Human Resources

M GEDDES GENGRAS + RENE HELL + SEAN MCCANN + EARN + MIRROR TO MIRROR
2012-05-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
music event – ambient drone from all LA based artists

FROZEN MUSIC/PINK NOISE
2012-05-04 - 2012-05-13
Frozen Music/Pink Noise combines hypnosis, performance art, authentic movement and butoh, with the goal of interrogating interior states of being through movement and vocalizations, which reveal to the audience a ”negative space of an invisible architecture.” The title Frozen Music refers to the quote: ”Ich nenne Architektur gefrorene Musik” by Goethe that suggests architecture is frozen music. Ubik et al ask: What are the acoustics of that invisible building, where in the performers listen and move while in various states of hypnotic trance.
Frozen Music/Pink Noise a performance in 12 parts: foundation/ excavation/ ascension/ undergirding/ cantilever/ sheer/ reflection/ absorption/ sustain/ attack/ release/ decay; It is a new original work derived from workshops in a special process of improvisation while in trance. The ensemble of performers and designers developed this special process over a month long period of collaboration and it will be realized for the first time in the gallery before the audience. The principle creative artists of UBIKETAL (meaning: ubiquitous et al or: everywhere and everyone) include: Alan Tollefson, Michelle Lai, and Sarah Day, Max Baumgarten, Amara Gyulai, Jeff Worden, Dana Murphy, and Pearl Merril. Sound Design and accompaniment by Andy Sykora and Lighting design by Cameron Mock. Audience/performer separation will be minimal in this show as in environmental theatre with even some audience performer interaction. The setting will be the open space of the white cube/black box double with some scenic elements designed by Alan Tollefson.
The common denominator of the team UBIKETAL is intersubjective performance. Exploring ideas such as, witnessing, responsibility, language and embodiment. Performing in a trance achieved through a pre-performance ritual and guided visualization, in which each performer is prompted to find a specific personal interior location, or to begin a spontaneous dialogue with the unconscious through movement.
PinkNoise/Frozen Music is an intervention against habitual ways thinking and being. UBIKETAL hope to reintroduce the audience to a state of continual questioning while the unfamiliar unfolds.
After moving to Southern California Alan Tollefson was hired by the University of La Verne to teach Performance Art, Stage Craft and to be the Technical Director in the theatre arts department. Tollefson’s interest in theatre and construction has led to co-developing an experimental research group UBIKETAL that conceives projects in the rapidly growing field of Performative Architecture. Performative architecture explores the freedoms and limitations imposed on the individual by the built environment by testing performance through space design to gain a better understanding of how the body moves in space and how subjectivities are actualized. Performative architecture draws from the phenomenology of theatre and the physics of construction to develop a better understanding of embodied architecture and architectural metaphors that we live every day. Performative architecture uses the language of these metaphors to explore this system with both inside and outside, to redistribute power in system where subjectivities are situated within the built environment.
UBIKETAL is theorizing and realizing self-studying spaces as digitally reactive environments that use feedback systems to identify emergent behaviors. We are launching this endeavor with this project that galvanizes performance theorists and practitioners around the study of the unconscious as the archive of our embodied architecture. Our program Frozen Music/Pink Noise is a demonstration of our imagination let loose in the unconscious architectonic field.

