Project Space, Afterglow LA, Human Resources LA, and other international festivals and galleries. Taussig obtained her BA in Anthropology + Media from Goldsmiths, University of London and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation. Taussig currently lives in New York City where she teaches animation at Pratt Institute, and Parsons the New School.

Videos in the program:

2016 General Devour Violations and Pamper Center, by Cosima Sch, HD video, 2m 56s, color, sound

2017 I Dreamt in Heaven, by Margaret Haines, HD video, 3m 44s (loop), color, soundStarring: Natassa Arabatzi, Georgia Kotokou, Manos Koulimpis, Spiros Mesologitis, Nikos Tasoulis, Sadiral-Iraqi, Peter Paul Emmanuilididis, and Will Ascott

2016 The Balcony, by Margaret Haines, HD video, 10m 33s, color, soundStarring: Anna Maria Pinaka, Sands Murray Wassink, Clara Amaral, Geo Wyeth

2018 Human Bridge, by Aimee Goguen, Hi-8 on SD video, 2m 25s, sound by Caye CastagnettoSubjects: Hanna Hur and Michael Kennedy Costa

2022 Act 1 and Act 2, by Aimee Goguen, HD, 9min, sound by Dakota Higginssubject: Rollin Hunt

2022 Duel Carriageway, by Olivia Taussig and Tom Rees, HD animation, 01m 23s, color, sound

2023 Wind Calisthenics, by Olivia Taussig, HD video and animation, 3m 33s, color, sound

1989 Martina’s Playhouse, by Peggy Ahwesh, super 8mm film on video, 19m 48s, color, sound

1993 The Scary Movie, by Peggy Ahwesh, 16 mm film on video, 8m 16s, b&w, sound

2021 Curve the Night Sky, by Peggy Ahwesh, HD video, 5min, color, sound

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Imgage credit: Wind Calisthenics by Olivia Taussig 2023.

lily, rose
2023-04-28 20:30
lily, rose is an installation and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles that brings to life the world of Kelly Link’s short story through live music and theatrics by M.A. Harms, navigating the woeful and complex reflections of our anti-hero, the story’s main character, as he reflects on his life post-mortem. This project explores periods of sorrow, disgust, humor, and anger through the realization of musical performance, video found footage, white out illustrations, stop motion animation, and mannequin instruments.

carnation, lily, lily, rose is a two-part project presented by LA-based artist M.A. Harms including an interactive installation at Coaxial Arts March 24–26 (carnation, lily) followed by an installation and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles on April 28 (lily, rose). This work is co-presented by Boss Witch Productions, Coaxial Arts, and Human Resources Los Angeles, and is developed with support from a 2022–23 Boss Witch Productions Commission.

About the Artist: M.A. Harms is a Los Angeles-based composer, performer, and instrument builder who explores the intersections between grief, gender, and sex through a combination of text and sound. Their practice centers performance art and interdisciplinarity, imagining and creating sound using sculptural installations, found objects, electronics, mannequins, and placing equal significance on the visual experience of their work. M navigates literal stories and personal life events via sound practice, obscuring them to the point that they begin to bridge the gap between individual and “universal” experiences. As a percussionist and interdisciplinary performance artist, M has worked with artists including Eric Lennartson, Daniel Newman-Lessler, and Jeonghyeon Joo. They received their MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where they studied with Tim Feeney and Nicholas Deyoe.

You can read more about M.A. Harms and Boss Witch Productions here, and visit this link to check out M’s interview with writer siri gurudev about their practice and upcoming work.

Blood is here: Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova, & Dorian Wood
2023-04-26 20:00
Blood is here is a collaborative manifestation between vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood. It is an idea born from a recent collective performance within Wood’s touring 12-hour composition/installation Canto de Todes, in which the three artists considered the contexts of space, public proximity and ancestral energy to construct a web-like spatial environment consisting of their interacting voices. Each artist brings their respective trajectory to this intention, replete with mindfulness and an urgency to continue addressing hidden narratives around body autonomy and claiming/reclaiming space. As an evening length performance, Blood is here investigates the fluid histories through ritualistic practices and material experimentation, centering on the broad possibilities of vocalization. The artists will transform the space, intermittently inviting the public to witness and, by presence alone, assist in mutating the process, utilizing concepts of voice as both unifiers and isolators. During this performance, the artists will ask: Are we vessels for something finite, or conduits for a broader, more complex purpose? Blood is here is a plea for an alternative to documentation and archiving that relies on human presence, mindfulness, focus, perspective and legend to assist in the longevity of our existences.

