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September 2021
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, cockatoos, and many species more! Authentic Children Art Association eagerly presents over 200 animal portraits by OneHouse Arts students from ages 4 to 10.…
Read more...August 2021
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 current exhibition Nuestrxs Putxs, a two-part exhibition curated by Nika Chilewich and Sara Lent Frier with Anita Herrera, curator of the Sacred Rose Mercado. Nuestrxs…
Read more...Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Studies for Artists
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, we will emphasize the need for trans-Indigenous worldmaking that deploys individual and community assertions of what representation means in art and literature. The works in…
Read more...July 2021
Marxism for Artists, redux
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 (like this). To participate in this reading group, an extension of "Marxism for Artists," please fill out this registration form. We will send registrants a…
Read more...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 talismans from its borderless pilgrimage route at the Sacred Rose Mercadito. Nuestrxs Putxs proffers icons for those who have so long been denied the graven…
Read more...May 2021
Readings from Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts
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 Nguyen, Christine Y. Kim, John Tain, C. Spencer Yeh. Register in advance for this meeting https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYocuqqrDksE9zYjHOJf6M3DfMkowFM_wpL After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing…
Read more...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 and slow-motion tragedy, wherein time no longer seemed linear. Temporal glitching characterizes Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film, Don’t Look Now, as early as its first sequence,…
Read more...December 2020
October, November and MARCH: How Has the Weather Changed?
October, November and MARCH: How Has the Weather Changed? A Roundtable Discussion on Art & Strategy + MARCH 01 Issue Launch Saturday, December 12 @ 1PM PST/4pm EST/9pm GMT This event is free and online: RSVP “We are in the period of November, when revolution seems to be over, and peripheral struggles have become particular, localist and almost impossible to communicate. In November, the former heroes become madmen and die in extra-legal executions somewhere on a dirty roadside and information about…
Read more...November 2020
Hande Sever: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
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; blacklisted 1,683,000; tried 230,000 in 210,000 lawsuits; sentenced 7,000 to death; revoked the citizenship of 17,000; and denied 388,000 the right to obtain a passport.…
Read more...Stoking The Flame
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 Flame will feature one artist per week over the span of the last months of 2020. In a combination of mixes, videos, interviews, and other…
Read more...October 2020
Dawn of the New Age
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 inspire all to look within and discover the world that they desire to live in, to believe that a harmonious world can exist, and to…
Read more...August 2020
Seren Sensei
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 filmmaker, writer, cultural critic and artist. My work is dedicated to archiving and exploring the cultural narratives of Black Americans - Descendants of American Chattel…
Read more...Marxism for Artists, Pt. 2
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 end of September. If you would like to participate, please sign up here. Our readings will move across distinct areas in Marxist critical thought —…
Read more...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 HRLA since we opened our doors in May 2010! Our physical space will not be open to the public during this period; we will however,…
Read more...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 as Barelife Tavia Nyong’o as Objector David Velasco as Biopower Followed by Alexandro Segade in conversation with scholar andré carrington And live drawing with…
Read more...May 2020
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 series of lectures on Marx's Capital. The only requirements for this seminar are reading (or listening to) Davis's story, and watching Harvey's lectures. Rebecca Harding Davis was…
Read more...March 2020
Khal Launch – Performance + Dinner (cancelled/postponed)
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…
Read more...Khal Launch – Performances (cancelled/postponed)
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…
Read more...Khal Launch – 2 Day Event (cancelled/postponed)
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 able to share in public was restricted. Furthermore, as a female performing artist, the use of her voice in public performance was restricted. After the…
Read more...Kathleen Kim – Social Slur (remote participation)
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…
Read more...Varese Group screening / Marcia Bassett – Social Entropy
Left: Varese Group, film still, Ten Minutes in Binio, 2019 / Right: Marcia Bassett, photo credit - Jennifer Braun CANCELLED: Screening on Saturday March 14 In place of the one-time screening by Varese Group, Ten Minutes in Binio will be screened throughout the gallery hours (11am-5pm) followed by a video and a quadraphonic sound installation by Marcia Bassett, and Skype sessions conducted by Alison O Daniel. Varese Group's Ten Minutes in Binio is a series ten 1-minute videos taken by members of the…
Read more...Marcia Bassett, Alison O’ Daniel, Kathleen Kim, Angel Chirnside, Varese Group
so·cial res·i·den·cy the fact of living in a place with living organisms Due to public health concerns around the spread of coronavirus, Human Resources has made some adjustments to upcoming programing. Social Residency will proceed with an opening Friday March 13 from 8-11pm. We have cancelled the performances that were a part of that event. By appointment only, until 3/20, pending further notice. Ideas as inventions called artifacts Social Residency is an artifact Called ideas as notes Revealing threads, bleeds, crossings, streams of…
Read more...TOUCH WORKSHOP: Touching, Feeling, Transmission.
TOUCH WORKSHOP Touching, Feeling. Transmission HUMAN RESOURCES Sunday March 8 6pm - 8 pm 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles On Touch is a workshop developed by artist Anna Betbeze to explore gestures of touch, and the extension of such gestures by creating and using sensitive prosthetics. The workshop was taught at Yale University in 2018 and Cal Arts 2019. The Human Resources edition is exciting because it is not at a school! The structure will be more open.…
Read more...Fagedelics + Robertitx
DOORS: 8PM ELIAS: 9PM MOOD KILLER: 10PM FAGEDELICS: 11PM $10
Read more...LEV ABRAMOV: THE HUNT
LEV ABRAMOV THE HUNT MARCH 5 2020 8-10PM Lev Abramov returns to Human Resources with THE HUNT, a two hour duration work. 'Please note that due to the extreme nature of this piece, discretion is advised.' www.levabramov.com
Read more...February 2020
Lanzamiento en Los Angeles de “Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja” por Cecilia Vicuña y Camila Marambio / Book Launch of “Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja” by Cecilia Vicuña and Camila Marambio
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,…
Read more...Hilda Hilst: The Body of the Text, a reading circle and seminar
Join artist Lúcia Prancha, artist/scholar Patrícia Lino, and Jennifer Doyle in a reading circle and conversation celebrating the writings of the extraordinary writer Hilst Hilst (1930-2004). Often described as the Marquis de Sade of Brazil, her astonishing work takes up mysticism, insanity, embodiment, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. Hilst is one of the most important Portuguese language authors of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, her work is virtually unknown in our community. We will read short excerpts from Letters from a…
Read more...Lúcia Prancha: CASA DO SOL
Opening: Thursday, February 20th, 8–10pm Exhibition Dates: February 21st–March 1st, 2020 Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, noon-6pm and by appointment The Body of the Text, a reading circle & seminar: Saturday, February 22, 2-5pm Human Resources is pleased to present CASA DO SOL, an exhibition of new work by artist Lúcia Prancha. Prancha's installation explores the work and legacy of Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004). Often described as the Marquis de Sade of Brazil, her astonishing work takes up mysticism, insanity, embodiment, eroticism, and female sexual liberation.…
Read more...Feldman and Frey performed by The Koan Quartet with Katie Porter
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…
Read more...Corey Fogel + Ted Reichman + Eyvind Kang: Improvised Music amongst Dysfunctional Furniture on a Dysfunctional Holiday.
Best known for his long association with John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet and many other New York creative music ensembles, as well as his work as film composer and educator, Ted Reichman has recently developed a new language for amplified accordion based on the work of his teachers Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier as well as his longstanding interest in ambient music, North Indian Dhrupad and early minimalists like Terry Riley and La Monte Young. Eyvind Kang is a composer, violist…
Read more...Online Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: A Public Performance of Compliance
ZOOM LINK (TW: this will be glitchy, at times boring, strange!): https://zoom.us/j/161645550?pwd=OEJZcFRrcm9Ka2NobFg2aFRnM05wdz09 Join Jennifer Doyle, a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and author of Campus Sex, Campus Security, as she takes the UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for Supervisors and Faculty. State employees are required by law (AB1825 and AB2053) to take training geared to raising awareness about sexual harassment and discrimination. Faculty tend to speed through this training at home, alone,…
Read more...January 2020
KEN EHRLICH: DYSFUNCTIONAL FURNITURE
Opening Friday, January 31: 7–9pm Closing event Sunday, Feb 16: 4-6pm Music by Adam Samuel Goldman, toasts, conversation about living with dysfunction. Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday noon-6pm and by appointment note: the Firecracker 5K/10K goes right down Broadway on 2/16, but should have finished before noon. Human Resources is pleased to present Dysfunctional Furniture, an exhibition of new work by artist Ken Ehrlich. The show presents a range of works that are at once sculptural and in direct conversation with furniture…
Read more...Rite Nite
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…
Read more...EDGE: A Session on Pornography
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…
Read more...LAURA PARNES: TOUR WITHOUT END
SCREENING OF TOUR WITHOUT END (92 min.) AND LIVE PERFORMANCES INCLUDING RACHEL MASON AND BRONTEZ PURNELL FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, starting at 8, Suggested donation $10 SCREENING OF TOUR WITHOUT END (92 min.) AND CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KRAUS AND LAURA PARNES ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, starting at 8, Suggested donation $10 GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday through Sunday, noon-6:00pm and by appointment. PRESS PREVIEW LINK AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Organized by Jeanne Vaccaro Press contact: [email protected] or [email protected] LOS ANGELES, CA- Human Resources is pleased to present Tour Without…
