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SUMMARY:There is almost not an interval
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha “Mouth to Mouth” (1975) black and white video\, sound\n\n\n\nOpen hours 12-6pm Fridays\, Saturdays\, and Sundays and by appointment all other times \n\n\n\nRenee GladmanWill RawlsTheresa Hak Kyung ChaAllison ParrishJJJJJerome EllisSarah RaraLuke Fischbeck \n\n\n\n\n“People will never believe you are ‘without events.’ And that is why decay is slow\, and why it is not devastation.” (1) \n\n\n\n\nIntervals are what a threshold makes\, a here and there\, (held) in suspension\, a distinction (telling the difference)\, undifferentiated (holding difference)\, without separation\, a crossing\, where limits meet\, anticipation (a margin to move in)\, body horror (I’m an alien)\, reperforming events\, switching (logic)\, binary\, alternating\, lenticular\, talking back\, the transformation of silence into language and action\, some temporalities (for sure)\, stop motion\, flicker\, duration\, bracketing\, the suspension of judgment\, the withholding of assent\, the preconditions\, the prior logic\, intersection\, coincidence\, suture\, stitch\, montage\, cut\, rupture\, glitch\, break\, gap\, clearing\, hesitation\, some kinds of waiting\, losing control\, building community\, falling in love\, between thought and speech\, between speech and act\, between action and listening\, between memory and futurity\, between what’s in my head and what’s in yours\, side by side\, boundary objects\, parallel selves\, the fantasy of continuity\, a movement between the pieces\, fragments of actual energy\, time away\, life\, a long take\, notes in a chord\, frames in a film\, unnatural bridges. “Allegory\, here\, is material\,” Ian White wrote: “An interval\, occupied.” (2) \n\n\n\n“Intervals”\, Trinh T. Minh-Ha observed\, don’t “bring about any tremor like ‘passion\,’ ‘death\,’ or ‘love.’” It’s thanks to intervals\, however\, that “a direct relation is possible: a relation of infinity assumed in works that accept the risks of spacing and take in the field of free resonances—or\, of indefinite substitutions within the closure of a finite work.” (3) \n\n\n\nA barely-perceptible interval is space enough for holding movement between pieces that have been cut apart or never really touched\, whose relation is latent or obscured. We will approach “intervals” as tainted binaries or boundaries: before and after\, bodies and spaces\, events and images\, internal and external\, spoken and thought\, original and translation. Forms to explore include traveling in time\, interpolating (imagined continuities)\, waiting (pausing\, anticipating)\, transducing (moving across one medium into another)\, flickering\, hovering over\, pivoting on\, or crossing of thresholds\, pushing sequences out of order\, ambivalence\, and self-contradiction. Intervals show a special kind of coherence across duration\, distance\, or difference. Intervals are the mechanics of memory and representation\, the choreographies of reconstruction\, where fiction and testimony are glued together to assemble critical\, speculative\, fabulous histories.  \n\n\n\nWill Rawls “Sister Spell” (video still)\n\n\n\nWill Rawls “Sister Spell” (video still)\n\n\n\nSarah Rara “Untitled (Door)” 2024 (video still)\n\n\n\nSarah Rara “Untitled (Door)” 2024 (video still)\n\n\n\n\n“There is almost not an interval. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused […] the rapidity of the change is always startling.” (4) \n\n\n\n\nThe whiplash of recognition! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(1) Renee Gladman\, The Ravickians(2) Ian White\, “What is Material?”(3) Trinh T. Minh-Ha\, “Beware of Wolf Intervals”(4) Gertrude Stein\, “Composition as Explanation”
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/there-is-almost-not-an-interval-2/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Holly Harrell: The argument at the family barbecue the day after the office St. Patrick’s Day party
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 12 and Friday\, September 13\, 7pmA surgical exquisite corpse. An eternal reoccurrence. A replica made from memory with no skills to work with.A two day participatory performance. The first night we investigate the space\, take it apart and then rebuild it from memory with no references. The second night we activate the space through improvised situations which force us to negotiate an unfamiliar circumstance.Through this activation we unmake what was made. \n\n\n\nHolly Harrell subverts genres in an attempt to find what confronts us in reality and in between realities\, bifurcating the varied experiences of the audience.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/holly-harrell-the-argument-at-the-family-barbecue-the-day-after-the-office-st-patricks-day-party/
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:Dorian Wood: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm / show at 7:30pm on all nights. \n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Laura Pardo\n\n\n\nDorian Wood returns to L.A. for three nights only\, performing the entirety of Sinéad O’Connor’s groundbreaking album on each night. Almost one year after the iconic singer/songwriter’s passing\, Wood pays tribute to her with an intimately heartfelt arrangement for piano and voice. Says Wood: “There is no album that has inspired me more than I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got\, and no artist has impacted my life more than the goddess Sinéad. It is an immense honor to celebrate her\, revisiting these songs filled with her truth; songs that helped shape so many of us.” Originally released in 1990\, the album was a global success for O’Connor\, spawning such hit singles as “Nothing Compares 2 U”\, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and “Jump in the River”. 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/dorian-wood-i-do-not-want-what-i-havent-got/
CATEGORIES:music/sound
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SUMMARY:MSHR / Slipper / Jonathan Snipes
DESCRIPTION:UPEND Presents \n\n\n\nMSHR \n\n\n\nSlipper  \n\n\n\nJonathan Snipes \n\n\n\n[ [ TICKETS ] ] \n\n\n\nMSHR upends L.A. with back-to-back nights of performance at Human Resources\, each night featuring a distinct mode of the Portland\, Oregon-headquartered collective’s networked visual artwork\, soundwork\, feedback\, and shape shift. \n\n\n\nOn night one MSHR unfurls the latest iteration of their live sound-sculpture cycle. Performing in the round on a menagerie of fantastical sculptures\, novel instruments that can emit light\, audio signal\, and data AND – through custom circuitry and software – process the emissions of neighboring sculptures\, MSHR coax a wild electronic stew of chirp\, click\, pulse\, zap\, and pow\, through a four-channel speaker system\, fully enveloping the audience in the intermedia drama. MSHR is a collective comprised of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper. \n\n\n\nChloé Marrata – formerly one half of the heroic sui generis DIY duo Odwalla1221 – shares her solo project\, Slipper. Within\, Maratta continues to explore an intuitive and intimate sample based language\, a perfect match for her own idiosyncratic vocal style and sassy aesthetics. \n\n\n\nNo sound concept or technique is beyond the reach of Jonathan Snipes. His all-too-rare solo outings – which can take the form of ad hoc electroacoustic devices or various digital precisions – ever make the sonic seem elastic. \n\n\n\nAlso come through HR the following night to catch another mode of the Portland\, Oregon-headquartered collective’s networked visual artwork\, soundwork\, feedback\, and shape shift\, as MSHR peforms Network Entity.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/mshr-slipper-jonathan-snipes/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:MSHR: Network Entity
