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Greetings Friends

Greetings Friends is a full-length essay film made by Pau Pescador, titled after a Disney Studio produced film. In 1941, the United States government created the Office of Inter-American Affairs out of concern for the potential Nazi infiltration in Latin America. They hired Walt Disney to produce animated cartoons, most of which focused upon Latin […]

Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh

The first week of Human Resources Summer Screening Series includes video and animated works by Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh.  Camera direction, collage and personal archive are themes interwoven throughout these works. Curated by Aimee Goguen and Olivia Taussig these films navigate landscape and the human form with an […]

lily, rose

lily, rose is an installation and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles that brings to life the world of Kelly Link’s short story through live music and theatrics by M.A. Harms, navigating the woeful and complex reflections of our anti-hero, the story’s main character, as he reflects on his life post-mortem. This project explores periods of […]

Blood is here: Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova, & Dorian Wood

Blood is here is a collaborative manifestation between vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood. It is an idea born from a recent collective performance within Wood’s touring 12-hour composition/installation Canto de Todes, in which the three artists considered the contexts of space, public proximity and ancestral energy to construct a web-like spatial […]

Reimagining Art Institutions and Community

Reimagining Art Institutions and Community Saturday, April 15th at 4:00 pm This public panel will bring together artists, curators, arts organization leaders and community organizers from LA and beyond to explore alternative practices of art and community outside of traditional institutional structures. Panel participants include gallerist Young Chung from Commonwealth and Council (LA and Mexico […]

Fuerza del desierto. The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club

Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-6pm An exhibition focusing on the The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club curated by Natalia de la Rosa. The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club (Zacatecas, Mexico) was founded in 2000 by Juan Manuel de la Rosa in his hometown. Initiated as a small library, this project quickly grew […]

Ajani Brannum – TROUBLE

We will be in TROUBLE together. This is a project hovering somewhere between concert and conversation, between dance and its presumed opposite (whatever that might be). We will learn, perhaps, what performance and performers might do on behalf of the people who gather to witness them. Tickets are available here Initiated and directed by Ajani […]

Ryat Yezbick, Sarah Gail, Isidro Pérez García, Jmy James Kidd

New performances on a Tuesday night. Jmy James Kidd dog - fly free - sing, Jmy dances on a felted flying carpet Isidro Pérez García Performing as the character Tuleño, the artist will weave a chair seat using tule/cattails harvested from an ecological reserve, while audience members sitting in spiral formation pass him the materials for weaving.   Sarah […]

Matt Savitsky: March Readings (2020-2023)

Matt Savitsky reads seven issues of the Los Angeles Times, dated March 19 - March 26, 2020.  This project began in 2020 as thirty daily performances done live on Instagram in the first months of lockdown. Each day, Savitsky would free-associate to pictures he had removed from the newspaper and taped together in long strips […]

Page Person – THE EAR* (*or how I became a person)

THE EAR* (*or how I became a person) is a performance by interdisciplinary artist Page Person Sunday, March 19 at 5:00 pm. At a time when the very existence of trans people is under attack, the artist describes how claiming space for their own existence healed a lifetime of being the subject of discrimination, bullying […]

Christine’s 2022 Schedule C

Christine's 2022 Schedule C Christine Tien Wang Human Resources is ashamed to present a performative lecture by Christine Tien Wang. She will walk audiences through 12 years of filing taxes as a self-employed artist and reporting losses for many of those years. As a financial exhibitionist, Christine will also talk about her family's financial history […]

CROM: The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989

In celebration of the LP/CD re-release of The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989 on To Live A Lie Records, CROM will be performing the album in its entirety at their first Sumerian Swap Meet. The event also includes performances by: Phalanx Civerous Traümer Red Rot DNS Organized with Snow Goat Productions and Church of the 8th Day. […]

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Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos

Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos by mia simonović / allie miks / diana relth Human Resources Gallery Wednesday, March 1st Doors at 7pm $10 suggested donation masks are encouraged “Exquisite Corps” is one night of 3 solo performances by 3 artists. mia simonović (they/them/she/her) is a Balkan-American movement artist and teacher. mia's choreography explores […]

