BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Human Resources - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.h-r.la X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Human Resources REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231218T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231218T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20231212T214136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005625Z UID:7827-1702927800-1702933200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure  DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources present So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure  \n\n\n\nWith guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) \n\n\n\nDue to popular demand\, LA Filmforum and HRLA reprise the screening/lecture focussed on Palestinian films. \n\n\n\nPlease provide proof of donation to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medical Aid for Palestinians for admission to the show. No additional ticket charge. No additional ticket charge is necessary but reserving tickets is encouraged. \n\n\n\nMasks are highly recommended at Filmforum shows – N95 or KN95. \n\n\n\nAs we witness firsthand the abundance of power structures attempting to silence Palestinian voices\, erasing and fabricating historical and current events\, this screening and lecture/performance contextualizes the settler-colonial project’s tactics of erasure. Hundreds of 16mm documentaries were made by the Palestine Film Unit and solidarity networks to portray the Palestinian struggle after the 1967 war. A large portion of those films were confiscated during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982\, making it virtually impossible to see and hear these stories. It is only through acts of solidarity and Palestinian resilience\, exemplified by the organization Tokyo Reels\, that we are able to access some of the films featured in this program\, while many others remain locked in Israeli vaults\,  accessible only to vetted Israeli citizens. \n\n\n\nThis space of collective self-reflection will go beyond uplifting Palestinian voices. Borrowing its title from Mona Hatoum’s video art piece So Much I Want To Say\, this program recounts a timeline of refusals by artists and collectives to remain silent\, instead utilizing their tools to contribute to Palestinian narratives.  \n\n\n\nZaina Bseiso is a film director\, producer\, and curator working primarily in documentary and experimental cinema. Her work explores the relationship between the materialities of place and issues of memory\, surveillance\, corporeality\, and nationalism. She received her master’s degree in film and video from the California Institute of the Arts. Bseiso is based in Los Angeles and was raised in Egypt by Palestinian parents. Her practice mainly traverses Egypt\, Palestine\, Cuba\, Mexico\, and the US. She is co-founder of Bahía Colectiva\, a community of filmmakers that collaborate in practice and curation. \n\n\n\nBahaleen Collective: Today\, we are Aya Bseiso\, Khalid Odeh\, and Noura Salem. We are a group of friends\, sometimes colleagues\, and often collaborators who are Palestinian artists\, architects\, surveyors\, calligraphers\, and researchers based in Jordan. Together\, we are Bahaleen\, a research group dedicated to exploring the emancipatory potentials of arts practice through a constellation of acts\, projects\, and productions. We aim to unearth and investigate the socio-political histories and colonized infrastructures of the region through a methodology and practice that offer new ways to experiment and activate research and knowledge production with a larger public. \n\n\n\nFor the past three years\, Bahaleen has been engaged in several multi-year independent research projects that circle around notions of temporality\, crossing borders\, and impermanent-permanent infrastructures. Through a series of roaming artist residencies\, we search for\, name\, and subvert narratives around water bodies\, oil and gas pipelines\, tourist projects\, nature reserves\, privatized property\, and the commons through the practice of creating databases of projects\, laws\, and political agreements that have colonized\, commercialized\, privatized\, and militarized our soil. All the while\, looking at the performance of politics on sites of extractive economies. Our research methodologies are driven by an artistic process that utilizes participatory research frameworks\, fieldwork\, desk research\, and documentation while experimenting with and pushing traditional research practices forward\, with the aim of treating the research process as a generative space of production in and around art and academic institutions. \n\n\n\nOur work as Bahaleen—during war and ethnic cleansing—continues\, and it must. We have come to understand the necessity of our research\, always seeking Palestine. We remain captivated by the viscosity of oil and the flow of water\, their movement and disruption as they permeate and carve through our geography\, transcending their chemical properties. At this moment\, our body of research scrutinizing the settler-colonial infrastructures of oil and water and interpreting their movement to chart their cultural\, geopolitical\, and environmental significance has become a mapping of the infrastructures that feed a genocidal war machine. We find ourselves asking over and over again—what if—as we witness the potential and possibilities of their disruption. \n\n\n\nTo that end\, and to keep this short\, currently\, we are working on mapping these infrastructures\, towards an article that narrates our research and the conversations we have experienced and facilitated. Alongside allies in London\, we are working towards a global campaign calling for the disruption of oil and gas flow to Europe specifically looking at Algeria\, Iraq and Libya. Additionally\, we are indexing dams in our region\, mapping the flow of water around us\, identifying the political agreements that govern them\, their environmental impact\, and specifically tracing the involvement of the occupying state of Israel. \n\n\n\n———————- \n\n\n\nLos Angeles Filmforum is the city’s longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film and video art\, documentaries\, and experimental animation.  \n\n\n\nThis program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission\, the Department of Cultural Affairs\, City of Los Angeles\, and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.  \n\n\n\nFor questions contact lafilmforum@gmail.com. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/so-much-i-want-to-say-a-glimpse-into-palestinian-erasure-2/ CATEGORIES:screening,seminar/workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20231207T221945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005548Z UID:7815-1705086000-1705266000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Arnold J. Kemp: 3 Plays DESCRIPTION:All photos from Kemp’s 2017 performance of Aug-Sept 2017 at Biqiini Wax EPS.\n\n\n\nAll photos from Kemp’s 2017 performance of Aug-Sept 2017 at Biqiini Wax EPS.\n\n\n\nAll photos from Kemp’s 2017 performance of Aug-Sept 2017 at Biqiini Wax EPS.\n\n\n\n\nTickets are free of charge. Reserve a spot by clicking on the appropriate link: Friday\, January 12th / Saturday\, January 13th / Sunday\, January 14th \n\n\n\nA three night survey of plays\, written and directed by Arnold J. Kemp. \n\n\n\nFeaturing an all star cast including: Carolyn Castaño\, Laura Heyman\, Chelsea Gaspard\, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas\, Anna Sew Hoy\, John Birtle\, Anna Betbeze\, Evan Jourden\, Dan Wang\, Amy Chiao\, Julie Tolentino\, Nathaniel Whitfield\, Izzi Rojas\, Nikki Darling\, Wesleigh Gates\, Sophia Cleary\, Munro Galloway\, Wes Larios\, John Tain\, Vardui Sharapkhanyan\, and more. \n\n\n\nArnold J. Kemp is an artist and writer who constructs performative social sculpture that reveals language as a material of who we could be. Kemp’s attention to language — as play\, as performance\, as poetry\, as politics — challenges expectations of theater\, plot narrative\, and social critique. \n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Poets Theater\, a term that applies to plays written by poets and artists and staged informally in the midst of an arts community\, Kemp’s plays have a makeshift\, let’s-do-the-show-right-here aesthetic. There’s a wildness to them that makes one feel like almost anything can happen including rediscovered family members\, insane coincidences\, incest\, abjection\, celebrity\, and wicked glee. \n\n\n\nKemp’s plays unfold in a world of damage that brings people together and mixes the local community with characters across time and space. One of his plays\, February 14\, was written at ACRE Residency where Kemp was a visiting artist. The residents did a staged reading there. Then the play was translated into Spanish and presented as part of a show of Kemp’s work (Aug-Sept 2017) at Biqiini Wax EPS\, a space in Mexico City run by radicals: artists\, philosophers and economists. Kemp met the actors two hours before the performance\, which is par for the course for Poet’s Theater. He borrowed the title of his show\, When the Sick Rule the World\, from Dodie Bellamy’s book of the same name. The bed-sculpture-stage on which the play was performed — a replica of the bed of an artist Kemp used to work for — remained part of the exhibit. \n\n\n\nKemp’s dramatis personae mix real and invented persons\, putting pressure on the permeability of fiction and—what?–reality? Kemp demonstrates that both are true and both are inventions. He further complicates this proposition by having some of the “real” people played by themselves and some not. \n\n\n\nAlong with February 14\, Kemp will present an earlier play IN ARMS\, and will premiere The Otherists\, which takes on the not so delicate negotiation between the rational and the dying. The trio provides a good answer to the question about the consequence of art posed by one of Kemp’s characters\, the fictional art star Lilliana Bautista: “We all talked about distance\, but that distance is what separated being in an illustrated reality from being in a reality that could kill you\, or could hurt you\, or can please you. So how do we make a virtual space that is consequential?” \n\n\n\nArnold J. Kemp has mounted solos show recently at Joan\, Los Angeles; The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago; M. LeBlanc\, Chicago; and Martos Gallery\, New York. He has also been in recent groups shows at the Drawing Center\, NY\, NY. His writing has appeared in Callaloo\, Three Rivers Poetry Journal\, Agni Review\, MIRAGE #4 Period(ical)\, River Styx\, Nocturnes\, Art Journal\, Tripwire and in From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice. Kemp’s critical writing has appeared recently in Texte zur Kunst\, October and Spike Art Magazine. He is the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Joan Mitchell Foundation\, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2020 he received The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Kemp lives and works in Chicago\, Illinois. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/arnold-j-kemp-3-plays/ CATEGORIES:performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Biquini_Wax_Arnold_Kemp-14-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240119T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240204T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240108T211621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164052Z UID:7876-1705622400-1707091199@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Minor Gaps Between DESCRIPTION:Gallery hours: 12 – 6pmOpening: Saturday\, January 20\, 6 – 9pm \n\n\n\nfeaturing work by:0ll668Derek HolguinJiayun ChenRodolfo Sousa \n\n\n\nMinor Gaps Between is the result of several conversations about the arcane and mystical. The title of the exhibition describes the vacuous space between the beginning and end of the void\, where the inexplicable intrusion of primordial impulses and revelations hide\, and where human logic cannot reach. The artists explored themes central to their practice\, ranging from the relationship between prophecy and coincidence\, the past and the future\, and the nebulous boundary between reality and fiction. In the void\, there are no correct questions or perfect beings; only nothingness exists. \n\n\n\nClick here to read a curatorial text by Nahui Garcia. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/minor-gaps-between/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MGB_DAY1-A-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240211T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240124T192511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005540Z UID:7890-1707436800-1707695999@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Jules Garder and Nat Decker: Posturing Collapse DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 9th\, 6pm – 10pmPerformances: 8pm – 10pmFeaturing: Jules Chimes Gårder and Nat Decker\, Star Feliz and Cielo Saucedo\, thai Lu\, Life Em Stebbins and Jazmin Romero \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Saturday\, February 10th and Sunday\, February 11th\,  12 – 6 pm \n\n\n\nFree admission; donations will be split between Sensi Skins and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Masks are required for the evening of performances to protect our immunocompromised community members. Free masks will be provided. HR is physically accessible with a small ramped entrance and ADA compliant bathroom. The event will be live-streamed. Auto captions will be provided in the space and on the live-stream. A visual description of the installation will be available during open hours. Please reach out to jules.c.garder@gmail.com for additional access requests.   \n\n\n\nPosturing Collapse is a two-person exhibition featuring works by Jules Chimes Gårder and Nat Decker. The duo will present a collaborative performance and installation of sculpture and video which measures the intersections (and differences) of their histories with grief\, disability\, and sexuality. The opening will include performances by Star Feliz and Cielo Saucedo\, thai Lu\, Life Em Stebbins\, and Jazmin Romero. \n\n\n\nJules Chimes Gårder is obsessed with their dead mom. Nat Decker is a fall risk toting the weight of abjection. Together they collapse and defy gravity in moments of recognition. Tendrils reach for stable ground\, exploring the spaciousness of absence. They count distances from shock\, perpetually reconstituting themselves. They crawl on uneven terrain\, defining new functional heights. They rest still\, knowing they are changing. Pressure delivers resistance. \n\n\n\nNat Decker (they/them) is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist interpreting the intimacies of queer and disabled experience as provocation toward collective care and liberation. Bridging digital and physical mediums\, they leverage technology as a form of access\, seeking the integration of values into tools and processes. With Cielo Saucedo and Olivia Dreisinger\, Nat is building Cripping_CG – a community archive researching and documenting the intersection of disability culture and computer graphics. Nat is also an access worker\, consulting on accessibility for various arts organizations. They were a 2023 Processing Foundation Fellow and are a current member of NEW INC. In June 2022 they graduated from UCLA with a degree in Design/Media Arts and Disability Studies. \n\n\n\nJules Chimes Gårder (b.1987) (they/she) is a Los Angeles based artist indebted to the patterns of demise and reconstruction that are prompted by loss and grief. They primarily create sculptures and videos. Much of their work engages longitudinal experiences of mourning through collaborations with their mother Eva Chimes (posthumously). They will soon hold a BA in Art from UCLA. \n\n\n\nCielo Saucedo is an access worker and artist based in Los Angeles. Their work focuses on the dispersal of ableism through cultural economies. They work to dissolve the curative aspirations of technology. Their work encompasses computer generated imagery\, sculpture and virtual reality. They received their BFA from School of the Art Institute\, Chicago\, and are currently an MFA candidate at UCLA.  \n\n\n\nStar Feliz is a Dominican-American installation artist originally from New York\, NY currently based in Los Angeles\, CA. Building upon their ancestral Afro-Taino lineage of multi-dimensional healing — Feliz employs sound\, sculpture\, film\, earthworks\, and techniques of concealment\, language\, and mapping to transverse the psychic legacy of everyday resistance and world-making. Under the moniker of Priests they create experimental devotional music. They have exhibited\, performed\, and presented commissions nationally and internationally. \n\n\n\nthai Lu is a transdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and community organizer centering their practice on the social\, cultural\, and physical effects of chronic illness. As a chronically ill\, disabled\, neurodivergent\, and gender-divergent first generation American from a family of Vietnamese refugees\, thai works at the intersections of Western bio-politics\, Southeast Asian diaspora\, post-war intergenerational suffering\, relational ecologies of interdependence\, and the concept of metamorphosis. \n\n\n\nLife Em Stebbins is a poet and geologist living in Humboldt County\, California. As a graduate student at Cal Poly Humboldt\, Life studies mud to reconstruct glaciation history and paleoclimate patterns in the Klamath Mountains. Her poems focus on dry earth\, wet dirt\, and the sacrament of mud. Life reads poems across the country and digs holes throughout the Intermountain West.Jazmin Romero is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Los Angeles\, CA. Her work explores memory\, family\, migration\, and labor through performance\, sound\, music and visual art. Romero’s work is interested in understanding patterns of dispossession and displacement in her personal and familial history. Through experimental modes of storytelling\, she shares her experiences in performances\, video\, and sculptural installations that center her resilient origins and create space for personal and collective meditation. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/posturing-collapse/ CATEGORIES:exhibition,performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/banner_1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240210T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240105T153117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T153119Z UID:7866-1707523200-1708819199@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Reading The Right to Maim DESCRIPTION:HRLA is hosting a two-part seminar dedicated to reading Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability (2017). The Right to Maim\, which argues that debilitation is a defining feature of settler colonialism\, culminates in a devastating analysis of the production of Palestine as “available for injury.” This seminar is an artist-centered reading group and\, like other HRLA seminars\, is intended to support collective reading and thinking. (People who are neither artists nor art workers but keen to be in community with us are welcome.) Meetings will be held online on February 10 and February 24 at 11am\, and will be led by Jennifer Doyle. People who register for the seminar will get a reading guide (as we’ll focus on specific parts of the book) and links to background reading and videos. Our sessions will open with an overview and some grounded talking points that lead to conversation within smaller groups. The sessions will end with everyone coming back together for a group discussion. Register for our seminar here. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/reading-the-right-to-maim/ CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_7801-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240203T214347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005527Z UID:7900-1707766200-1707771600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:WHAT ARE WORDS FOR? DESCRIPTION:Join HRLA for a panel and conversation about statements and solidarity. (RESCHEDULED from 2/6) \n\n\n\n\n\nEndorsements of PACBI\, calls for ceasefire\, individual expressions of solidarity — what do different kinds of statements do? What does it mean to dismiss a statement as performative? If words count for so little\, why is so much effort spent on controlling who can say what and where? \n\n\n\nThis panel will feature people who have participated in statement writing and experienced the ripple effects created by expressions of solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation. This is a chance for us to connect and support each other as we take up the Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott and confront efforts to limit\, contain and dismantle solidarity work. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/what-are-words-for/ CATEGORIES:forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-03-at-8.35.52 AM-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240218T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240125T173401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005456Z UID:7895-1708041600-1708300799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Meejin Hong: Deluge DESCRIPTION:Still from Deluge by Meejin Hong\n\n\n\n\na screening and art show with Meejin Hong opening Friday\, February 16th\, 5 – 8pmGallery hours: Saturday\, February 17th and Sunday\, February 18th\, 12 – 6pm \n\n\n\nMeejin Hong is an experimental animator deeply rooted in the fine arts. She thrives off of a stream of conscious brainstorming that propels her into the fantastic\, more primitive side of creation. In her film Deluge (2024)\, she utilizes straight ahead animation to create an ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed\, reshaped\, and obliterated\, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered\, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind. Hong was born in Spartanburg\, SC and currently resides with a creep of tortoises and other unruly creatures in Winnetka\, CA.  \n\n\n\nDeluge (2024) by Meejin Hong is an animation constructed from ink and 24 frames. 24 drawings\, photographed\, added to\, re-photographed repeat\, repeat\, repeat. This cycle of drawing and photographing is repeated by Hong until she reaches complete darkness. Created out of thin black ink lines sprouting and erupting\, constantly protruding and reproducing themselves. A fun-fair takes form\, a parade of ghosts and whimsy. A stream of ground and bacterial swamp matter choreographed by Hong’s cunning use of movement\, humor and transformation.  \n\n\n\nTricky twirls and balancing acts\, a sinister hand encouraging us to come inside. An interior that grows deeper and further introverted. Micro organisms become increasingly clearer and in focus\, each with their own schema\, until consumed by itself or another matter. With each cycle of 24 frames the tricks and transgressions grow more delusional\, intricately interwoven birthing new specimens and offspring. Constantly re-producing\, overlapping\, and developing until all we are left with is deep darkness\, a very pure black.  \n\n\n\nMeejin Hong’s latest animation leaves us in a void and that seems on the mark. Deluge can be read as a cross section of our own human condition with each layer wrecking havoc\, elegantly causing chaos and catastrophe. From the bodily organisms\, the body politic and the mass that is this earth.  \n\n\n\ntext by Olivia Taussig URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/meejin-hong-deluge/ CATEGORIES:exhibition,screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Deluge_frame7411.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T203000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240208T024749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005759Z UID:7932-1708547400-1708547400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:untitled|unknown (featuring mattie barbier\, Ensemble Adapter\, Davíð Brynjar Franzson) DESCRIPTION:untitled|unknown \n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 21st\, 8:30pm \n\n\n\nFree Admission \n\n\n\nhttps://ensemble-adapter.de/ \n\n\n\nhttps://mattiebarbier.com/ \n\n\n\nhttp://franzson.com/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpecifically tailored to the architecture of Human Resources\, untitled|unknown is a collaborative project initiated by L.A.-based Icelandic composer Davíð Brynjar Franzson\, performed by Ensemble Adapter (Iceland/Germany) and mattie barbier (LA). \n\n\n\nAdapted to the resonant frequencies of the room\, untitled|unknown creates a slowly undulating mass of sound forms by utilizing subwoofers\, the natural resonances of the building\, and the feedback produced by modifying the instruments the performers play. The audience can position themselves freely anywhere in the space\, come and go and move around as desired. \n\n\n\n––– \n\n\n\nuntitled|unknown is based on the feedback responses of human resources. \n\n\n\nThe space is a coupled resonant body\, a type of a structure whose resonant features cannot be mathematically described\, only sounded out. \n\n\n\nThis is a presentation of an extremely site-specific work\, a work very much always in progress\, an open rehearsal\, a preview of what might be\, of what might become. \n\n\n\nThree performers are positioned in the middle of the space\, forming a triangle\, facing away from each other. \n\n\n\nBehind them is a set of speakers\, in front of them their instruments. \n\n\n\nAn undulating mass of sound forms\, almost as if an extremely dense and heavy object is sitting at the center of the space.Against this dense sound–entity\, low pulsating bass tones emerge\, split apart and form a scaffolding against which to sense the flow of time.The piece is an active exploration of the sound of a room\, the sounds of the instruments\, and the compositional space that is woven against and between the two. \n\n\n\nThe piece explores the interaction between the standing frequencies of the space and the resonant frequencies of the instruments via an intertwined feedback mechanism. \n\n\n\nThe performers use augmented versions of their instruments to produce and control internal and external feedback via traditional and nontraditional performance methods\, exploring the instruments as physical objects with their own resonant capabilities. \n\n\n\nThe continuous shifting of connections and shaping of possibilities turns the space into a dynamic score that the performers explore. The experience is partially pre-composed\, partially being created in real-time. \n\n\n\nThe sound emerges from the interplay of the instruments and the space\, effectively converting the space into a collaborative instrument. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/untitledunknown-featuring-mattie-barbier-ensemble-adapter-david-brynjar-franzson/ CATEGORIES:music/sound ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T233000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240203T230943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164356Z UID:7908-1708714800-1708731000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:para by para DESCRIPTION:para by para \n\n\n\npara by para is a (hyper)active listening party featuring performances by sound artists Slow Rose and jeremy +/ kennedy\, under her new moniker D.J. Again. para by para tiptoes the edge of the event horizon\, taking an expansive approach to composition\, with instrumentation that encompasses sound\, movement\, immersive/multichannel video\, and you. \n\n\n\nPull up a chair. \n\n\n\nFriday February 23rdHuman Resources \n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm8pm Performances \n\n\n\nPerformances  \n\n\n\nSlow RoseFour Fours (Work in Progress)  \n\n\n\nFour Fours is a collaborative composition with four video scores for four performers. Each score consists of imagery that one member of Slow Rose has collected for another member—leading or misleading the other in visual rhythms\, color\, and abstraction while continuing to actively listen and respond to the group in their ongoing improvisational practice. The audience is invited to view\, listen\, and explore space + time along with the performers. \n\n\n\n jeremy +/ kennedy \n\n\n\n2024 Mixes 4 2004 DJs by D.J. Again  \n\n\n\nAfter a 20 year hiatus\, LA-based artist Jeremy Kennedy marks her return to the hazardous electronic playground of outbound\, beat-driven sound under the telling new moniker\, D.J. Again. Though the tag quickly suggests many narratives threatening to create their own feedback loops\, Kennedy embraces them\, allowing the D.J. Again production style to empty out the escapism at the range that you want both in reflection and present tense with a designer lo-fi aesthetic that only the moaning highlights of a half-broken\, semi-affordable PA system could muse upon.  \n\n\n\nFor para by para\, she will be presenting a blend of newly constructed tracks combined with essential sips of unreleased material from the artist’s ghost-of-EDM-past as a disjunctive two-channel composition where sound meets event-specific projection\, in collaboration with John Dawson and Alee Peoples. \n\n\n\nMore than leftfield leftovers\, this curated collection captures the heavily-syncopated post-trap drum lines and computer noise of the existing genre\, with a harder brutalist push toward the future soundsystem. A self-designed remix of identity. \n\n\n\n△  \n\n\n\npara by para is curated by Emji Saint Spero. \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nBios \n\n\n\nSlow Rose is Chris Nowak\, James Aranda\, Paul Carter\, and Pauline Lay. They perform on bass\, guitar\, drums\, and violin–varying between structured and unstructured moments\, often durational and exploratory. \n\n\n\nIg @slooowrose @paulinelay @crisp_r @jac.aranda.blue @whereisthey \n\n\n\nJeremy Kennedy (b. 01.01.1980) has been creating and exhibiting art and ideas in community and academic settings since the mid-1990s. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2009\, the largely self-taught artist spent over a decade living and working in Bloomington\, Indiana. Her pieces and projects have been featured in publications and journals internationally\, and in galleries\, streets\, backyards\, and basements across the U.S.  \n\n\n\nHer practice as an active sound-maker (i.e.: composer\, performer\, producer of designed(?) sound)\, both informs and is informed in equal relation to the other aspects of her art. Behind these scenes\, she is the remaining member / now operator of the fairweather micro-label\, The Fuck Me Stupid Mountain Princess Recording Collective (FMSMPRC).  \n\n\n\nAs co-founder\, playwright\, and reluctant performer with P/Sicho Street Theater Company\, she produces collaborative radio/audio theatre productions and site-specific works for stage & salon. She can be found in print as the author of A Gamble in this Dress\, Free Flyer (Volume One)\, NOTE TO SEA\, was a contributing essayist/editor of Cry List\, and is a founding editor of the artbook/poetry imprint Rebel Hands Press. Her new book\, Mandatory Administrative Leave is forthcoming Spring 2024 from Make Now Books. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/para-by-para/ CATEGORIES:music/sound ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fake-massage-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T020000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240220T151034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164340Z UID:7963-1708804800-1708826400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Seven Channel Aura DESCRIPTION:Human Resources Los Angeles presents Seven Channel Aura\, a night of music by Beli and Friends.  \n\n\n\nLive sets by Clarion and Angel Meat.  \n\n\n\nDJ sets by Stealth Angel\, Jonny Mystery\, and Allangelsonline (beli)  \n\n\n\nlive is back. Piercing and atmospheric sounds by our gifted friends xx at @humanresourcesla \n\n\n\n8 p.m. until 2 a.m.  \n\n\n\n$10 entry fee  \n\n\n\nNo one will be turned away for lack of funds  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/seven-channel-aura/ CATEGORIES:music/sound ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/7ca-020524-copy-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T220000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240203T232754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005433Z UID:7911-1708977600-1708984800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:First Draft DESCRIPTION:First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists at all stages of their creative development. This round’s artists include Emma Alley\, Wesleigh Gates\, Kirsten Michelle Schnittker\, and Kevin Wong + Mariia Bakalo. \n\n\n\nTickets are $5 – $20 (sliding scale). Click here to purchase. \n\n\n\nFirst Draft was instigated and is curated by Emily Barasch. As an interdisciplinary artist and scholar Emily works across mediums of dance\, performance\, film\, and text. Emily believes that the ways our physical bodies move through the world are reflections of our past encounters and rehearsals for our future encounters. When we perform in dance\, theater\, and film our past\, present\, and future selves conjure and converge into one another. Emily believes the heightened frame and ephemeral container of performance allows us to experiment with alternate ways of being in the world\, attempting to access alternate possibilities that are not able to be expressed in dominant notions of time\, space\, and identity. Performance making for her is an attempt to rehearse these future possibilities in real time and space. Emily is honored to continue curating First Draft\, she feels passionately about bringing local Los Angeles experimental performance artists together and creating more spaces for connection\, experimentation\, and exchange! URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/first-draft-2/ CATEGORIES:performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/myths-carousel-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T203000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240203T233909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005427Z UID:7914-1709060400-1709065800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:BEING WORK Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Book cover design by Gil Omry-Barel.