DESCRIPTION:UPEND presents a live audio visual performance from MSHR \n\n\n\nNetwork Entity: A Live Rendered Sonic Sculpture System \n\n\n\n{ { RSVP } } \n\n\n\nMSHR upends L.A. with back-to-back nights of performance at Human Resources\, each night featuring a distinct mode of the Portland\, Oregon-headquartered collective’s networked visual artwork\, soundwork\, feedback\, and shape shift. \n\n\n\nOn night two\, MSHR will perform NETWORK ENTITY\,  a live audiovisual improvisation which will see their hyper-cyber-extended cinema projected upon the grand wall of Human Resources. Within the video signal and 4-channel audio realm of NETWORK ENTITY\, “sculptural and sonic shapes are formally linked in an ever-mutating composition.” MSHR’s interplay with the shape-shifting is\, of course\, via instruments of their own devise: sculptural electronic interfaces and open source software structures. MSHR is a collective comprised of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, however\, donations are welcome. Click above to RVSP and/or donate in advance. \n\n\n\nAlso come through HR the previous night to catch MSHR performthe latest iteration of their live sound-sculpture cycle\, plus sets by Slipper and Jonathan Snipes.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/mshr-network-entity/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:MIRRORED FATALITY: LABUAD MEKLOOQ
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 8pm; performance at 9:30pm \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s 3034 on ECOCIDE 3URTH\, and the corpses of natural ecosystems of planet Earth murdered by apathetic humans and artificial intelligence are seeking vengeance. A transmuted species formed from the lava eruption of Mount Pinatubo\, a dormant stratovolcano awakened after 500 years on Philippines’ Araw ng Kalayaan during U.S.A’s occupation and the ruins of floods and cyclones of post-partition South Asia after British rule are born – the labuad me looks. \n\n\n\nmirrored fatality: Láwû Makuriye’nte & Samar Dagger bring to Human Resources LABUAD MEKLOOQ\, a live biohacking performance in which the cross disciplinary performance punk duo transmutes as labuame looksqs— a multispecies of beaststerritoriesds\, and transhumans in their immersive biome ECOCIDE 3URTH. Experimenting for this immersive installation/performance with decolonial regeneration as their voice\, wearable sculptures\, and movement trigger an industrial and noise live score with vocals in Kapampangan\, Urdu\, and English. The material pulls from the duo’s album LABUAD MEKLOOQ\, released in 2024\, and their internationally screened mixed-reality films. \n\n\n\nThis project is the 2023-2024 Commission by Boss Witch Productions\, an artistic production company focused on the intersection of experimental sound art\, ritual performance\, video art\, and transmedia collaboration within natural landscapes and unusual performance sites founded in 2021. This year’s commission in partnership with mirrored fatality features creative collaborations with 24+ international Trans\, Queer\, QTBIPOC\, and underground experimental multidisciplinary artists across fashion\, prosthetics\, mixed-reality visuals\, sound art\, facilitated movement\, and handcrafted noise instruments.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/mirrored-fatality-labuad-meklooq/
CATEGORIES:music/sound,performance
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SUMMARY:Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Saturday\, October 5th\, 5 – 8pm \n\n\n\nGallery hours: Tuesday – Sunday\, 12pm – 6pm \n\n\n\nConscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles is a group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet.  \n\n\n\nAppearing to be both nowhere and everywhere at once\, the internet’s presence is always felt\, always there\, always just outside the bounds of perception. Parallel to the common perception within media theory that infrastructures and apparatuses only make themselves known during instances of breakdown or failure\, Conscious Tether feels out the sites at which matter\, energy\, and labor assert themselves amidst conditions of invisibility\, control\, and waste. These artists prize apart how the networked\, digitized subject might respond to the state of ceaseless onlineness; at the same time\, the exhibition also asks what role the real space of Los Angeles plays within these complex interactions.  \n\n\n\nThe internet’s inaugural message sent from UCLA’s Boelter Hall reached its destination\, but was incomplete. The four-node network crashed after the first two letters—LO—of “LOGIN.” This initial semi-failure or partial transmission seems in retrospect\, given the intervening histories and usages\, emblematic of all that is in excess of the internet and yet could no longer exist without it. The assembled artists in Conscious Tether emphasize the material and immaterial reminders of the internet’s unceasing presence\, exploring its seeming peripheries. American Artist\, ann haeyoung\, and Romi Morrison implicate systems of quantification\, control\, and extraction; LA Cryptoparty\, KCHUNG\, Danielle Dean\, Tiny Tech Zines (Rachel Simanjuntak\, Jules Kris\, Tyler Yin\, Tristan Espinoza)\, and Xin Xin consider practices of labor\, privacy\, and consent; while works by Ahree Lee\, Devin Kenny\, and Alice Yuan Zhang reveal both the realities and possible futures of gendered technology\, encryption\, and technological ruins. Conscious Tether celebrates and acknowledges these peculiar intransigences\, to stay with the trouble that rubs up against the gridded globe of the “World Wide Web.”  \n\n\n\nCo-curated by Chandler McWilliams and Audrey Min\, with public programming organized by Daniel Soto and Casey Reas\, the exhibition will take place at Human Resources Los Angeles from October 5–20\, 2024\, with additional programming venues and dates forthcoming. The opening reception will be held from 5pm to 8pm\, and will feature a performance by Kenny.  \n\n\n\nPublic programming will include performances and workshops throughout the duration of the show. For more information on public programs and artist talks related to the exhibition please visit https://conditional.arts.ucla.edu/ for updates. \n\n\n\nConscious Tether features work by Ahree Lee\, Alice Yuan Zhang\, American Artist\, ann haeyoung\, Danielle Dean\, Devin Kenny\, KCHUNG\, LA Cryptoparty\, Romi Morrison\, Tiny Tech Zines (Rachel Simanjuntak\, Jules Kris\, Tyler Yin\, Tristan Espinoza)\, and Xin Xin.  \n\n\n\nA note on accessibility: Human Resources’ front entrance has one step (approximately seven inches)\, and has a folding wheelchair ramp. The gallery has a one-person gender neutral wheelchair accessible restroom on the first floor. An additional upstairs bathroom is gender neutral and has two stalls adjacent to each other. Audio descriptions and captions will be available for this exhibition. Events may feature flashing lights and loud music. \n\n\n\nConscious Tether is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition\, PST ART: Art & Science Collide\, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science\, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide\, please visit pst.art
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/conscious-tether-art-and-the-internet-in-los-angeles/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Shadow of My Shadow Book Release
DESCRIPTION:A reading and reception to celebrate the publication of Jennifer Doyle’s book\, Shadow of My Shadow.  \n\n\n\n“Shadow of My Shadow sets a new bar for autotheory. A patient\, granular dismantling of the chilling relations between work\, sex\, and institutions—and of their systemic disavowal. With her signature generosity of thought\, unflinching attention to difficult details\, and riveting writing that is at turns revelatory and crushing\, Jennifer Doyle has crafted a stunning\, exquisite work.” – Jasbir K. Puar\, author of The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability \n\n\n\n“Jennifer Doyle’s Shadow of My Shadow rigorously inhabits and analyzes places that many of us feel averse to but that structure and shape our institutions and sometimes our greater lives. The result is a probing\, risk-taking\, distinctive study that aids its readers in better understanding ‘complaint pathology and the paranoid character of nearly all discourse about harassment’ and helps us fathom ‘what we lose when harassment ecologies consume us’—and what we might gain by living elsewise.” – Maggie Nelson\, author of Like Love: Essays and Conversations \n\n\n\ncover image courtesy of Aimee Goguen
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/shadow-of-my-shadow-book-release/
CATEGORIES:reading
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SUMMARY:Basandja Coalition Free Congo Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Still from 片丹卞丹己凵冊日工片丹\, dir. Petna Ndaliko\n\n\n\nDoors at 6:30pm; event begins at 7:00pm$15 – $40 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds); click here for tickets \n\n\n\nJoin us for a teach in\, fundraiser\, film screening\, food from Leela and a traveling exhibition of 27 photos in visual installation taken by The Mamas – women from the east of the Congo in the Bulengo displacement camp. \n\n\n\nIn-person from the Basandja Coalition’s Free Congo Tour:Petna Ndaliko Katondolo\, Filmmaker\, Activist and Educator; Samuel Yagase Bayombe\, Indigenous Leader and Climate Justice Advocate \n\n\n\nThis event includes a special presentation of: \n\n\n\n片丹卞丹己凵冊日工片丹a film by Petna Ndaliko37 min / ProRez / Color and Black & White2023 / DRC-USA \n\n\n\nKATASUMBIKA: The world was shocked to witness the people in eastern DR Congo demand the departure of the UN peacekeepers\, even resorting to force. How can we understand this outrage toward a mission that is supposed to help the people? \n\n\n\nThrough a testimonial approach\, the film reflects on what has been left out of the frame in the colonial project and its legacy. By following the thread of history\, the chain of natural resource extraction\, and the vein of violence\, will the sounds of indigenous resistance be heard? \n\n\n\nJoin frontline leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Turtle Island\, sharing inspiring work they are doing on the ground to address the climate crisis\, conflict in the eastern region\, sexual violence and resource exploitation. \n\n\n\nFriends of the Congo in partnership with the Basandja Coalition is undertaking an eight-city awareness and fundraising tour in the United States from September 23rd to November 3rd. As a part of Friends of the Congo’s seventeenth annual presentation of Congo Week\, we have invited our frontline partners from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the United States. They will share their organizing and movement building experiences from the frontlines of the rainforest\, mining communities\, conflict zones and urban centers in the DRC.  \n\n\n\nThe delegation is made up of two members of the Basandja Coalition and their allies. The delegation will visit New York\, Boston\, Washington\, DC\, Atlanta\, Los Angeles\, San Francisco\, Oakland and Chicago.  \n\n\n\nDuring the tour\, the delegation will screen films concerning the Congo Basin Rainforest (exploring the role of Indigenous knowledge and wisdom in combating the climate crisis) and the challenges of mining communities (tying the accelerated quest for critical minerals that power the green and/or clean energy transition to cobalt diggers).  \n\n\n\nThe tour includes a photo exhibit of pictures taken by women (the Mamas) in refugee camps in Eastern Congo. The women have been displaced by what the United Nations describe as the deadliest conflict in the world since World War Two. Since 1996 at least six million Congolese have perished due to the conflict in the Congo. An estimated seven million Congolese have been displaced by the conflict in the Congo. Hundreds of thousands of women have been raped as a war strategy to drive villages from mineral rich lands – minerals that are critical to the modern tech tools like smart phones\, laptops\, video games and a range of other tech and electronic devices. \n\n\n\nThe MamasThe Mamas are fifty displaced women from the Bulengo displacement camp. They come from thirteen villages outside of the city of Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a part of an empowerment initiative by Yole Africa\, a local cultural organization\, the mamas were trained in photography so they could ultimately document their own stories. Photos from twenty-seven of the fifty women were chosen to be a part of the display and companion book. \n\n\n\nThe VisionThe photo display and companion book are a gift of love from the Mamas to the greater human family. It is a call for a deeper listening—a way for us to enter into a shared space\, to witness and feel the depth of intergenerational colonial trauma alongside the vital and tenacious force of renewal and regeneration that these mamas\, children\, and young artists of the Kivu region bring into their creative practices. Despite the ongoing violence\, their stories are testimonies of strength and the potency of a hope infused with life. It invites us to reflect on the spaces we inhabit\, both physical and emotional. It challenges us to transform sites of pain and trauma into sanctuaries of courage and love\, in ways similar to how the earth herself metabolizes death and transforms it into fruit-bearing life. \n\n\n\nPurposeThe aim of the display is to raise awareness about the conflict and displacement crisis in the Congo and raise funds to support frontline organizations providing relief and support to the displaced women and children. \n\n\n\nAspirationDrawing from this power of place\, of the living soil underfoot and the breathing forest and all within it\, the people of Kivu seek to resist the system of violence normalized by the industry of mineral extraction. As we engage these photos\, may we glimpse into a different future where the interweaving of our collective relations and actions join with our collective memory to overcome generations of bloodshed while retaining the knowledge of our past. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to donate to Friends of the Congo\, click here. (More information about the coalition is available here.)
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/basandja-coalition-free-congo-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:fundraiser
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SUMMARY:Person2Person: Hurricane Helene Relief Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:💛 PERSON 2 PERSON 💛  \n\n\n\nLast month Hurricane Helene devastated the South and especially western North Carolina. Many people in the area lost lives\, homes\, jobs. The recovery is far from over; you can help by attending Person 2 Person\, a hurricane relief fundraiser at @humanresourcesla \n\n\n\n💛💛💛 \n\n\n\n410 Cottage Home st. Chinatown Wednesday October 30 Doors 7 pm Show at 8 Till midnight or later $10 suggested donation NOTAFLOF \n\n\n\n💛💛💛 \n\n\n\nPerformance and video by:  \n\n\n\nAbhora (@abhora_rules)\, Ching Ching Cheng (@chingchingcheng)\, Dusk (@dvvsk_)\, Siri (@siri_eh)\, Thirstie Alley (@thirstie.png)\, Jessica Hemingway (@germanhemingway)\, Blaque Tea (@blaque.tea)\, Popcorn (@naughtypopcorn)\, Samara (@thesamara66)\, Travesdee (@travesdee)\, Poodle Moran (@xopoodle)\, Nano Arenado (@narenado)\, Thalia Williamson (@thaliatattooresearch)\, Donna Puttana (@donnaputtana)\, Coco Ono (@kayla.tange)\, Ava (@ava_satinluxe)\, Die Anna (@yourdeadsister)\, Наbibah (@habibah.w.bas)\, Foxie Adjuia (@foxieadjuia)\, Baexjing (@baexjing)\, Barr (@b.fowler.account) \n\n\n\nHosted by \n\n\n\nPage Person (@page__person)  \n\n\n\nMusic by  \n\n\n\nPrincess Dimebag (@princessdimebag)  \n\n\n\n💛💛💛 \n\n\n\nVisual art auction featuring works by:  \n\n\n\nAlex Kerr (@kerrkerrkerrkerr)\, Elizabeth Howland (@elizabethhowland)\, Badly Licked Bear (@badlylickedbear)\, Luka Fisher (@lukafisher)\, Andrea Nhuch (@thenhuch)\, Ching Ching Cheng (@chingchingcheng)\, Hallie Mcneill (@hallie_mcneill)\, Joy Ray (@joyrayart)\, Negar Zonoobi (@negar_zonoobi)\, Mehregan Pezeshki (@mehreganpezeshkistudio)\, Emily Mast (@ohemilymast)\, Page Person (@page__person) \n\n\n\n💛💛💛 \n\n\n\nAid will be distributed to on-the-ground grassroots orgs including:  \n\n\n\n@pansy.collective @belovedasheville @riverartsdistrictasheville  \n\n\n\n💛💛💛 \n\n\n\nFlyer by Thirstie Alley (@thirstie.png)Bar Sponsored By World Harvest Food Bank
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/person2person-hurricane-helene-relief-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:fundraiser,music/sound,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:Locked in the Brick Tower