East of Borneo presents: UIQ: A SPACE ODDITY
2012-05-03 00:00 | Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Join us for the first US presentation of:
UIQ: A SPACE ODDITY
A lecture / performance by Paris-based artists
SILVIA MAGLIONI & GRAEME THOMSON
(originally produced by Bétonsalon, Paris as part of the Otolith Group exhibition “A Lure a Part Allure Apart”)
Following the publication in 1980 of Mille Plateaux, a work that for many marked the culmination of FElLIX GUATTARI’s intellectual adventure with Gilles Deleuze, Guattari began work on a film script for a science fiction movie, UN AMOUR d’UIQ. Initially developed in collaboration with filmmaker Robert Kramer, the script of UIQ (Universe Infra-Quark) was to occupy Guattari on and off for the next seven years. Influenced both by his work at the La Borde clinic and his engagement with radical politics, UIQ offers a blueprint for a subversive ’popular’ cinema. In desiring to make the film in the commercial arena as a sci-fi blockbuster, Guattari was effectively raising the stakes of his own political engagement, attempting to break into the dream factory to reconfigure patterns of collective unconscious desire.
For UIQ: A Space Oddity, artists and filmmakers Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson consider how the development of the UIQ script appears amid a general resurgence of interest in science fiction in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is around this time that sci-fi becomes a screen of projection and mourning for the scattered phantoms of disappointed revolutionary desire, in which the radical alterity of a political ’outside’ is increasingly projected no longer through the imaginary of collective struggle but in terms of encounters with alien intelligences or life forces. By placing echoes of the unfilmed script in relation to a montage of scenes from sci-fi films of the period – from Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stalker, to Spielberg’s Close Encounters and ET through Demon Seed, The State of Things, Blade Runner, Videodrome, Starman and others – Maglioni & Thomson aim to isolate the singularity of UIQ in the virtual dimension of what it might have been and what it may yet become.
http://cargocollective.com/terminal-beach/UIQ-A-SPACE-ODDITY

Pharoahs, LA Vampires, High Places, Suzanne Kraft, White Car (dj)
2012-04-28 - 2012-04-29

helga's mini-music festival
2012-04-20 00:00 - 2012-04-22 01:00

Grant Capes
2012-04-19 00:00, 2012-03-28 00:00

Karl Haendel: Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
2012-04-14 - 2012-04-29
Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
a Solo Show by Karl Haendel
I have been assembling an archive of 35mm slides since 2000. All of the slides are photographs I took myself (usually on a copy stand) of images, texts, and objects, each of which becomes a “potential” drawing (the practice for which I am best known). There are nearly 10,000 slides now. About 6 years ago my assistant and I began to categorize them (there are maybe 200 categories and subcategories) and file them. But I only recently realized that the slides kind of tell my story; as an artist, collector, editor, and even a lot about my personality. I’ve attached the master list of categories (it also includes the “print archive” category names, which technically is a little different) and you’ll see what I mean. Reading the list sort of tells you what my concerns are, in a distanced and objective (yet funny) manner. I think they also tell you something about navigating a messy world with too much information, and how one comes to make sense, and ultimately meaning, from it. They transcend interest and likes, become about choices and values. How we as a culture make meaning is at the center of my work, and this slide archive shows how over the past decade I have tried to do so myself.
-Karl Haendel

lee ranaldo secret show tentative
2012-04-09 00:00

Grant capes show w/ theremin group
2012-04-08 00:00

Eileen Myles and Chris Kraus reading
2012-04-06 20:00
Please join Eileen Myles and Chris Kraus as they read from their new books.
this is the most important thing in the world
I say aloud to everything
– Eileen Myles, author most recently of Snowflake/different streets, published by Wave Books, 2012.
In her first book of poetry since 2007, legendary poet, critic, and novelist Eileen Myles creates poet and poem anew as she pushed the boundaries of her craft ever closer to the enigmatic core. Snowflake finds the poet awash in an extended and distressed landscape mediated by technology and its distortion of time and space. In different streets, the poet returns home, to the familiar world of human connection. Two books meet as one: more Eileen Myles, more indelible connection, more fleeting ecstasy.
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels and two books of art and cultural criticism. Her next book, SUMMER OF HATE, will be published by Semiotexte in October. She writes about Los Angeles art for Art in America and co-edits Semiotexte with Hedi El Kholti and Sylvere Lotringer.