\n\n\n\nIllustration from Being Work by Eileen Wolf Echikson.\n\n\n\n\nwith Dorothy Dubrule\, Jessica Emmanuel and Mireya Lucio\, moderated by Ajani Brannum \n\n\n\nBeing Work is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists\, edited by Dorothy Dubrule and published by Insert Press\, which offers access to varied experiences of performing in live exhibitions. The authors capture a spectrum of mundane and profound moments that arise within performance gig work in visual arts contexts such as museums\, galleries\, and art fairs\, detailing the day-to-day practice of inhabiting art work as well as reflecting on broader questions of how they got there and the impact it has had on their outside lives. While providing very personal\, human perspectives on what it feels like to perform in visual arts spaces\, Being Work asks its audience how a performer’s labor is perceived and valued in these spaces\, and what new possibilities might unfurl within the\, at times fraught\, coexistence of the two mediums. In celebration of the launch of the book\, Dubrule and fellow contributing authors Jessica Emmanuel and Mireya Lucio will read excerpts from their essays\, and\, in a community conversation moderated by Ajani Brannum\, co-envision an expansive future for performance labor in galleries\, museums\, and art fairs.  \n\n\n\nDorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles. Her choreography is often made in collaboration with people who do not identify as dancers and has been performed in theaters as well as bars\, clubs\, galleries\, sound stages and sports arenas. The content of her choreography draws inspiration from film and community theater. Prior to moving to LA\, she danced with DIY performance art collective Club Lyfestile and comedic fly girl crew Body Dreamz in Philadelphia. She has worked with visual artists\, musicians\, comedians\, choreographers and directors such as Emily Mast\, Jon Daly\, Kate Watson-Wallace\, Lea Anderson\, Lisel\, Melinda Ring\, Milka Djordjevich\, Narcissister\, Tino Sehgal\, Trulee Hall and Zoe Aja Moore\, among others. \n\n\n\nDorothy was the Executive Director of Pieter Performance Space\, a non-profit platform for movement artists\, healers and activists based in LA from 2017 to 2022. From arts non-profit leadership she transitioned to organizational operations with a focus on the care and resourcing of humans in the workplace. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/being-work/ CATEGORIES:reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mireya-Lucio.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T233000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240214T161240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164320Z UID:7944-1709148600-1709163000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Black Revivalist & HRLA Presents: Chocolate Babies + Days of Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Original flier for Chocolate Babies\, dir. Stephen Winter.\n\n\n\nStill from Chocolate Babies\, dir. Stephen Winter.\n\n\n\n\nIn commemoration of Black History Month\, Black Revivalist and Human Resources Los Angeles are proud to present a night of ‘90s underground black queer cinema. This double-header features Stephen Winter’s Chocolate Babies (1996) and Lawrence Elbert’s Days of Pentecost (1995). DJ NAYGOD/@naygod\, of Supernatural/@supernaturaldisco\, will be spinning music throughout the evening. \n\n\n\nChocolate Babies follows an anarchist group of HIV-positive trans and queer activists as they pursue a series of surprise attacks on local New York officials in attempts to expose political corruption surrounding the AIDS epidemic. \n\n\n\nDays of Pentecost follows a trio of LA-based drag go-go dancers as they skip town after a hostile incident during one of their performances in West Hollywood. The film is loosely inspired by Russ Meyer’s 1965 film Faster\, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7:30 p.m.\, screening begins at 8 p.m.\, Chocolate Babies\, 83 mins. Days of Pentecost\, 68 mins. \n\n\n\nFree admission. Drinks will be available for purchase or BYOB. \n\n\n\nThanks to Matthew Wong of Frameline for providing the restoration of Chocolate Babies for this event. Thanks to Lawrence Elbert for giving us permission to screen Days of Pentecost. Program curated by Camm Harrison. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/black-revivalist-hrla-presents-chocolate-babies-days-of-pentecost/ CATEGORIES:screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/OLD-CHOCOLATE-BABIES-POSTER.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240303T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240303T170000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240220T005712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005415Z UID:7951-1709478000-1709485200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Words for Falastin: fundraiser for Rafah DESCRIPTION:With hearts broken and malleable grief we invite you to gather with us as we speak prayers\, songs\, offerings for the liberation of the land of Palestine. As we tend to this fire and keep the underground waterway open and wide. All funds gathered at this event will be sent directly to our friends and kin in Rafah. No one turned away for lack of funds.  \n\n\n\nPurchase tickets here! \n\n\n\nDonations also accepted at the door (paypal or cash) \n\n\n\nDoors open at 2:30pm \n\n\n\nHaneen Sabbah Sara AbusheikhDef SoundIsaac Michael Ybarrameital yaniv \n\n\n\nPhoto by Haneen Sabbah from a recent gathering for Gaza.  \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nHaneen Sabbah Palestinian peace activist from Gaza\, writer\, organiser. \n\n\n\n@haneen.sabbah \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nhi! i’m sara abusheikh\, a palestinian based in los angeles. i built my life around garments: the making and altering of them. that’s how i make myself known to (or hide from) most people. but i have a second passion: i am obsessed by trauma and its consequences — both individual and collective. really\, i always have been. but\, in 2014\, i survived a violent crime and a subsequent years-long journey of bargaining with (and being further traumatized by) america’s legal systems. the experience broke and then formed my world view. it led me to create a short-lived podcast on which i interviewed other survivors of sexual violence\, and is the subject of a book i’m writing called\, you’re supposed to scream fire. the book has been eight years in the making. i only hope it doesn’t take ten. \n\n\n\nmy work can be found at www.sara-abusheikh.com or at my instagram\, @sara.abusheikh \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nDef Sound (pronouns they/them/he/hims) is an Afro-Caribbean transdisciplinary artist born and based in South Central LA. Def is a postbinary Grammy Award-considered contemporary hip-hop artist\, producer\, poet\, and award-winning academic. Def is Grammy nominated for their work as a producer on aja monet’s debut album ‘when the poems do what they do’. \n\n\n\nDef’s work as a poet has been included in Saul Williams’ Anthology CHORUS\, while their music has been featured in LA WEEKLY\, LA Record\, The L.A. Times\, The Frieze Art Fair\, the Emmy Nominated Television series Music Diaries\, and the Emmy winning Artbound on KCET. Def is currently teaching Hip Hop/Black Critical Theory at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). \n\n\n\nIG: @def.sound \n\n\n\nWebsite https://defsoundla.com/ \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nIsaac Michael Ybarra\, a visual artist and storyteller\, is Tongva\, Chumash\, and Xicano. Grounded in his ancestral cultivation\, he utilizes film\, photography\, and poetry to amplify decolonization narratives and reclaim Indigenous pedagogies. Through his art\, Isaac seeks to challenge the dominance of the human experience and instead honors the interconnectedness of all beings. He embraces the values of Indigenous Futurism to retell the past and present\, envisioning a future guided by his community’s stories\, visions\, and desires. \n\n\n\n@ooxono_paar \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nmeital yaniv (b. 1984\, Tel-Aviv\, israel) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words\, with moving and still images\, with threads\, with bodies in front of bodies\, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters\, birdsongs\, caretakers\, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak\, Tongva-Kizh Nation\, Luiseño-Payómkawichum\, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga’yam. \n\n\n\nyaniv is the author of bloodlines. Theymakeofferings through true name collective. \n\n\n\nIG: @bloodlines_book URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/words-for-falastin-fundraiser-for-rafah/ CATEGORIES:fundraiser,reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Image.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240309T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240323T170000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240305T193756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005405Z UID:7995-1709992800-1711213200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Springing Studies DESCRIPTION:Springing Studies is the first installment of HRLA Studies\, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing\, thought provocation\, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other HRLA programs at HRLA and around the area. HRLA Studies is a proposition instigated by clara lópez menéndez. Because the most memorable things we learn for free\, like stolen fruit taste better. \n\n\n\nSpringing StudiesHosted by Fernando BravoMarch 9\, 16\, and 232 – 5pm \n\n\n\nHuman Resources is in an old part of Los Angeles. Between the Elysian Hills and the Zanja Madre\, its location tells a story of the place before LA\, and it might hint at the after. \n\n\n\nAt a time where many are asking questions around the nation state: questions of birth\, of growth\, of progress\, Springing Studies brings to you a selection of readings\, lectures\, and activities that briefly and densely link the natal and the national\, the mountain and the tunnel\, the mine and the train\, industry\, progress\, globalization\, today\, right now\, the center. A confused center\, surrounded by lifedeath substances\, like seeds in earth. \n\n\n\nOver three Saturdays in March\, we will come together to study\, draw\, and share. We will walk to the Zanja Madre. We will look toward the mountains and wonder\, how else? What else and when? \n\n\n\nReading for the first session: A Non-Euclidean View on California as a Cold Place to Be\, by Ursula K. LeGuin. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/springing-studies/ CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Springing-Studies-Copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240316T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240227T192526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164257Z UID:7972-1710288000-1710633599@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Devotional See-Saw DESCRIPTION:Gallery hours: Friday\, March 15th\, 2 – 6pm; Saturday\, March 16th 12 – 5pm \n\n\n\nA collaborative show by Canción Paz and Amia YokoyamaTo read texts about the show (in English / en español)\, click here. \n\n\n\nA parade with the main material being friendship (sacred relatedness) among ceramics\, drawings\, bells and fabric dolls. \n\n\n\nWith pieces (flags) by the sexiest CDMX artists Mata Flores\, Ada Navarro\, Cheslsea Gelwarg\, Helia Mejia\, Corona\, and Carolina Berrocal; and LA artists Syd Yocom\, Carolina Hicks\, Chiffon Thomas\, Josh Cloud\, Kayla Ephros\, Lyric Shen\, Venus Wikifur\, Ellie Gordon\, Forever Soo Hoo\, Jonathan Chacon\, Sebastian Loo\, Clue Quilala\, Kate Mosher Hall\, and Aimee Goguen. \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 13th 6pm: Opening reception \n\n\n\nPerformance at 7pm1. Pamper routine (guided stretching warm up ) with harpist Leng Bian2. Procession ⁠commencement speech (Jonathan Chacon)3. Kayla Ephros Acapella3. Ducky banquet by Jade Sky4. ⁠Aasir Cherot (shimmy spectacle)5. ⁠A Thousand Bows Ensemble ( Forever Soo Hoo\, Aasir Cherot\, Walter Vargas and Cancion Paz) musicalized by Tigress of the Lilypad (Amia Yokoyama\, Keane Nwede\, Leti Soriano\, and Mito del Desierto)Followed by closign reception with DJ Alitlebug and DJ Negashi Armada\, 10pm to midnight \n\n\n\nFriday\, March 15th 6pm: Stretching warm-up and double-feature1. Pamper routine (guided stretching warm up)2. Friendship Speech (Gloria Galvez)Two films directed by Shūji Terayama3. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1980) 1h 44m4. Fruits of Passion (1981) 1h 23m URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/devotional-see-saw/ CATEGORIES:exhibition,music/sound,screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/devotional-see-saw-Copy.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240229T194841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240305T232726Z UID:7981-1710698400-1710709200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Kyiv to LA presents: Nikolay Karabinovych\, Teta Tsybulnyk & Elias Parvulesco DESCRIPTION:Something Happened This Spring\, 2014\, 9:20\, Nikolay Karabinovych\n\n\n\nJoin us on Sunday March 17 for a dinner and screening with artists Nikolay Karabinovych\, Teta Tsybulnyk\, Elias Parvulesco and curator Asha Bukojemsky. This event marks the second iteration of Kyiv to LA\, a cross-cultural initiative inviting Ukrainian artists working across film\, video and interdisciplinary research to participate in a Los Angeles-based residency and public program. This event will feature 6 short films\, followed by a conversation\, and music set by Nikolay Karabinovych. \n\n\n\n6:00-7:00pm Potluck Dinner 7:00-8:00pm Screening and conversation 8:30-9:00pm DJ set by Karabinovych \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all. We encourage guests to bring food and drinks to share in the spirit of communal gathering and solidarity. Homemade perogies will be served!  \n\n\n\nRSVP and arrive early to reserve seating. All donations go towards Razom.  \n\n\n\nKyiv to LA is made possible by a generous grant from Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund. \n\n\n\nNikolay Karabinovych works across video installation\, performance\, sound\, and sculpture. He explores the social histories of Eastern Europe\, approaching collective and personal memory by means of analytical\, conceptual or interventionist tactics. His work has been shown internationally including M UHKA\, Museum of Contemporary Art\, Antwerp; HKW\, Berlin\, Belgium Jewish Museum\, Bozar\, Brussels; w139\, Amsterdam; Zamek Ujazdowski\, Warsaw; Pinchuk Art Centre\, Kyiv; Kaunas Biennale (2023)\, the Kyiv Biennale (2023\, 2021) and in parallel programs of the 59th Venice Biennale. He graduated from the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent in 2020\, and worked as an assistant curator at the 5th Odesa Biennale. In 2022\, 2020 and 2018\, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Prize.  \n\n\n\nhttps://karabinovych.com/ \n\n\n\nTeta Tsybulnyk is an artist and psychoanalyst based in Kyiv. With a background in sociology\, social anthropology and clinical psychology\, her research investigates the non-human gaze on nature and semiotics of the unconscious. Tsybulnyk is the co-founder of ruїns collective\, an art and film union established with Elias Parvulsco and Oleg Isakov (2017-2021). ruїns collective has authored a number of video works including dendro dreams (2017)\, zong (2019)\, K-Object from LL-Group (2019)\, Salty Oscillations (2021) and Endless Sea of Sand (2023)\, which have been screened at international film festivals and art exhibitions worldwide. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.ruins.today/teta-tsybulnyk \n\n\n\nElias Parvulesco is an artist\, curator and film archivist based in Kyiv. He is a film history scholar and programmer at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv (2015 to present); and co-founder of the art and film union ruїns collective (2017–21). As a director Parvulesco has been represented at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (2014\, 2018); FIDMarseille\, Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (2022); The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2022); Glasgow Short Film Festival (2022); Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival (2018); Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (2020)\, amongst many other international screenings and exhibitions. In 2020\, Parvulesco was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize.  \n\n\n\nhttps://www.ruins.today/elias-parvulesco \n\n\n\nEndless Sea of Sand\,  2023\, 05:25\, Teta Tsybulnyk & Elias Parvulesco URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/kyiv-to-la-presents-nikolay-karabinovych-teta-tsybulnyk-elias-parvulesco/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:fundraiser,one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Karabinovych-Something-Happened-this-spring.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240319T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240323T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240305T195845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164210Z UID:8000-1710806400-1711238399@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Alan S. Tofighi: Legal Fictions & Critical Bands (1993-2024) DESCRIPTION:Alan S. Tofighi: Legal Fictions & Critical Bands (1993-2024) Traces trajectories from two ongoing work cycles; Critical Bands (2010-present) and Legal Fictions (2014-present). Respectively rooted in histories & counter histories in the performance of objects and the processes of aesthetic forms utilized to forge and manipulate social structures\, retrocausal collaboration of these separate arcs interlock and collaborate in real time. Further linking these zones is the accumulation of art adjacent remnants\, refuse\, and research repositories from past and future works in a complication of separation. Infinite game where the viewer can mine and undermine dominant culture to navigate their own counter history.  \n\n\n\nAccompanying the event will be two evenings of performances culminating with a closing performance on March 23\, as part of Tofighi’s ongoing work of collecting acoustic and architectural samples where collaborators will acoustically shift the resonant frequencies and architectural basis of the site.  \n\n\n\nAlan S. Tofighi (they/them) is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research\, performance\, sound\, consumer products\, and video\, their work deals with analyses of the dispersion\, obfuscation\, and formation of information/history to renegotiate narratives of history & power in the present. Tofighi utilizes the infiltration of legal parameters\, social structures\, myth\, (dis)information\, folk ontologies and extensive research of these cells as they shift from fringe culture to central in their infiltration/engineering of dominant culture.  \n\n\n\nTofighi has shown work and/or performed at REDCAT\, Blum & Poe\, The Box\, LACE\, The Roxy\, The Horse Dublin\, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater\, the wulf.\, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive\, The Troubadour\, MOTOR\, The Hotel Congress\, and many other sites/spaces throughout the world and internet. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/alan-s-tofighi-legal-fictions-critical-bands-1993-2024/ CATEGORIES:exhibition,performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Alan-s-tofighi-HR-flyer-1-Copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240329T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240419T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240319T151943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T101917Z UID:8014-1711670400-1713571199@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:There in Green California / هناك في كاليفورنيا الخضراء DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Saturday\, March 30\, 6 – 10pm \n\n\n\nAli Eyal\, Andre Keichian\, Ignacio Perez Meruane\, Izdihar Afyouni\, Golrokh Nafisi\, Hande Sever\, Susu Attar \n\n\n\nGallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday\, by appointment. Contact info@humanresourcesla.com to make a reservation. \n\n\n\nIzdihar Afyouni\, 2024 (detail)\, oil on canvas\, 2024\n\n\n\n\nIt is difficult\, even righteously offensive\, to make art in the face of so much destruction and death which need little interpretation. The work of art (making)\, exhibition (making) and writing are never separate from their makers. And what of our “marginalized” identities if we can’t transform our lived experiences into ways of seeing and being in the world? Like grains of sand melted into a solid and fragile piece of glass\, the alchemy allows for light to be filtered through so we can be guided by it. It is through this lens that we can see life and write about living in a carceral world invested in our slow and sudden death. \n\n\n\nThe artists in this exhibition address cycles of violence and loss. From the most abstract to the figurative\, the material or psychological\, they provide embodied perspectives across experiments with material and form. A violent memory of disappearance\, dispossession and displacement etched onto a surface\, rebuilt through layers of paint; An image that self-effaces as soon as it emerges. What is the role of memory in the age of total destruction? \n\n\n\nThere in Green California brings together works by artists who have been making work with the bombs already dropping; already on the run from the kidnappers and their haunting memories; already violated and already under siege; generations displaced and memories already relived through so many stories there is no separating them from fiction. And there is no dreaming without the nightmares.  \n\n\n\nThe artists remind us of how the perceived peacefulness of our homes here is not in contrast to\, but at the price of war at home over there. Here in our (not for much longer) green California\, at the rate with which weapons are being made\, we have been living in war for as far back as we can remember. Here in green California it is our struggles against indigenous dispossession and land theft\, and our fights against the police and military industrial complex that connect us to the homes we have been uprooted from.  \n\n\n\nAs I write this text the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is continuing in the hands of the necrophiliac Israeli government and with the direct support of the so-called United States and its allies. Here in the West where rhetoric is constantly utilized to distract us from the material reality of genocide and ethnic cleansing\, I am more wary of the art jargon. Moving away from rhetoric\, it is the material that confronts me: the layers of paint on canvas forming the guts of an animal; the paper rolling down onto the floor to keep the image of a body afloat; the pristine yet dismembered body parts replicated from the monument of a colonizer; the black and white gradients of mundane photographs as testaments to systemic removal; wet clay that fire has fixed into the shape of bullets preserved from memory; lines that connect one arm to another extended across separate sheets of paper; and glass that\, by letting light through\, makes but the process of seeing visible. \n\n\n\nThere in Green California borrows its title from Ghassan Kanafani’s 1956 Letter from Gaza. In the fictional letter\, Palestinian author and novelist addresses his comrade\, Mustafa:  \n\n\n\nI won’t follow you to “the land where there is greenery\, water and lovely faces” as you wrote. No\, I’ll stay here\, and I won’t ever leave. The choice to leave\, the choice to stay or live one’s life as defined by crossing a border and living on both its sides\, is not a question of privilege. Exile comes in its different shades and colors.  \n\n\n\n–Gelare Khoshgozaran \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHuman Resources Los Angeles commits to the Palestinian international call for Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). The commitment to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is twofold. It is a refusal to participate in the normalization of occupation and apartheid by Israel and a commitment to instead bring awareness to the material realities of these structures in Palestine. We stand with our colleagues who have already joined this movement\, and who are putting their name on solidarity statements. We urge all arts organizations\, writers\, cultural workers\, and artists to take action now. This boycott is a principled refusal to participate in artwashing. Learn more: https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/there-in-green-california/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/feature-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240414T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240407T000048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T102041Z UID:8052-1713110400-1713128400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Gaza Community Aid Fundraiser & Art Raffle DESCRIPTION:We are raising funds to help multiple families evacuate Gaza. Your raffle ticket costs will be entirely redirected to individuals working on the ground helping evacuate and resettle families. \n\n\n\nJoin us Sunday\, April 14\, 4-9PM at Human Resources Los Angeles: \n\n\n\n♦ Listening sessions by DJs Discostan\, Princess Dimebag & Friends♦ Mezze by Levant Bistro & Brothers Products♦ Homemade warm & cold beverages \n\n\n\nRaffle Prizes:⬦ Astrology readings & natal chart reports by Alice Sparkly Kat⬦ Qi Gong sessions by bones tan jones⬦ Artworks by Ali Eyal\, Saj Issa\, Candice Lin\, Stanya Kahn\, Izdihar Afyouni\, Bailey Hikawa & more! \n\n\n\nYou can enter the raffle remotely by purchasing tickets online.One raffle ticket gives you entry to the event. There is no limit to the number of raffle tickets you can buy. \n\n\n\nIf you prefer to make a direct donation\, you can do so through the following link. Please put a “thank you” note only in the memo/comment section: https://linktr.ee/gazafam URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/gaza-community-aid-fundraiser-art-raffle/ CATEGORIES:fundraiser ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HR_FUNDRAISER-1-e1712518050151.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240419T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240419T213000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240404T195214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164139Z UID:8047-1713556800-1713562200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:WRITING ON RAVING: LOS ANGELES DESCRIPTION:Writing on Raving is a reading and performance series curated by Zoë Beery\, Geoffrey Mak and McKenzie Wark. The series opens a space for critical thinking\, creative language\, and verbal performance that celebrates\, critiques\, contextualizes\, and vibe-checks the rave\, the club\, the dance floor\, and techno from diverse and unheard perspectives. Featuring readings and performances by Zoë Beery\, Sebastian Hernandez\, Haley Hopkins\, Michelle Lhooq\, Geoffrey Mak\, Natalie Robehmed and weepingwillowtree.  \n\n\n\nZoë Beery is a journalist and harm reduction worker in Brooklyn. She has co-organized safer spaces programs for Nowadays\, Sustain-Release\, Horst Arts & Music\, and Return to the Source. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, Resident Advisor\, and many other publications. Sebastian Hernandez is a multi-disciplinary artist and DJ\, who received a B.A. in both Art Practice and Dance and Performance Studies from the University of California Berkeley. Sebastian explores making art with mediums like movement\, sculpture\, performance\, photography\, creative writing and DJing. Hernandez works with and through feminist\, queer\, indigenous and gender theoretical frameworks as well as notions of collectivity to generate works that complicate Mexican and Chicano narratives in the contemporaneous social imagination. Their art making is embedded in personal narrative\, their indigenous Mexica (Aztec) ancestry\, queer club culture and the history of the brown body in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderland. Sebastian’s movement based practice is informed by their long standing practice of danza Mexica (Azteca)\, Vogue and a wide range of modern dance techniques like GAGA\, Flying Low\, Laban and Afro Modern. Expanding and growing from solo works to more collaborative art works and performances\, Sebastian has worked with a variety of visual\, sound\, dance and fashion designers specific to their hometown of Los Angeles. These collaborative works have become a channel for new creative challenges that push to question and speak to the complexities of queer kinship and traditional art and dance today. Hernandez has presented work at REDCAT\, Human Resources\, LACE\, Commonwealth& Council\, MOCA Geffen Contemporary\, ICA LA\, MUSTACHE Mondays\, Club Scum\, NAVEL LA\, ONE ARCHIVES\, 4th street Bridge\, Santee Alley\, BOFFO\, Performance Space New York\, Palm Spring Art Museum\, Jessica Silverman Gallery and more. In 2020\, Sebastian was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award.  \n\n\n\nhaley hopkins is a longtime dancer and friend to the rave scene. They have a background in performance art\, critical theory and herbalism.  In the daytime world they work with native plants\, art handle and write.  They’re concerned with exploring/exploding power dynamics and playing language games\, they feel devotion to class analysis and dirt.   \n\n\n\nMichelle Lhooq is a writer who\, by some combination of tenacity and youthful stupidity\, decided to make a career out of being really\, really good at partying. She was born in Singapore\, an anti-hedonic country that William Gibson famously called “Disneyland with the death penalty\,” and growing up under its extreme restrictions on assorted freedoms made her obsessed with drugs and nightlife like a bad kink. Lhooq’s work\, mainly published in her newsletter Rave New World\, is currently centered on the shifting paradigms of counterculture\, underground raves\, and psychedelics. She is the author of  WEED: Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask (Penguin Random House)\, and her writing can also be found in The Guardian\, GQ\, The Los Angeles Times\, and Bloomberg. Once in a blue moon\, she throws psychedelic parties in Los Angeles\, where she is based. \n\n\n\nGeoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys: A Personal History. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Artforum\, The Guardian\, Spike\, and other publications. He has staged “performative readings” at Swiss Institute\, CTM Festival\, Kaje\, and The Lab. He lives in Brooklyn.  \n\n\n\nNatalie Robehmed (aka Ghorba) is a Lebanese-British writer\, musician and DJ. She has performed alongside artists including Rrose\, Mama Snake and Light Asylum across the U.S. and Europe. She co-created the Feminist Synth Lab\, a workshop series and synthesizer lending library for marginalized genders in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Forbes and CNN as well as on several hit podcasts. Brought up in the U.A.E\, they are now based in Los Angeles.  \n\n\n\ncleo (weepingwillowtree) is a DJ and digital media artist from Palmdale. The majority of her work explores themes of horror\, self discovery and acceptance\, and her roots as a black trans woman.  \n\n\n\nAdmission to this event is free. HR’s entrance is accessible via ramp\, and an ADA-compliant restroom is located on our ground floor. Indoor mask use is recommended. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/writing-on-raving-los-angeles/ CATEGORIES:performance,reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image0-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240421T200000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240321T191322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005348Z UID:8025-1713708000-1713729600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Dorian Wood: This is not goodbye\, it's just I won't ever see you again (a final purge) DESCRIPTION:Dorian Wood bids farewell to Los Angeles\, her birthplace and also her home for over 40 years. To mark her transition to the East Coast\, Human Resources will host an event that features over 1\,000 of Dorian’s original art works\, t-shirts\, prints\, records and zines\, all on display and available for purchase. Attendees will also get to experience an ongoing sound installation comprised of audio recordings from all of Dorian’s past performances at Human Resources. The event will culminate with one final performance by Dorian. All proceeds from the art sale will go to the artist–to help with her moving costs – and to Human Resources.  \n\n\n\nArt sale and installation from 2pm to 6:30pmPerformance from 7pm to 8pmAdmission is free URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/dorian-wood-this-is-not-goodbye-its-just-i-wont-ever-see-you-again-a-final-purge/ CATEGORIES:exhibition,music/sound,performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nite_image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240319T223133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T035925Z UID:8018-1714089600-1714348799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:VENUS 2.0 DESCRIPTION:Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm; Sunday performance begins at 6pm. Click here to purchase tickets. \n\n\n\nVENUS 2.0 is a large-scale multi-media music performance by Tyler Matthew Oyer. \n\n\n\nSet within a fantastic and dystopian dream-like sculptural and light installation\, Oyer creates a full-length performance concert that combines their history with and research into the nightclub\, esoteric rituals\, experimental/queer theatre\, and altered states of reflection\, ecstasy\, and togetherness. The movement of two performers mimics the celestial orbit of Earth and Venus as they orbit the sun – a metaphorical exploration of queer relationality beyond this planet and its oppressive forces. \n\n\n\nIn this gestamkunstwerk\, the connective tissue is Oyer’s original music album BERLIN ALIEN. \n\n\n\nVENUS 2.0 is a conjuring. It is a fantasy. It is a temporary release from the here and now. \n\n\n\nCo-performer and choreographer: Kevin Zambrano (Dorian Electra\, Post Malone\, The Weeknd\, Solange\, Charli XCX\, Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker\, Gerard & Kelly\, Andy Blankenbuehler\, West Side Story Broadway debut) \n\n\n\nLighting design: Veslemøy Rustad Holseter (lighting design at Berghain Ostgut\, Trauma Bar und Kino; performs as Grinderteeth) \n\n\n\nStage design: Luc Sequeira \n\n\n\nLocation: Human Resources Los Angeles (Chinatown) \n\n\n\nThis performance is funded in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, NY. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/venus-2-0/ CATEGORIES:performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/VENUS_2-Copy.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240422T035436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T183904Z UID:8073-1714348800-1715644799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:HRLA Studies: Alan Poma "Art\, Time And Rebellion In Ancient Americas" DESCRIPTION:Art\, Time\, and Rebellion in Ancient Americas is the second installment of HRLA Studies\, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing\, thought provocation\, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other HRLA programs at HRLA and around the area.HRLA Studies is a proposition instigated by clara lópez menéndez. Because the most memorable things we learn for free\, like stolen fruit taste better. \n\n\n\nArt\, Time\, and Rebellion in Ancient AmericasHosted by Alan PomaApril 29\, May 6\, and May 136:30 – 9pm \n\n\n\nThis seminar delves into the connections between pre-Columbian art and contemporary practices\, offering a critical examination of ancestral traditions. Organized into three thematic sections—object and time\, space and sound\, celebration and rebellion—it enables participants to engage with diverse artistic forms and worldviews\, highlighting how these expressions can also serve as a form of cultural resistance. \n\n\n\nReading for the first session: “‘Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties’: Incarnation\, Incantations\, Animism\, and the Powers of Pre-Columbian Visual Imagery\,” by Thomas B.F. Cummins.  \n\n\n\nAlan Poma is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist who has developed the concept and practice of Andean Futurism. In his work\, Poma investigates the characteristics of ancient American inhabitants\, discovering resonances with the present. Alan’s work combines site-specific projects and various art forms\, exploring connections between Avant Garde art traditions and Andean culture through collaboration with artists and scholars. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-studies-alan-poma-art-time-and-rebellion-in-ancient-americas/ CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T193000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240501T000143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T164826Z UID:8170-1715110200-1715110200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:BAE BAE: SOUL RECOVERY DESCRIPTION:BAE BAE (Kumi James) presents SOUL RECOVERY\, a live electronic music and sound performance that investigates how sonic resonance helps to create and strengthen bonds between people and spaces\, allowing us to regain access to our souls in a world that seeks to keep spiritual knowledge at bay. \n\n\n\nThe soundscape will be produced within the walls of Human Resources\, and will function as a spiritual response to the materiality of the gallery space itself. The invitation to guests is to engage in a process of soul recovery through attunement to the sound generated in the space. \n\n\n\nTickets are $10 and available via Withfriends. No one turned away from lack of funds\, but space is limited. \n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork for providing the sound system. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/bae-bae-soul-recovery/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Souls-Recover-Color-BODY-v6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240511T220000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240507T180859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005332Z UID:8206-1715454000-1715464800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:The Urgent Call of Palestine: a community fundraiser for Gaza DESCRIPTION:In commemoration of Nakba Day\, join us on Saturday\, May 11th\, at Human Resources LA or virtually\, for The Urgent Call of Palestine—a community fundraiser for Gaza!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can contribute to the fundraiser from anywhere in the world by buying a raffle ticket. 100% of the proceeds will be redirected to the Gaza Soup Kitchen to support their efforts in bringing food to the community! Together we are stronger and can make a bigger impact.  \n\n\n\nThe fundraiser will be centered around: \n\n\n\n\nListening Session of The Urgent Call of Palestine by Zeinab Shaath (recently restored by Discostan and Majazz) \n\n\n\nFilm Screening of The Urgent Call of Palestine (5’ |1973) by Ismail Shammout. \n\n\n\nLive Music and DJ sets by godchild\, PAWS and Lionmilk.\n\n\n\n\nThe raffle will include artworks generously donated by the following artists from around the world — Ali Vanderkruyk\, Atia Sen\, Greg Jenkins\, Jordan Wong\, Josh Cloud\, Karim Marold\, Malavika Rao\, Razan AlSarraf\, Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar\, Sohrab Hura\, Ry Noor & Zoe J Moon.  \n\n\n\nOur in-person vendors include:  \n\n\n\n\nTarot card readings and spellwork by Farah Abouzeid \n\n\n\nNail art by Fanfan Zhou \n\n\n\nFlash Art Tattoos by Jessica Lee\n\n\n\nPalestine Fabric Patches by Malavika Rao  \n\n\n\nPosters and Zines by Tomorrow Today \n\n\n\nHomemade Food & Drinks\n\n\n\n\nVirtual vendor: \n\n\n\n\nDigital Portraits by Rhea Iyer \n\n\n\n\n(Taking limited orders between May 11th-17th on a first come\, first serve basis. Request your portraits here) \n\n\n\nWe are grateful for our artist vendors!  \n\n\n\nTicket Price $15  \n\n\n\nThis is an urgent call\, buy as many raffle tickets as you can—the sky is the limit!(available on withfriends)  \n\n\n\nCo-hosted with Los Angeles FilmforumPoster Design by Rhea Iyer  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/the-urgent-call-of-palestine-a-community-fundraiser-for-gaza-2/ CATEGORIES:fundraiser,music/sound,screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TheUrgentCallofPalestine-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240501T171924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005310Z UID:8173-1715904000-1716163199@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Sculptors Painting DESCRIPTION:Organized by Cara Chan \n\n\n\nOpening reception: Friday\, May 17\, 6 – 9pmGallery hours: Saturday\, May 18 through Thursday\, May 23\, 12 – 6pmPainting event: Sunday\, May 19\, 2 – 5pm \n\n\n\nWe often think of art in categories: new media\, performance\,  painting\, sculpture. These can become limiting identities for artists\, who must constantly challenge and renew their creativity. Sculptors Painting features 31 LA sculptors who were challenged to drop their Festools and take up the brush and palette. The artists were given complete freedom with one restriction: no 3D elements; ONLY oil or acrylic on canvas/linen/panel.  The goal was to explore a foreign medium and inspire experimentation outside of the artists’ comfort zones. The works on view should therefore be read as paintings by artists accustomed to working in three dimensions. Different questions arise: How do ideas live in 2D versus 3D? How does embodied knowledge of mass and form translate onto canvas? Do style and identity transcend medium? Sculptors Painting is an exercise in play\, breaking from the familiar and encouraging lightness. \n\n\n\nZoe Koke will be teaching a painting lesson on Sunday\, May 19 from 2 – 5pm. Participants are asked to bring their choice surface: a primed canvas/panel/paper and paint: oil paint\, acrylic paint\, or watercolor.  Limited canvas paper and materials will be available. The topic will be painting as a gesture to heal the body. \n\n\n\nParticipants:  \n\n\n\nAdrian mm AbelaBrenda BarriosDaniel Klass BeckwithCara ChanAllen Hung-Lun ChenMax ClearyGabriel CohenIvana Dama Ryan FloresLili Abdel-GhanyJulia GarderSylvia HardyNevada HardmanLouis HeilbronnMerideth HillbrandShana HoehnAlex KerrJordan Kolesnik ZZ KrebsAaron MeyersHallie McNeillGozie OjiniAryana PolatCarlos Vela-Prado Jackie RinesHope StutzmanKaren TepazDaniel Alejandro TrejoValeria Tizol Vivas Chris WarrChristopher Wawrinofsky Amia Yokoyama URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/sculptors-painting/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_4423-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240525T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240525T150000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240515T180902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005255Z UID:8219-1716634800-1716649200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:labor & collective action as resistance DESCRIPTION:Join us for a teach-in on May 25th hosted at Human Resources! \n\n\n\nlabor & collective action as resistance will explore how collective action can be applied to the spaces we inhabit. In awe of hundreds of organizing students and faculty across the US and beyond\, we come together to share cooperative strategies as both lineage and fuel to the momentum of mass mobilizing. A series of invited speakers will discuss their work and experiences as organizers and union workers from the tech industry to the university to the museum. They will share ways to activate our work for a liberated Palestine and continue to build our toolkit for ongoing resistance in our every day. How does this tradition of people organizing show us ways we can pose an existential threat to American empire and what new modes are being born? When tactics can be shared\, practiced\, and mobilized together – the people have power. RSVP here! \n\n\n\nSpeakersJackie Johnson is finishing her PhD in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at USC. Over the past year and a