Reimagining Art Institutions and Community
2023-04-15 16:00
Reimagining Art Institutions and Community

Saturday, April 15th at 4:00 pm

This public panel will bring together artists, curators, arts organization leaders and community organizers from LA and beyond to explore alternative practices of art and community outside of traditional institutional structures. Panel participants include gallerist Young Chung from Commonwealth and Council (LA and Mexico City); Director of the Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW), Sarah Williams; artist and arts community organizer and co-founder of non-profit art space Coaxial, Eva Aguila; artist and Managing Director of HRLA, John Bartel; and curator, writer and Director of The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club, Natalia De La Rosa. The panel will be moderated by artist Young Joon Kwak, and cover topics including conventional and [un-] professional practices to navigate patriarchal, capitalist structures of the art world, community-building, and alternative means of mutual support and sustainability for emerging artists.

This event is co-organized by Young Joon Kwak and artists in their class Mutant Salon: Critiques (Seeva Dawne, Hu Di, Liz Lee, Gwendolyn Moon, Antonio Okun, Anna Pelz, Naomi Sam, amanda teixeira, Rose Tsang, and Nieves Winslow) at CalArts.

image credit: amanda teixeira

This event is co-organized by Young Joon Kwak and artists in their class Mutant Salon: Critiques (Seeva Dawne, Hu Di, Liz Lee, Gwendolyn Moon, Antonio Okun, Anna Pelz, Naomi Sam, amanda teixeira, Rose Tsang, and Nieves Winslow) at CalArts.

image credit: amanda teixeira

Fuerza del desierto. The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club
2023-04-07 12:00 - 2023-04-23 18:00
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-6pm

An exhibition focusing on the The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club curated by Natalia de la Rosa.

The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club (Zacatecas, Mexico) was founded in 2000 by Juan Manuel de la Rosa in his hometown. Initiated as a small library, this project quickly grew to feature textile workshops and a growing collection of artworks. Its collection is shared through a unique system: artworks are not warehoused but are exhibited in rotation within Sierra Hermosa (in a school library, shops, and in people’s homes).

Natalia de la Rosa’s exhibition introduces the concept and the practice of this expanded museum and places it in the context of the extreme violence, extractive politics, and migratory crises which shape life in Zacatecas, situated in the Tropic of Cancer in the North of Mexico.

This exhibition features work by the museum’s artist founder, local painters Luis Lara and Francisco Lara, textile artists Yuri Ríos and Gabriela Gamez, and artists who participated in a residency within this experimental and rural museum (2017-2020). The latter artists include Wendy Cabrera Rubio, John Birtle, Cristóbal Gracia, Josué Mejía, Irak Morales, and Israel Urmeer. This exhibition redefines concepts such as the border, mobility, and cultural contact as we encounter them within artistic, museological, and pedagogical contexts. The result is a reflection on Sierra Hermosa’s landscape, its history and its own memory practices.

Ajani Brannum - TROUBLE
2023-03-31 20:00
We will be in TROUBLE together. This is a project hovering somewhere between concert and conversation, between dance and its presumed opposite (whatever that might be). We will learn, perhaps, what performance and performers might do on behalf of the people who gather to witness them.

Tickets are available here

Initiated and directed by Ajani Brannum

Created and performed by Ajani Brannum, Mark Gutierrez, Arushi Singh, sam wentz and devika wickremesinghe

Ryat Yezbick, Sarah Gail, Isidro Pérez García, Jmy James Kidd
2023-03-28 20:00 - 22:00
New performances on a Tuesday night.

Jmy James Kidd

dog – fly free – sing, Jmy dances on a felted flying carpet

Isidro Pérez García

Performing as the character Tuleño, the artist will weave a chair seat using tule/cattails harvested from an ecological reserve, while audience members sitting in spiral formation pass him the materials for weaving.

Sarah Gail

Sarah Gail talks about their life. In an artistic way.

Ryat Yezbick

Ryat is exploring new practices contending with the body, architecture, targets, running into walls, limits and limitlessness. This work in progress plays with the varied meanings of the word “target”, both as an aim, goal or destination and as an object of obsession or derision.

Matt Savitsky: March Readings (2020-2023)
2023-03-26 16:00 - 20:00
Matt Savitsky reads seven issues of the Los Angeles Times, dated March 19 – March 26, 2020.

This project began in 2020 as thirty daily performances done live on Instagram in the first months of lockdown. Each day, Savitsky would free-associate to pictures he had removed from the newspaper and taped together in long strips and pulled in front of his cell phone camera.

This will be the first live in-person reading of the newspapers by Savitsky, meant to allow for a collective reflection on the events of three years ago and their journalistic depictions.

mattsavitsky.com

Page Person - THE EAR* (*or how I became a person)
2023-03-19 17:00
THE EAR* (*or how I became a person) is a performance by interdisciplinary artist Page Person Sunday, March 19 at 5:00 pm. At a time when the very existence of trans people is under attack, the artist describes how claiming space for their own existence healed a lifetime of being the subject of discrimination, bullying and the treat of physical assault. Who owns the narrative of our lives? If a hurtful narrative is placed upon us, how can we assert ourselves and change that narrative? Person physically manifests as The Ear, an oversized organ for hearing, and invites the audience to hurl fragmented sounds and syllables of various homophobic and transphobic slurs; enacting the harm that it caused them as an individual to absorb these sounds. The Ear becomes twisted, bound and deformed from the abuses enacted upon it. Various ritualized re-enactments of performances from their early drag career then give voice and agency to the artist and incrementally heal The Ear; which by the end of the work is returned to a whole and complete state. Owning the narrative of their gender has been the single healthiest choice the artist has made in a career that spans three decades; here they speak directly about their experiences and ask who has the right to deny us the power of creating our own life stories to live as complete people.

Christine's 2022 Schedule C
2023-03-15 20:00
Christine’s 2022 Schedule C

Christine Tien Wang

Human Resources is ashamed to present a performative lecture by Christine Tien Wang. She will walk audiences through 12 years of filing taxes as a self-employed artist and reporting losses for many of those years. As a financial exhibitionist, Christine will also talk about her family’s financial history as it relates to her own artistic production. The lecture will close with Christine showing audiences her 2022 Schedule C. All of her artist expenses from last year will be revealed.

CROM: The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989
2023-03-04 19:30
In celebration of the LP/CD re-release of The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989 on To Live A Lie Records, CROM will be performing the album in its entirety at their first Sumerian Swap Meet. The event also includes performances by:

Phalanx

Civerous

Traümer

Red Rot

DNS

Organized with Snow Goat Productions and Church of the 8th Day.

Doors at 7:30pm

Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos
2023-03-01 19:00
Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos by

mia simonović / allie miks / diana relth

Human Resources Gallery

Wednesday, March 1st

Doors at 7pm

$10 suggested donation

masks are encouraged

“Exquisite Corps” is one night of 3 solo performances by 3 artists.

mia simonović (they/them/she/her) is a Balkan-American movement artist and teacher. mia’s choreography explores vessels such as the body and their abilities to share messages through movement, feedback, and sensation. Photo credit: Matt Jones

allie miks (she/her) is a performing artist, mover, and teacher from Los Angeles. She creates in a process-based method that focuses on collaboration with others involved. The piece allie will present is in collaboration with Designer Artist Kelsey Vidic. Photo credits: Matthew Genecov (flyer), Skye Schmidt (portrait)

Diana Relth (she/they) is an artist and performer navigating liminal spaces, and draws connections between seemingly disjointed places. Diana’s performance is in collaboration with Musician Garrett Scott Dowell. Photo credit: Madison Stonefield

Wayne Koestenbaum: Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyrean
2023-02-26 19:00
Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyreana screening of new and recent films by Wayne KoestenbaumSunday, February 26, 20237 p.m.

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum and the artistand filmmaker Pau S. Pescador, who curated the program.

Wayne Koestenbaum is a New York-based writer, artist, and performer. He has published 22books, including Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, and Figure It Out. His first feature-lengthfilm, The Collective, premiered at UnionDocs (NYC) in December 2021.

Amy Chiao, Gregory Barnett, José Guadalupe Sánchez III, Zeina Baltagi
2023-02-21 20:00 - 22:00
New performances on a Tuesday night.

Amy Chiao

Chicken Bones for the Capital Soul® is an American self-help, consumer goods, and performance media group. Starting in Chiao’s kitchen during the 2020 lockdown, her bone cleaning turned accessories products began as a process art practice that ritualistically developed her spiritual entrepreneur alter ego, BBL, the Bone Business Lady. Inspired by maintenance art and craft therapy, BBL collaborates with Los Angeles based Certified Pro-Bone(r) Cleaners and Creatives to transcend their bodies with the bone material into evolutionary, manifestation machines producing a boundless supply of oral currency.