RATS and Grex
2012-03-26 00:00

helga's show in upstairs gallery with music festival 4/20-4/22
2012-03-24 00:00 - 2012-04-22 00:00

Penny Arcade
2012-03-23 - 2012-03-24
Human Resources presents ??THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH??, a combination performance and book party ?for Bad Reputation Performances, Essays, Interview ?Semiotexte
International Performance star Penny Arcade makes a rare appearance in ?Los Angeles at Chinatown’s Human Resources
This is Penny Arcade’s first performance in LA since 2007 except for a much loved guerilla appearance at Wildness in 2009. ??Expect an evening of the unexpected by the ?Queen of Underground Performance.
“??Combining the anarchy of Lenny Bruce with the pathos of Judy Garland, Penny Arcade is provocative, intellectually stimulating, perceptive and hilariously funny.” The List UK
Penny Arcade presents new work in progress, drawing from three new works Longing Lasts Longer, about love and longing, Old Queen about growing up in the Gay counter-culture and Denial of Death Pt 1 about art, ambition and annihilation.??There will be three short 5 minute screenings including an excerpt from ?The Will and Testament of Quentin Crisp, an excerpt on Jack Smith and Academia and one another not yet chosen.
In 2010 Semiotexte published Bad Reputation, a hardcover book on the work of Penny Arcade focusing on her autobiographical trilogy La Miseria, Bitch! Dyke!Faghag!Whore! and Bad Reputation, with the full scripts of all three performances plays, various essays on her work and an interview with Native Agent editor Chris Kraus.
Bad Reputation the book will be available $20. Penny will be signing books after the performance
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2010/03/15/100315gonb_GOAT_notebook_als
Penny Arcade is a writer, poet and performance and theatre artist whose work has always focused on the other, the outsider in society and what brings us together as humans. La Miseria tackles race, class and homophobia, Bad Reputation deals with the art world and entertainment world’s comodification of the “Bad Girl” while rejecting women it deems dangerous,
Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! is Penny Arcade’s Sex and Censorship show which took on the American Culture War as well as the mainstream’s view of the Aids Crisis giving a radical queer voice to it and turned the then largely PC art world on it’s head by becoming a mainstream commercial hit in 20 cities around the world, spearheading the pro sex feminist backlash and leaving the international neo performance art burlesque scene in it’s wake B!D!F!W! was retired in 1995 after touring for 3 years after an unprecedented year long run in NY ?For a performance art piece, in 1992-1993.?In 2006 B!D!F!W! was presented as the Platinum Feature at LA’s OUT FEST and has been in demand again, performing in New York 2007, San Francisco 2009, and Anchorage, Alaska 2011 and opening for an extended run in London in June 2012.
http://www.out.com/entertainment/theater/2011/04/04/ladies-we-love-penny-arcade

Double Feature Series
2012-03-19 00:00 - 2012-04-08 00:00

Dunes record release
2012-03-17 - 2012-03-18
DUNES
Release party // 11 – Video Screening
Come celebrate the release of “Noctiluca” [PPM] on March 17th 2012.
Featuring Videos By: Lucky Dragons, Cali Thornhill Dewitt, Jesse Spears, Keith Ballard, Elizabeth Skadden, Robert Wolfe, Christopher Ando, Gerardo Reggie Guerrero, Albert Torres Katie Inman, Taylor Michael Rickard
Plus: Dj Cali TD, DJ Michelle Suarez, DJ Wendy Yao

My Barbarian Performance
2012-03-03 00:00

David Getsy Presentation and Discussion w/ Jennifer Doyle
2012-02-27 - 2012-02-28
David Getsy: “Second Skins: Nancy Grossman and the Binding of Genders”
presented within the space of My Barbarian’s “Broke People Baroque People’s Theater.”
In the late 1960s, Nancy Grossman became notorious for making sculptures of heads bound tightly in leather. Often mistaken for depictions of gay male S&M practices, these works sought to convey personal and political frustration. She called them “self-portraits.” Putting these iconic sculptures into the context of her earlier, but largely unrecognized, abstract assemblages made from leather, this talk will examine how Grossman’s work engaged with questions of gender mutability through her use of leather to make new bodies from old skins.
David Getsy’s presentation will be followed up with a seminar-style discussion led by Getsy and Jennifer Doyle.
Join us for this exploration of the overlap and gaps between feminist, gay, and queer art history!
Photos: Nancy Grossman, Ali Stoker, 1966-67; Installation view of Nancy Grossman: Heads at PS1, May 2011

David Dominique Brass Music with Mooey Moobau
2012-02-25 00:00

Jozef von Wissam
2012-02-24 00:00

Wombleton Classical Music Dance Party
2012-02-23 00:00

Rachel Haden
2012-02-19 00:00

Female Trouble - Curated by Dirty Looks NYC
2012-02-16 - 2012-02-17
TOURING NEW YORK FILM SERIES SCREENS GENDERFUCK PROGRAM
IN CHINATOWN GALLERY WITH MANY, SPECIAL GUESTS
FEMALE TROUBLE
Artists Rick Castro, Zackary Drucker and Narcissister in person.
LOS ANGELES, CA: DIRTY LOOKS, a New York-based platform for queer experimental film and video, will screen FEMALE TROUBLE at Human Resources gallery during a month-long residency by arts collective, My Barbarian. FEMALE TROUBLE is a selection of works that explore & explode normative roles of femininity and gender. With pieces that span five decades, these artists queer female subject space via drag tactics, narrative juxtaposition and overt performativity, with approaches ranging from masquerade to mythic, performance document to exposé video zine.
Program:
Conrad Ventur, Mario Montez Screen Test, 2010
Patti Podesta, Stepping, 1981
Steven Arnold, Messages, Messages, 1968
Matthias Müller, Home Stories, 1990
Narcissister, Every Woman, 2010
Zackary Drucker, Fish, 2008
Vaginal Davis, Barbi Twins (excerpt dir. Rick Castro), 1993
With Mario Montez Screen Test, Conrad Ventur resubmits Jack Smith/Warhol Superstar Mario Montez to Warhol’s screen test format some 45 years later. Patti Podesta writes of her video Stepping, “I wanted to make something about risk, about repetition and a sort of lulling into nonsense of a very dangerous situation.” Steven Arnold won the Best New Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Messages, Messages continuing in the tradition of Cocteau and Anger, following its singular protagonist through a psychosexual labyrinth of libidinal delights and genderfuck costumery.
Matthias Müller’s Home Stories culls from classic Hollywood Woman’s Films like Written on the Wind, Madame X and The Birds, re-editing footage shot off the t.v. to examine the finite gestures and the repetitive interplays of genre (and gendered) cinema.
Narcissister’s Every Woman is a performance document in which the artist dresses herself in the slinky feminine attire, which she unspools from every bodily orifice imaginable, all to Chaka Khan’s ubiquitous anthem, of course. A chapter from Vaginal Davis and Rick Castro’s Fertile La Toyah Jackson “Aksionist Video Magazine,” Barbi Twins documents an incongruous sister duo’s Los Angeles exploits and lively recollections in true reportage form.
Z Drucker’s short video, Fish, is a self-described “matrilineage of cunty white woman realness.”
About Dirty Looks:
Dirty Looks is a roaming series held on the last Wednesday of the month. Curated by Bradford Nordeen, Dirty Looks is a screening series designed to trace contemporary queer aesthetics through historical works, presenting quintessential GLBT film and video alongside up-and-coming artists and filmmakers. Filling a gap in the regular programming of Queer experimental work in the New York film community, Dirty Looks receives roughly 65-100 visitors per month. A salon of influences, Dirty Looks is an open platform for inquiry, discussion and debate.
“Deliver us from Daddy! Dirty Looks sets its sights on artist film and video that pierces dominant narratives, wanders with deviant eyes or captures the counter in salacious glares.”
Throughout February, Dirty Looks will embark on a West Coast roadshow, visiting arts institutions like Artists’ Television Access (Feb. 10), The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Feb 12), the Hammer Museum (Feb. 14), Human Resources Gallery (Feb. 16), Grand Detour (Feb. 23) and universities like California College of Arts (Feb 9), Otis College of Art and Design (Feb. 20) and Pacific Northwest College of Art (Feb 21).
About the Human Resources:
Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Human Resources is entirely volunteer run and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts by encouraging maximum community access. Human Resources also serves as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art form
About My Barbarian:
My Barbarian is a Los Angeles based collaborative group consisting of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio makes site-responsive performances and video installations that use theatrical play to draw allegorical narratives out of historical dilemmas, mythical conflicts, and current political crises. In February, the group will install elements of their “Broke Peoples’ Baroque People’s Theater” project in the gallery, including sculptural objects and videos that meditate on poverty and excess. The installation will additionally serve as a site for performances, screenings, and events during the exhibition’s run.
About the artists:
STEVEN ARNOLD was an artist, photographer, filmmaker, muse and model of Salvador Dalí’s, and the center of a Los Angeles circle reminiscent of Warhol’s Factory. His films provide a bridge between the early cross-gender experiments of Claude Cahun and Pierre Molinier and what Gene Youngblood termed the “polymorphous subterranean world of unisexual transvestism,” which he saw as a hallmark of the emerging “synesthetic cinema” of the 1960s. The screening also pays homage to an innovative—yet often overlooked—poet of the Beat Generation, Ruth Weiss, who stars in all the films.
