Human Resources

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 - A Free Score and a celebratory feast marking the beginning of spring and the Persian holiday of Nowruz. Working with the idea of a score…

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 Khal score Outside In White Magic (Mira Billotte) with Kathleen Kim on violin will perform Khal score Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Pauline Lay and…

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 Live Improv Performance with Wynne Bennett, Guillermo Brown, Kelly Coats, Orlando Greenhill and Kathleen Kim 4-6pm Group Dialogue and Open Jam Kathleen Kim adds Social…

  ANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO UNEXPECTED SICKNESS CECILIA WON'T BE ABLE TO BE THERE ON SATURDAY. CAMILA MARAMBIO AND CLARA LOPEZ MENENDEZ WILL HOST THE BOOK LAUNCH AND CHANNEL CECILIA IN A POETIC READING. EVENT STILL ON!! COME!! Saturday February 29, 2020 7 - 9 pm Reading will start at 7:30pm English and Spanish Human Resources is pleased to present the book launch of "Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja." In this slim publication two indigenous mestizas from Chile, Camila Marambio,…

Performance: 8pm $15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) Feldman and Frey performed by The Koan Quartet with Katie Porter Jürg Frey; Quintet, Clarinet and String Quartet Morton Feldman; Clarinet and String Quartet Eric KM Clark & Orin Hildestad, violins Cassia Streb, viola Jennifer Bewerse, cello Katie Porter, clarinet Quintet, Clarinet and String Quartet Jürg Frey, b.1953, Swiss “Silence requires one decision - sound or no sound. Sound requires a great many more decisions. These…

Rite Nite brings together three LA-based artists using solo voices to re-describe ritual. Alphabet Of Wrongdoing Odeya Nini Francine Thirteen Alphabet of Wrongdoing is the newest musical project from Snowblink’s Daniela Gesundheit, exploring ceremonial Jewish prayer songs and blessings that encircle themes of reckoning, forgiveness, mortality, striving, and atonement, reimagined for secular audiences and secular spaces. The texts and melodies are traditional and ancient; the context and arrangements are subversive and impressionistic. This performance acts as a communal investigation of…

Event, 2:30-4:30, conversation from 3-4pm Sublevel Magazine invites you to join in Session— a Live Cam conversation with Johanna Fateman, Lorelei Lee, and Tiana Reid. Their respective work lies at the intersections of sex-feminism, labor and pleasure, the legal dimensions of pornography and prostitution, politics of representation, archival research, and queer potentialities. This conversation will be recorded and published in the upcoming EDGE issue of the magazine. EDGE: The Pornography Issue, will launch in March 2020 and considers what constitutes…

Xina Xurner M Lamar Johanna Hedva Pauline Lay + Gabie Strong doors at 8, sound at 9 $7 suggested donation, no-one turned away for lack of funds. advance tickets available here Xina Xurner​ is an experimental music/performance collaboration between Marvin Astorga And Young Joon Kwak, whose cathartic performances combine DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies. Their music combines a variety of genres (including happy hardcore, industrial, drone metal, and…

JIJI tells two stories: One, spinning Gulli Bjornsson’s story of capsizing and falling into the ocean, being tossed around in the waves as night approaches, and waves of sound consume the listener. Bjornsson’s dimmar oldur risa is inspired by an ancient Icelandic poem by Jónas Hallgrímsson. And secondly, her own piece Kintsukuo, after the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. She wrote the…

Los Angeles artists Yann Novak, Robert Crouch and Ian Wellman return home from their west coast tour and are joined by Byron Westbrook. Yann Novak will present his new work Slowly Dismantling which reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America and explores these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation. Byron Westbrook will present the LA premiere of a new series of compositions for electronics using just intonation and custom tuning systems. Robert Crouch…

somesurprises (Seattle) / Jessika Kenney / Jesse Quebbeman Turley Doors 8pm, Music 9pm $10-15 suggested donation Advance tickets available here: https://withfriends.co/Event/2681113/somesurprises_Jessika_Kenney_Jesse_Quebbeman_Turley somesurprises is the moniker of Seattle singer/songwriter Natasha El-Sergany. What once was a solo project focusing on spectral balladry and late night exploration, somesurprises has since formed into a dynamic four-piece live band. Motorik beats, reverb-drenched vocals, washes of fingerpicked guitars, and hazy synths expand El-Sergany's delicate and blissful songwriting. Starting with a solo tape release of cell phone…

Join us for a day-long symposium featuring emerging critical voices in our community. This event features responses to work encountered at HRLA, in spaces like HRLA or in museums in the region. We hope to give attendees a sense of the impact of local performances, exhibitions and events on discourse about contemporary art; our aim is to create an engaging day of conversation about the practice of art criticism and art writing — one that is inclusive of artists, students,…

Sadly, in a show about quietness, it’s my first instinct to write about getting noisy.  If I latch onto a metaphor for political action, a reader could imagine the swarming power of the colony because, yes, each hive is made up of little bees and so, the modest can become intrusive, and sure, maybe the meek will actually inherit the earth—but after all that reversal, how do we know the oppressed won't transform despotic? Why was noisy my first instinct…

Doors at 8, Music begins at 8:30 All Ages $10 (advance tickets available here) Human Resources is pleased to welcome MATT WESTON (percussion/electronics) from Albany, NY. Matt will be joined by WILSON SHOOK (saxophones) and TED BYRNES (percussion) for a combined set of solo, duo, and trio improvisation. YEK KOO (Helga Fassonaki) and CASA BERENICE TRIO (Heather Lockie, Clay Chaplin, Sepand Shahab) will help integrate the evening. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ MATT WESTON (Albany, NY) Matt Weston plays…

$10 // bring your friends // Doors at 8pm, Sets at 8:30 Abe Hollow (Oakland)// Abe Hollow is the new songwriting project of Oakland-based composer and producer Adam Hirsch. His songs are a sublimation of his skills as a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, his experimental tendencies toward collaboration and improvisation, and his continual obsession with family history and the mythologies of the Jewish diaspora. https://abehollow.bandcamp.com/album/a-palace-in-time Rose Droll (San Francisco)//  multi-instrumentalist pop-oddity bringing an assortment of mesmerizing, rich, and quirky tunes…

A Performance by Paul Pescador August 9, 10 and 11, 8 pm Jurassic Park: The Musical is a three-act performance art event, which centers around Pescador’s third grade elementary school experience and his desire to transform the Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park into a stage play. The overall performance becomes about naive ambitions, the scientists in Jurassic Park creating dinosaurs that they can’t control and Pescador an overzealous kid, trying to convince a class full of 10 year old kids,…

UPEND presents wednesday night noise doors at eight sound nine – donate seven SHAWN GREENLEE (Providence, RI) A perennial figure of Providence's stridently independent underground, Shawn Greenlee is known as a pusher of thresholds as a core member of the noise-rock unit Landed, and had been long identified with his project Pleasurehorse. Having shed that moniker some years back in favor of his own name for solo work, Greenlee's practice has only grown to encompass more ground, branching into complex…

Somewhere in a forest nearby, a lone guerrilla commander will ask you to prove yourself during a game of Pass the Sponge. If you fail at that, maybe you can help grind the sulfur. Meanwhile, the Giant Ibis was thought to be extinct in Cambodia, though footage from a few years ago reveals that some still exist. That part of the story is true. Basically. But can you really believe a man who was brought up in the taxidermy trade?…

Sonoptik & Human Resources present euphonic journey W00DY Stevie Richards (aka Cleaning Lady) Sleep Clinic In-House Pharmacy FREE FREE FREE There will also be an installation in place by Stalgia Grigg for all to enjoy. -------------- W00DY https://w00dy.bandcamp.com/ W00dy from Pittsburgh is attempting to bring absurdity to the dance floor with fast bpm’s, high energy polyrhythms, and wacky samples. She sees the dance floor as a place for healing, and therefore writes music inspired by moments of catharsis. ________ Stevie…

Church of the 8th Day Presents: Saturday June 8th 2019 at Human Resources CROM PERSEKUTOR BEYOND PAIN FOREST LAWN 8pm / $10 / 21+ / FREE BEER

Performance, installation, and screenings 8pm Free

UPEND  presents PHIL MINTON & AUDREY CHEN (London/Berlin) SWINGING CHANDELIERS COREY FOGEL doors 8pm sound 9pm donate $10 PHIL MINTON /  AUDREY CHEN DUO ✶ Los Angeles debut ✶ Phil Minton (b. 1940, Torquay, England) is a improvisor whose contorted vocal emissions have pushed beyond the boundaries of genre. The past four decades have heard his glossolaliac gurgles, squeaks, and deconstructed operatic flights operate within the realms of Free Improvisation, the body of Jazz itself, and varied electro-acoustic activities. Over…