Read more...SHEENED
SHEENED is a new musical piece by Cody Putman for cellos, contrabasses, lap-steel guitar and whirly tubes. Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa present a beautiful and colorful menagerie of kaleidoscopic-pop, spells, and patterns. Gemma Godfrey presents new songs and hexes for vocal loops, electric guitar drones, and feedback. Visuals by Peter Nichols $10 suggested donation // all ages
Read more...Xina Xurner / M Lamar / Johanna Hedva / Pauline Lay + Gabie Strong
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…
Read more...Toolbox
Saturday, January 4th 8pm 2020Sunday, January 5th 2pm 2020 A dance theater performance art piece journeys through trauma and the path to healing. It questions how we build tools to help ourselves. How does energy transmute? How do we handle life when it feels too much? Is meditation the next step to self-discovery? This piece poses many questions and shares non verbal stories, sound, film, a staged installation, dance and acting as a mode of new storytelling. Choreography, Direction, &…
Read more...ptxs launch/listening event
- private event to launch limited edition zine by ptxs: jovan, gabriela ruiz, vine a incendiar este lugar, dorian wood - sound composition by ptxs - separate sex positive space 21+ only rsvp only
Read more...December 2019
Public Access Inclusive
Opening reception: December 26, 2019, 7-10pm with a performance by Quamon at 9pm Exhibition dates: December 27 & 28, 12-5pm Public Access Inclusive is an on-going project between L.A. based artists Hyesung ii and Angel Ballesteros. The project was started with an idea of inclusion and to go against the exclusive culture of art and inaccessibility of its high-end notions in practice and celebration. PAI is about representing and supporting the communities and artists that are marginalized. This exhibition includes…
Read more...Wild Up | darkness sounding | solstice sounding | dusk til dawn
Description We play drones in the dark from sundown to sun-up, during longest night of the year. The cast of performer-composers includes: trombonist Matt Barbier, cellists Derek Stein and Tal Katz, poet Mandy Kahn, guitarist Chris Kallmyer, violinist Andrew Tholl, guitarist Jiji, vocalists Catherine Brookman and Kathryn Shuman, guitarist Seth Olinsky, saxophonist Marta Tiesenga, Lucky Dragons and oscillatorist Lewis Pesacov. NOTE on blankets and sleeping bags: please bring blankets, sleeping bags, coats, pillows, other cozy outfit stuff. It's a cold space, which we'll be working hard to heat up. You're welcome to stay all night, and to…
Read more...JIJI | YOU (流) | flow | music for electric guitar
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…
Read more...Skylar Haskard: RECESS 2019
For this exhibit, Skylar Haskard has created numerous works under the working title, RECESS 2019. Subjects ranging from furniture to food are playfully addressed exploring the relationship between the body and the ‘everythingness’ of our material world. Sweatsuits temporarily hardened by school glue are seen alongside objects and materials that display little or no manipulation suggesting a statue-like importance. The autonomy of these items comes into question when gathered together and viewed as a whole, as is our relationship with…
Read more...Ecology of the Edge: Closing reception with Paige Emery, Olive Kimoto and Kendra Adler
Closing reception for Ecology of the Edge at Human Resources. Music performances by Paige Emery Olive Kimoto and movement performance by Kendra Adler with Jenna Lo-Slavio and Josie J (divinebrick) Intimate Ecology zines to take home by Mukta Mohan and Dylan Tupper Rupert ______________________________________________ Paige Emery "The Body Outside of itself" looks at the body as a host of multiplicities that evade the logics of contemporary discriminatory hierarchies as dancing figures intra-act with their environment. Paige Emery's performance coalesces her…
Read more...Secret Ceremony
Secret Ceremony / Queerness and Spirituality at the dawn of the new decade. Curated by Telémachos Alexiou An evening of ritual and performance with: Christopher Argodale Camila Maria Concepción Emi Fontana Kathryn Garcia Carlos Medina-Diaz Eva Mitala Tyler Matthew Oyer Deborah Smaragdi Isous Mohammad Tayyeb Ares Zolo & Telémachos Alexiou + Technoshamanic afterparty Doors at 7.30p Suggested donation at the door: $10 - $30 At the end of the year and the dawn of the new decade we invite you…
Read more...Tasting Menu Lab
free Tasting Menu is a Los Angeles-based collaboration between Tim Feeney, Cassia Streb, and Cody Putman, exploring instrumental and found sound, movement, tape recorders, door frames, window panes, rainstorms, pine cones, concrete floors, and children’s cartoons. They will be performing a set of site specific improvisations, deconstructed folk tunes, and music for water, marbles, and steel bowls. They will be joined by Nigel Deane and Erin Demastes.