Wayne Koestenbaum: Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyrean

Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyreana screening of new and recent films by Wayne KoestenbaumSunday, February 26, 20237 p.m. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum and the artistand filmmaker Pau S. Pescador, who curated the program. Wayne Koestenbaum is a New York-based writer, artist, and performer. He has published 22books, […]

Amy Chiao, Gregory Barnett, José Guadalupe Sánchez III, Zeina Baltagi

  New performances on a Tuesday night. Amy Chiao Chicken Bones for the Capital Soul® is an American self-help, consumer goods, and performance media group. Starting in Chiao's kitchen during the 2020 lockdown, her bone cleaning turned accessories products began as a process art practice that ritualistically developed her spiritual entrepreneur alter ego, BBL, the Bone Business Lady. Inspired by maintenance art and […]

Adrian Abela: Nebula and Gentes

Nebula and Gentes were initially made for an extensive installation called CHARTI and exhibited in 2016. Nebula was also shown as part of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. The videos were recorded on Malta and Gozo over three summers starting in 2014. The work revolved around the rituals that the inhabitants of […]

Miles Peyton: Obaa

Opening Friday, February 3rd, 6-8pm

I move with a team of selves
I observe and learn from each one
Sometimes we find something to eat and feel happy
I often eat plastic beads
When we merge, our attention harmonizes into a sharp bright point
We congeal into a centralized organization
It feels good

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

Gemma Castro: Monuments

Opening Saturday, 21st 7-10pm Exhibition is open Friday-Sunday, January 21-31st, 12-5pm Closing Performance: Gemma Castro + Olivia HP: Sunday January 29, 6PM Gemma Castro: Monuments Monuments is a video installation exploring the process of rebuilding and restoration following heartbreak and loss. It reflects on how building physical and mental strength is a process of repetition […]

Patty Gone: The Opposite

The Opposite a Video Art Essay by Patty Gone with opening acts bySophia Cleary Aiden Arata Wall of Ears about The Opposite:Porn Film Festival Berlin Official Selection 2022Official TrailerWhat do ‘Seinfeld’ and a psychedelic pilgrimage across the US have in common? Gone wades through the history of comedy, eroticism, and hippieness to emerge on the other side with profound […]

Sad Girl Summer

Sad Girl Summer is a solo performance by Pau S. Pescador with opening performances and installations by Luna Fisher, Emji Saint Spero and Sammie Veeler.  This event is co-hosted by Art Reality Studio and New Art City .  --- Pau S. Pescador  Sad Girl Summer Sad Girl Summer is a three-act performance and installation, which […]

claire rousay | Ben Babbitt

The wildly prolific emo ambient musician claire rousay brings new sounds to Human Resources in the new year. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance. L.A. Based composer and performer Ben Babbitt arranges sound in and […]

Sticker

Sticker (Michael Gross and Dakota Higgins) was born at the Stonehead Society Headquarters in Gardena, CA, into a heap of Mexican alabaster. For a year, the two lived on beans and kimchi, played nightly, and slept on boulders. While their sound has changed significantly over time, one thing has remained constant: A dedication to improvisation, […]

Hope is a Hammer

Hope is a Hammer Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 7:30pm “Hope is a Hammer” is an interdisciplinary collaborative performance directed and produced by Sharon Chohi Kim and Elana Mann. Through immersive sound, sculpture, text, and movement, “Hope is a Hammer” confronts the silencing of women's voices and the struggle for body sovereignty, while offering strategies for […]

Dead Thoroughbred

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

DT a non-band band. DT never; not happening. DT heavy evasion—worthless. DT so goth, born black. DT at least sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin. Dead Thoroughbred is presented as part of "Everything in Air", a series of public programs at Human Resources over the course of a year—new commissions, exhibitions, performances, and forums, often in […]

Like Spiders Spinning Light

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

X-TRA Presents: Like Spiders Spinning Light a conversation between David Weldzius, Britt Salvesen, and Jon Leaver, Saturday, December 17th, 2023. A conversation around “Like Spiders Spinning Light: Reflections on Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach’s Guernica Tapestry at the UN,” written by artist David Weldzius for X-TRA Volume 24, Number 2. During the conversation, Weldzius will […]

Sam Rowell: Call Of The Chromophore

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

   UPEND Presents SAM ROWELL:CALL OF THE CHROMOPHOREA series of performances in light and sound December 9-16 Final Performances: Friday December 16, 8PM & 10PM FREE Limited Capacity / Prompt arrival recommended – “An abstract investigation into the quantum nature of color and the relationship between perception, metaphysics, and language” – With a site-specific installation […]

Walk Out UC Strike Fundraiser

Join us for a fundraiser sale of artworks by MFA students to support the UC academic worker strike. There will be a cash bar, performances, live sound, and other refreshments. All works are 200 dollars. 100 percent of all proceeds collected will be donated to a specific fund providing relief to students impacted by the […]

Jimena Sarno: aeolian

Opening Reception: Friday, November 4*, 6PM - 9PM Gallery Hours: Wed - Sun noon-6PM, Mon - Tues by appointment “I can make wind,” Gluskabe admitted shamefacedly, “but I can’t make it stay.” Then God blew, so powerfully that Gluskabe fell down and lost all his hair. –Genesis Volume 1 (Memoria del Fuego) Eduardo Galeano  Considering […]

Geneva Skeen – Channels (#1 Pittsburgh / Los Angeles)

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

open gallery hours: tuesday-thursday noon-7pm Channels (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles) is a technical cover-song to artist and composer Maryanne Amacher's City Links series, adapted for a high-speed interconnected world of streaming, liveness, and hybridity. This project, similar to Amacher’s original, brings together live hi-fidelity audio from multiple sites into a new situation. Here, the sites happen […]

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HRLA Divas Live!

A two night gala for HRLA: October 14th & 15th   featuring performances by Amelia Bande, Nikki D, Dorian Wood, Amanda Faye Jimenez, Jasmine Nyende, Sebastian Hernandez, Xandra Ibarra, Page Person, Emily Lucid, rafa esparza, Pau Pescador, TMO, Creepypasta Puttanesca, Jessica Emmanuel, and Carmina Escobar .   Tickets available here

Haig Papazian: 1000 strings at rest / this song is currently not available (in exile)

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

كان يا ما كان կար ու չկար there was and there wasn’t Over two days, Haig Papazian will build a new machine/instrument which he will play on Saturday, Oct 1. Doors open at 8:30pm, performance at 9:00pm. Haig Papazian (beirut 1986) is an artist, composer, and performer whose body of work include architecture, music, composition, […]

fault lines

fault lines Friday, September 23rd at 7 pm Saturday, September 24th at 2 pm and at 7 pm Tickets can be purchased here   fault lines: activation #3 at Human Resources Los Angeles   Human Resources will host Bay Area based dance company pateldanceworks and the spirit Blue CHiLD. in a week-long experimental movement residency […]

FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts

FORCED LEISURE by Kyle Patrick Roberts is a series of nine vignettes performed in parts by an ensemble cast. Exploring an individual's informed and uninformed autonomy within perceived dimensions of freedom and choice, conscious or unconscious role-play within these structures, the protocol of these actions, and their consequences/effect.

Very Be Careful — Silver Anniversary

  Very Be Careful — 25th Anniversary Celebration & Photo Exhibition August 26 - September 4 Very Be Careful, the Vanguards of Vallenato for Los Angeles, celebrate their 25th year together with a photo exhibition and celebration at Human Resources LA in Chinatown. VBC friend and official photographer, Keith Sirchio, has been shooting the VBC scene since 1999 from […]

Casey Kauffmann & John de Leon Martin

Human Resources LA presents a two person show of painting, drawing, video, and sculpture by visual artists Casey Kauffmann and John de Leon Martin. The exhibition opens Saturday, August 6th from 6-9pm  and will run until  Saturday, August 20th. Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm.   This show was initiated by Jeann Bofwel, who saw similarities in […]

Poetry at HRLA

  HRLA presents a night of poetry this Friday, July 29th at 7pm with the poets: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Kata De la Rosa Lupita Limón Corrales Viva Padilla *A 5 dollar donation is encouraged* Masks are encouraged inside the gallery.  