RICK CASTRO is an independent filmmaker & photographer living in Los Angeles. Rick’s work explores the world of fetish and fringes of sex culture. His work has been published in artist editions, exhibitions and institutions worldwide. He is the director of numerous films and videotapes, including Hustler White (co-directed with Bruce La Bruce), Hellion Heatwave, Fertile La Toyah Jackson, and Three Faces of Women.
VAGINAL DAVIS was born and raised in Los Angeles, but now lives in Berlin. She is an accomplished experimental filmmaker, visual artist and writer, who Hilton Als of The New Yorker has called “the poet laureate of Santa Monica Blvd.” She has curated programs for many film festivals including Berlin and Sundance. She teaches performance at Lund University’s Malmö Art Academy (Sweden). She is also the subject of academic elucidation by Jose Muñoz in Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics and Jennifer Doyle in Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire.
ZACKARY DRUCKER is a limp-wristed, switch queen/Los Angeles-based artist. Infusing elements of installation, performance, text, photography, and video, Drucker’s work explores under-recognized aspects of queer history while simultaneously inscribing her own experience and position within it. Drucker reactivates Bruce Rodgers’ The Queens’ Vernacular , documents relationships and secret legacies, and challenges conventions of entertainment and drag performance, as well as existing art-historical representations of queer people. Oscillating between documentary, mythology, and personal narrative, the work is an overall novel exploration of gender as it is constructed, deconstructed, and experienced.
MATTIAS MÜLLER is a German experimental filmmaker and curator, often working in the field of found footage. From 1994 to 1997 he worked as Guest Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany), and from 1998 to 1999 at the Dortmund Fachhochschule. Since 2003 he is Professor for Experimental Film at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany. For his films he has received numerous awards from many international festivals, including the American Federation of Arts Experimental Film Award in 1988, the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1996, the main award at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 1999, the Ken Burns “Best of the Festival“ Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2003, and the German Short Film Prize for Animation in 2006.
NARCISSISTER is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Her formative training took place at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. In addition to performance work, Narcissister does collage, sculpture, video art, and photography. Her studio residencies include The Whitney Museum IS Program, The Woodstock Center for Photography AIR Program, and the Art in General Eastern European Residency Program. Narcissister has also worked extensively as a commercial artist, designing window displays and working as a stylist and art director.
PATTI PODESTA’s career is a continuing investigation of the intersection of art and film. Together with artist Bruce Yonemoto, Ms. Podesta co-founded the video program at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). In the early 90s, she began designing feature films and this has become the focus of her career, the synthesis of her interest in the sculptural and the temporal, in architecture and in color. She has designed for the original and acclaimed film “Memento,” the HBO film “Recount,” “Smart People,” and “Bobby.” Ms. Podesta’s work in film and video has been screened throughout the United States and Europe including the Museum of Modern Art, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the American Film Institute National Video Festival, the Pacific Film Archives and recently at LACMA and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Her work was included in the Getty Museum’s historic “California Video” exhibition and catalogue. Born in Los Angeles, Podesta received a B.A. from Pitzer College and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate School.
CONRAD VENTUR currently lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Goldsmiths College, London (2008) and has recently exhibited at Forever & Today Inc. New York (2009), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2009); P.P.O.W, New York (2009); 1/9 Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2009); Architecture Annual, Bucharest (2008); Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2008); Louis Blouin Institute, London (2008); Invisible-Exports, New York (2008); Ludlow 38, Kunstverein Munchen Goethe Institute, New York (2008); Somerset House, London (2008); and Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden (2008), among other international solo and group exhibitions. In 2004, Ventur launched the contemporary art magazine USELESS.