Gregory Barnett

Wandering Purgatory Dance – if you’re lost forever feats of endurance lose their merit, rogue Hummel figurine following a bird through the desert, a forgotten grandpa waltz, a farmer’s fable.

José Guadalupe Sánchez III

Many-way Conversations – This performance explores a nepantler@’s epistemology of self. That is, how a nepantler@ may come to know or not know. You know?

Zeina Baltagi

This body was never mine, presented by Zeina Baltagi

Intaglio etching on handmade paper made out of cotton U.S. military uniforms Chine-Collé ‘d on to handmade paper made out of pink and white medical paperwork, diary letters and colorful children’s yarn, with a boot print. Size: 15” x 22” Year: 2012 Image Courtesy of the artist.

Adrian Abela: Nebula and Gentes
2023-02-10 18:00
Nebula and Gentes were initially made for an extensive installation called CHARTI and exhibited in 2016. Nebula was also shown as part of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. The videos were recorded on Malta and Gozo over three summers starting in 2014. The work revolved around the rituals that the inhabitants of the islands would perform as part of catholic festivals that celebrate the saint of the town or village. Nebula is compromised of footage of fireworks which would normally indicate the initiation of the rituals and their closure. It was filmed with the intention of accessing an essence rather than an aesthetic of an identity. Gentes, on the other hand, records other aspects of these rituals and the people that perform them.

Miles Peyton: Obaa
2023-02-03 00:00 - 2023-02-05 23:59
Miles PeytonObaaHuman Resources, LA

February 3-5, 2023Opening Friday, February 3rd, 6-8pm

I move with a team of selvesI observe and learn from each oneSometimes we find something to eat and feel happyI often eat plastic beadsWhen we merge, our attention harmonizes into a sharp bright pointWe congeal into a centralized organizationIt feels good

Miles Peyton is an artist based in Los Angeles. He works with a variety of materials and systems to animate lifelike nonlife. He received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2020.

Gemma Castro: Monuments
2023-01-21 19:00 - 2023-01-31 18:00
Opening Saturday, 21st 7-10pm

Exhibition is open Friday-Sunday, January 21-31st, 12-5pm

Closing Performance: Gemma Castro + Olivia HP: Sunday January 29, 6PM

Gemma Castro: Monuments

Monuments is a video installation exploring the process of rebuilding and restoration following heartbreak and loss. It reflects on how building physical and mental strength is a process of repetition with variation. A porous structure made from cinder blocks frames the video composed of everyday moments of work and rest. The music composed by the artist is stripped of any voices, instead, revealing the instrumental harmony and the friction of the different sounds.

Gemma Castro, b. 1996 is a composer, audio engineer, and artist creating at the intersection of sound and architecture. Gemma has self released albums, composed for public television, and is an engineer at Stones Throw Records.

Everything in Air is 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.

Patty Gone: The Opposite
2023-01-15 19:00
The Opposite

a Video Art Essay by Patty Gone

with opening acts bySophia Cleary

Aiden Arata

Wall of Ears

about The Opposite:Porn Film Festival Berlin Official Selection 2022Official TrailerWhat do ‘Seinfeld’ and a psychedelic pilgrimage across the US have in common? Gone wades through the history of comedy, eroticism, and hippieness to emerge on the other side with profound truths.

Single channel, 35min.Cast: Patty Gone, Will Darling, Gigi Goñi, Chris LottMusic: Jon Ruseski, Wall of Ears, Illuminating Hearts, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

Patty Gone is the author of Love Life (Mount Analogue, 2019) and director of the video serial, Painted Dreams (2017, 2018, 2020). Her performance and video art has appeared at the Queens Museum, The Poetry Project, Wendy’s Subway, and Smack Mellon, and has received grants and support from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Mass MoCA, NYU, and Northampton Open Media. She’s currently a PhD student in Performance Studies at UCLA.

Aiden Arata is a writer and artist from Los Angeles. Her writing has been featured in publications including BOMB, Mask, The Rumpus, The Fanzine, Hobart, Wonderland, Alternative Press and NDA: An Autofiction Anthology (Archway Editions 2022).

Sophia Cleary is a performance artist and comedian. She has presented work at Danspace Project, The Kitchen, the Hammer Museum, and more.

Wall of Ears is a Seattle-based musical collective giddy to expand the boundaries of spontaneous feeling through sonic emotive transmissions. Their most recent album is It Is (2022).

Sad Girl Summer
2023-01-13 20:00
Sad Girl Summer is a solo performance by Pau S. Pescador with opening performances and installations by Luna Fisher, Emji Saint Spero and Sammie Veeler.

This event is co-hosted by Art Reality Studio and New Art City .

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Pau S. Pescador

Sad Girl Summer

Sad Girl Summer is a three-act performance and installation, which is the third iteration of artist and filmmaker’s Hot Girl Summer performance series. After the loss of her elder dog, Ty, a trans Latina, leaves Los Angeles for the summer to reflect upon her past relationships and loss. Through this solo performance, Pescador utilizes costumes, puppets and props to explore her own successes and failures attempting to understand the greater world around her? What responsibilities? It’s summer!

Luna Fisher

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queer trans artist luna fisher explores her coming(s) of age through sound, clown, poetry, emotions and etceteras. she is influenced deeply by the real and the unreal forever exploring the space between the two with whimsy in order to clear the path for change. encouraging the audience to participate in any way, luna is cozy in chaos and sees us as one with nature and now technology. expressing the perpetual cycle of elements as the wind emerges from space and blows the dust that meets the water that stokes the fires of creativity that provide the steam to enhance our auras making life more vibrant and expansive for all.

Emji Saint Spero

No blood no glitter no performance of any kind

No blood no glitter no performance no stage no tonite. The list is expansive and the carry is forever. This piece is lurking in afterglow of an LDR with a certain shuttered queer bar in San Francisco. It doesn’t kiss and tell. Welcome to the afters.

Sammie Veeler

A Time Capsule Or A GraveA Time Capsule Or A Grave is a hybrid performance commissioned for Octobre Numérique Faire Monde in Arles, France in October 2022. Veeler activates a 3D virtual space built with New Art City by delivering an IRL lecture as she walks through a projection of the space. The work expounds on Veeler’s personal grief ritual with her late husband’s personal archive, and the role of the virtual in this process. The first iteration of the performance was recorded and the audio was installed in the space at each of the areas she stopped to speak. This can be accessed on desktop at https://newart.city/world/well.

claire rousay | Ben Babbitt
2023-01-08 20:00
The wildly prolific emo ambient musician claire rousay brings new sounds to Human Resources in the new year. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance.

L.A. Based composer and performer Ben Babbitt arranges sound in and for realms physical and virtual, forging works where expression is so forefront, it belies the complex and oftentimes experimental nature of his methods.

Advance tickets available: https://withfriends.co/event/15358293/General_Admission

Presented by UPEND

Sticker
2023-01-07 20:00
Sticker (Michael Gross and Dakota Higgins) was born at the Stonehead Society Headquarters in Gardena, CA, into a heap of Mexican alabaster. For a year, the two lived on beans and kimchi, played nightly, and slept on boulders. While their sound has changed significantly over time, one thing has remained constant: A dedication to improvisation, gymnastics, jizz, and joy. They love you, and hope you love them.

“I’ll tell you one thing, Michael: this Johnny Cash CD SUCKS.”

Doors at 8 and we will probably play at 9?

Hope is a Hammer
2023-01-04 19:30
Hope is a Hammer

Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 7:30pm

“Hope is a Hammer” is an interdisciplinary collaborative performance directed and produced by Sharon Chohi Kim and Elana Mann. Through immersive sound, sculpture, text, and movement, “Hope is a Hammer” confronts the silencing of women’s voices and the struggle for body sovereignty, while offering strategies for collective empowerment. The performance includes music by Sharon Chohi Kim and Corey Fogel, text by Carol Ockman, choreography by Stephanie Zaletel, sculpture and set design by Elana Mann, and costume design by Jill Spector. Kim and Fogel will activate Mann’s sonic sculptures through voice and percussion, along with a group of musicians. They will play hand-horn megaphones, a ten-foot six-person protest horn, and ceramic rattles, culminating with a procession.

Performers: Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, Mikaela Elson, Corey Fogel, Sara Sinclair Gomez, Christopher Hadley, Sharon Chohi Kim, Divya Maus, Carol Ockman, Molly Pease, and Kathryn Shuman

Dead Thoroughbred
2022-12-22 19:00 | Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
DT a non-band band.

DT never; not happening.

DT heavy evasion—worthless.