Fidelia Lam – New seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX.

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

Opening: Saturday July 23, 2022, 7-10pm On view weds-sun 12-6pm, July 23-31 and by appointment. New seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX.  grapples with the affective and aesthetic legacies of empire and colonialism as they continue to shape the racial architectures of Asian diasporic femme subjectivities. The exhibition features new multimedia works that speak to, with, […]

Soft Trace/Line Break

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

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Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza: Soft Traces

Soft Traces An exhibition by Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza. Opening July 8th, 6-9pm Walk-through w the artists & Jennifer Doyle: Sunday July 10, 3pm Gallery is open daily 12-6pm till Sunday, July 17th.   Soft is delicate, supple, pliable, velvety, cushiony, flexible, fleshy, yielding. Trace is a fragment, a hint, a shred, a […]

Trans Prom

Time to pull out your best looks. It’s prom night! Join us for a trans centered queer dance night at HRLA on July 3rd, from 8pm-midnight. From your black tie, to your blue jeans, or even that puffy dress you haven’t time to wear,  we want to see you dress for the queer prom of your […]

Run, Run, Roxie Pickle! by Holly Harrell

Join us on Thursday, June 30th at 7:30pm for a performance by Holly Harrell: Run, Run, Roxie Pickle!    Holly Harrell adapts past videos into a live performance. Through successive layers of interpretation, Harrell’s monologues are transformed by a recursive, increasingly abstract vocabulary of words, symbols, and gestures. Like some halter-topped John Cougar heroine, Run, […]

Performances

Skylar Haskard Liz Nurenberg | Anthony Bodlovic Karla Ekatherine Canseco Carlos Agredano Paul Outlaw | Joe Seely Kristina Wong   Saturday June, 25th 7-11pm     Descriptions of perfromances: Skylar Haskard Curator assembles sculpture slowly.   Liz Nurenberg | Anthony Bodlovic In the shadow of the upcoming solstice, this performance will be an interactive ritual […]

FUJIIIIIIIIIIITA • Tashi Wada

UPEND presents, the U.S. Premiere of Japanese sound artist and instrument builder FUJI|||||||||||TA and a special performance from L.A.’s own Tashi Wada. FUJI|||||||||||TA Japanese sound artist Yosuke Fujita wanted to hear sounds yet-unheard and devised a way to make them – by building an organ from scratch, with no previous experience, and following no lead […]

PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0

In light of a violent attack on the exhibition, LYLEX 1.0, by PHILTH HAUS, presented by the Feminist Center For Creative Work, the exhibition will not reopen at HRLA. A schedule for the continuing phases of this project, at NAVEL and FCCW, will be updated and announced soon, as scheduling for the project is now […]

Dean Spunt & John Wiese:《The Echoing Shell》

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

On Memorial Day, UPEND presents veteran L.A. noisemakers Dean Spunt and John Wiese live in concert as they celebrate their new record《The Echoing Shell》released this month on Drag City Records. with a special performance and multi-media event. The event will feature a the duo in quadrophonic sound, a video presentation by Wiese, PLUS a video […]

Madison Brookshire – Double or Nothing

Madison Brookshire Double or Nothing (2022) A new performance for two 16mm projectors, harmonium, sine tone, and voice Doors open at 8p Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles, where he makes films, paintings, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. More information: www.madisonbrookshire.com

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: I Would Prefer Not To (Stay Cool)

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun noon-6PM We highly recommend emailing everythinginaaair@gmail.com to make an appointment to view the exhibition. The installation employs Amacher's work on "psychoacoustics" alongside "acousmaticism" (psychoacousmaticism) through the lens of Herman Melville's short story Bartleby, The Scrivener. Considering Herbert Marcuse's notion of the “Great Refusal” as an indictment of emergent military-cum-consumer technology being weaponized […]

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork & Laetitia Sonami — Fingers Caught in a Field of Moss

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday May 3rd & Wednesday May 4th, 5:00 - 9:00 PM   Sound artists Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Laetitia Sonami set up in residency at Human Resources for their fourth collaboration. For Fingers caught in a field of moss they scale down natural growth events to rhythms of sonic saturation and rarefication. The synthetic textures […]

May Day

 Human Resources' 12th birthday Sarah Rara Corey Fogel Gelare Khoshgozaran Nikki Darling Rebeca Hernandez & Crystal Sepúlveda Eloe Omoe Suzy Halajian Ajani Brannum Mariel Carranza Ohan Breiding John Biortle Johnnie Jungleguts IdealBlackFemale Adam O LA MOCA Union And the launch of La Crónica Libre a sporadic newspaper for the greater Los Ángeles, edited by Wes Larios […]

Maral + Brenna “Ground Groove” / Eva Aguila “Photon Playground”

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

UPEND presents Live premiere of "Ground Groove" – an audio video collaboration between L.A. based beat dealer Maral and Portland, Oregon based video artist Brenna Murphy (of MSHR.) An album featuring this special project will be released by Leaving Records in the Fall of 2022! Plus the premiere video screening of "Photon Playground" – a […]

Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy

Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy - Installation   Featuring Nika Milano, Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton Gallery Hours: Saturday April 9th 6pm-9pm* Sunday April 10th Noon-6pm Wednesday April 13th 3pm-9pm Thursday April 14th 3pm-9pm Friday April 15th 3pm-9pm Saturday April 16th Noon-6pm *opening reception The duration of the piece is one hour, […]

Asher Hartman, Maria Maea, Emily Mast, Jasmine Orpilla

Starts promptly at 8pm   Asher Hartman with Michael Bonnabel and Philip Littell, It’s Better to Start Out Ugly is day five of a year-long project with performers Michael Bonnabel and Philip Littell, written and directed by Asher Hartman. Two men, one room, shared illness, shifting bodies, putrid, hateful, delusional, and bound are John and Alfred, […]

SCREENING: HOW TO BAKE A CAKE IN THE DIGITAL AGE  

"How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age" is a half-hour comedy special set in a cooking show that may or may not ever start, starring Christina Catherine Martinez, who may or may not be playing a character that may or may not be having a real emotional breakdown. Filmed in November 2020 at […]

Dicky Bahto & Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai

image credit: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabha, 1973 (2019) A program of moving images and performance, by Dicky Bahto & Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, the night of March 23rd. Presale tickets can be reserved here Masks are required to be worn inside, at this event. - "I'll be showing two recent pieces... six pages from a diary, a Super 8 film that […]

Xandra Ibarra, Nothing lower than I

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

Image credit: Xandra Ibarra, Chest Rest, 2020.   Human Resources Los Angeles presents Nothing lower than I, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Xandra Ibarra. The exhibition is anchored in an archival exploration and artistic study of Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose’s canonical performances experimenting with sadism, masochism, pleasure, illness and disability in 1980s and […]

mark so, a future in hand

mark so   a future in hand     -   spilled close to the earth Outside and in, living sideways, and down   opposite the center and at the bottom, indeterminate sounds. thumbed through and read unmistakably nearer--a great roar all around that covered every other sound. in night and the table outside the […]

Cube – Pure Shit – Prosperity

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

Cube is the electronic music project of NY-based artist Adam Keith.  Live, Cube conjures a whirlwind of strobing light and video to hypnotic effect.  Searing textures and violent rhythms give way to moments of hushed, eerie beauty.  Musically, the project touches on industrial, dub, drum & bass, noise, and more, but does so with a […]

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Pau S. Pescador – Hot Girl Summer (and other trans myths)

Hot Girl Summer (and other trans myths) A Performance by Pau S. Pescador February 24, 8 pm Hot Girl Summer (and other trans myths) is a three-act performance art event, which takes place in the optimistic summer days of 2021. Vaccines, socializing and the act of being seen! Through this solo performance Pescador utilizes costumes, […]

Bruce & Norman Yonemoto – GARAGE SALES

Two nights of screenings focusing on a trio of films by the Yonemoto brothers: Thursday, February 17th, 8:00pm:  Tickets for Thursdays screening of Garage Sale can be reserved here Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Garage Sale, 1976, 16mm transferred to digital, 85 min Garage Sale is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters […]

Purple Glitter Slime

An evening of queer performances and works by Amanda-Faye Jimenez Aimee Goguen & Dakota Higgins John Burdole Laub Nathan Lam Vuong Zori Swanegan 7$ Doors open at 8 Performances begin promptly at 830 Tickets can be purchased here: https://withfriends.co/event/13568875/purple_glitter_slime_21222 Amanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer and comedic performer born and raised in Los Angeles. She is mostly […]

Reading with José Muñoz

Online

This (online) seminar takes up the work of José Esteban Muñoz, a defining figure in queer theory, queer of color critique, and performance studies. We will read excerpts from his three books (Disidentifications, Cruising Utopia, and The Sense of Brown) to explore his key terms and the impact of his thinking on the work of […]

Noche de Amor

Noche de Amor  Music by Neyva, Romeo Diablos, Fairy Boy, Bae Banxx, Ora77k, & Soulm4te  February 11, 2021 6:30—11PM  Proof of full vaccination and contact info required for entry to this event Masks required at all times while inside the space This event has a limited capacity, plan to arrive in timely manner to ensure […]

Pristina / Sauber Zauber / TBHQ

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

Pristina / Sauber Zauber / TBHQ • Proof of full vaccination and contact info required for entry to this event • Masks required at all times while inside the space • This event has a limited capacity, plan to arrive in timely manner to ensure entry! • Getting (free) tickets in advance is strongly encouraged […]

Apparitions: a group show

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

The group stems from a virtual art salon that was facilitated by Miljohn Ruperto at the end of 2020. With their diverse backgrounds and satellite presence, artists were invited to question the opacity in the contemporary art world while sharing their past and current works. The space of conversation is suspended through virtual meetings, discussing […]

Sebastian Hernandez [Postponed]

POSTPONED Multi disciplinary trans femme artist Sebastian Hernandez presents a new work with a group of femmes to bring forth a happening in the dark.

Jasmine Nyende: To keep me warm. While I grieve.

I’m making a quilt. At Human Resources. To keep me warm. While I grieve. If you want. Bring me warm fabrics. Anytime between 6-10pm. While I sew. You can’t actually come inside but bring fabrics/ old clean clothes or other textiles and you can watch while I sew from inside while you are outside. It’s like […]

Leila Bordreuil • Nephila

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

UPEND presents LEILA BORDREUIL NEPHILA “Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist, composer and sound-artist from France. She accesses concepts as diverse as Noise, contemporary classical, free jazz, and experimental traditions but adheres to none of them. Her music mixes deep melancholia with harsh noise-walls at ear-bleeding levels, and was described by the New York Times […]

Doubles & Double Duty: corey’s winter soiree

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doubles-double-duty-coreys-winter-soiree-tickets-226753244057 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝘿𝙚𝙘 15. 𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙪𝙩𝙮: 1.𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙖 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 & 𝙋𝙖𝙩 𝙊'𝙉𝙚𝙞𝙡𝙡. 2.𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙩 & 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙈𝙧. 𝙂𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙆. 3.𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙩 & 𝙩𝙪𝙗𝙖 𝙗𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙕𝙣𝙨 : 𝘽𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙮 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝙍𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧. 4.𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙀𝙎𝙃 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥 […]

“Dorian Wood: Songs From a Palace Fire”

After two years, acclaimed artist Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources LA with three unforgettable performances.     Tickets can be purchased here, to attend      Note: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination must be presented at the door the night of the event, and masks must be worn at all times during the performance.