My Barbarian's Broke People's Baroque People's Theater
2012-02-11 08:00 - 2012-03-11 17:00
“Artistic innovation
Patronized by royal advisors
Wasteful spending
In a time of destruction and war
Gods of Play! 1
Artificial dolphins
Spitting plumes
Of Aqua in fake island fountains
Infrastructure crumbles
As the pleasure palace rises”
– Gods of Play by My Barbarian
Human Resources presents My Barbarian’s Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater, a residency in the form of a gallery installation that includes new videos, sculptures, and a performance environment. The project highlights the paradoxes of an art practice founded in critique, which nonetheless relies on economic forces that are worthy of serious criticism. In this time of spectacle and disparity, excess and poverty, the baroque figures as an ornate frame that contains all of these extremes. My Barbarian performs a variety of styles within this frame; camp drag, baroque opera, communist drama, countercultural performance and world theater all accumulate into a set of narratives that assimilate too much information. Enacting this accumulation, the group developed characters such as “Shakuntala DuBois” and “Cassandra Wasserstein Shakespeare,” masked figures who are trapped within cyclical forces they can foresee but cannot change.
The exhibition includes new works that stretch My Barbarian’s material vocabulary. These include “Tapestries,” or stylized videos projected on cloth surfaces, “Oracles,” which are Junoesque totemic figures that attempt to tell the future, and a large-scale model of a baroque theater, which becomes a context for miniature performances. Theatrical elements, including a series of original masks and dramatic lighting, fill out the colorful environment.
Featuring these and other new works, Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater evolves out of a 2011 performance at the Kitchen, New York and a 2010 workshop and installation at Grand Arts, Kansas City, where the project was initiated as a part of artist Emily Roysdon’s Ecstatic Resistance exhibition. These versions used live interactions to present the absurdities of the American financial crisis as a performance of wastefulness, trashiness and class warfare.
Following the mission of Human Resources, and the notion of excess, My Barbarian’s installation will also serve as a venue for several related screenings, events and performances throughout the residency.
Based in Los Angeles since 2000, My Barbarian has performed and exhibited internationally. Solo exhibitions have included Participant Inc. (NYC), Hammer Museum (LA) and Museo El Eco (Mexico City). Performance sites have included the Kitchen, New Museum, Whitney Museum, (NYC), LACMA, MOCA, REDCAT, (LA), Power Plant, (Toronto), De Appel (Amsterdam), El Matadero (Madrid), Galleria Civica (Trento), Peres Projects (Berlin) and Townhouse Gallery (Cairo). The group was included in Performa 05 and 07, the 2006 and 2008 California Biennials, the 2007 Montreal Biennial, and the 2009 Baltic Triennial, and has appeared in group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, ICA Philadelphia, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, MOCA Miami, Den Haag Sculptuur, Museum Het Domain, CCA Tel Aviv, Anton Kern Gallery in New York, and many others. My Barbarian has received grants from Creative Capital (2012), Art Matters (2008), and the City of LA Cultural Affairs Department (2010). Their work has been discussed in the New Yorker, New York Times, LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, various international newspapers, and in José Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. My Barbarian is Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade.
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1 – Kristiaan P. Aercke, Gods of Play: Baroque Festival Performances as Rhetorical Discourse (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994).

My Barbarian opening performance
2012-02-11 00:00

Symposium PST
2012-01-28 00:00
Dino Dinco
Dorit Cypis
Dawn Kasper
Eve Fowler
AL Steiner
Jennifer Doyle
Matias Viegener?
PM?

Pacific Standard Time
2012-01-27 08:00 - 2012-01-28 17:00
A Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival Event
Commissioned by the Getty and LA><ART
FRIDAY, January 27th
8-10pm
OPENING NIGHT / LIVE PERFORMANCES
Sheree Rose begins at 8pm (durational all night main space)
Raquel Gutierrez and Jeanne Cordova 8:15pm (main space)
Oscar Santos (w/ Alex Black, Samuel Vasquez, Karen Centerfold, Alice Cunt, Paloma Parfrey, Rafael Esparza, Allen Bleyle, Larissa James / Organizer: Oscar Santos / Psychic Director: Asher) 8:45pm (backroom storage space)
Tyler Matthew Oyer 9pm (main space)
Larissa Brantner James 9:30pm (main space)
Chiara Giovando 9:45pm (main space)
TJO 10pm (main space)
HUMAN RESOURCES UPSTAIRS GALLERY PRESENTS …
MEETINGS
a collaboratively curated exhibition
with works by …
Karen Lofgren, Laurel Frank, Molly Larkey, Larissa Brantner James, Dylan Mira, Juliana Paciulli, Fette Sans, Mariah Garnett, Kate Hoffman, Alison Zukovsky and Marija Gaies
SATURDAY, January, 28th
2:30-5pm “casual” artist talk ‘discussions on performance and politics and so much more’
Dino Dinco, Dorit Cypis, Dawn Kasper, Jennifer Doyle, A.L. Steiner, Megan Hoetger, Eve Fowler
Project information at:
reset0000.com

live performances PST
2012-01-27 00:00
TJO Chiara Giovando
Oscar Santos
Larissa Brantner James
Tyler Oyer
Raquel and Jean
Susan Silton?
Zachary Drucker?
Asher Hartman?

Church- A collaborative performance and installation
2012-01-26 - 2012-01-27 | Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
The following performance and installation were held on January 26, 2012 at Human Resources Los Angeles – HRLA
Participants: Rafa Esparza, Oscar Miguel Santos, Alex Black, Tamala Poljak, Allen Bleyle, Larissa James, Paloma Parfrey, Alice Cunt
Installation: Rafa Esparza, Alice Cunt, Oscar Miguel Santos, Jeffzilla
Organized by Oscar Miguel Santos
Psychic Director: Asher
Documentation: Donovan Vim Crony
“The performance will be losely based on the structure of a catholic
mass: an entrance procession, a priest, music, other speakers, an exit
procession.
The idea is to create an experience that is a new church for
freaks, punks, and queers. ”
Oscar Miguel Santos
January 2012
Procession- Rafa Esparza
Entrance- Rafa Esparza & The Church Band (Alex Black, Allen Bleyle, Tamala Poljak, Oscar Miguel Santos)
Sermon- Paloma Parfrey, Alice Cunt & The Church Band (Alex Black, Allen Bleyle, Larissa James, Tamala Poljak, Oscar Miguel Santos)
Exit- Alice Cunt & The Church Band (Alex Black, Allen Bleyle, Larissa James, Tamala Poljak, Oscar Miguel Santos)
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The performance was part of ‘HR IN JAN’ a performance series organized by Dawn Kasper and Carole Ann Klonarides that was commissioned by The Getty and LAXART as part of Pacific Standard Time.

Jennifer Doyle workshop
2012-01-22 00:00