Anti-Gone A Performance in Mixed-Reality by Theo Triantafyllidis May 11th & 12th, 7pm Duration: 3 acts, 60mins, no intermission In a post-climate change world, environmental catastrophe has become normalized. Cities are sunken, yet the vestiges of late-capitalist culture – consumerism, inequality, social unrest – live on, clinging like barnacles to the ruins of civilization. Spyda and Lynxa are a couple navigating this world frictionlessly. On their sailboat, they glide from shopping to movies to psychedelic drugs. In a damaged world…

This film applies the six principles for composition delineated in ‘Opinions on Painting by the Monk of the Green Pumpkin’, written by the eighteenth-century Chinese painter Shih-T’ao as referenced in Raúl Ruíz’s essay ‘For a Shamanic Cinema’ (for example, ‘draw attention to a scene emerging from a static background’ or ‘add scattered dynamism to immobility’). The film is composed of scenes with non-actors, and texts by R.D.Laing and Lucy Lippard. Made with: Muhe Chen, Victor Artiga Rodriguez, Ashley Campbell, Anastasia…

UPEND presents William Basinski + Lawrence English: Selva Oscura Wednesday May 8th at 9pm Please note: this is a special seated performance with limited capacity. Advance tickets are recommended. ticket link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-basinski-lawrence-english-selva-oscura-tickets-61247423693 facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/2425987850747632/ From their respective bases in Los Angeles and Brisbane, William Basinski and Lawrence English – two crucial figures of ambient music – collaborated remotely, trading and manipulating sonic materials to create an ever fleeting, ever unfolding masterwork: Selva Oscura. Released last year by Temporary…

Nemeton is a durational choreography which makes a thicket of words, positions, and breath. Nine bodies listen and voice words spoken by nine other bodies— artists no longer living— experiencing what language can make present, and what it shrouds. performed by Stacy Dawson Stearns, Jessica Emmanuel, Cristina Fernandez, Maria Maea, Coral Lobera, Jasmine Orpilla, Alana Reibstein, Gabriella Rhodeen, and Laura Stinger Saturday 5/4 6-9pm* Sunday 5/5 1-4pm* *viewers are free to come and go throughout the duration of the performance…

UPEND presents GREG KELLEY / JESSIKA KENNEY DUO ROB NOYES WILSON SHOOK donate 8 doors at 8 sound at 9 Facebook Event Page https://www.facebook.com/events/1203512939823489/ GREG KELLEY / JESSIKA KENNEY First time meeting of a surely astounding duo of two key figures in sound: Trumpet player Greg Kelley – on tour from Seattle – and Jessika Kenney – a whose multivalent voice thankfully spectralizes here in Los Angeles – as it will Friday night with a light touch of electronic accompaniment.…

The Unwrinkled Ear Presents Jean-Luc Guionnet and Lotus Edde Khouri - saxophone and dance AFTERBURNER: Audrey Chen and Doron Sadja - voice, electronics and light Jean-Luc Guionnet and William Hutson and Jeremy Kennedy - saxophone and electronics and drums Doors 8:30/ Music 9 Jean-Luc Guionnet returns to Los Angeles after two years, bringing with him a new dance collaboration with Lotus Edde Khouri, and a new trio that has been incipient in his mind since his last foray in our…

UPEND presents LEATHER BATH (Greh Holger/John Wiese) Noise Nomads Joseph Hammer Sarah Brady donate 8 doors at 9 sound at 10 Facebook Event Page LEATHER BATH holger and wiese convene their end-of-the-world sound duo in L.A. for the first time in six years NOISE NOMADS primal electro-acoustics and bonescrape anti-thetics. first show from jeff hartford as an angeleno JOSEPH HAMMER the master of survey and delay; coaxing fragments of occluded origin into sound. looped tapes and a gloved hand. #LAFMS…

Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 Doors at 7pm Performance at 8pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Fresh from his nation's supreme victory at Hanoi—Supreme Leader of the DPRK—The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un (Seung-Min Lee) will make an appearance on the Pacific Rim of Los Angeles, California, USA at Human Resources LA to host The 3rd International Global Karaoke World Championships. Presented here will be the greatest innovation to International Relations: Karaoke Diplomacy. On a mission to share…

This is a new way to think of oneself, a body composite. No firm boundaries, not a me with space around. But one of those games, magnet shards that pull apart at a suggestion, seem whole but disperse into their millions. Think of yourself that way, a toy of many, host, hosting, little bugs, gathered for a feast, a jam, a quorum, a minion. Body doesn’t do a dance, it is one. A performance by Abigail Levine and Paula Matthusen.…