DT so goth, born black.

DT at least sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin.

Dead Thoroughbred is presented as part of “Everything in Air”, a series of public programs at Human Resources over the course of a year—new commissions, exhibitions, performances, and forums, often in 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.

Like Spiders Spinning Light
2022-12-17 17:00 | Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
X-TRA Presents: Like Spiders Spinning Light a conversation between David Weldzius, Britt Salvesen, and Jon Leaver, Saturday, December 17th, 2023.

A 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.

Doors open at 5 pm

Read Weldzius’s essay, “Like Spiders Spinning Light: Reflections on Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach’s Guernica Tapestry at the UN” here.

David 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.

Britt 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).

Jon 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.

Sam Rowell: Call Of The Chromophore
2022-12-09 06:00 - 2022-12-16 07:00 | Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
UPEND Presents
SAM ROWELL:CALL OF THE CHROMOPHOREA series of performances in light and sound
December 9-16
Final Performances: Friday December 16, 8PM & 10PM
FREE
Limited Capacity / Prompt arrival recommended
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“An abstract investigation into the quantum nature of color and the relationship between perception, metaphysics, and language”
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With 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.
For 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.
Rowell’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?
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Sam 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.
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Friday December 9The Electromagnetic Enigma
Saturday December 10Wells of Poison, Columns of Smoke
Sunday December 11Newton Invented Indigo
Monday December 12Lovecraftian Perceptual Color Theory
Tuesday December 13Earth People: Controlled by Gamma Light
Wednesday December 14Color Confusion
Thursday December 15Roses are Red, Violets are Blue: Blackbody Radiation as it Relates to Hue
Friday December 16, 8PMWhite Light Unimagined by Dark Matter
Friday December 16, 10PMThe Bringer of Night Borne Intelligence

Walk Out UC Strike Fundraiser
2022-11-30 19:00 - 22:00
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.
ARTISTS
Carlos Agredano
Zack Benson
Antonio Bever
Brian Bowman
John Burlte
William Camargo
Misha Davydov
Alex Delapena
Anastasia Denos
Grant Frederick Speich
Lauren Goldenberg
Emily Babette Gross
Michael James Gross
Norma Hernandez Peña
Inès Kivimäki
Laura Li
Alberto Lule
Maria Mathioudakis
Acacia Marable
Davora Martine
Anthony Martinez Galvan
Brice Matisse James
Andy Montiel-Phillips
Alyssa Rogers
Jamie Ross
Eddie Salinas
Cielo Saucedo
Josh Schaedel
Ellen Schafer
Liz Stringer
Joshua Thomen
Ago Visconti
Devin Wilson
Christopher Yang
MUSICIANS
Dakota Higgins
Micheal James Gross
Spencer Pepke

Jimena Sarno: aeolian
2022-11-04 00:00 - 2022-11-20 23:59
Opening Reception:

Friday, November 4*, 6PM – 9PM

Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun noon-6PM,

Mon – Tues by appointment

“I can make wind,” Gluskabe admitted shamefacedly, “but I can’t make it stay.”

Then God blew, so powerfully that Gluskabe fell down and lost all his hair.

–Genesis Volume 1 (Memoria del Fuego) Eduardo Galeano

Considering 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.

Vocal artists:

Gemma Castro

Rosa Evangelina Beltrán

Maya Paredes

Molly Pease

Jimena 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.

Everything in Air

Human 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.

Featured photo by Christopher Wormald

Geneva Skeen - Channels (#1 Pittsburgh / Los Angeles)
2022-10-18 - 2022-10-21 | Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
open gallery hours: tuesday-thursday noon-7pm
Channels (#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.
The 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.
Artists and musicians from each location have been invited to “join” the audio stream throughout the installation as follows:
October 18: Patrick Shiroishi (LA)
October 19: Machine Listener (Pittsburgh)
Geneva 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.
www.genevaskeen.com

Channels (#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.

This 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.

HRLA Divas Live!
2022-10-14 19:00 - 2022-10-15 23:30
A two night gala for HRLA: October 14th & 15th

featuring performances by
Amelia Bande, Nikki D, Dorian Wood, Amanda Faye Jimenez, Jasmine Nyende, Sebastian Hernandez, Xandra Ibarra, Page Person, Emily Lucid, rafa esparza, Pau Pescador, TMO, Creepypasta Puttanesca, Jessica Emmanuel, and Carmina Escobar .

Tickets available here