Martín Escalante + Weasel Walter, Tim Dahl

UPEND presents MARTÍN ESCALANTE + WEASEL WALTER TIM DAHL Tuesday November 30 at 8pm The L.A. debut of the lacerating sax and drums free jazz duo of MARTÍN ESCALANTE + WEASEL WALTER plus a solo set from NYC bass wrangler TIM DAHL. A gadfly in multiple realms of the underground and extreme musics for three decades, Weasel […]

M. A. Guevara: Harmonic Oscillation Video Screening

Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a screening M. A. Guevera's collection of expirimental videos in support of his debut solo exhibition Harmonic Oscillation. The video screening will be followed by a conversation between M. A. Guevara and curator Hugo Cervantes of Human Resouces-Los Angeles. Doors: 6:30pm Screening and Q&A: 7:00pm Masks are required to enter the gallery. This […]

Harmonic Oscillation

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Harmonic Oscillation M.A. Guevara November 6 - 28, 2021   

Sam Richardson

(What I’ve Realized About Coping and Coalescing) Sam Richardson The gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm Life persists, life keeps moving, but it doesn't look, smell, feel and sound the same now. The future, as we understand it, is unknown; the future feels like a void for many of us, and for some it has undoubtedly […]

Our Envisioned Future

  Our Envisioned Future is the third annual community quilt facilitated by Rachel Silver and Laub.   An open call was put out to answer the following questions:  * What are our visions of the future? and how do we practice them in the present so they may grow into tomorrow? * How do we […]

ANIMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

September 10 - 12, 2021 Human Resources in Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA    ANIMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA Presented by Authentic Children Art Association in collaboration with OneHouse Arts   Come one, come all! The circus is in town! Marvel at the array of Animal Encyclopedia - grizzly bears, toucans, flying fish, humpback camels, Spectres of Shadow, iguanas, […]

G. Brenner – Brushfire: Album Release Listening Party & Closing Reception

Photo: Amara Higuera Human Resources-Los Angeles is proud to host G. Brenner's listening party for their debut album Brushfire on August 21st. Please join us for an afternoon of drinks, a DJ set by SOLTERA, and more celebrating the release of G.Brenner's debut album Brushfire. This will also be the last chance to view our […]

Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Studies for Artists

Online

Saturday August 21, Sept 4, Sept 11 noon-2pm (note, schedule has shifted) Join us for a series of virtual seminars on Indigenous Studies as a paradigm for decolonial/anti-colonial art practices. This seminar will survey different threads of Indigenous Studies as a political, educational, and aesthetic movement. By engaging Michelle Raheja’s  “Visual Sovereignty” as a praxis, […]

Marxism for Artists, redux

Online

Join us for two online seminar meetings dedicated to thinking/learning about money, currency and value. In our first session (Saturday 7/24, 11am-12:30 PST) we will return to the sections of Capital centered on money. In our second (Saturday 8/7, 11am-12:30 PST), we will work through a handful of readings centered on cryptocurrency, blockchain and NFTs […]

Nuestrxs Putxs

Isabelle Albuquerque Bárbara Sánchez-Kane Frieda Toranzo Jaeger Thursday-Sunday, noon-6pm   THIS HOLY DAY will be the first public viewing of these ritual grounds, a realm both prelapsarian and post-apocalyptic that stands outside of time. All are invited to revel in the power of femininity, to rejoice in the timelessness of cuir impurity, and to collect […]

Readings from Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts 

Online

Readings from Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts  Tuesday, May 25th, 7pm (PST)   HRLA celebrates the release of the new book Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, edited by Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam. This is an online event with readings from contributors, including Jesse Chun, Josh Kline, Kim […]

Don’t Look Now

  “Don’t look now,” is a demand to defer—and an apt characterization of the mood of the past year. Danie Casino, Jiyoon Kim, Hings Lim, Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III, Diane Williams, and Rachel Zaretsky—the USC Roski MFA class of 2021—have spent the past year making work in a suspended state, in the face of isolation […]

Hande Sever: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her Hande Sever   Before dawn on September 12, 1980, a right-wing military junta took power in Turkey. During the nine years that followed, the Turkish Armed Forces persecuted over three million people from the revolutionary movement. Between 1980 and 1985, the military government arrested 750,000 of them; […]

Stoking The Flame

Online

Stoking The Flame brings together DJs, Poets, Artists, Musicians whose work invokes new worlds imagined and forged within nightlife.  Stoking The Flame aligns itself with artists who wield the allure and radicality of nightlife to experiment and amplify new sounds, moves, and ways of being with one another amidst the on-going state violence.  Stoking The […]

Dawn of the New Age

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HRLA Time Space Money artist-in-residence Sarah Gail presents their painting, Dawn of the New Age on Oct 23-25 at 7pm, at Actual Size Gallery (741 New High St. Los Angeles, CA 90012). They will be showing their piece with performance art and music to accompany it. This presentation has been created in an effort to […]

Seren Sensei

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Friday, August 28th - Sunday, August 30th HRLA presents 2 videos by Time Space Money artist-in-residence Seren Sensei at Actual Size, which can been seen from the sidewalk, any time of day or night: The Americans EXTRAS: Detroit and Five Years Since Ferguson https://youtu.be/iR0yR1kyPfI https://youtu.be/RF3kb1pPP2I From the artist: ‘I’m Seren Sensei, and I am a […]

Marxism for Artists, Pt. 2

Online

Participants in HRLA’s online seminar, Life in the Iron Mills/Marxism for Artists (organized by Jennifer Doyle and concluded in early July), expressed a desire to keep going — and so we will! Our next session will center on Marxist thinking about kinship, collectives, society and social transformation, and will run from August 22 until the […]

Time Space Money Artists in Residence

HRLA is pleased to announce the list of artists for the Time Space Money artist in residence program! Between August 2020 and March 2021 we are offering 22 residencies at HRLA and at Actual Size. We received over 200 applications, and wish we could do more to support the large community of artists who have defined […]

CONTEXT-CON Book Launch: Alexandro Segade’s The Context 

Please join us for a CONTEXT-CON, an online book launch (in the form of a Comic Con) event celebrating Alexandro Segade's new graphic novel The Context, published by Primary Information in 2020. Register here! Interpreting The Context’s superheroes, special guests include: Ei Arakawa as Drives Jennifer Doyle as The Body Jonah Groeneboer as Form Mary Kelly as Cathexis Jennifer Moon […]

Online Seminar: Life In the Iron Mills, or, Marxism for (Anti-racist, Feminist) Artists

Join Jennifer Doyle for a series of online seminars on Marxist thought, as it applies to the life of the artist. This seminar will combine the slow, close reading of Rebecca Harding Davis's short story, "Life In the Iron Mills" (1861) with the study of key concepts in Marxist studies, accessed through David Harvey's wonderful […]

Khal Launch – Performance + Dinner (cancelled/postponed)

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This event is postponed until further notice. 7pm - Doors (gallery will also be open from 11am - 5pm) 7:30pm - 8 Pillars - A Free Score performed by Jessika Kenney and Helga Fassonaki 8-10pm - Dinner The two-day Khal publication launch will conclude on March 20th with a special performance of 8 Pillars - […]

$20 – $25

Khal Launch – Performances (cancelled/postponed)

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image credit: video still from Angel Chirside's performance of score "Hypocrisy", videotaped by Paula Booker, 2015 This event is postponed until further notice. 7pm - Doors/Launch Preview (gallery will also be open from 11am - 5pm) 8pm - Performances Swing State (Angel Chirnside and Helga Fassonaki) will perform Khal score Hypocrisy Jessika Kenney will perform […]

$10.00

Khal Launch – 2 Day Event (cancelled/postponed)

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This event is postponed until further notice. 2 day publication launch and performance event Thursday March 19, 7-11pm  (launch / performances) Friday March 20, 7-11pm (launch / performance / dinner) Helga Fassonaki began the Khal project in 2014 while living in Tabriz, Iran for a month. As a visual artist in Iran, what she was […]

Kathleen Kim – Social Slur (remote participation)

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Sunday March 15, 2020 As part of the Social Residency exhibition, untune is proud to welcome an event organized and presented by Kathleen Kim: a public forum is re-cast here as a small workshop conducted via zoom. 4-6pm Group Dialogue and Open Jam (email info at humanresourcesla dot com to join us via Zoom) 8-10pm […]