Read more...A Loose Million: reading, screening, and a hypnosis
Caitlin Berrigan’s Imaginary Explosions draws upon geology, embodied knowledges, and technoscience to investigate how deep time and interspecies communication might assist us in radical planetary transformation. The long-term project is composed of episodic videos, sculpture, and an artist book, calling into collaboration artists and scholars whose real-life work pushes the limits of science and culture. Departing from the present into a speculative fiction, the cosmology explores what other presents and futures become possible once we begin to think beyond the…
Read more...November 2019
Living in the Age of Uncertainty and the Pending Climate Crisis
Please join us in conversation with Catherine Malabou, Kenric McDowell, Jaden Adams, Christine Meinders and Matthew Donovan to discuss new forms of life that enable the acceleration of climate change, how the political landscape is mediated by the climate crisis, and foundational anthropocentric assumptions in technology paradigms and recent attempts to expand design thinking to include non-humans along with their implications for culture at large. This discussion is a part of Ecology of the Edge, on view November 29th-December 8th. __________…
Read more...Ecology of the Edge
Opening reception: November 29th, 7-10pm with performances by Nina Sarnelle and Kim Ye Exhibition dates: November 29th—December 8th Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 12-5pm As anthropogenic climate changes accelerate, the boundaries between humans and non-humans are constantly being redefined. In what ways can we shift our perspectives towards symbiotic relationships between our bodies and the land we inhabit? Ecology of the Edge proposes works in which the temporal dimension of sensory processes is foregrounded as part of a larger system. The exhibition includes…
Read more...future ghosts
Opening reception: Saturday, November 23rd 7pm / Performances at 8pm Gallery hours: Sunday, November 24th 12-5pm future ghosts features future work by future ghosts, post-Haunts and pre-probed. The artists present new work that project a vacuum-sealed, retired, self-destructive, bioengineered future waiting to be probed, figuratively. participating artists: Alicia Piller Antoine Midant Beck+Col courtney coles Daniel Andres Alcazar Diego Barrientos Ieva Raudsepa Kelly Wall Kira Doutt Lucinda Jacquelin Trask Luke Harnden Nick Angelo Philipp Farra Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb Siheun Kim…
Read more...Yann Novak, Byron Westbrook, Robert Crouch, Ian Wellman
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…
Read more...Restaurant
Exhibition dates: November 14—November 19, 2019 12-5pm Opening reception: November 14 7-10pm with music performance by Amazondotcom from Los Angeles and Siete Catorce from Mexicali at 8pm Restaurant is a joint project between Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artists Stella Ahn and Hyesung ii. This project will re-imagine the space with cultural and personal objects. The system of things in a space (in a restaurant, a gallery, or a home, for example) can initiate a network of use, value, and meaning that over time…
Read more...The Revolting Lumpen! a classical opera reboot
Beck+Col Saturday November 9 Doors at 830, Performance at 9PM The lumpen world embodies the cannibalistic nature of the global economic and social structure. Colorful, velvet lumps comprise everything in the installation, amassed from the physical exploitation of the lumpen monsters. A game of musical chairs serves as a model of the zero-sum system of capital. The players have to fight their competitors to gain an advantage as they try to get a seat. When one monster gets a chair,…
Read more...Gong Gaada • Glochids • lucky dragons
UPEND presents Gong Gaada Glochids lucky dragons donate eight doors at nine at Human Resources 410 Cottage Home Street 90012 GONG GAADA Inspired by gamelan traditions as much as the contemporary experimental scenes of Indonesia, Gong Gaada is a Los Angeles-based trio exploring a hyrbrid form of their own devise. Utilizing a couple reyong – the arrays of metal gongs used in Balinese gamelan – and suling – bamboo flute – and modular synthesizer, the group lays out familiar and…
Read more...Muscle House Cookbook (Part 2)
Two evenings of artist scores in the form of recipes, performed at Muscle Beach, Venice CA. Muscle House Cookbook is part of programming for CURRENT: LA FOOD. (please note that these are offsite events, not at HRLA). 10/19 + 11/2 6-8pm Recipes by: Alexandre Dorriz Brittany Ko David Horvitz Dicky Bahto Dorian Wood Either Or Elana Mann Elliot Reed Maria Maea Mariel Carranza Nine Herbs Charm Sarah Gail Sebastian Hernandez Yunuen Rhi ..and more TBA Prepared by: Elliot Reed…
Read more...October 2019
410 Cottage Home
Wednesday, October 30th 8pm Thursday, October 31st 8pm Installation by Jeff Zilla + performances by Myriad Slits & Twin Schism Jeff Zilla is music and performance art curator deeply invested in the queer and experimental scene of Los Angeles. Content creator across multiple platforms with expertise in podcasts, djing and viral video creation. Known around the world for playful, controversial and hilarious works of music and performance.