half\, she has helped organize Graduate Student Workers including serving on the bargaining team for the union’s first contract. \n\n\n\nMeryem Kamil is an assistant professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine. Her research is on Palestinian uses of technology. She has been a Palestine organizer since 2009\, working on divestment campaigns at UC San Diego\, University of Michigan\, and through the UC-wide coalition of Faculty for Justice in Palestine. \n\n\n\nGabi Schubiner is a founding worker-organizer with No Tech for Apartheid. They reside in Brooklyn and imagine a world where the conditions of Tech labor support global liberation. \n\n\n\nDana Kopel is a writer\, editor\, and union organizer currently pursuing a PhD in US history at UCLA\, where her research focuses on labor and leftist organizing during the later twentieth century. \n\n\n\nAmara Higuera is an artist and educator who began her teaching journey in the 74% Latinx LAUSD school district where 59% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. She began developing an anti-oppressive pedagogy while there. She was recently published in the anthology Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education\, co-published with fellow educators who she started her organizing journey with. \n\n\n\nCo-organizers \n\n\n\nAmara Higuera &  Anna Cho-Son is an artist and writer and currently works as a community programs manager at a food hub located in South Central LA. She was previously the curator and editor at Active Cultures. She studied Fine Arts and Food Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented by \n\n\n\nuntune is an organism reliant on the contribution of interchanging parts —a social experiment in building support and natural resources with parameters continually reset to remain grounded in current issues relating to the correlation between culture\, ecology\, and food sovereignty—a creative entity for learning and supporting the teachings of Indigenous wisdom and ecological knowledge—within and outside a curatorial fieldwork.Additional Notes We encourage participants to arrive at 11am for tea & coffee* and stay throughout the day. The program of speakers will be from 11:20am-2:15pm (15 minute midpoint break included). Speakers will gather at the end of individual presentations for a Q&A panel and discussion. \n\n\n\nMasks are required for this event and free masks will be available at the door. Testing encouraged! HR is physically accessible with a small ramped entrance and ADA-compliant bathroom. Event will be held in English.*Bring your own mugs or tumblers if you can Please remember to RSVP URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/labor-collective-action-as-resistance/ CATEGORIES:seminar/workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Labor_Collective_action_final.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T235959 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240507T175445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240818T005230Z UID:8199-1716940800-1717459199@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:David Bad: all in\, win or lose DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Wednesday\, May 29th 6 – 9pm Gallery hours: Thursday\, May 30th through Monday\, June 3rd\, 12 – 6pm \n\n\n\nEver since I can remember I’ve been painting\, drawing\, sketching\, or coloring something. Being introduced to art at a very young age and having family members encouraging it\, is why I paint for more hours than I sleep. With art i feel as if i always need to have a sketch book around\, or pen and a napkin as I wait for the waiter to bring my food. A sort of Freedom of doing without thinking\, freedom from thinking; sort of. \n\n\n\nI do give all the credit to my mother and siblings for pushing me towards art or any creative outlet. My mother was a teacher’s assistant and would come home with fresh crayons and new books for me to draw in. We used to go to record stores and pick out CDs\, my mother was a classic rock and oldies lover. My older brother\, who was a graff writer\, had these books with amazing word style art pieces with characters in them. Some pages just scribble\, some very detailed similar graffiti pieces to the ones I’d see out on the streets. Thinking what great lengths and fun adventures these graffiti artists would go on to put up a “NAME”\, on a billboard or on risking it on some train tracks. My oldest sister use to sew her own clothes and Halloween costumes. She was also the best illustrator of all of us and taught me a lot about drawing. My sister Justine was heavy into music\, she was the one who got us to go out and buy CDs. She would collect her music off the radio by recording them on cassette tapes\, I actually got my taste in music from her. \n\n\n\nMy name is David Bad\, born and raised in Lincoln Heights\, Los Angeles\, California 90031\, five minutes from Chinatown. I’m a painter but have other various skills as well as photography\, sculpting\, and music production\, and more creative outlets i come across worth learning. This art show\, however\, is a painted series; it being my first show ever I’d like to show you my favorite thing in the whole world to do. This show is called “All In\, Win or Lose\,” which consist of 52 hand painted playing cards. The images painted represent Chicano culture\, Lucha Libre matches\, pin striped low riders\, Aztec ceremonies\, gold hoop earing with thin eyebrows\, elotes\, tamales\, tacos with tapatio\, the Zoot Zuiters\, white blank tee with greased up over sized 501s while sporting Corteze. The lifestyle I was raised in. \n\n\n\n– David Bad URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/david-bad-all-in-win-or-lose/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/David-Bad.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T050329 CREATED:20240515T175954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T164612Z UID:8216-1717785000-1717794000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Two Tongues\, Multiple Mothers DESCRIPTION:Poster design: Woohee Cho\n\n\n\nTwo Tongues\, Multiple Mothers is a one night event consisting of screenings\, performances\, and objects that explore the space between languages as liminal bodies. The process of translation and interpretation is not widely known\, and the delicate existence of these bodies is rather mysterious and misunderstood. Through personal\, historical\, and fictional narratives\, Jisoo Chung\, Dajin Yoon\, Ruoyi Shi\, and Woohee Cho investigate multiplicity in this transitional space. \n\n\n\n* \n\n\n\nJisoo Chung’s Miss Kim Lilac  is a story about a lilac tree called ‘Miss Kim’ that was brought to America from its native Korea and named by an American botanist. The tree’s name\, which has changed over time as it moved across countries\, is an imprint of colonial history\, capitalization of nature\, and the migration of Korean women. In the twenty-minute experimental documentary film\, Miss Kim Lilac(2023)\, Chung’s journey to New Hampshire where she finds the early Miss Kim lilac specimens intersects with the narrative of its history that unfolds through the lilac’s perspective.  If the name is the most fundamental linguistic framework to recognize oneself\, will Miss Kim be able to find herself lost inside her multiple names?  \n\n\n\nDajin Yoon’s First Person Perspective is a text-based performance that starts with the character called One who wakes up to find out that the world it lives in has changed significantly. The reactions from peers confuses One. Amongst the discrepancies in opinions\, the familiarity of the shared language defamiliarizes\, impairing One’s understanding of the worldly order. Then emerges the tenuous nature of perceptions where the individuals rely on their intuition for translation\, filling in the gaps of the context and new meaning. \n\n\n\nRuoyi Shi’s (un)readable? (um)readable playfully blurs between readable and unreadable\, speakable and unspeakable through drawings and sculptural objects. When a computer program cannot recognize foreign characters\, it often uses hollow square shapes as the placeholder. These squares\, sharing the same shape as the Chinese word (Kou)\,” meaning “mouth” in English\, serve as a visual representation. However\, devoid of meaning and sound\, they remain silent\, unable to convey any message. Originating from Pictograms\, Chinese characters are simplified depictions of tangible objects. They evolved from literal representations to encompass symbolic and metaphoric meanings. The character “Kou” not only signifies actions involving the mouth but also serves as a fundamental element in the structure of other characters. I modified the text from the chosen paragraph\, keeping only the square shapes. These squares will be used to form content that is both readable and unreadable\, speakable and unspeakable to all of us.Woohee Cho’s Letters Ladders is a performance\, where he climbs up and down between two ladders while writing fragments of his journal regarding his recent loss on the wall. It deals with questions about queer diaries\, family trauma\, diaspora\, and (mis)translation. When you lose words to describe your emotions\, which languages are you drawn to grapple with? When language slips through the net\, can we still exchange something through art? \n\n\n\n* \n\n\n\nJisoo Chung is an interdisciplinary artist who works between Los Angeles and Seoul. Primarily through video and installation\, she focuses on sociocultural constructs within quotidian objects and technology to explore language and the loss of one’s agency. Nonsense\, mistranslations\, personifying objects\, and non-human perspectives are used in her works to re-navigate the idea of the self.  \n\n\n\nDajin Yoon is an artist based in Los Angeles working in performance\, drawing\, and installation. Her practice examines the limits of language and its ability to shape\, activate\, and obfuscate beliefs and perceptions within shared experiences and anecdotal narratives. \n\n\n\nRuoyi Shi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Inspired by ancient tales and rituals intertwined with language\, habits\, and societal norms\, she combines humor and fiction to construct her poetic narratives. Her work explores the interface between nature and artificial existences\, as well as the notion of truth and its fabrication. Woohee Cho is a visual artist based in Los Angeles and Seoul. He received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2020) and a BFA from Seoul National University (2014). His works focus on moments in everyday life where individual identity collides with or is subsumed by society. These are transformed into installations\, videos\, and performances as a means of queering the normativity of society. Gathering\, personalizing\, and laughing are the primary methodologies of his practice. His work has been shown at Post Territory Ujeongguk\, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery\, Roy Edna Disney CalArts Theater\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, and Cork International Film Festival\, among others. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/two-tongues-multiple-mothers/ CATEGORIES:screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Untitled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR