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SUMMARY:TRANZA
DESCRIPTION:TRANZA \nShow. Música. Interpretaciones Featuring:  \nThe Sand Ninja \nByron \nAngela Pereira \nAfrica Avila \nGina DVina \nplus other special guests. \n$5 – $20 Suggested Donation. \n#Tranza is a queer performance night in Los Ángeles showcasing LA-based and LA-grown art\, music\, and performances. Created and curated by the Byron Collective\, Tranza creates a space to share and center art work that exists in LA outside of traditional art institutions. \nPerformances: \nBlowing up from Ninjastan: @the_sand_ninja \nThe Sand Ninja is a diasporic warrior who fights against neo-colonialism. During the day (and some nights) she is a professional Gold Digger. She hustles money from her adoring fans to fund her struggle against oppression and her war against bad culturally colonized fashion. She constructs an identity made up of her own melancholic recollections of her people as well as a pan-“middle eastern” look created by Western projections and stereotypes. \nMUST HAVE DATING/CRUISING APP INSTALLED ON PHONE TO ENTER. \nSlunting through the city: @nondocumentedla \nThe Byron Collective stays popping the corn and feeding the Childrenz while functioning as a double agent of the Patriarchy. Inspiring all the hoes through music\, performance\, and too many libations. Be prepared to be immersed in a Juan Ga medley evening\, resistance to gentrification/constant violence/displacement\, and the end of another slunting season. \nFollowed by a very special LA drag show and interpretaciones\, featuring the return of the voice and beauty Angela Valentina Pereira\, the sultry Africa Avila\, la gran diva Gina DVina\, y muchas más!
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/tranza/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Jurassic Park: The Musical
DESCRIPTION:A Performance by Paul Pescador\nAugust 9\, 10 and 11\, 8 pm \nJurassic Park: The Musical is a three-act performance art event\, which centers around Pescador’s third grade elementary school experience and his desire to transform the Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park into a stage play. The overall performance becomes about naive ambitions\, the scientists in Jurassic Park creating dinosaurs that they can’t control and Pescador an overzealous kid\, trying to convince a class full of 10 year old kids\, parents\, and teachers to produce a school-wide theatrical event. This performance is part of a larger body of work\, titled The Visitors about the artist’s experience growing up in the California Desert. \nExpect fossils\, blood\, tap dancing and more! \nPaul Pescador is an artist\, filmmaker\, performer and writer who discusses social interactions and intimacy in regards to his own personal identity and history. He graduated with a Master of Arts (MFA) from the University of California\, Irvine and a BA from the University of Southern California. Some performances include: LADRÓNgalería\, Mexico City\, Machine Project\, Los Angeles; Contemporary Archives of Los Angeles; Performa 2015; Cologne\, New York; UC Berkeley: Durham Studio Theater; PAM\, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum\, with KCHUNG TV\, Los Angeles; REDCAT\, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University\, Los Angeles; and ForYourArt\, Los Angeles.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jurassic-park-the-musical/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T080000
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SUMMARY:Abe Hollow•Rose Droll•Sam Gurry's "Winners Bitch"•Borey+Essyre
DESCRIPTION:$10 // bring your friends // Doors at 8pm\, Sets at 8:30 \n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Hollow (Oakland)// Abe Hollow is the new songwriting project of Oakland-based composer and producer Adam Hirsch. His songs are a sublimation of his skills as a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer\, his experimental tendencies toward collaboration and improvisation\, and his continual obsession with family history and the mythologies of the Jewish diaspora. \nhttps://abehollow.bandcamp.com/album/a-palace-in-time \nRose Droll (San Francisco)//  multi-instrumentalist pop-oddity bringing an assortment of mesmerizing\, rich\, and quirky tunes that escape a proper genre. Her latest album ‘Your Dog’ is a beautiful collection of beat-tinged bedroom pop filled with deeply personal lyrics colored with whispery vocals\, clicky drum machine\, guitar\, cello\, and keys. \nhttps://rosedroll.bandcamp.com/album/your-dog \nSam Gurry (Los Angeles) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. They are from New Jersey and think Bruce Springsteen is just the best. Their work has screened at the Toronto International Film Festival\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, SXSW\, Ottawa International Animation Festival\, Slamdance\, Big Sky\, Pictoplasma\, and more. Their films consider identity\, texture\, and cultural detritus. They are one half of the performence duo Saint Victoria’s Incorruptible body and organize various events around Los Angeles. They graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts and their Mom is super proud about it. They will be screening their 2018 animated film ‘Winners Bitch’ \nhttps://vimeo.com/270542005 \nBorey + Essyre (Los Angeles)- Borey & Essyre is a project born of little tunes and ditties from two long lost cosmic siblings\, now united\, Borey Shin and Serena Caffrey. Revolving around simple melodies that push and pull from ethereal to carnival\, Borey & Essyre are here to bring you new jazz pop. Featuring Borey Shin on synth\, accordion\, and melodica\, Serena Caffrey on ukulele and voice\, Nick Hon on percussion\, Antonin Fajt on synth and slide guitar\, Jessica Li on bass and viola\, but rumor has it they like to switch things up.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/abe-hollow%e2%80%a2rose-droll%e2%80%a2sam-gurrys-winners-bitch%e2%80%a2boreyessyre/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Marcia Bassett + Samara Lubelski / Kaori Suzuki + John Krausbauer / Rogue Squares
DESCRIPTION:Doors 8 / Music 9\nAdvance tickets available here \nMARCIA BASSETT (guitar) and SAMARA LUBELSKI (violin) first performed as a duo in 2009\, improvising musical scores to films by Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton at X-Initiative\, Next Years Model series at DIA. Since their initial collaboration\, Bassett and Lubelski have continued to draw from their like-minded approach to improvisational music; creating personal interplay with the environmental surroundings to expand on abstraction\, chromatic noise\, and long form drone. Both Bassett and Lubelski have extensive backgrounds in the East Coast / NYC sub-underground. Bassett has performed in experimental music projects for over twenty years including Un\, GHQ\, Hototogisu\, Double Leopards and her solo project Zaïmph. Lubelski is best known as a solo artist with eight full-length releases\, but she has also been involved in various art-music provocations\, Hall of Fame\, Tower Recordings\, as a member of Thurston Moore’s band\, and in her associations with the long-standing German collective Metabolismus. The 2012 release of their first LP Sunday Night\, Sunday Afternoon\, on KYE Records\, was praised as having “ … incredible expanses and delicately menacing interplay with an increasingly satisfying audaciousness upon each subsequent listen.” — Paul Haney\, Tiny Mix Tapes. The latest LP\, ‘Live NYC’\, Feeding Tube Records (June 2017)\, “Elegantly shows just how much brain damage you can do using only a guitar and a violin… A tale of twinned and lightly fuzzed tones\, twirling and blending…The threads of sound absolutely phosphoresce. It’s an incredible mix of motion\, stillness and power.” – Byron Coley. The duo will have a new LP release on Drawing Room Records Fall 2019. \nKaori Suzuki (US/JP) and John Krausbauer (US) will present music for voices\, amplified strings\, electronics\, and bell percussion. Their work originates from a shared interest in ecstatic and spiritual musics as well as the “avant-garde”. Utilizing sustained tones\, alternate tunings\, long durations/playing endurances\, and stroboscopic lighting\, their music explores the parameters and possibilities of psychotropic ‘experiential’ environments rather than the strictly ‘musical’. \n \nKaori Suzuki is a Tokyo-born music maker/composer living in Oakland\, CA. Her spiraling sound visions often take form in long durations\, using electroacoustic sound technologies\, intensely high register electronics\, modified acoustic instruments\, and tape. She seeks to create heightened listening states\, emphasizing finding ‘music’ within activated space-time. She currently performs solo and plays drums in the Oakland based Minimalist psych-punk group\, Night Collectors; amplified strings in the Ecstatic Music Band; and collaborates with partner\, John Krausbauer\, on immersive light/sound happenings. She has toured and performed her music across the US\, Japan\, Europe\, Mexico\, and Canada\, and has released her music on independent labels in Germany and the US. \nJohn Krausbauer is a composer/multi-instrumentalist/improviser based in Oakland\, CA and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing label\, Besom Presse. A long time purveyor of the ur-drone and trance-psychedelia\, his work involves audio transmissions for TOTAL/immersive sensory experience. Transcendence through repetition\, duration\, alternate tunings\, maximum volumes\, and stroboscopic lighting. He has performed and presented his music across N America\, Europe\, and Japan in a multitude of settings – from basements\, sidewalks\, and rock clubs to colleges\, churches\, and art museums. Over 20 recordings of his have been released on independent labels in the US\, Europe\, and Japan. His group and solo music can be found on Important\, Beta-Lactam Ring\, ANTS\, Fabrica\, Debacle\, Autumn\, Thin Wrist (upcoming)\, and a number of other international labels. His current music projects include the Ecstatic Music Band (a 10+ member-collective of strings players); solo music for voice\, violin\, and synth; his collaboration with partner\, Kaori Suzuki\, with bells\, voices\, strings\, tape; the Minimalist psych-punk group Night Collectors; his systems-based phase compositions; and ongoing duo collaborations with Kentuckian steel bodied resonator guitar player R. Keenan Lawler\, NYC bagpipe player David Watson\, and Tokyo based guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/marcia-bassett-samara-lubelski-kaori-suzuki-john-krausbauer-rogue-squares/
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SUMMARY:Matt Weston (Albany) w/ Shook/Byrnes\, yek koo\, Casa Berenice
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 8\, Music begins at 8:30\nAll Ages\n$10 (advance tickets available here) \nHuman Resources is pleased to welcome MATT WESTON (percussion/electronics) from Albany\, NY. \nMatt will be joined by WILSON SHOOK (saxophones) and TED BYRNES (percussion) for a combined set of solo\, duo\, and trio improvisation. \nYEK KOO (Helga Fassonaki) and CASA BERENICE TRIO (Heather Lockie\, Clay Chaplin\, Sepand Shahab) will help integrate the evening.\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nMATT WESTON (Albany\, NY)\nMatt Weston plays percussion and electronics\, and has performed throughout the US\, Canada\, and Europe. \nHe has collaborated with Arthur Brooks\, Bill Callahan/Smog\, Bill Dixon\, Kevin Drumm\, Paul Flaherty\, Charles Gayle\, Milford Graves\, Mary Halvorson\, Le Quan Ninh\, Ben Miller (ex-Destroy All Monsters)\, Roger Miller (Mission of Burma)\, Jim O’Rourke\, Jeff Parker\, and many others. \nHe uses a tympani instead of a snare drum. \nIn addition to his solo work\, Weston is currently a member of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V; and Arc Pair with drummer Amanda Kraus. \nhttps://mattweston.bandcamp.com/\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nWILSON SHOOK (L.A)\nWilson Shook makes music like a moth fluttering at a street light. Graceful\, frantic\, persistent and sometimes tragic\, it is music absorbed of its own inscrutable purpose. It finds serenity in immediacy\, escape in acts of radical presence. It is here\, and then it is not. \nA self-taught improvising saxophonist\, Wilson often performs as a soloist\, with sustained collaborations including Greg Kelley (nmperign)\, Dave Abramson (Diminished Men\, Master Musicians of Bukkake)\, Andrew Scott Young (Tiger Hatchery)\, Ben Bennett\, A. Vitacolonna (Widow)\, Ryan Jewell\, Jacob Wick\, Carol Genetti\, Gust Burns\, Patrick Neill Gundran (Uneasy Chairs). Sporadic collaborations have included many other creative voices in contemporary weirdness.  For 10 years Wilson helped to organize the performance space Gallery 1412 in Seattle. He relocated to Los Angeles in 2017. \nhttps://otherghosts.net\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nTED BYRNES (LA)\nTed Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston\, MA\, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation\, new music\, electro-acoustic music\, and noise. \nTed primarily works in ad hoc improvisational settings\, but has standing improvisational groups including: a group with John Wiese\, a duo with Jeff Parker\, a duo with Chris Cooper (AQH)\, a duo with Charlie Mumma\, a duo with Sam McKinlay\, a duo with William Hutson\, a trio with Jacob Wick and Michael Foster\, among others. Additionally\, Ted has played in duo/trio/or ensemble settings with: Mazen Kerbaj\, Matt Weston\, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten\, Charlemagne Palestine\, Alfred 23 Harth\, Arrington de Dionyso\, Jaap Blonk\, Torsten Muller\, Kim Myhr\, Jim Denley\, Lloyd Honeybrook\, Chris Schlarb\, Mike Watt\, Paul Masvidal\, the LAFMS (including Smegma\, Airway\, Ace Farren Ford’s Artificial Art Ensemble\, Rick and Joe Potts\, Fredrik Nilsen\, Tom Recchion\, Vetza\, etc)\, Sissy Spacek (the band)\, Maher Shalal Hash Baz\, and more. \nhttps://tedbyrnesdrums.com\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nYEK KOO (LA)\nyek koo is the solo project of Los Angeles artist\, composer\, and performer Helga Fassonaki. yek koo transverses the visual and poetic\, through the exploration of space\, body\, voice\, and movement.  She can shake up a sound field with dissonance or fill it with cyclical sufi-poetic tones that subtly color her vocal palette. With yek koo\, Fassonaki explores the body as a vehicle for the movement of sound\, utilizing it as a filtering system that pushes sound through the responsive chambers of matter\, air\, and environment\, creating experiences that can be both emotively charged and spatially transformative. \nAside from her expressive free-form guitar\, pocket trumpet\, and vocal wailings in duo project Metal Rouge (with Andrew Scott)\, Fassonaki is known to resound trails of invisible effects and echoes through cassette players and prepared tap shoes\, some of which can be heard on Head\, released on Drawing Room Records in 2017. Bridging her sound and ecological interests\, Fassonaki is currently experimenting with binaural recordings of circular vocal chanting in various natural and geological sites and one-tone compositions in restricted spaces. \nhttps://helgafassonaki.com/yek_koo/\nhttps://soundcloud.com/yek-koo/tracks\nhttps://yekkoo.bandcamp.com/\n~\n~ ~\n~ ~ ~\nCASA BERENICE TRIO (LA)\nCasa Berenice Trio (Heather Lockie\, Clay Chaplin\, and Sepand Shahab) make ambient electro-acoustic improvisation. They scratch violas through electronics\, stretch field recordings\, tweak noisy oscillators\, and have been known to weave a folk song into a patient\, ambient mesh. \nhttps://youtu.be/zOmLj9f49Vs
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/matt-weston-albany-w-shook-byrnes-yek-koo-casa-berenice/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Josefina — An Installation by Fabián Guerrero
DESCRIPTION:Opening August 29\, 6-10pm\nScreening at 8pm followed by music and drinks\nOrganized by Fabián Guerrero and Clara López Menéndez \nJosefina is for and about my grandma\, Josefina. I wanted to document\, in short clips\, not only my grandma but also my family: the sounds\, movements and the house that I was raised in as a kid in Valle Hermoso\, Tamaulipas\, Mexico. This video is an introduction into filming and photographing my family’s history in my grandma’s house\, La Casa de Limón\, following a desire to keep track of their everyday living\, the survival\, the hopes and dreams and the stories of immigration that comes with it\, with us. It is also an attempt to reflect on the memories that will continue to inspire and build me\, the roots of me and my grandma Josefina––the beginning of my history. \nI am Fabián Guerrero\, a queer\, first generation Mexican American based in Los Ángeles\, born in Valle Hermoso\, Tamaulipas\, MX\, and raised in Dallas\, TX. I work with film and photography to document\, creating images that reflect on pasts\, presents and possible futures of our generation. My work both reflects and is inspired by my upbringing as first generation migrant and a queer brown individual; taking from fashion\, film\, poems and music\, the lifestyle and everyday survival\, to shed light into my family’s history and the meanders of the brown and queer communities. \nimage: Fabian Guerrero\, Sin Título (under my grandma’s portrait)\, 2019
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/josefina/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190918T120000
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SUMMARY:Angel Alvarado: Geovani's Room
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition dates: Wed Sept 18 – Fri Sept 20\,  12PM-8PM\nOpening reception: Wed Sept 18\,  6-9PM\nClosing reception: Friday Sept 20\, 6-9PM\, performance at 8PM.\nOrganized in collaboration with curator and researcher Javier Arellano Vences from the Vincent Price Art Museum\, Human Resources Los Angeles is pleased to present ​Angel Alvarado: Geovani’s Room​\, the artist’s first solo exhibition. The exhibition features photographs\, a single-channel video\, and an immersive installation as well as a closing reception performance by Alyss Glass. \nAlvarado’s work investigates the commodification of queer visibility and the dissemination of a canon that situates white cisgender men at the pinnacle of queer sensuality and sexuality\, while concurrently commenting on issues specific to ​brown​ queerness.​ ​Through image appropriation\, manipulation\, performance\, and the insertion of ​brown​ bodies\, Alvarado sabotages constructed realities that are fixated on a homogenized queer experience\, ultimately renouncing conditioned aspirations that often lead to a negative body image and body dysmorphia. \n\n\n\n\nAlyss Glass’s newly commissioned performance\, ​Geovani’s Room​\, provides a reflection onbrown​ queer melancholy. A melancholy that stems from navigating internal violence within personal relationships as in James Baldwin’s novel\, ​Giovanni’s Room​\, and the enduring of external efforts by an array of people and groups to shape gender performativity and gender identity. The fragility of these rigid structures can be seen and heard through the slowed down phonetic reading of the artist’s name\, Alyss Glass\, “all is glass\,” a gesture towards the imminent shattering of these fallacious mechanisms. \n  \n\n\n\n\nAngel Alvarado is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice revolves around the conception of the ​brown​ body within queer politics. Through a multivalent artistic practice\, he looks to question notions of gender\, sexuality\, and agency through bodies that are perceived as marginalized. He received his BFA in Fine Art at the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2015. \nJavier Arellano Vences has served as the Vincent Price Art Museum’s (VPAM) Curatorial and Research Assistant since 2017. He has contributed and assisted in developing over 15 exhibitions at VPAM\, among them\, ​A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of The Americas​ (2017)\, ​Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell​ (2017) as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative: Los Angeles/Latin America\, and ​Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology​ (2018). He also serves as VPAM’s primary English to Spanish translator for exhibitions and publications and provides translation services to other art institutions. Vences holds a BA in Art History from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and his research centers around the hybridization of U.S. Latinx avant-garde art\, vernacular art\, and anarchism. \nExhibition Credits \nAngel Alvarado: Geovani’s Room​ is a collaborative exhibition organized by Javier Arellano Vences and Angel Alvarado. Poster design by Giancarlos Campos. This exhibition is made possible thanks to Human Resources Los Angeles\, and Vardui Sharapkhanyan. \n**********\nImage Credit: ​Angel Alvarado\, ​a touch of the neck\,​ 2019. Inkjet Print. Courtesy of the artist.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T203000
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SUMMARY:Love 4 One Another
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LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190927T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T230000
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SUMMARY:Secret Joy
DESCRIPTION:September 27th & 28th\, 8:30 pm \nWritten and directed by Brian Getnick\, performed by Dani O’Terry and Gregory Barnett \n  \nSecret Joy is a play about beheading the past to make it speak. Sculptural costumes and weaponry are taken up by the performers to transform an ancient power struggle between the crowd and leader into a psychic battle between the body and mind. \nFollowing the presentation of Punishment’s Place in the fall of 2018\, Secret Joy is the second in a quartet of performances engaging the desire for retribution played out in the transformations of monumental sculptural figures. \n5-10$ suggested donation at the door \nResearch for this project was facilitated by the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship \n  \nbriangetnick.com \n  \n*photo by Julie Weitz
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/secret-joy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T203000
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SUMMARY:Shhh
DESCRIPTION:Sadly\, in a show about quietness\, it’s my first instinct to write about getting noisy.  \nIf I latch onto a metaphor for political action\, a reader could imagine the swarming power of the colony because\, yes\, each hive is made up of little bees and so\, the modest can become intrusive\, and sure\, maybe the meek will actually inherit the earth—but after all that reversal\, how do we know the oppressed won’t transform despotic? Why was noisy my first instinct and why is it so hard to believe in an equanimous future? Is it because in lives of simple binaries\, a participant can only react to the ‘either’ and never just be? I am…so sick of thinking in opposition\, the quiet that only exists in relation to what is noisy. \nWhat about the value of just one quiet thing at a time? Here’s a show where we’re trying: one night of shuffling sound\, sitting quietly\, and praising the modest rumble. A night of addressing our loud world by checking statement pieces at the door. No promises to save the planet\, just an opportunity to be present for it. \nHope to see you there.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/shhh/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T170000
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SUMMARY:HRLA Symposium I: Think Local
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day-long symposium featuring emerging critical voices in our community. This event features responses to work encountered at HRLA\, in spaces like HRLA or in museums in the region. We hope to give attendees a sense of the impact of local performances\, exhibitions and events on discourse about contemporary art; our aim is to create an engaging day of conversation about the practice of art criticism and art writing — one that is inclusive of artists\, students\, critics and scholars. \nWe welcome people coming and going during the day\, but do consider making time to be present for the whole event — our goal is to create a vibe in which the audience contributes as much to the day as the speakers. We have programmed lots of time for discussion — and hope that each session informs what follows it. \nWe are going to do more of these. Our second event will feature hybrid and experimental forms of criticism. Our third event will center writing about organizational dynamics and institutional politics (a topic that will appear in our first session). Please keep your eyes open for our calls for proposals. We want these events to feature people at different points in their work — we welcome proposals from students\, from independent writers\, journalists\, aspiring curators\, artists who want to write more than they do now\, wizened writers who want to support all of the above. \n10:00am: Coffee\, Welcome\, Introductions \n10:30-noon: A Sense of Place (90 minutes) \nNestor Guerrero\, Cesar Ruiz\, Robby Herbst \nThree presentations exploring the practice of signaling\, making and holding space. Topics include Latinx DJ collectives\, intentional music and experimental performance scenes. \n3 15-minute presentations\, followed by 45 minutes discussion \n12:10-1:30 Seminar I (80 minutes\, BYO lunch) \nJekara Govan and Rosalia Lerner are both writing articles about performances that have been staged at HRLA. If you would like to read this work in advance\, please fill out this form and we’ll send you a PDF. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Those of us who have read these works in advance will lead discussion\, give feedback and advice. This format may be particularly productive for people who are in or are thinking about going to graduate school: both writers are PhD students\, and are sharing work that will be a part of their academic portfolio. That said\, the day’s entire program is geared less towards academics than towards the greater arts community. Meaning\, the conversation should be accessible to artists — and if the writing isn’t\, this is something we’ll talk about! \n1:45-3:15pm: Material Conditions (90 minutes) \nAna Iwataki\, Andy Campbell\, Georgia Lassner \n3 15-minute presentations\, followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion \nThese three writers are writing the material conditions of art-making and the material conditions of artists’ lives. \n3:30-5:00pm: Performance Tactics (75 minutes) \nJoshua Guzmán\, Evan Duncan \n2 20-minute presentations\, followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion \nWe will conclude the day with two slightly longer presentations — here\, we will be opening up our optic as both speakers explore tactics in works they’ve encountered in Los Angeles – our last speaker is working on Adrian Piper; their work was inspired by the Piper exhibition at the Hammer Museum. \nThis program may be adjusted.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-symposium-i-think-local/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191006T220000
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SUMMARY:Bitch Slap
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 6th  7pm \n$10 suggested donation \nBitch Slap! is an evening of performance and video art at Human Resources LA\, by female identified and non-binary artists who confront contrived notions of femininity. In a time where didactic art seems like the only pathway to social justice\, these powerful works incorporate humor to playfully explore the embodiment of being a ‘Baddass Bitch. The evening is curated by Liz Miller-Kovacs and hosted by Rochelle Fabb. \nWorks by: \nNao Bustamante \nRochelle Fabb \nJohnny Forever Narwacaj \nDulce Soledad Ibarra \nXandra Ibarra \nSarah Johnson \nLiz Miller-Kovacs (with Pony Lee Musgrave and Julia Cornell) \nMicaela Tobin (White Boy Scream) \nSpecial Guests\nNAO BUSTAMANTE is an internationally known artist\, originally from California; she now resides in Los Angeles. Bustamante’s precarious work encompasses performance art\, video installation\, visual art\, filmmaking\, and writing. The New York Times says\, “She has a knack for using her body.” Bustamante has presented in Galleries\, Museums\, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited\, among other locales\, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London\, the New York Museum of Modern Art\, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance International Film Festival\, Outfest International Film Festival\, El Museo del Barrio Museum of Contemporary Art\, First International Performance Biennial\, Deformes in Santiago\, Chile and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. Bustamante is alum of the San Francisco Art Institute\, New Genres program and the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently she holds the position of Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. \nROCHELLE FABB creates original group and solo performances and intimate\, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance. Her works explore lust\, rage\, passion and power with pathos\, humor and nod to pop culture. She co-founded the performance ensemble\, Empire of Teeth and is a member of Mariel Carranza’s Encounter group. She has performed at LACMA\, Highways\, Lincoln Center\, Knitting Factory\, the New Genres Festival (Tulsa)\, Mobius (Boston)\, RAW Tempel (Berlin)\, Theatre Nogent (Marnay sur Seine\, France)\, Ex-Teresa Int’l Festival (Mexico City)\, and in galleries\, houses and public spaces. She was a touring member of the Rachel Rosenthal Company and Asher Hartman’s Gawdafful National Theater. \nJOHHNY FOREVER NAWRACAJ is a nonbinary Polish-born performance and video artist currently based between Montreal and Los Angeles. Their work weaves surrealist narrative through the manipulation of mundane objects in fantastical space\, both physical and virtual. Forever insists on the disruption of categories\, building visual allegories for liminal and ever-shifting identities. They also seek to explore love\, loss\, and longing with a particular investment in these themes as a part of radical queer and trans cultural production. \nDULCE SOLEDAD IBARRA is a multi-disciplinary artist\, curator\, designer and non-profit arts advocate based in Los Angeles with special interests in community and identity-emphasized arts and opportunity. As a practicing artist\, Ibarra discusses issues of generational guilt\, intersecting communities\, language\, and cultural identities in videos\, installations\, performances\, and participatory work. Looking through queer Brown/Latinx/Xicanx perspective\, the work is fueled by emotional labor\, persynal research and analyzation. \nXANDRA IBARRA is an Oakland-based performance artist from the US/Mexico border who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom. Ibarra uses hyperbolized modes of racialization and sexualization to test the boundaries between her own body and coloniality\, compulsory whiteness\, and Mexicanidad. Ibarra’s work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá\, Colombia)\, Broad Museum (LA\, USA)\, Popa Gallery (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Joe’s Pub (NYC)\, PPOW Gallery (NYC)\, Anderson Collection (Stanford) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) to name a few. She has been awarded the Art Matters Grant\, NALAC Fund for the Arts\, ReGen Artist Fund\, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award. Her work has been featured in Artforum\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, ArtNews and in various academic journals nationally and internationally. As a community organizer\, Ibarra’s work is located within feminist immigrant\, anti-rape and prison abolitionist movements. Since 2003\, she has actively participated in organizing with INCITE!\, a national feminist of color organization dedicated to creating interventions at the intersection of state and interpersonal violence. She currently lectures within the Critical Studies program at California College of the Arts. \nSARAH JOHNSON is an Los Angeles based artist working in performance\, video\, potography\, and writing. Johnson has performed internationally in galleries\, theaters\, cathedrals\, freeway underpasses\, backyards\, and otherwise. An alum of NYU in Performance Studies\, her work has been featured at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada)\, the TBA Festival (PDX OR)\, and Sub Rosa Projects (Greece). \nLIZ MILLER-KOVACS is a contemporary artist working in Los Angeles. Encompassing video\, performance\, photography and installation\, Miller-Kovacs’ work is eclectic both formally and in content. Her studio practice explores the relationship between commodity\, globalized society and the human condition. The conundrum of living in a time where our environment is becoming increasingly uninhabitable while society at large seems preoccupied with assimilating to meditated images has become a focal point in her work. Miller-Kovacs additionally examines the hypocrisy within her critique of the media and her own participation in the indulgent superficiality of commercial culture. Miller-Kovacs has exhibited her works and performed in major art centers and galleries around the North America\, Europe\, Asia and Australia. She is an Alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute where she completed her MFA in New Genres. More recently she completed a Visual Arts PhD at Sydney College of the Arts in Australia\, where she was awarded both the IPRS and IPA international scholarships for the duration of her research. \nMICAELA TOBIN is a soprano\, sound artist\, and teacher based in Los Angeles\, CA who specializes in contemporary opera and experimental voice\, composing under the moniker “White Boy Scream.” Within this project Micaela dissects her operatic singing style and extended vocal techniques through the use of electronics\, in an attempt to undermine patriarchal constructs of her classical training and reclaim the “diva.” She has performed extensively throughout the western United States\, most notably as a guest with hip-hop experimentalists clipping. during their 2017 tour in support of The Flaming Lips. Micaela’s most recent full length release\, “Remains” (Crystalline Morphologies) was listed as one of the top 10 Noise/Industrial Albums of 2018 by The Wire Magazine. \nCuration:\nLiz Miller-Kovacs \nProduction:\nMarcus Kuiland-Nazario \nProduction Manager:\nAbdiel López \nSpecial Thanks:\nHuman Resources\, Vardui Sharakpanyan\, Abdiel López
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/bitch-slap/
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191015
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SUMMARY:Alexandre Dorriz - Consciousness is Code in the Occidental Vacuum
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday October 11th 7-10pm \nOn view Saturday 10/12 and Sunday 10/13 12—6pm \n  \nConsciousness is Code in the Occidental Vacuum is part of an ongoing investigation of fiber and its relations to time\, memory\, and optics through museology and dramaturgy practices. Dorriz works with the historical discovery of synthetic and semi-synthetic fibers\, and their respective chemical and organic compositions and applications in order to interpret various fibers through rhetorical lens and optical-based systems. By looking at the properties of silkworm fiber as raw protein\, Dorriz interprets the accumulation of woven amyloid fibrils in the brain which are known to cause Alzheimer’s disease through the accidental discovery of rayon (“artificial silk”) by a French chemist’s work in a darkroom. There\, there remain chemical congruences in French chemical company DuPont’s (Dow Chemical) first patents for nylon (PA-66) and the company’s concurrent development of Panchromatic Negative Film cellulose (nitrocellulose) and non-cellulosic bases and emulsions. Using new cuneiforms to interpret optical memory through these empirical findings\, Dorriz works with optical agents\, chemicals such as film developers and fixers and a noxious plant\, Syrian rue (esfand)\, historically used to ward off evil eyes in family homes\, as well as producing the dyes for carpets responsible for hallucinations occurring in weaving circles\, which has led to the expression\, ‘magic carpet.’ \nDuring the three day installation\, Dorriz triangulates these rhetorical fiber exercises through dialogical and dramaturgical interpretations of a 1975 Richard Tuttle exhibition curated by Marcia Tucker at the Whitney Museum of American Art. While Tuttle’s postminimal bodies of work would lead to strong negative reviews of the exhibition and question Tucker’s curatorial expertise by critics\, Dorriz looks to Tuttle’s fiber work\, “Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself” (1973) presented in Tuttle’s first of three rotating installations for the exhibition\, as a retrocausal lens into the events following the exhibition. Tom Armstrong\, then museum director of the Whitney\, would seem to be coerced by critics\, boardmembers\, and trustees into the wrongful termination of Marcia Tucker’s employment following the Tuttle exhibition; where\, Tucker would subsequently found The New Museum in 1977. \n1. Blanc\, Paul David. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven; London: Yale University Press\, 2016.\n2. “Our History | DuPont.” DuPont. DuPont\, n.d. https://www.dupont.com/about/our-history.html.\n3. Whitney firing\, 1976 + Corres.; Marcia Tucker Papers; Getty Research Institute Special Collections; (Box 3\, File 20; 1976) \nImage: Robert Fludd\, Ars Memoriae\, 1619
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/alexandre-dorriz-consciousness-is-code-in-the-occidental-vacuum/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191029
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SUMMARY:Why You So Negative?
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, October 18th  8pm \nExhibition Dates: Friday\, October 18—Sunday\, October 27th \nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun\,  12-5pm \nPerformance by Nikhil Chopra: Sunday\, October 20th  7pm \n  \nWhy You So Negative? responds to institutional rebranding and removal of work by artist\, Chiraag Bhakta. The solo exhibition features the original work—an installation which examines the commodification of yoga in Western culture—in its entirety. Programming for Why You So Negative? will include a durational performance by artist Nikhil Chopra and a night of yoga.  \nThe artist’s statement and supporting essays can be found here.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/why-you-so-negative/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
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SUMMARY:Muscle House Cookbook (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:Two evenings of artist scores in the form of recipes\, performed at Muscle Beach\, Venice CA. Muscle House Cookbook is part of programming for CURRENT: LA FOOD.  \n(please note that these are offsite events\, not at HRLA). \n10/19 + 11/2\n6-8pm \n  \nRecipes by: \nAlexandre Dorriz\nBrittany Ko\nDavid Horvitz\nDicky Bahto\nDorian Wood\nEither Or\nElana Mann\nElliot Reed\nMaria Maea\nMariel Carranza\nNine Herbs Charm\nSarah Gail\nSebastian Hernandez\nYunuen Rhi \n..and more TBA \nPrepared by: \nElliot Reed\nErin Schneider\nJohn Burtle \nimage from Brittany Ko “Stomach Recipe” (2019) \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/muscle-house-cookbook/
LOCATION:muscle beach\, 1800 Ocean Front Walk\, Venice\, CA\, 90291\, United States
CATEGORIES:off-site event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T233000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
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SUMMARY:somesurprises / Jessika Kenney / Jesse Quebbeman Turley
DESCRIPTION:somesurprises (Seattle) / Jessika Kenney / Jesse Quebbeman Turley\nDoors 8pm\, Music 9pm\n$10-15 suggested donation\nAdvance tickets available here:\nhttps://withfriends.co/Event/2681113/somesurprises_Jessika_Kenney_Jesse_Quebbeman_Turley \nsomesurprises is the moniker of Seattle singer/songwriter Natasha El-Sergany. What once was a solo project focusing on spectral balladry and late night exploration\, somesurprises has since formed into a dynamic four-piece live band. Motorik beats\, reverb-drenched vocals\, washes of fingerpicked guitars\, and hazy synths expand El-Sergany’s delicate and blissful songwriting. \nStarting with a solo tape release of cell phone recordings on 2016’s Voice Memos\, El-Sergany then collaborated with guitarist Josh Medina (Debacle Records) for duo debut ambient album\, Serious Dreams\, released on Eiderdown Records in 2017. Serious Dreams was described by The Quietus as “a thoroughly cosmic outing. Everything is lush and smooth enough to describe as ambient music as much as folk\, almost seeming too dreamy to have ever been real.” The release also received kind reviews from Bandcamp\, The Stranger\, Seattle Weekly\, and Tiny Mixtapes. \nNext\, somesurprises took to recording as a full band with drummer Nico Sophiea (MX-80 Sound) and bassist Emma Danner (Red Ribbon)\, releasing Alt\, on LA’s Doom Trip Records in 2018. Aquarium Drunkard compared the three-song “krautpop” EP to an imaginary collaboration between Grouper and Spiritualized. In early 2019\, somesurprises put out a collaborative split tape with Seattle’s Supercandy (some candy\, released by Crash Symbols)\, with guest musicians Brenan Chambers\, Lori Goldston\, Monika Khot\, and Ambrosia Bardos weaving layers of soaring guitar effects\, cello\, vocals\, and trumpet into the mix. \nOver the years\, somesurprises has built a strong presence in the Seattle music scene\, and toured the west coast. In Seattle\, they have opened for touring artists such as Circuit Des Yeux\, Carla dal Forno\, A Place to Bury Strangers\, and the Cave Singers. This year finds somesurprises set to release their self-titled\, full-length LP on Drawing Room Records\, an exciting milestone for this aptly named\, shapeshifting project. \nsomesurprises.bandcamp.com \nJessika Kenney is a vocalist\, composer\, and teacher whose work extends the vocal traditions of Indonesian sindhenan and Persian radif into new realms by way of contemporary composition and improvisation. Internationally regarded for the elegiac timbral quality of her voice\, her practice of sphygmoresonance\, or resonance of pulse\, entails ritualistic focus and reverence for inner architecture that emanates a palpable sense of stillness. Kenney’s interest in the full spectrum experience of sound has led to collaboration with a wide range of experimentalists\, while her partnership with composer/violist Eyvind Kang has yielded five spellbinding albums of minimal\, delicate beauty. A student of radif with Ostad Hossein Omoumi\, Kenney’s music is timeless\, yet steeped in textual research\, respectful of its spiritual roots while invoking unknown futures.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/somesurprises-jessika-kenney-jesse-quebbeman-turley/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T220000
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SUMMARY:Nikhil Chopra: Rouge
DESCRIPTION:Rouge is an hour long performance action by Nikhil Chopra. Nikhil will be drawing a large scale landscape on the wall with lipstick. Nikhil incorporates everyday materials\, and for instance\, lipstick— a cosmetic often associated with make up\, femininity\, sensuality and sexuality will be used to transform the body and the space around it. Nikhil’s performances often critically examine stereotypes based on identity; nationality\, gender and class\, while walking the fine line between performance art\, theater and landscape drawing. Rouge is a part of programming for Why You So Negative?
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/nikhil-chopra-rouge/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191009T094328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T193455Z
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SUMMARY:Protesting Seoul: Resistance in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:  \nSpace is limited\, RSVP recommended  \nSeoul is a city of protest. On any given day\, one might see striking workers\, displaced residents\, evicted shopkeepers\, bereaved parents\, feminist\, queer and trans activists\, religious leaders\, politicians\, NGO activists and many others protesting defiantly on the streets. For those living in Korea and in the diaspora who follow political events from afar\, protest is a reliable weapon of the weak and a familiar form of civic participation. Protest images rarely make the English-speaking international press\, though\, except when protests mobilize millions\, like during the 2016-17 Candlelight Protests when millions gathered over 20 consecutive Saturdays in the historic centers of Seoul to demand the impeachment of former President Park Geun-Hye. This immersive lecture draws from long-term field research to go beyond the spectacle and presents some of the most remarkable stories\, sights\, sounds\, forms\, feelings\, and infrastructures of protest-making from below. The flourishing cultures of protest call into question the ongoing relations of power and inequality in Korea and highlight the urgency of resistance in precarious times. \n  \n  \n \nJennifer Jihye Chun is a labor sociologist and associate professor in Asian American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research explores the interconnected worlds of race\, class\, gender\, and migration through a comparative and critical ethnographic lens. She is the author of the award-winning book Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (Cornell University Press\, 2009) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on Asian immigrant women and community organizing; precarious work and labor unions; and gender\, migration\, and care work. Currently\, she is writing a book monograph on protest cultures in South Korea with Ju Hui Judy Han. \n \nJu Hui Judy Han is a cultural geographer and assistant professor in Gender Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her comics and writings about (im)mobilities\, faith-based movements\, and queer politics have been published in journals including Critical Asian Studies\, positions: asia critique\, and Journal of Korean Studies as well as in several edited books including Q&A: Queer in Asian America (1998)\, Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South (2015) and Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (2018). She is currently working on a book manuscript on queer temporalities and the political order in Korea and co-writing another on protest cultures with Jennifer Chun. \n\n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/protesting-seoul-resistance-in-precarious-times/
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T233000
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SUMMARY:410 Cottage Home
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 30th  8pm \nThursday\, October 31st   8pm \n\n\nInstallation by Jeff Zilla\n\n+ performances by Myriad Slits & Twin Schism\n\nJeff Zilla is music and performance art curator deeply invested in the queer and experimental scene of Los Angeles. Content creator across multiple platforms with expertise in podcasts\, djing and viral video creation. Known around the world for playful\, controversial and hilarious works of music and performance.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/410-cottage-home/
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191017T160749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T211105Z
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SUMMARY:Muscle House Cookbook (Part 2)
DESCRIPTION:Two evenings of artist scores in the form of recipes\, performed at Muscle Beach\, Venice CA. Muscle House Cookbook is part of programming for CURRENT: LA FOOD. \n(please note that these are offsite events\, not at HRLA). \n10/19 + 11/2\n6-8pm \n  \nRecipes by: \nAlexandre Dorriz\nBrittany Ko\nDavid Horvitz\nDicky Bahto\nDorian Wood\nEither Or\nElana Mann\nElliot Reed\nMaria Maea\nMariel Carranza\nNine Herbs Charm\nSarah Gail\nSebastian Hernandez\nYunuen Rhi \n..and more TBA \nPrepared by: \nElliot Reed\nErin Schneider\nMaria Maea \nimage from Brittany Ko “Stomach Recipe” (2019) \n 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/muscle-house-cookbook-part-2/
LOCATION:muscle beach\, 1800 Ocean Front Walk\, Venice\, CA\, 90291\, United States
CATEGORIES:off-site event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T233000
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SUMMARY:Gong Gaada • Glochids • lucky dragons
DESCRIPTION:UPEND presents \nGong Gaada\nGlochids\nlucky dragons \ndonate eight\ndoors at nine \nat\nHuman Resources\n410 Cottage Home Street\n90012 \nGONG GAADA \nInspired by gamelan traditions as much as the contemporary experimental scenes of Indonesia\, Gong Gaada is a Los Angeles-based trio exploring a hyrbrid form of their own devise. Utilizing a couple reyong – the arrays of metal gongs used in Balinese gamelan – and suling – bamboo flute – and modular synthesizer\, the group lays out familiar and creative patterns and tones as a matrix for departure. The analog electronics pick up and process of the acoustic drama in real-time\, honing in on certain frequencies\, the modular output augmenting their sounds with new-found harmonics and psychedelic flitter. Groove intact\, noise rips and punctuates in step with the hypnotic rhythms of their struck metal attack. This fresh ensemble has performed just few times locally\, and this summer took their sound to the east coast\, including a performance in Vermont at Gong Brattleboro: Experiments in Gamelan. Gong Gaada is Matthew Clough-Hunter – Reyong and Suling\, Hirotaka Inuzuka – Reyong\, Cordey Lopez – Modular Synthesizer. \nGLOCHIDS \nGlochids is the aural ecology of Oakland-based artist James Roemer. Via sounds captured and made\, gently tugged and pulled\, Glochids intuits without regard for the lines between the organic and mechanic. This diaristic audiosphere draws from environmental recording\, concrète and electronic sounds\, paced with savvy edits and flow. In live settings\, the play table fills with selections from a cache of vernacular electronics and dead media. (On occasion – for example – the artist utilizes a magnetic stripe card reader to store simple samples and warble possibly imperfect playbacks.) Acoustic emanations are also in the cards\, as gamelan sounds have cameoed live and on record. Roemer’s affinity to the Indonesian form is subtle but evident in Glochids tonal and aesthetic predilections. A sonic lifer and veteran of the road\, Roemer continually experiments in the field. This year he resided and worked through the Austral Summer in Antartica\, followed by a musical tour of Indonesia\, bringing inspiration full circle into sound. Glochids has released on labels including Ascetic House\, Weird Ear\, and Phinery. \nlucky dragons \nFor this event lucky dragons will play spectral symmetries of soul.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/gong-gaada-%e2%80%a2-glochids-%e2%80%a2-lucky-dragons/
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T230000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
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SUMMARY:The Revolting Lumpen! a classical opera reboot
DESCRIPTION:Beck+Col\nSaturday November 9\nDoors at 830\, Performance at 9PM \n\n\n\n\nThe lumpen world embodies the cannibalistic nature of the global economic and social structure. Colorful\, velvet lumps comprise everything in the installation\, amassed from the physical exploitation of the lumpen monsters. \nA game of musical chairs serves as a model of the zero-sum system of capital. The players have to fight their competitors to gain an advantage as they try to get a seat. When one monster gets a chair\, another is left to be dismembered. The phantasmagorical figures become violent embodiments of the forced competition as they torture and maim each other for power. The grey ghost monster “fractures all traditional conceptions of reality\,” returning from death to emerge as an “alternative both to linear history and to postmodernism’s permanent revival.”1 It haunts the ball monster\, insisting on futures beyond postmodernism’s terminal timeline. \nThe immersive combination of the installation\, costumes\, performance and operatic soundtrack reflects the wagnerian spectacle of opera–it is extravagant\, gestural\, ceremonial and performative. Employing the spectacle\, we use over-the-top violence to “remind us that capitalism is already violent\, that under capitalism violence is ambient and systematic\, and that capitalism will only yield through greater and different violence.”2 The violent caricatures reveal the absurdity of oppressive social norms. Resisting binary and hierarchical classifications\, the monsters explore these cruel behaviors in a space of indeterminacy–allowing for rethinking of power structures. \n  \n1. Fisher\, Mark. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression\, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Zero Books\, 2014.\n2. Steven\, Mark. Splatter Capital: a Guide for Surviving the Horror Movie We Collectively Inhabit. Repeater\, 2017. Print.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/the-revolting-lumpen-a-classical-opera-reboot/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
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SUMMARY:Restaurant
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition dates: November 14—November 19\, 2019   12-5pm \nOpening reception: November 14  7-10pm with music performance by Amazondotcom from Los Angeles and Siete Catorce from Mexicali at 8pm \nRestaurant is a joint project between Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artists Stella Ahn and Hyesung ii. This project will re-imagine the space with cultural and personal objects. The system of things in a space (in a restaurant\, a gallery\, or a home\, for example) can initiate a network of use\, value\, and meaning that over time constitutes a daily material reality. Perhaps this is even truer of immigrants and immigrant families\, whose spaces are a constellation of colors\, objects\, noises\, and smells that not only help them sensorially belong in this country\, but also create an endless web of varied ideas and functions in and of themselves. This exhibit explores these ideas through the material realities the artists have accumulated over their lives. \n  \nStella Ahn is an artist and music producer based in Los Angeles\, where she grew up. She is interested in re-imaging non-western worlds and world views\, heterogenous structures\, narrative arrangements\, and the collapsing of meaning. \nHyesung ii is a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles and Seoul. She works with narratives of “ordinary” individuals and/or daily events. \nThe two women studied together at Calarts from 2009-2012.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/4782/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191026T194104Z
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SUMMARY:Yann Novak\, Byron Westbrook\, Robert Crouch\, Ian Wellman
DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles artists Yann Novak\, Robert Crouch and Ian Wellman return home from their west coast tour and are joined by Byron Westbrook. Yann Novak will present his new work Slowly Dismantling which reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America and explores these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation. Byron Westbrook will present the LA premiere of a new series of compositions for electronics using just intonation and custom tuning systems. Robert Crouch will perform new work inspired by poet Ted Berrigan\, that explores the tensions between collective listening and personal reflection. Ian Wellman will be performing segments from his latest offering\, Bioaccumulation\, and new material comprised of recordings made around Southern California\, Sierra Nevada\, and Lake Azeui\, Haiti. \nYann Novak is a queer interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Los Angeles. His work is guided by his interests in perception\, context\, movement\, and the felt presence of direct experience. Through the use of sound and light\, Novak explores how these intangible materials can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on our present location in space and time. Novak’s diverse body of works—audiovisual installations\, performances\, recording\, and prints—ask participants to reclaim the present moment as a political act. His work has been experienced through exhibitions and performance at AB Salon\, Brussels; Armory Center for the Arts\, Pasadena\, California; The Broad\, Los Angeles; Commonwealth & Council\, Los Angeles; Danspace\, New York; de Young Museum\, San Francisco; Fylkingen\, Stockholm; The Getty Villa\, Pacific Palisades\, California; Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; The Henry Art Gallery\, Seattle; Human Resources\, Los Angeles; Iklectik\, London; Institute of Modern Art\, Brisbane; LACMA\, Los Angeles; Mutek Festival\, Montreal; Norton Simon Museum\, Pasadena\, California; SFMoMA\, San Francisco; Soundfjord\, London; and The Stone\, New York\, among others.His works have been released by 901 Editions\, Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, LINE\, Room40\, and Touch\, among others.\nhttps://www.yannnovak.com \nByron Westbrook is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles\, CA. He has been performing and showing experimental sound work internationally since 2008. His work focuses on dynamics of perception using sound\, lighting and video to interact with architecture and landscape\, often pursuing routes that involve social engagement. He holds an MFA from the Bard College\, where he studied with Marina Rosenfeld\, Marcus Schmickler and David Behrman. His work has been presented at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)\, ICA London\, Cafe OTO (London)\, MoMA PS1\, Fridman Gallery\, Abrons Arts Center\, Pioneer Works\, Experimental Intermedia Foundation (NY)\, MaerzMusik Festival (Berlin)\, Human Resources (Los Angeles)\, Disjecta (Portland\, OR)\, Instants Chavires Art Space (Paris)\, Fylkingen (Stockholm)\, the LAB (San Francisco)\, O’ (Milan)\, Suoni Popolo\, Akousma Festival (Montreal) among many others. He has recordings with Root Strata\, Umor Rex\, Hands in the Dark and Sedimental Records. Westbrook has been in residence at Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, Banff Centre for the Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Clocktower Gallery\, Diapason Gallery\, Wassaic Project and EMS Stockholm. He is currently Visiting Faculty with Pratt Institute Fine Arts Dept and International Center of Photography.\nhttps://www.byronwestbrook.com \nRobert Crouch is an artist and curator whose work encompasses sound\, performance\, and technology. As an artist\, he locates his work with the intersection of post-phenomenological listening practices\, conceptual sound art\, and contemporary electronic music. At its core\, his work can be understood as a conversation between tonality\, context\, history and subjectivities. Similarly\, Crouch’s curatorial work focuses on the overlapping disciplines of sound\, technology\, movement\, and performance. Crouch is currently the Executive and Artistic Director for Fulcrum Arts and the Artistic Director for the A×S Festival. His works have been published by Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, LINE\, and Touch\, among others.\nhttps://www.robertcrouch.com \nTaking influence from ethnographic film\, bioacoustics\, and noise music\, Ian Wellman merges real and imagined worlds to create consuming acoustic portraits. His work is created from single tape loops\, effect pedals\, and field recordings\, often focusing on themes based on the environmental collapse. Wellman’s solo efforts have been released on Room 40\, Dragon’s Eye Recordings\, Touch Radio\, and Industrial Coast. Along with Aaron Bartell\, he is part of the collaborative listening duo Zzyzxzyzz\, which focuses on electromagnetic and other inaudible by ear sound worlds. Ian is an IATSE 695 production sound mixer for film/video by trade. Ian Wellman works and resides in Los Angeles\, CA.\nhttps://ianwellman.com
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/yann-novak-byron-westbrook-robert-crouch-ian-wellman/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
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SUMMARY:future ghosts
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Saturday\, November 23rd 7pm / Performances at 8pm\nGallery hours: Sunday\, November 24th 12-5pm \nfuture ghosts features future work by future ghosts\, post-Haunts and pre-probed. \nThe artists present new work that project a vacuum-sealed\, retired\, self-destructive\, bioengineered future waiting to be probed\, figuratively. \nparticipating artists:\nAlicia Piller\nAntoine Midant\nBeck+Col\ncourtney coles\nDaniel Andres Alcazar\nDiego Barrientos\nIeva Raudsepa\nKelly Wall\nKira Doutt\nLucinda Jacquelin Trask\nLuke Harnden\nNick Angelo\nPhilipp Farra\nSerena Aurora Day Himmelfarb\nSiheun Kim\nSilvi Naçi\nTaehee Kim\nZZ Krebs \nperformances by:\nHanieh Khatibi\nLooksorn and Naama Attias\nMinsu Kang\nMolly Jo Shea\nnick kochornswasdi \nfuture ghosts is an exhibition of new work by 24 recent CalArts MFA graduates and the catalogue release event of Haunts—their post-graduate summer 2019 exhibition. \n  \nimage: Antoine Midant\, Consumer Report #1 (Creative / Realistic)\, 2019.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/future-ghosts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191111T203720Z
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SUMMARY:Ecology of the Edge
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: November 29th\, 7-10pm with performances by Nina Sarnelle and Kim Ye \nExhibition dates: November 29th—December 8th  \nGallery hours: Wed-Sun\, 12-5pm \nAs anthropogenic climate changes accelerate\, the boundaries between humans and non-humans are constantly being redefined. In what ways can we shift our perspectives towards symbiotic relationships between our bodies and the land we inhabit? \nEcology of the Edge proposes works in which the temporal dimension of sensory processes is foregrounded as part of a larger system. The exhibition includes interactive and time-based work with performances\, panel discussions and large-scale sound and video installations. \nFeatured Artists: \n\nJasmin Blasco\nPaige Emery\nGeorge Jensen\nOlive Kimoto\nPierce Myers\nParag Mital\nNina Sarnelle\nJulian Stein \n\nSchedule of Events: \nNovember 29th\, 7-10pm: \nOpening reception with performances by Nina Sarnelle and Kim Ye \nNovember 30th\, 4pm: \nTalk with Catherine Malabou (philosophy professor at Kingston University and  European Graduate School)\, Kenric Mcdowell (leader of Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program)\, Jaden Adams (Co-Founder of The New Centre for Research and Practice and The Future Left)\, Matthew Donovan (Co-Founder of The Future Left) and Christine Meinders (Founder of Feminist.AI and Professor of A.I. Culture & Creativity at CalArts) \nDecember 7th\, 7-10pm: \nClosing reception with music performance by Ana Roxanne and Paige Emery\nand movement performance by Kendra Adler
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/ecology-of-the-edge/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191123T081316Z
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SUMMARY:Living in the Age of Uncertainty and the Pending Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in conversation with Catherine Malabou\, Kenric McDowell\, Jaden Adams\, Christine Meinders and Matthew Donovan to discuss new forms of life that enable the acceleration of climate change\, how the political landscape is mediated by the climate crisis\, and foundational anthropocentric assumptions in technology paradigms and recent attempts to expand design thinking to include non-humans along with their implications for culture at large. \nThis discussion is a part of Ecology of the Edge\, on view November 29th-December 8th. \n__________ \nAbout the speakers: \nCatherine Malabou is a French philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University\, at the European Graduate School\, and in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine\, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting figures in what has been called “The New French Philosophy\,” Malabou’s research and writing covers a range of figures and issues\, including the work of Hegel\, Freud\, Heidegger\, and Derrida; the relationship between philosophy\, neuroscience\, and psychoanalysis; and concepts of essence and difference within feminism. \nKenric McDowell has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for over twenty years. Kenric co-leads the Artist + Machine Intelligence program at Google Arts & Culture\, where he facilitates collaboration between artificial intelligence researchers\, artists\, and cultural institutions. Kenric is a regular conference speaker and consultant to think tanks and arts organizations\, helping groups connect artistic practice and technology production with larger traditions of human understanding. \nJaden Adams (aka Jason Adams) is Co-Director of The New Centre for Research & Practice and a former Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College and has been teaching classes and seminars in the arts\, media\, and social sciences for over a decade. Following the publication of his book Occupy Time: Technoculture\, Immediacy\, & Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013)\, and his co-edited Deleuze & Race (Edinburgh University Press\, 2013)\, he is presently revising the final manuscript for his second authored book Virtual Virilio: Speed\, Politics\, Potentiality (Under Review\, 2018). Adams has been an invited speaker on political theory\, technoculture\, media theory\, and political culture\, at a range of universities\, research institutions\, and art galleries around the world. \nChristine Meinders is an emerging technologies designer who uses collaborative design approaches to create AI design tools and develop community-driven\, social AI projects\, from a cultural perspective. She is the founder of the community AI research and design group\, Feminist.AI\, which utilizes participatory approaches to co-create AI projects. \nMatthew Donovan(aka Teaadora) is the co-founder of The Future Left and a Fellow at Organizing For Action in Los Angeles. Within the leadership roles of these organizations\, Matthew has lead international reading-and-working activist groups\, organized educational events on LA-metro area politics with activists and politicians\, as well as co-organized Noise Against Sexual Assault\, a cultural event working to educate artists about sexual assault in the music industry. Currently\, they are pursuing a Certificate in Transdisciplinary Studies from The New Centre For Research & Practice\, articulating alternative activist and queer futures.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/living-in-the-age-of-uncertainty-and-the-pending-climate-crisis/
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191126T190723Z
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SUMMARY:A Loose Million: reading\, screening\, and a hypnosis
DESCRIPTION:Caitlin Berrigan’s Imaginary Explosions draws upon geology\, embodied knowledges\, and technoscience to investigate how deep time and interspecies communication might assist us in radical planetary transformation. The long-term project is composed of episodic videos\, sculpture\, and an artist book\, calling into collaboration artists and scholars whose real-life work pushes the limits of science and culture. Departing from the present into a speculative fiction\, the cosmology explores what other presents and futures become possible once we begin to think beyond the framework of the human. \nAt Human Resources\, Berrigan’s work offers a prompt for invited artists and scholars\, whose research similarly takes up queer and decolonial paradigms in relation to place and landscape\, to share their own writing and video in dialogue. Urgent considerations and connections around ecological catastrophes\, biopolitics\, and structural violence\, and their impact on individual and collective bodies emerge as the presentations consider how we can prioritize other ways of conceiving and inhabiting our world. \nCaitlin Berrigan will read from her book Imaginary Explosions and further texts; Patrick Staff will read their poem On Venus; Sara Mameni will read from her book manuscript Crude Aesthetics; Lily Benson will lead an archaeological hypnosis session; Suzy Halajian will read her text Water\, Trash\, and Protest; Daniela Lieja Quintanar will read from Carolina Caycedo’s Serpent River Book\, followed by a screening of Caycedo’s video\, Apparations. \nOrganized by Suzy Halajian \n  \nAbout the Participants  \nLily Benson is a filmmaker\, visual artist\, and hypnotist. Her work examines feminist history and reconstructs it into new narrative forms. She currently works as a creative adviser at The New York Times and is the co-founder of Cinema COBRA\, a curatorial platform for expanded cinema. Lily is on a mission to make our world a more experimental place. \nCaitlin Berrigan is an artist\, writer\, and researcher who works across performance\, video\, sculpture\, and text to engage with the intimate and embodied dimensions of power\, politics\, and capitalism. Imaginary Explosions is the subject of a recent solo show at Art in General in New York\, and as an artist’s book published by Broken Dimanche Press in 2018. She is affiliated with the PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna\, and NYU Technology\, Culture and Society. \nCarolina Caycedo is a London-born Colombian artist\, living in Los Angeles. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and non-human entities\, and generates a debate about the future in relation to common goods\, environmental justice\, just energy transition\, and cultural biodiversity. \nSuzy Halajian is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. With Anthony Carfello and Shoghig Halajian\, she is co-editor of Georgia journal. Her work begins at the intersection of art and politics\, treating image making as steeped in colonial pasts and modern surveillance states\, and her research centers on the legacies of trauma and conflict in experimental documentary and performance practices from the Middle East and North Africa and their diaspora. \nSara Mameni is the director of Aesthetics and Politics program and faculty in the school of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. Her current research explores biopolitics\, racial discourse in the Anthropocene\, post-humanist aesthetics\, and the geo-ecological age of petroleum. \nDaniela Lieja Quintanar is a curator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and part of the curatorial team of MexiCali Biennial 2018-19. She works between Los Angeles and Mexico\, emphasizing contemporary art and curatorial practices that explore the politics and social issues of everyday life. \nPatrick Staff is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist working with text\, moving image\, and performance. Their work cites the ways in which history\, technology\, capitalism\, and the law have fundamentally transformed the social constitution of our bodies today\, with a particular focus on gender\, debility\, and biopolitics.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/a-loose-million-reading-screening-and-a-hypnosis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T230000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191202T090303Z
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SUMMARY:Tasting Menu Lab
DESCRIPTION:free\n \nTasting Menu is a Los Angeles-based collaboration between Tim Feeney\, Cassia Streb\, and Cody Putman\, exploring instrumental and found sound\, movement\, tape recorders\, door frames\, window panes\, rainstorms\, pine cones\, concrete floors\, and children’s cartoons. They will be performing a set of site specific improvisations\, deconstructed folk tunes\, and music for water\, marbles\, and steel bowls. They will be joined by Nigel Deane and Erin Demastes.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/tasting-menu-lab/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T233000
DTSTAMP:20260419T132212
CREATED:20191118T053445Z
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SUMMARY:Secret Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Secret Ceremony / Queerness and Spirituality at the dawn of the new decade. \nCurated by Telémachos Alexiou \nAn evening of ritual and performance with: \nChristopher Argodale\nCamila Maria Concepción\nEmi Fontana\nKathryn Garcia\nCarlos Medina-Diaz\nEva Mitala\nTyler Matthew Oyer\nDeborah Smaragdi Isous\nMohammad Tayyeb\nAres Zolo\n& Telémachos Alexiou \n+ Technoshamanic afterparty \nDoors at 7.30p \nSuggested donation at the door: $10 – $30 \nAt the end of the year and the dawn of the new decade we invite you to a selection of ritualistic performances by queer artists who use spirituality\, shamanism and witchcraft as part of their work. The event follows a storyline of death and rebirth including stillness\, vocalization\, ecstatic dance\, exorcism\, healing\, matrimony and Tarot reading\, among other practices. \nSchedule\n*MAIN SPACE* \n8p – CORPSE POSE / शवासन\nby Telémachos Alexiou & Emi Fontana\n“Telémachos Alexiou guiding you into Shavasana while Emi Fontana sends Reiki Healing from Maui\, Hawaii”. \n\n\n*(Bring a blanket or mat to get cozy) \n8.30p – EXCERPT CHANNEL\nby Christopher Argodale\n“An exorcize in practice”. \n9p – FINDING BALANCE\nby Carlos Medina-Diaz\n“An attempt at finding balance between capitalist\, consumerist\, escapist tendencies and pleasure\, care\, coping mechanisms”. \n9.30p – MY SPEECH TINGED HIS CHEEKS \n              WITH PINK BLUSH\n              AS IF MY WORDS WERE \n              SPLASHES OF DYE.\nby Mohammad Tayyeb \n10p – DIARY OF A SAD TRANS WOMAN\nby Camila Maria Concepción\n“A love story in three acts torn from the pages of the notes app of her iphone”. \n10.30p – BRUTAL LANGUAGE\nby Tyler Matthew Oyer\n“An improvisational ritual with voice and light”. \n11p – GODDESS HEALING WITH PYRAMIDS AND GONG\nby Kathryn Garcia\n“We invite you to enter the pyramid and experience the enchanting and transportive nature of sound. The Goddess welcomes you into her temple. Relax and be healed my beautiful child”.\n*(Bring a blanket or mat to get cozy) \n11.30p – TECHNOSHAMANIC AFTERPARTY\n“Binding communities together”.\n———————————————-\nOngoing\n*UPSTAIRS* 7.30p – 12.00a \nHIGH PRIESTESS\nby Eva Mitala\n“Live online Tarot reading from Greece with Eva Mitala’s Major Arcana Deck”. \nCONTROL OF THE ASTRAL BODY (video)\nby Ares Zolo\n“Performing Aleister Crowley’s famous text”. \nFINAL FUNERAL (video)\nby Deborah Smaradgi Isous\n“Atanatos o Poustis”. \n\n\n*Organized by Telémachos Alexiou and HRLA
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/secret-ceremony/
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