Read more...Protesting Seoul: Resistance in Precarious Times
Space is limited, RSVP recommended Seoul is a city of protest. On any given day, one might see striking workers, displaced residents, evicted shopkeepers, bereaved parents, feminist, queer and trans activists, religious leaders, politicians, NGO activists and many others protesting defiantly on the streets. For those living in Korea and in the diaspora who follow political events from afar, protest is a reliable weapon of the weak and a familiar form of civic participation. Protest images rarely make the…
Read more...Nikhil Chopra: Rouge
Rouge is an hour long performance action by Nikhil Chopra. Nikhil will be drawing a large scale landscape on the wall with lipstick. Nikhil incorporates everyday materials, and for instance, lipstick— a cosmetic often associated with make up, femininity, sensuality and sexuality will be used to transform the body and the space around it. Nikhil’s performances often critically examine stereotypes based on identity; nationality, gender and class, while walking the fine line between performance art, theater and landscape drawing. Rouge…
Read more...somesurprises / Jessika Kenney / Jesse Quebbeman Turley
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…
Read more...Muscle House Cookbook (Part 1)
Two evenings of artist scores in the form of recipes, performed at Muscle Beach, Venice CA. Muscle House Cookbook is part of programming for CURRENT: LA FOOD. (please note that these are offsite events, not at HRLA). 10/19 + 11/2 6-8pm Recipes by: Alexandre Dorriz Brittany Ko David Horvitz Dicky Bahto Dorian Wood Either Or Elana Mann Elliot Reed Maria Maea Mariel Carranza Nine Herbs Charm Sarah Gail Sebastian Hernandez Yunuen Rhi ..and more TBA Prepared by: Elliot Reed…
Read more...Why You So Negative?
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18th 8pm Exhibition Dates: Friday, October 18—Sunday, October 27th Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 12-5pm Performance by Nikhil Chopra: Sunday, October 20th 7pm Why You So Negative? responds to institutional rebranding and removal of work by artist, Chiraag Bhakta. The solo exhibition features the original work—an installation which examines the commodification of yoga in Western culture—in its entirety. Programming for Why You So Negative? will include a durational performance by artist Nikhil Chopra and a night of…
Read more...Alexandre Dorriz – Consciousness is Code in the Occidental Vacuum
Opening Friday October 11th 7-10pm On view Saturday 10/12 and Sunday 10/13 12—6pm Consciousness is Code in the Occidental Vacuum is part of an ongoing investigation of fiber and its relations to time, memory, and optics through museology and dramaturgy practices. Dorriz works with the historical discovery of synthetic and semi-synthetic fibers, and their respective chemical and organic compositions and applications in order to interpret various fibers through rhetorical lens and optical-based systems. By looking at the properties of…
Read more...Bitch Slap
Sunday, October 6th 7pm $10 suggested donation Bitch Slap! is an evening of performance and video art at Human Resources LA, by female identified and non-binary artists who confront contrived notions of femininity. In a time where didactic art seems like the only pathway to social justice, these powerful works incorporate humor to playfully explore the embodiment of being a ‘Baddass Bitch. The evening is curated by Liz Miller-Kovacs and hosted by Rochelle Fabb. Works by: Nao Bustamante Rochelle Fabb…
Read more...HRLA Symposium I: Think Local
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,…
Read more...September 2019
Shhh
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…
Read more...Secret Joy
September 27th & 28th, 8:30 pm Written and directed by Brian Getnick, performed by Dani O'Terry and Gregory Barnett Secret Joy is a play about beheading the past to make it speak. Sculptural costumes and weaponry are taken up by the performers to transform an ancient power struggle between the crowd and leader into a psychic battle between the body and mind. Following the presentation of Punishment's Place in the fall of 2018, Secret Joy is the second in a…
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Angel Alvarado: Geovani’s Room
Exhibition dates: Wed Sept 18 - Fri Sept 20, 12PM-8PM Opening reception: Wed Sept 18, 6-9PM Closing reception: Friday Sept 20, 6-9PM, performance at 8PM. Organized in collaboration with curator and researcher Javier Arellano Vences from the Vincent Price Art Museum, Human Resources Los Angeles is pleased to present Angel Alvarado: Geovani’s Room, the artist’s first solo exhibition. The exhibition features photographs, a single-channel video, and an immersive installation as well as a closing reception performance by Alyss Glass. Alvarado’s work…
Read more...August 2019
Josefina — An Installation by Fabián Guerrero
Opening August 29, 6-10pm Screening at 8pm followed by music and drinks Organized by Fabián Guerrero and Clara López Menéndez Josefina is for and about my grandma, Josefina. I wanted to document, in short clips, not only my grandma but also my family: the sounds, movements and the house that I was raised in as a kid in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, Mexico. This video is an introduction into filming and photographing my family’s history in my grandma’s house, La Casa…
Read more...Matt Weston (Albany) w/ Shook/Byrnes, yek koo, Casa Berenice
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…
Read more...Marcia Bassett + Samara Lubelski / Kaori Suzuki + John Krausbauer / Rogue Squares
Doors 8 / Music 9 Advance tickets available here MARCIA BASSETT (guitar) and SAMARA LUBELSKI (violin) first performed as a duo in 2009, improvising musical scores to films by Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton at X-Initiative, Next Years Model series at DIA. Since their initial collaboration, Bassett and Lubelski have continued to draw from their like-minded approach to improvisational music; creating personal interplay with the environmental surroundings to expand on abstraction, chromatic noise, and long form drone. Both Bassett and…
Read more...Abe Hollow•Rose Droll•Sam Gurry’s “Winners Bitch”•Borey+Essyre
$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…
Read more...Jurassic Park: The Musical
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,…
Read more...TRANZA
TRANZA Show. Música. Interpretaciones Featuring: The Sand Ninja Byron Angela Pereira Africa Avila Gina DVina plus other special guests. $5 - $20 Suggested Donation. #Tranza is a queer performance night in Los Ángeles showcasing LA-based and LA-grown art, music, and performances. Created and curated by the Byron Collective, Tranza creates a space to share and center art work that exists in LA outside of traditional art institutions. Performances: Blowing up from Ninjastan: @the_sand_ninja The Sand Ninja is a diasporic warrior…
Read more...July 2019
Shawn Greenlee • Vasculae • Nial Morgan
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…
Read more...INFECTIOUS WASTE TOUR SUMMERTIME KICKBACK
Show 6pm-late Requested Donations: $6-$66 (all donations go towards the tour! This is a fundraiser show) performances by: The Uhuruverse Dem Cauldronz Jupiter Black Mimi Tempestt Love & Tolliver You Guys Suck Like Real Hard Shut The Fuck Up Thanks! (YGSLRHSTFUT!) DJ sets by: Grotessk Shane Clay Open Mic (6-7:30PM) #SnatchPower Zines for sale! BYOW -BYOB— Some Booze will also be sold! Whippets Bar! Clothing Swap! Vendors! Flyer by @shagazewhoahmanifestations
Read more...toxinosexofuturecummings
“Ages ago, about exactly one week after having Nexplanon removed from the inner side of my left arm, under the skin, I felt how my shoulders widened. Nexplanon is a birth control implant that releases progestin. It contains 68 mg of the active substance etonogestrel. Synthetic progestin mimics the actions of progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone.” - Ana Teo Ala-Ruona toxinosexofuturecummings is a bodyfiction about pleasurable sex on a polluted planet. It’s a speech performance of a body making itself…
Read more...Donna Oblongata: All 100 Fires
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?…
Read more...HOGG • Nghtcrwlr • Pistola • Newboy
L&S and Night Gaunt present HOGG (Chicago) scrapesrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/self-extinguishing-emission Nghtcrwlr youtu.be/Zl3QtTu2ijI Pistola (Anthony Vannicola and Michael Demaio, LA Debut) Newboy ( Record Release) nightgauntrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/funky-bullshit + Night Gaunt DJs 8 PM | All Ages $10 advance tickets here https://withfriends.co/event/2074499/ $15 day of show ***Physical copies of Newboy's “Funky Bullshit” Vinyl LP on Night Gaunt will be available for purchase.
Read more...Jobel Medina: KILL THE MONSTERS
Los Angeles based dancer, choreographer, and photographer, Jobel Medina will premiere two new solos for the first time in two years at Human Resources. Highly physical and thought-provoking, Jobel’s new solos undertake problematic subjects with humor and sensuality. By merging both experimental practices and over-the-top drama inside his process, he’s become less burdened by the extreme seriousness that often paralyzed his creativity. Solos will be performed by Sarah Butler and Jobel Medina with a special guest, Joey Navarrete-Medina and a…
Read more...The Never Quartet: An Installation by Michael Morley
Music for The Never Quartet an installation for a quartet of four bowed acoustic guitars by Michael Morley Sunday July 14th Afternoon, Dusk, Night 4:30pm - 6:30pm - 8:30pm free and open to the public with special performances by Electric Sound Bath & CGRSM Black Editions and Human Resources Los Angeles present the U.S. premiere of The Never Quartet, a new sound installation piece by Michael Morley. Michael Morley is a New Zealand based sound artist and visual…
Read more...Everyone I Love Bites Back: Poetry and Prose Reading
Join us for a poetry and prose reading, called “Everyone I Love Bites Back,” hosted and curated by Christopher Soto, award-winning poet and editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. Celebrate the start to summer, and Christopher’s return to Los Angeles, with this gathering of writers, activists, academics, and weirdos. Speakers include: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Janel Pineda, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Blas Falconer, Joseph Rios, Myriam Gurba, Tre'vell Anderson, Ali Liebegott, Joshua Javier Guzmán, F. Douglas Brown,…
Read more...Borasisi Record Release Show
Patrick Shiroishi Vinny Golia Dylan Fujioka Alex Cline LA Fog Doors 8:30pm $7 *no one will be turned away for lack of funds
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RIDDIMS a solo exhibition of Adee Roberson, organized by independent curator Essence Harden. Opening Reception Wednesday July 3rd 6—9pm Gallery open Thursday—Sunday 12—6pm RIDDIMS Block Party Sunday July 7th 1—6pm BBQ, snacks, and drinks all day. Throw what you want on the grill! Adee Roberson and Essence Harden in conversation 2—3pm Performance by Thurmon Green at 4pm Sounds by DJ Micah James and Designer Imposter throughout the day RIDDIMS Where does spelling get us? Echo Gombay …
Read more...June 2019
Look Who’s Talking Now
Opening: Sunday, June 23rd 6-10pm Gallery Hours: Monday, June 24 - Saturday, June 29 12-6pm Performances by Malinche and Figgy DJ Set by Paxico Records The more intricately connected that people are to one another, the more their ideas and projects appear to follow similar patterns. Look Who’s Talking Now focuses on painting as its principal medium and challenges homogeneity in an increasingly globalized world. By showcasing the work of artists based in Mexico City and Los Angeles, the exhibition…
Read more...Brian Getnick: Poem for the community
Poem for the community sculptures and works on paper by Brian Getnick Exhibition dates: Wednesday, June 19—Friday, June 21 Gallery hours: 5pm-9pm or by appointment (call 773.351.1888) In the fall of 2018, artist Brian Getnick presented Punishment's Place—an ensemble performance wherein the shattered pieces of a monument to Prometheus Bound were assembled to the beat of a chant. At the core of that script was the "Poem for the community,” a premonition of impending violence against artists. On June 19th through the 21st, Getnick…
Read more...W00DY / Stevie Richards / Sleep Clinic / In-House Pharmacy
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…
Read more...Stalgia Grigg: is a weapon and we
opening reception: fri june fourteen : seven to ten on view sat june fifteen—tues june eighteen : noon to six The ideological ground that Logic and Rationality stand on is slipping away. Liberalism has rallied to defend the sacred ground of "truth," while slowly realizing it may have been a constructed fiction all along. At the same time, a reactionary Right (including a nascent fascist movement) has weaponized fuzzy logic, finding a unified front in the incomprehensible. In this cultural…
Read more...Magma Chamber: A Night of Volcanic Rhythm
Magma Chamber: A Night of Volcanic Rhythm |APAHM Phase: Zah, Nihar, Kohinoorgasm, Raver Baba Zah https://bit.ly/2VNdAvM Nihar https://bit.ly/2AIztTv Kohinoorgasm https://bit.ly/2Y8E7Ry Raver Baba https://bit.ly/2VQNDLE Doors at 8p // Show at 9p Sliding Scale $0-$15 Drinks $2 // Free Water All Ages Wheelchair Accessible Except for the Upstairs Bathroom _______________________________________________________________ #APAHM PHASE, an #AAPI alternative arts series, continues with its 3rd season of showcases highlighting AAPI artists and AAPI-fronted bands across Southern California in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This…
Read more...Crom, Persekutor, Beyond Pain, Forest Lawn
Church of the 8th Day Presents: Saturday June 8th 2019 at Human Resources CROM PERSEKUTOR BEYOND PAIN FOREST LAWN 8pm / $10 / 21+ / FREE BEER
Read more...ZOOM LENS PRESENTS ᴿᴱᵀᵁᴿᴺ
ZOOM LENS PRESENTS ᴿᴱᵀᵁᴿᴺ a reclamation of the fragmented past Ceramiks (w/ String Ensemble) https://www.instagram.com/ceramiksmidi/ https://twitter.com/ceramiksmidi oh my muu https://instagram.com/ohmymuu https://twitter.com/ohmymuu “trying my best” Video: https://youtu.be/iEm6HaPpfIk Reinabe https://www.instagram.com/abewav/ https://twitter.com/abewav “In The Object” Video: https://youtu.be/9CBM-U3EZcg Plaster Cast https://www.instagram.com/xplastercastx/ https://twitter.com/Plaster_Cast Sonoda https://www.instagram.com/lisasonoda/ https://twitter.com/SonodaLisa + Special Guest DJ PINK FERRARI (London/Manila) VJ by Moogil https://www.instagram.com/moogil9 Follow the Official ZOOM LENS “RETURN” Playlist http://smarturl.it/zl-return-playlist #ZLRETURN All Ages - $10 (Ltd.) / $15 (Pre-Sale) / $17 (Door) Ltd. Discount Tix / Early Bird Available on…
Read more...Office Hrz
Stop by Office Hrz at HR to see the filming of new work by Saturn (formerly Saturn Risin9), the culmination of a week-long residency at HR. gallery hours: 12pm-10pm donations: $5 at the door or venmo
Read more...May 2019
Cody Putman, Marta Tiesenga, Amanda Bonaiuto, Gabriela Escovar
Performance, installation, and screenings 8pm Free
Read more...Queer Intimacy and States of Emotion / Cross-Continental Friendships
SELF#2 by Telémachos Alexiou Group Show Fundraiser/Art Sale curated by Telémachos Alexiou Join us for a one-day fundraising exhibition combining works by established and emerging queer artists from Berlin and Los Angeles. Exhibiting artists include: Ron Athey, Lucas Bihler, Cassils, Alex Chaves, Zackary Drucker, Spilios Gianakopoulos, Monilola Ilupeju, Young Joon Kwak, Eva Mitala, Tyler Matthew Oyer, Zander Porter, Elliot Reed, Spyros Rennt, Jason Al-Taan & Telémachos Alexiou. Performances by Christopher Argodale and Tyler Matthew Oyer. Curated by Greek filmmaker Telémachos Alexiou,…
Read more...WALKING IN THE SUN
Exhibition Dates: May 17th - May 19th, 2019 Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday 12:00 – 6:00 PM or by appointment Human Resources LA presents Walking in the Sun an exhibition that centers the experiences of Filipinx American artists and their shared experiences navigating the complexities of colorism in the Asian American Pacific islander (AAPI) communities. Filipinx have distinct memories of being told that if they were to be in the sun for too long, their skin will darken and therefore…
Read more...Phil Minton & Audrey Chen • Swinging Chandeliers • Corey Fogel
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…
Read more...Theo Triantafyllidis: Anti-Gone
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…
Read more...Laida Lertxundi: Words, Planets
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…
Read more...William Basinski + Lawrence English: Selva Oscura
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…
Read more...Jennie MaryTai Liu with Alana Reibstein: Nemeton
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…
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