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm; screening at 8pm \n\n\n\nRoger Muñoz\, Gorgon’s eye (Anti-mother final boss)\, 2023\, 5:52\, film still.\n\n\n\nLocked in the Brick Tower presents nine short films with thematic explorations spanning horror\, prejudice\, and the grotesque. In literary fiction\, the mythical characters who don’t ‘fit’ in society\, who bear the flawed monstrosity that makes them other-than-human\, are relegated to the margins of made-up worlds. They are the outcasts; the ghosts\, ogres\, fairies\, and imperfect gods whose merits and misfortunes serve as moral lessons to a story. Such figures make prominent appearances in works by Muri\, Lydia Kuzak\, Cristobal Cea\, Roger Muñoz\, Taína Cruz\, Martha Colburn\, Andrew Roberts\, and Mauricio Muñoz. Humor and horror become conduits for the taboo\, complete with the more uncomfortable emotions difficult to express in nonfiction for fear of saying the wrong thing\, or seeming improper and vulgar.   \n\n\n\nIn conjunction with the screening\, artists Jiayun Chen and Bingo Fang present a gambling-inspired concession stand featuring horror themed artist cocktails. Additional works in the space include special contributions from Sophie Stark\, Hannah Huntley\, and Libbi Ponce. \n\n\n\nProgram curated by Nahui Garcia.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/locked-in-the-brick-tower/
CATEGORIES:screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:MATTHEW LAX: A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG\, PART TWO
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, November 1\, 6:00–10:00 pmGallery hours: 12:00–5:00 pm; Friday – Sunday\, and by appointment \n\n\n\n* \n\n\n\nDog tag poetry no. 4\, 2023\, engraved text on stainless steel disk\, 1.6 x 1.1 inches\, edition of 25 + 4 APs.\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 14\, 7:00 pm: Historian\, writer and USC professor Andy Campbell joins Lax for a public conversation and the launch of Lax’s zine-essay THE HOUNDS OF LOVE HAVE GONE NONVERBAL\, published by Inga Books (Chicago)\, which accompanies Lax’s exhibition A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG\, PART TWO\, on view through November 17th. \n\n\n\n* \n\n\n\nThis is a dog show\, it is a show about dogs; humans play like dogs and dogs play as humans. The kennel is the house\, the whelping box a stage.  \n\n\n\nMatthew Lax questions belonging\, choice\, and freedom in A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG\, PART TWO (TD2\, 2024)\, the latest chapter in his long-term psychosexual investigation of canine and human behaviors initiated in 2020. A quadruplet himself\, Lax’s intimate collaborators include the artist’s family\, who breed Collies; professional dog trainers; and members of the Los Angeles and Paris pup play kink communities\, in which humans role-play as dogs.  \n\n\n\nIn this two-channel film\, Lax negotiates the interpersonal and interspecies dynamics inherent to pack-building\, searching for individual and collective liberation by intertwining animal training with BDSM. Lax learns on all fours\, attempting to initiate himself into the pup community while also ingratiating himself to a rescue dog who suffers from severe anxiety and PTSD. \n\n\n\nInfluenced by the dog writing of Donna Harraway\, Cesar Milan\, and others\, TD2’s episodic structure is also guided by excerpts from the 1982 erotic novella Les Chiens by Hervé Guibert\, as performed by the pups themselves. Translated to English for this film by Dana Lupo\, Guibert’s tale of a sadistic dom who chains up two subs in dog masks\, provides a historical touchpoint for the BDSM practices which inform contemporary puppy play. The shoot dissolves into a group processing session about consent. Interviews about pack dynamics accompany training sequences which unpack positive reinforcement as it relates to canine trauma responses and decision-making\, while domestic scenes on the family farm and elsewhere\, depict the bonds of love\, care and mourning over the course of several animal life cycles\, including that of the artist’s own dog.  \n\n\n\nProbing home and husbandry\, TD2 technically spans 4k video\, original GoPro and 16mm footage alongside traditional and 3D animations. Installed within a large dog kennel\, viewers must choose where to position themselves within a narrative that both disperses and reinforces a power game in which Lax plays participant\, subject\, student\, director\, and editor. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by other studies and drawings developed over the course of Lax’s research\, including a motion-capture performance made with artist Caleb Craig\, wherein Lax becomes Lassie\, the rough collie “dog star” of mid-century American film and TV.  \n\n\n\nAn ongoing project\, TD2 falls somewhere within performance and documentary\, fantasy and real life. Through Lax’s instigations\, various familial\, sexual\, and animal values are activated as the perspectives and needs of humans who “make” dogs\, humans who train dogs\, and humans who play as dogs commingle and inform a social ethic based on the importance of sharing and sharing alike. \n\n\n\nOn Thursday\, November 14 at 7:00 pm\, historian\, writer and USC professor Andy Campbell will join Lax for a public conversation and the release of THE HOUNDS OF LOVE HAVE GONE NONVERBAL\, the forthcoming zine-essay which accompanies TD2\, published by Inga Books (Chicago). \n\n\n\nPup-only event to be announced soon. \n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Evelia Amores\, Automata\, Andy Campbell\, Caleb Craig\, Meghan Gordon\, Kieran Hound\, Mandi H\, Patrick H\, Kyle Belluci Johanson\, Andre Keichian\, Gelare Khoshgozaran\, Dana Lupo\, Jacob Lindgren\, Sean Mankiw\, PupStar Orion\, Patrick J. Reed\, and Christopher Henry Tuzon. \n\n\n\nThis project is supported in part by an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Lax is an experimental filmmaker\, artist and writer working between Los Angeles and New York. Lax’s films and video installations have been screened and exhibited at Viennale (Austria)\, Rencontres Internationales (Paris)\, table (Chicago)\, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA)\, and Winnipeg Underground Film Festival\, among others. Lax’s curatorial projects include those held at Anthology Film Archives\, Human Resources\, and Fellows of Contemporary Art. Lax’s writing has appeared in publications including BOMB Magazine\, MARCH Journal\, Texte Zur Kunst\, and Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). Lax is a recipient of a 2024 Lightning Fund Grant from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/matthew-lax-a-tired-dog-is-a-good-dog-part-two/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T235959
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SUMMARY:HRLA Studies: Race\, Ecology and the Human/Nonhuman
DESCRIPTION:HRLA Studies – Fall 2024 \n\n\n\nNovember Session by Christal Pérez on Race\, Ecology and the Human/Nonhuman \n\n\n\nFor the November HRLA Studies session\, Christal Pérez will share a series of presentations on artists\, theories and scholars who engage with ideas on ecology and its relationship to race\, colonialism and frameworks that uphold what constitutes the Human and nonhuman. \n\n\n\nFirst meeting – Monday November 4 6:30 – 9pm @HRLA \n\n\n\nSecond meeting – Tuesday November 12 – 6:30 – 9pm @LACC Art Gallery \n\n\n\nThird meeting – Tuesday November 19 – 6:30 – 9pm @HRLA \n\n\n\nRecommended for participants to check the following materials Christal has proposed: \n\n\n\n– Sylvia Wynter’s No Humans Involved: an open letter to my colleagues (1992) \n\n\n\n– Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Chapter “Geology\, race & matter“.(2018) \n\n\n\nOptional reading: Sylvia Wynter’s Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human\, After Man\, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument. \n\n\n\nIn addition to those this video breaks down the main arguments in the longer Wynter text. Please watch the video in preparation for the conversation: \n\n\n\npart 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwGq69f9cA \n\n\n\npart 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-XeUxpgcwM \n\n\n\nHRLA Studies –– Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some ideas home
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-studies-race-ecology-and-the-human-nonhuman/
CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T223000
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SUMMARY:mattie barbier / Trevor Treglia & Violet Hannesena 
DESCRIPTION:mattie barbier performs the music from their new solo record on Dinzu Artifacts\, paper blown between the spaces in my ribs. \n\n\n\n(lamentations) for éliane is a long form work for prepared euphonium that they have created over the last four years utilizing under explored avenues of instrumental modification and acoustic irregularities inspired by the work of Éliane Radigue and John McCowen. \n\n\n\n“Time is of no importance. All that counts is the duration necessary for a seamless development. My music evolves organically. It’s like a plant. We never see a plant move\, but it is growing continually. Like plants\, immobile but always growing\, my music is never stable. It is ever changing” -Éliane Radigue. Time Is of No Importance. \n\n\n\nIn paper blown between the spaces in my ribs\, barbier explores intersections of vanishing sonic ecologies\, sonifications of the interior world of untouched instruments\, and a search for the safety and stability of constructed memories. The piece completes a series of works about longing for home and was created for Lampo. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTrevor Treglia and Violet Hannesena will open\, playing Trevor’s A Special Mystic Joy for violin and electronics and solo set of new works by Violet. \n\n\n\nViolet Hannesena is a violinist-composer-improviser interested in discovering the ways we come into resonance with our environments and selves through the physical properties of sound. Her work centers around generative sonic phenomena\, natural patterns\, and exploring the innate wisdom of the universe through air manipulation. \n\n\n\nTrevor Treglia is an American composer and synthesist whose work concerns text\, microtonality\, and alternative notation.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/mattie-barbier-trevor-treglia-violet-hannesena/
CATEGORIES:music/sound
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
CREATED:20241105T230012Z
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SUMMARY:Disconsent: Faith
DESCRIPTION:A participatory performance by Aliza Shvarts  \n\n\n\nHuman Resources Los Angeles presents Disconsent: Faith\, a one-on-one performance by Aliza Shvarts on Thursday\, November 15 from 6-8pm. This performance is presented off-site. \n\n\n\nSit down and you will hear a story about a time when someone consented or dissented in the context of religion or faith. Then tell this story back\, “reversing” the terms of consent or dissent. This reversal can range from simply replacing the terms used in the original narrative (i.e. replacing “yes” with “no”) to inventing new details entirely. After that\, tell a story of your own about a time you consented or dissented in the context of religion or faith. This will be the story told as accurately as possible to the next person. Your voice will be recorded\, but not your image. \n\n\n\nDisconsent: Faith is a live iteration of Shvarts’ broader Disconsent series\, which examine the relationships between consent\, which often takes the form of a speech act\, and its imperfect opposite—dissent—which often exceeds speech to take the form of silence\, protest\, or other forms of bodily action. \n\n\n\nTo respond to the artist’s invitation & request a time\, please fill out this form. Once we have coordinated appointments\, we will send a confirmation email with details.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/disconsent-faith/
CATEGORIES:off-site event,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T233000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
CREATED:20241119T045929Z
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SUMMARY:Recipes for the End of Empire
DESCRIPTION:untune’s Fall Residency from throughout November includes creatives exploring issues concerning FOOD-history\, insecurity\, sovereignty\, and our modern food system as a colonial one. The group navigates and learns from land\, food access\, mutual aid practices\, indigenous seeds\, ethnobotany\, waste\, and modes of food as study. We aim to expand the ways we might understand “consumption” outside of direct bodily absorption and implicated with an ethos of sovereignty and as a process of becoming bodies\, together. Threaded by this ethos\, we examine our local resources and alternatives strategies to ways governing bodies handle our food system from city infrastructure to public health\, to access to care.  \n\n\n\nThe residency program takes place at Canvas 5025 on Chumash and Tongva land\, located in the San Rafael hills in North East Los Angeles.  We are dedicated to understanding the land we occupy and learning how to better support Indigenous culture and sociocultural history through our stewardship.  \n\n\n\nThe Fall residency cohort includes Rey Reyes\, Michael Bailey\, Bahía Collective\, Anna Cho-Son\, Maryam Hosseinzadeh and Helga Rabieh Fassonaki  \n\n\n\nOn Saturday November 23rd\, Bahía Collective in collaboration with untune’s residency presents Recipes for the End of Empire\, a screening and dinner centered on exploring ‘recipes’ for surviving the colonial project and for healing the world in the times to come. \n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of films and food as we reimagine the space of the film screening as a sacred\, solitary experience and create a gathering where people are free to talk to each other\, yell back at the screen\, and ask questions as the film plays. \n\n\n\nThe menu consists of four films from Palestine\, Sudan and Martinique and four surprise food courses. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds will be donated to mutual aid funds in Gaza and Sudan.  \n\n\n\nGet your TICKETS from WithFriends. We hope to see you there!Doors open at 7\, dinner & screening at 7:30pmBahía Collective – Bahía Collective is a group of filmmakers\, artists\, and curators from South Africa\, Palestine\, Cuba\, Mexico\, India\, and Russia\, focused on collaborative practice and community building. Through our curations and events—both virtual and in-person—we create spaces to gather around cinema in relation to current politics\, food\, music\, and literature. The films we produce and direct are formally explorative and delve into themes of borders\, migration\, memory\, oral histories\, mythologies\, ghosts\, landscapes as protagonists\, physical and virtual realities\, the dark web\, land and territory\, exile\, gender\, ancestry\, and waves.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/recipes-for-the-end-of-empire/
CATEGORIES:fundraiser,screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241130T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241130T223000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:First Draft
DESCRIPTION:First Draft is an evening of experimental works in process for Los Angeles based performing artists. This season’s lineup includes Jeremy Guyton\, Katherine Helen Fisher\, Eleanor Erdman (with Laura Bartczak and Kendra Adler)\, and William Ruíz Morales​. Purchase tickets here.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/first-draft-4/
CATEGORIES:dance/movement,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:BEINGS IN PROGRESS
DESCRIPTION:BEINGS IN PROGRESS  \n\n\n\nThis event is a space to share unfinished works without judgment\, for artists seeking a momentary instance of community among strangers. This gathering is intended especially for those who may feel alienated from institutional forms of art critique\, are needing structure and routine in practice\, and those nurturing projects in a vulnerable stage of needing fresh yet compassionate eyes. \n\n\n\nOrganized by six emerging media artists\, Beings in Progress is an effort to grow our art practices beyond traditional paradigms and institutions that are prone to failure in times of crisis. This event is open to anyone who feels called to participate\, and is interested in a communally-shaped creative process. \n\n\n\nCo-facilitator Sagan Yee\, a games artist and organizer from Canada\, will start us off by giving a brief offering of experimental workshop techniques inspired by speculative fiction writers’ circles. We will de-emphasize non-capitalist language (“I’m not sold”\, “I don’t buy it”\, or “I’m not invested”) and focus on the needs of the artist rather than the demands of the critic\, and share work-in-progress in a grassroots\, informal setting without the hierarchical biases of an art school crit session. \n\n\n\nNext\, participants may sign up karaoke-style to take the floor for 5 to 10 minutes. Connect your laptop\, or send us your slides in advance. Share something you’re working on\, or thinking of working on\, or an idea you’ve abandoned but which may hold the seeds of future projects. Feel free to share a finished piece of art\, or a burning research question\, a call to action\, or something else entirely. You may be empowered to ask the group directly for feedback\, or just bask in the collective glow of appreciation and encouragement. Non-presenting observers are welcome! \n\n\n\nFinally\, the room will open for discussion and informal gathering. Light snacks will be provided. \n\n\n\n👉🏽 SIGN UP IN ADVANCE: https://forms.gle/MgQCrAnsNKjiunhj9 \n\n\n\nFacilitators: Sagan Yee and Stamatis Hamouzas \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Chelly Jin\, Rowena Kou\, Sadia Quddus\, Sagan Yee\, Stamatis Hamouzas\, and Xiner Lan
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/beings-in-progress/
CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR,seminar/workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241222T235959
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:Structures of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:Opening: Friday\, December 6\, 6 – 9pmGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 6pm or by appointmentStructures of Feeling is a group exhibition featuring Jamil Baldwin\, Janna Ireland\, Arlene Mejorado\,Luis Motta\, Adee Roberson\, Polo Silk\, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva and Al-Ameen Archives organized byKeko Jackson. It considers works that are made using family photographs as material and the afterlives of these images as they move from in-to-outside the home.Historically\, photographs have played a role in affirming family values. As a tool they have beenimplicated in the standardization of the nuclear model which includes its familial structures\, roles\, valuesand aesthetics. Despite any single definition\, families can sometimes be a sustaining or punishinginstitution\, but they are always constitutive. Inside the home\, the photos may act as highly social devicesactively constructing memories and relationships in order to come to terms with one perspective of living\,eventually growing to become important sources for a material and affective understanding of history.A comprehensive history however is never the aim of the family photograph or album. Individual storiesin and of themselves aren’t right or wrong\, but we run a risk when just considering a single version. Intheir afterlives\, these images together can complement or complicate the past and bring forth insightsfrom the average and ordinary. Disconnected from their original sources they become reinterpreted ascultural texts—cultural not just informed by an economic base\, but collectively produced over time.Raymond Williams shares the phrase “structure of feeling” which helps to describe the impact of theafterlives of family photographs and how feelings are evoked in a belated but emergent stage as bothsocial and material. Feelings that suggest an incoherency that instead must be inferred by reading between the lines.The works in this exhibition challenge us to find other ways to talk about photography and the problem ofinterpretation. Together they acknowledge\, explore and trouble cultural genealogies as well as systems ofvalue\, familial and otherwise\, both locally and globally. What these images guarantee is somethingunpreservable in that they are unable to do what we want. They cannot preserve the things we want themto and at some point\, both the image and the memory will be gone.D says the image of the ocean is lodged in her\, coming from Guayaguayare at the southernmost tip ofTrinidad. Coming from the northwest corner of a four-way intersection in Wayne\, Pennsylvania\, I wonderwhat image is lodged in me. -Christina Sharpe \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will include a screening of short films organized by Andrea C. Nieto and EmiliannaVazquez exploring related topics. The screening will take place Saturday\, December 14 at 6pm\, with theprogram of titles forthcoming. It will be free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $10.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/structures-of-feeling/
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241216T235959
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:HRLA Studies: Indigenous Sound Matter - Resonating Futures
DESCRIPTION:Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some ideas home \n\n\n\nHRLA Studies Fall 2024 – December SessionIndigenous Sound Matter: Resonating Futuresby Alan Poma \n\n\n\nDecember 9\, 11 & 166 – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nThis workshop explores the use of sound as a medium to investigate Indigenous temporalities. Over the course of three sessions\, participants will examine pre-Columbian myths and colonial chronicles where sound interacts with matter and animated space. This exploration will highlight sound’s potential as a tool for social and cultural transformation\, approached from a perspective that engages with matter and time. Through hands-on exercises\, participants will craft narratives that connect ancestral traditions with non-linear temporalities.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-studies-indigenous-sound-matter-resonating-futures/
CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241215T183000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
CREATED:20241212T223547Z
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SUMMARY:Rocío Boliver in conversation
DESCRIPTION:This conversation will take place over zoom. Please register this link to join. \n\n\n\nRocío Boliver (La Congelada de Uva) will be joined by John Bartel and Amelia Jones to discuss her performance practice. The conversation will specifically focus on two works performed in Los Angeles\, her 2015 Valentines Day performance at HRLA with Thibault Delferière\, The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab; and Where is the Beauty? a performance earlier this year at Catch One\, organized by the Performance Art Museum. \n\n\n\nVideo of entire performance of The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab: https://vimeo.com/121222646 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRocio Boliver\, Where is the Beauty\, 2015\, Photographs taken by Christopher Wormald courtesy of the Performance Art Museum \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n“If for some theorists the Performance is “the most radical of the arts”\, the actions and themes that Rocio Boliver\, La Congelada de Uva (Grape Iced Bar)\, has carried out during more than thirty years\, places her in the most radical wing in the history of the called Art of the Body\, in Mexico. Her body art explains how the Dadaist spirit of the happening and of the boutade\, takes possession of Rocio Boliver’s personality until turning her into her more tenacious and brilliant emissary: La Congelada de Uva. Situationist leader of the Epiphenomenon of sexual character in Mexico\, La Congelada openly exhibits her dangerous vision of the feminism\, and places her exotic genitality in the center of her speech. La Congelada de Uva is a lasting icon of the underground culture in Mexico City. Besides being a fundamental piece for the full comprehension of this MeToo and movement\, it is a fact that\, at least\, we already owe to her the creation of some of the most delirious and provocative images in the field of the Art in Mexico.”  –  Rubén Bonet
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/rocio-boliver-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:panel/conversation
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SUMMARY:internal monologues
DESCRIPTION:Free entry; doors at 6:30pm\, screenings at 7pm \n\n\n\ninternal monologues’ is a screening event organized by Hea-Mi Kim that draws themes from Samuel Beckett’s seminal work\, Not I. Beckett uses unconventional storytelling and internal dialogue to tell a story of a woman who has suffered trauma. The older woman discusses four distinguishable violent events from her life after being mute since she was a child. Inspired by Beckett’s fast-paced monologue\, which shifts between discernible and indiscernible language\, this program will include work by Adrian Abela\, Sophia Berman\, Véra (V) Haddad\, Gerald Martindill\, and Sam Richardson. Similar to Beckett\, these artists also use language\, movement\, and closeup shots of the body to tell a story.  \n\n\n\nThe order of the program will be Not I (Samuel Beckett)\, Grapefruit Blvd. (Gerald Martindill)\, -logues (Sophia Berman)\, the feeling when (Véra (V) Haddad)\, 13 Seconds (Sam Richardson)\, and SOFT TONGUE | HARD TEETH (Adrian Abela).
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/internal-monologues/
CATEGORIES:screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250102T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250109T235959
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SUMMARY:Underwear Shopping Spree
DESCRIPTION:Community screening: Friday\, January 3\, 7pmClosing reception: Thursday\, January 9\, 7pm \n\n\n\nOpen gallery hours: Thursday\, January 2 – Sunday\, January 5: 1 – 6pmMonday\, January 6: closed Tuesday\, January 7: 3 – 6pm \n\n\n\nSome of your underwear has holes.Protect your bone marrow! Protect your stem cells! Plug the holes!If you’re too slow\, you will become irradiated. If you’re successful\, win a shopping spree and compete for the high score. \n\n\n\nComposed of soft sculpture and interactive projection\, Underwear Shopping Spree is about fabrics that protect the wearer from extreme weather. Begun during the now yearly hottest summer on record\, the work was born from the delirious feeling of being dehydrated\, irradiated\, and overexposed.  \n\n\n\nA community screening will take place on Friday\, January 3 at 7pm. Short films about the weather and the sun from local independent filmmakers will be shown. A closing reception will be held on Friday\, January 9 from 7 to 10pm\, and will include live performance. Full lineup TBA. \n\n\n\nAnnapurna Kumar is a filmmaker based in Ventura County\, California. She is formally trained in animation\, and was taught to machine sew by her mother and grandmother. After spending a year designing digital clothing for a previous short film\, she is now sewing IRL underwear\, soft sculpture\, and quilts.Annapurna is a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA Design Media Arts and a Special Faculty Member in the CalArts Experimental Animation Department. She is an alumni of the Yaddo Residency (2023)\, Wedding Cake House Residency (2024)\, and The Independent Imaging Retreat / Film Farm Residency (2019). Her most recent short film\, Mirror Products Catalog\, premiered at the Walker Art Center. She is currently collaborating on an illustrated memoir for the experimental animator Paul Vester.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/underwear-shopping-spree/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T193000
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DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP with Page Person
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for the workshop here  \n\n\n\nPurpose: To find comfort in public speaking \n\n\n\nPART ONE – THE 5 POINT PLANThe first half of the event will be a lecture by Page Person on a variety of techniques they havelearned in order to become a confident public speaker. These are arranged in five maincategories:1. Self image: Participants will be encouraged to remember that when they are in a position tospeak publicly\, it is because they are knowledgeable on the topic. We help people by sharingour experience on a topic we are experienced and engaged with. People want to learn from us.People want to see us do well. What affirming language can we use about ourselves toeliminate negative self talk? How can we locate the best version of ourselves when we look inthe mirror? What article of clothing makes us feel powerful? How will we reward ourselvesafterwards?2. Physical techniques: Participants will be guided through somatic techniques includingbreathing exercises and physical grounding to negotiate the physical sensations that arise whenwe are about to do something we are afraid to do. By maintaining a practice of intentionalbreathing in our daily lives we can apply these tools to manage the way we feel when weexperience stress. Adrenaline is your friend and helps with memory – we all experiencesensations before we go before an audience. Naming this sensation “fear” or “stagefright”causes us to spiral into panic. Creating a new paradigm\, with the understanding that this energywe feel will be most useful to us while we are speaking\, can help diminish the fear response.Your body language affects how you are perceived.3. Composition: Writing for the spoken word is fundamentally different than writing for the page.In this section we will discuss creating an outline to work from\, making a diagram of points wewant to make and ensuring that all of our words are supporting these concepts. We will discusscallbacks\, repetition\, and ending on a memorable note.4. Mnemonics: How will you remember what you are going to say? A series of visualizationtechniques (constellations\, memory palace\, physical gestures) combined with rewriting keypoints by hand help us feel confident in delivering our material with minimal dependence onwritten notes. Improving one’s memory skills will increase one’s ability to make eye contact andconnect with audience members. Think of how easy it is to learn the lyrics of a song: the songhas a structure that connects repeated memorable elements. How can we find a similarapproach to public speaking?5. Delivery: Participants will be encouraged to speak in their own plain language. Often we feel apressure to be perceived as funny or smart and reach for language that does not feel natural forus. When our mouth gets ahead of our thoughts we tend to resort to filler words (um\, uh\, so yeah\, like) which has the opposite effect. We tend to speak too quickly to be understood inrooms that have echoes. Intentional pauses give your audience time to absorb a point you havemade. Don’t try to make a joke if you are not funny! If you do make a joke make sure to pausefor laughs. Deliver a complete thought to one person in the audience. Look for who is payingattention to you and reflect that back. If your audience thinks you could check in on them at anytime they are far less likely to fall into distraction. Things will go wrong! It’s ok! Be thankful foryour listeners’ attention. Rehearse\, rehearse\, rehearse: don’t practice until you get it right\, do ituntil you can’t get it wrong. \n\n\n\nPART TWO – INTO ACTIONIn the second half of the event\, participants will put these techniques into action through a seriesof prompted exercises. By having these experiences in a more informal setting\, they will be ableto form memories of public speaking experiences in which they are supported in reachingbeyond their current comfort level.-looking into the mirror and liking oneself-breathing and grounding exercises-owning the stage/physical confidence-creative visualization-introducing oneself-introducing others-speaking extemporaneously (draw a topic out of a hat and speak on it)-speaking from written notes on an area of personal expertise (write a paragraph on somethingyou know about) \n\n\n\nOutcome: Participants will have a set of tools that they can apply to feel confident in publicspeaking. Concepts will be put into action to create an experience set based in positivereinforcement. The workshop is intended to be enjoyable\, with the goal of looking forward tosharing our knowledge and experience with an audience.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/public-speaking-workshop-with-page-person/
CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T230000
DTSTAMP:20260826T050732
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SUMMARY:DOCUMENT NO.007 : LUNAR NEW YEAR EDITION
DESCRIPTION:Altima Down presentsDOCUMENT NO.007 : LUNAR NEW YEAR EDITION \n\n\n\nLive  PA:Touriszt (Berlin\, DE)Midnight Climax (Berlin\, DE)SpiderwrapProsperityPatrick Durkin \n\n\n\nVinyl Selections by:DJ Stolen Valor \n\n\n\nVisuals by:Lucid Interval \n\n\n\nProceeds raised will be donated to the SGV Humane Society. \n\n\n\nSliding scale $10 – $20
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/document-no-007-lunar-new-year-edition/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:music/sound
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250218T180000
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SUMMARY:Cristóbal Gracia - Paladio / Palladium
DESCRIPTION:Opening February 18\, 6-8pmGallery hours: Saturday and Sunday\, 12-5pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this video\, Cristóbal Gracia digs into futurist mythologies to offer a critical characterization of the identity drive: a product? an artifice? a ritual of seduction? Perhaps\, simply\, a speculative dance to captivate the gaze of the great Other. \n\n\n\nEn esta pieza de video\, Cristóbal Gracia excava en mitologías futuristas para ofrecer una caracterización crítica de la pulsión identitaria: ¿un producto? ¿un artificio? ¿un ritual de seducción? Quizás\, simplemente\, una danza especulativa para cautivar la mirada del gran Otrx. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAt the beginning of this century\, a unique spectacle took place at the Palladium club in the port of Acapulco. A ritual that brought together visitors from the upper middle classes of Mexico as well as spring breakers who\, knowingly or not\, had inherited the exotizing impulse of beatnik poetry. What they witnessed was a kind of postmodern black mass\, where nostalgia for pre-Columbian grandeur and the certainty of a futuristic dystopia were intertwined. At the center of it all\, a prehispanic warrior with silver skin holding a torch in his hand. His mouth repeated a dark litany\, full of references to science fiction films\, video games and comic books. With it he prepared his body for the frenzy that lit up the night with neon lights and strobes\, merging with the decades of splendor of Acapulco\, the tourist destination par excellence of the Mexican republic; a glory that already had its days numbered. \n\n\n\nIn this video installation\, Cristóbal Gracia brings back the mythical show of the Azteca de Plata (Silver Aztec) to offer a critical characterization of the identity drive. First\, by showing the laborious protocols of prior preparation and subsequent cleaning\, it is possible to see the degree of artificiality and effort required to embody a construction of this type. As a result\, what is obtained is an ideal\, both physical and political\, impossible to sustain in a prolonged manner: the existence of this Promethean being is ephemeral by definition. On the other hand\, by recreating this spectacle on at least three levels—on camera\, replicated by one of the multiple imitators of the original show and with the presence of the action figure inspired by it—Gracia points out the impossibility of keeping intact the narratives that seek to define human groups; each iteration generates difference\, nothing remains identical to itself. \n\n\n\nLet’s be clear: this appeal to the founding myths of Mexican identity was detonated to enrich the leisure of external gazes to this tale. And perhaps the greatest confrontation of this installation takes place thanks to the silence and solitude that surround the warriors because\, in their absence\, the gaze of the Other takes on all its weight. What remains\, then\, of this founding narrative when the bodies that wear themselves out to embody it do so for external enjoyment: a product? a caricature? an artifice? a toy? a ritual of seduction? \n\n\n\nFinally\, Gracia also draws our attention to the pictorial and performative gestures involved in the production and deployment of this speculative dance. In doing so\, he reminds us of the role that art history has played in the construction of identity narratives of nation-states in the West. But\, above all\, he accurately points to the prominence that identity affirmation has in current political art. Thus\, Gracia neither condemns nor celebrates. On the contrary\, in the same way as happened during those nights in Acapulco\, he invites us to dance a silent dance with that demon that is all identity. \n\n\n\nGustavo A. Cruz Cerna
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/cristobal-gracia-paladio-palladium/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,screening
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250319T235959
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SUMMARY:HRLA Studies: Law and Political Economy Now
DESCRIPTION:HRLA Studies: Spring 2025presents Law and Political Economy NowMonday\, March 10; Monday\, March 17; Wednesday\, March 196 – 9pm \n\n\n\nA conversation with lawyer and professor Kathleen Kim on the state of law\, (un) justice and political economy in the current circumstances. \n\n\n\nParticipants of this study are encouraged to bring their questions regarding the fast and profound changes in government in the past few months\, and their impact in everyday life. \n\n\n\nKathleen Kim is a Professor of Law at LMU Loyola Law School (LLS) where she recently completed her term as the inaugural Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion. She co-founded LLS’s Anti-Racism Center (LARC)\, the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic (LIJC)\, and serves as faculty advisor for LLS’s Law and Political Economy Chapter and Immigration Law Society. An expert on immigrants’ rights and forced labor\, Prof. Kim co-authored the law professor amicus brief in Trump v. California\, to defend California’s sanctuary laws. Her scholarship examines the Thirteenth Amendment and its relationship to immigration\, workplace rights\, and civil rights through the intersectional lens of race\, gender\, and class.  Her most recent publications include Critical Immigration Legal Theory\, Boston University Law Review (2024) and Feminist Judgments: Immigration Law Opinions Rewritten (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). \n\n\n\nVisit this link for more information about Kathleen Kim’s legal practice. \n\n\n\nHRLA Studies –– Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some home
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-studies-spring-2025/
CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250312T210000
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SUMMARY:Héctor Álvarez: The School of Memory
DESCRIPTION:Free admission ($5-20 suggested donation); click here to RSVP \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA participatory performance-lecture by Héctor Alvarez\, with Juniper Jones \n\n\n\nThe School of Memory is now in session. But this is no ordinary classroom. Here\, memory becomes both subject and teacher. Through storytelling and guided reflection\, The School of Memory transforms personal genealogy into a collective exploration of how we carry—and sometimes bury—our inherited histories. \n\n\n\nDrawing from his family’s complex relationship with Spanish Fascism and a propagandistic 1970s Franco-era television show\, Alvarez weaves together intimate narrative and participatory exercises that invite audiences to excavate their own familial and national histories. Together\, we’ll illuminate the shadows where untold stories reside\, examining not just who we remember\, but what we choose to forget—and why. \n\n\n\nHéctor Alvarez is an experimental artist from Spain working in performance\, theater\, film\, and opera. His work has been presented in Madrid\, Chicago\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Hong Kong and Mexico City. He is a Princess Grace Award Winner\, Drama League Directing Fellow\, Watson Fellow\, and was the Theodore U. Horger Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts at Lehigh University in 2023-2024. He now lives in Atlanta\, where he is assistant professor of Theater Studies at Emory University. \n\n\n\nThe School of Memory has been awarded the 2024 Humanity in Action Democracy Fellowship. This program brings together remarkable thinkers and doers from across the European Union\, Ukraine\, the United Kingdom\, and the United States. Fellows spend one year developing projects that reimagine democratic spaces while exploring the politics of memory.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hector-alvarez-the-school-of-memory/
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:BUL
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception and book launch: Saturday\, March 29\, 6 – 9pmClosing performance: Wednesday\, April 9\, 7:30pm  \n\n\n\nBUL is a multi-media installation of Christine Yerie Lee’s experimental rock opera BUL (2023) and its newly completed sequel SWAN SONG (2025). This ongoing project is inspired by both the Korean folktale of the Bulgasari\, an iron-eating monster who liberates the oppressed by devouring the weapons of the corrupt\, and the North Korean film Pulgasari (1985)\, a Godzilla-esque work that was directed by South Korean Shin Sang-Ok while being held captive by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. BUL reimagines the ancient monster and forms an untimely meditation on ancestry\, kinship\, and what the future owes the past. \n\n\n\nWritten in five acts\, BUL (2023) reimagines the monster as an orphan named BUL who finds herself in the throes of love in the City of Angels. Through pastiches of 20th century cultural forms such as the pop song\, black box theater\, and music videos\, BUL shapeshifts through different dimensions to survive the changing times. The project includes personal memoir\, collaborative scores\, choreography inspired by communist political gestures\, and an original soundtrack. Lyrics were crowdsourced from Lee’s community then stitched into a collective sonic love history by LA-based band muff. \n\n\n\nWhile BUL is built upon the harmonic melodies and lyricism of pop songs\, SWAN SONG gear-shifts into dissonance and glitches as modality. Conceived as an instrumental opera and visualized as a silent film\, SWAN SONG depicts an intergenerational encounter between a now world-weary BUL and her estranged human great-great-great-granddaughter\, CY at the Salton Sea in Imperial County\, California. Their transmission is expressed in a “monster language” composed of ancient and contemporary instrumentation and movement choreography. BUL’s voice is expressed through the saenghwang\, an ancient Korean free reed mouth organ said to echo a phoenix’s cry\, while CY is voiced by the harmonica\, an instrument that descends from the saenghwang. The soundscape merges the Korean folk tradition of pansori (musical storytelling) and the American blues\, and evokes an imaginative ancestral lineage and dialogue between past\, present and future. \n\n\n\nThe final act features five performers enacting shifting poetics of relations by using the languages of synchronized animal movements (starling murmurations\, ant death circles\, locust swarms)\, pop culture (the wave\, line dancing)\, traditional Korean dance\, and also choreography that references and abstracts geopolitical borders between the U.S.\, Russia\, China\, North Korea\, and South Korea. If BUL focuses on the ecstasies and tragedies of the relationship between self and other\, SWAN SONG complicates the desire to belong to something greater than oneself by asking: Where do the self and the collective body begin and end? Who defines a border? How do we become borderless? \n\n\n\nThe opening reception will also host the book launch of BUL (2025) published with FRIEND EDITIONS (New York). The exhibition closes with the open-mic event “Bulgasari LA” with permission from original event founder Lee Han-joo. Bulgasari events began in Seoul in 2003 and are an ongoing showcase of experimental music\, avant-garde art collaborations\, and improvisational performances. \n\n\n\nThe project was funded in part by the College Art Association’s Visual Arts Fellowship\, multiple grants from the California Institute of the Arts\, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. BUL is organized by Ajani Brannum.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/bul/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,music/sound,performance
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SUMMARY:10 DAY CELEBRATION FOR 10 YEARS OF COAXIAL FUNDRAISER
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: April 18th\, 6-9pmGallery hours: Thu-Sun\, 12-5pm \n\n\n\nJoin us in celebrating the 10 DAY FOR 10 YEARS OF COAXIAL at HR! This 10-day event will feature a group exhibition of work by Coaxial’s past artists-in-residence and nightly programming curated by their beloved friends and community members.  The opening reception on April 18th\, 6-9pm will include performances curated by Boss Witch Productions\, vegan tamales by Coaxial’s Founders Eva and Brock and sounds by DJ Omo. Sliding scale $25-$100\, with all donations going to Coaxial’s Arts Residency Program! Purchase your tickets here.The exhibition will feature work by:Aaron Douglas Estrada Alex Pelly Amina CruzBriana Gonzales Colin Yeo Dakota Noot Derek Holguin Dulce Soledad Ibarra Dust – Stefan Cvitanic Edgar Fabián Frías Erin Demastes Jon Clark Kamau Amu Patton Maralie Armstrong-Rial Maria Maea Melo d Mica Scallion-Ford Micaela Tobin Miko Revereza Nat Decker Rachel Jones Samantha CCShelly BadalYunuen
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/10-day-celebration-for-10-years-of-coaxial-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,fundraiser,music/sound
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