BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Human Resources - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Human Resources 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:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T220000 DTSTAMP:20170801T084443Z CREATED:20170511T194032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T084443Z UID:2660-1495825200-1495836000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:on the other / side reception DESCRIPTION:FRIDAY\, MAY 26TH\, 2017\n7pm – 10 pm\non the other / side Reception\nhosted by at land’s edge 2017 Fellows\nLight refreshments will be served. \nat land’s edge\, an autonomous ontological platform for creatives to co-learn\, presents its culminating reception. This exhibit\, “on the other / side\,” showcases works by the twelve 2017 at land’s edge fellows. It is an exploration\, via writing\, installation\, video\, 2D and 3D works\, of race\, disability\, resistance\, history\, power\, violence\, healing\, and survival. All artists and program coordinators will be present to discuss their works\, host readings\, and lead other activities during the reception. \n**Free and open to the public** \n____________________ \nA wheelchair accessible entrance (via portable ramp) and a wheelchair accessible bathroom will be provided. \nPublic transit via the Chinatown Gold Line Station. Street parking available. \nat land’s edge is an autonomous pedagogical platform based in East and South Los Angeles that nurtures the voices of cultural producers who are committed to social transformation. We understand pedagogy as not only a method of education\, but as a critical space where the processes of teaching and learning\, knowledge and action\, and self and community are reflexive\, interwoven\, and oriented toward the liberatory possibilities of a just and democratic world. \nDecolonizeLA is an autonomous group made up of Los Angeles-based artists\, educators\, Indigenous Peoples and activists\, and members of HRLA’s Programming Committees. This group recognizes the word decolonize as a process and action word that must center Native/Indigenous people’s autonomy\, and the liberation of all oppressed peoples as its goal. Steps toward decolonization include acknowledging the effects of colonial oppressive structures\, and demanding an end to the legacy of environmental\, physical\, psychological\, cultural and artistic violence\, and opposing the perpetual structure of inequity forced upon us by colonialism and white male hetero-normative supremacy. This group recognizes that many communities are working towards decolonization. We embrace and celebrate this opportunity to honor their work and transform our city. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/2660/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/17990302_1084062881725779_310358000878732968_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T203000 DTSTAMP:20170801T084443Z CREATED:20170511T160558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T084443Z UID:2626-1495654200-1495657800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Everything I Say Is True: Suzanne Kite DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY MAY 24\, 2017\n7:30pm – 8:30pm\nEverything I Say Is True\nSuzanne Kite\na live sound/video performance presented by Decolonize LA \nEverything I Say Is True is a lecture performance by Southern California-based\, Oglala Lakota artist Kite. In the lecture Kite constructs a complex narrative through the use of her own family’s ephemera and historical documents as well as through a new body of work in various mediums\, including video\, sound and sculpture. Everything I Say Is True considers concepts of truth in relation to Oglala Lakota knowledge systems. \nhttp://kitekitekitekite.com/ \n____________________ \nA wheelchair accessible entrance (via portable ramp) and a wheelchair accessible bathroom will be provided. \nPublic transit via the Chinatown Gold Line Station. Street parking available. \nat land’s edge is an autonomous pedagogical platform based in East and South Los Angeles that nurtures the voices of cultural producers who are committed to social transformation. We understand pedagogy as not only a method of education\, but as a critical space where the processes of teaching and learning\, knowledge and action\, and self and community are reflexive\, interwoven\, and oriented toward the liberatory possibilities of a just and democratic world. \nDecolonizeLA is an autonomous group made up of Los Angeles-based artists\, educators\, Indigenous Peoples and activists\, and members of HRLA’s Programming Committees. This group recognizes the word decolonize as a process and action word that must center Native/Indigenous people’s autonomy\, and the liberation of all oppressed peoples as its goal. Steps toward decolonization include acknowledging the effects of colonial oppressive structures\, and demanding an end to the legacy of environmental\, physical\, psychological\, cultural and artistic violence\, and opposing the perpetual structure of inequity forced upon us by colonialism and white male hetero-normative supremacy. This group recognizes that many communities are working towards decolonization. We embrace and celebrate this opportunity to honor their work and transform our city. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/everything-i-say-is-true-suzanne-kite/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Suzanne_Kite_photo_by_Amanda_Farmer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170528T210000 DTSTAMP:20170801T084454Z CREATED:20170425T200944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T084454Z UID:2605-1495620000-1496005200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:On The Other Side: 2017 at land’s edge fellows DESCRIPTION:at land’s edge\, in conjunction with Decolonize LA and Human Resources Los Angeles\, proudly presents\, “on the other / side.” This week-long\, culminating exhibition showcases the projects of the 2017 at land’s edge fellowship cohort\, exploring issues of race\, disability\, resistance\, history\, power\, violence\, survival\, and healing. \nWednesday\, May 24th – Sunday\, May 28th \nGallery Hours:\n3pm – 9pm\, Wed – Thurs\n11am – 7pm\, Sat\n1pm – 7pm\, Sun \nSpecial Reception: 7pm – 9pm. Friday\, May 26th\nworkshops and performances throughout the week presented by\nDecolonize LA & at land’s edge \n \nAll events are free and open to the public\, made possible with funding from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. \nVisit the at lands edge website for more information. \n_____________________ \nWEDNESDAY MAY 24\, 2017\n \n7:30pm – 8:30pm\nEverything I Say Is True\nSuzanne Kite\na live sound/video performance presented by Decolonize LA \nEverything I Say Is True is a lecture performance by Southern California-based\, Oglala Lakota artist Kite. In the lecture Kite constructs a complex narrative through the use of her own family’s ephemera and historical documents as well as through a new body of work in various mediums\, including video\, sound and sculpture. Everything I Say Is True considers concepts of truth in relation to Oglala Lakota knowledge systems. \nhttp://kitekitekitekite.com/ \n_____________________ \nFRIDAY\, MAY 26TH\, 2017 \n\n\n7pm – 9 pm\non the other / side Reception\nhosted by at land’s edge 2017 Fellows\nLight refreshments will be served. \nat land’s edge\, an autonomous ontological platform for creatives to co-learn\, presents its culminating reception. This exhibit\, “on the other / side\,” showcases works by the twelve 2017 at land’s edge fellows. It is an exploration\, via writing\, installation\, video\, 2D and 3D works\, of race\, disability\, resistance\, history\, power\, violence\, healing\, and survival. All artists and program coordinators will be present to discuss their works\, host readings\, and lead other activities during the reception. \n**Free and open to the public** \n_____________________ \nSATURDAY\, MAY 27\, 2017\n\n\n11am – 12pm\nAdoption\, Electronic Music\, and Enrollment.\nElisa Harkins\na skype/virtual lecture presented by Decolonize LA \nArtist and Composer Elisa Harkins will be showing her work\, which examines the politics of the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act\, enrollment and adoption\, as well as sharing some of her music with us. \nhttp://www.elisaharkins.org/ \n\n\n1pm – 2pm\nWhat does intergenerational collaboration look like?\nForging Pathways for Future Apsáalooke Feminists\nWendy Red Star\na skype/virtual lecture presented by Decolonize LA \nAs a mother / daughter artist collaborative duo working in the realm of Native history\, identity politics\, cultural subversion\, and reclamation\, Wendy Red Star and her nine-year-old daughter Beatrice Red Star Fletcher probe the colonial thought bubble with intergenerational collaboration and institutional critique. Working with museums like the Denver Art Museum\, Portland Art Museum\, and Seattle Art Museum Beatrice and Wendy engage the public to decolonize thinking around Native American art and collections through performative tours\, interactive activities\, and interventionist installations. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral and a means to creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art. \nhttp://www.wendyredstar.com/ \n\n7pm – 9pm *\nDivine Creators!!! : Intro to Divination Practices for Creatives\nEdgar Fabián Frías\npresented by at land’s edge \nDivine Creators!!! : Intro to Divination Practices for Creatives is an ad-hoc\, site-specific\, and adaptive workshop meant to help support the initiation\, development\, and flourishing of ancestral divination techniques within contemporary creative communities. Attendees will learn about divination from a trans-historical perspective and will find ways to weave in (a) personal divination practice(s) into their creative\, organizing\, educational\, and cultural work. Attendees will leave the workshop with a zine on divination techniques and all of the psychic tools needed to initiate and sustain a scrying (hydromancy) practice. \n*The workshop has a maximum of 11 participants. It takes place in the evening. Please wear comfortable clothing. This workshop is FREE BUT requires sign up and approval by moderator. \n*Optional: Please bring protective amulets\, charms\, plants\, essences\, crystals\, etc. Bring something to cover your head (a hat\, a scarf\, a hoodie). Please contact seeingyouseeingmeseeingyou@gmail.com or go to https://goo.gl/forms/SRc4YMPLDoFoT7T53 to register. \n*Queer\, trans\, gender nonconforming\, low-income\, people of color\, indigenous people\, immigrants\, and folks at other intersections will be given priority. \n_____________________ \nSUNDAY\, MAY 28\, 2017 \n\n\n4pm – 5:30pm\nAccidents of Birth\nseren sensei \npresented by at land’s edge \nWe are not all the same\, due to what I call “accidents of birth” that more often than not involve race\, gender\, class\, able-bodiedness\, and sexual orientation. We would be exploring this theme through a writing workshop wherein we discuss various ways to deal with accidents of birth. They can range from the fantastic to the mundane\, addressing the concept that you are born into a body\, and with it can come many expectations. How do you free yourself from ideas placed upon your body due to race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, ability/disability\, and/or class? \n\n7pm – 9pm **\nRitual for Mutual Black Care\nMelanie Griffin \npresented by at land’s edge \nBlack people expend precious physical\, emotional and psychic energy responding to racial injustice and fighting that injustice in ways that serve all of humanity. So often these responses drain us and impact our mental\, physical\, and spiritual health and deplete us as we constantly pour energy outward.\nThis gathering will be an opportunity to build love\, care\, and resilience amongst each other. It will provide a space to refill the emotional/ spiritual well\, that living in an anti-Black society drains daily. We will call in ancestors\, speak out our fears\, joys and affirmations for one another. We will interact in a ritualistic way with plant medicine\, smoke\, and a sewn garment with images inspired by Black diasporic myths and abstract patterns meditating on the (one of) Black experience. \n**This event is only for all Black identified people\n____________________ \nA wheelchair accessible entrance (via portable ramp) and a wheelchair accessible bathroom will be provided. \nPublic transit via the Chinatown Gold Line Station. Street parking available. \nat land’s edge is an autonomous pedagogical platform based in East and South Los Angeles that nurtures the voices of cultural producers who are committed to social transformation. We understand pedagogy as not only a method of education\, but as a critical space where the processes of teaching and learning\, knowledge and action\, and self and community are reflexive\, interwoven\, and oriented toward the liberatory possibilities of a just and democratic world. \nDecolonizeLA is an autonomous group made up of Los Angeles-based artists\, educators\, Indigenous Peoples and activists\, and members of HRLA’s Programming Committees. This group recognizes the word decolonize as a process and action word that must center Native/Indigenous people’s autonomy\, and the liberation of all oppressed peoples as its goal. Steps toward decolonization include acknowledging the effects of colonial oppressive structures\, and demanding an end to the legacy of environmental\, physical\, psychological\, cultural and artistic violence\, and opposing the perpetual structure of inequity forced upon us by colonialism and white male hetero-normative supremacy. This group recognizes that many communities are working towards decolonization. We embrace and celebrate this opportunity to honor their work and transform our city. \nHuman Resources Los Angeles\n410 Cottage Home St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012\nnear Broadway and Cottage Home in Chinatown URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/on-the-other-side-2017-at-lands-edge-fellows/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OTOS_Logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T220000 DTSTAMP:20170801T084443Z CREATED:20170512T170953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T084443Z UID:2670-1495137600-1495144800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Yes Femmes 4 Lez Gulls DESCRIPTION:Readings and screenings by: \nMegan Auster-Rosen\nMuriel Leung\nAdrienne Walser\nVanessa Angélica Villarreal \nYES FEMMES is a reading series and online experiment that publishes writing and digital projects working toward a femme aesthetic. We’re interested in writing that explores the limits of the body\,that’s campy or fannish\, that engages with witchcraft or the occult\, that has an excess of feeling\, that looks to animals and plants as models or collaborators\, that considers how digitality might be femme\, and that moves toward the horizon of queerness. \nThis set of readings will accompany Human Resources’ current show Lesbian Gulls\, Dead Zones\, Sweat\, and T. by Candice Lin and Patrick Staff. \nHosted by Sam Cohen & Amanda-Faye Jimenez URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/yes-femmes-4-lez-gulls/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/YES-FEMMES.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170514T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170514T180000 DTSTAMP:20170521T082338Z CREATED:20170515T220554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170521T082338Z UID:2676-1494763200-1494784800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Project Q - 'We Don't Have Mothers Day' DESCRIPTION:ProjectQ is using hair as a form of social justice. This is the second ‘We Don’t Have Mothers Day’ where we introduce the ‘Didn’t your mother teach you’ program. Starting with poetry and creating choreography\, and transforming the movement into comic books. ‘Didn’t your mother Teach you’ is focusing on the expression of self care through haircuts.\nBurrito Coalition is feeding the youth nourishment of heart and soul.\nPoetry by an. Choreography by Loic Noisette and comic leadership by Krystal Babich.\nAnd as always\, haircuts by ProjectQ \nAbout Project Q:\nhttps://www.projectq.me/\nUsing hair as a form of social justice. \nCreating a safe space For LGBTQIA youth to find their identity\,\nand raise the awareness of self confidence.\n \nProjectQ is a non-profit organization founded by Madin Lopez to help LGBTQIA and homeless youth combat bullying\, develop self esteem and find an identity for themselves through hair styling. For the past five years\, they have been working with different organizations to help realize this goal. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/project-q-we-dont-have-mothers-day/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T180000 DTSTAMP:20180811T174822Z CREATED:20170421T193517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180811T174822Z UID:2592-1493924400-1495389600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:LESBIAN GULLS\, DEAD ZONES\, SWEAT AND T. DESCRIPTION:LESBIAN GULLS\, DEAD ZONES\, SWEAT AND T. \nOpening Reception: Thursday May 5th\, 7-10pm \nExhibition Dates: May 5-21\, 2017 \nExhibition hours: Wednesday – Sunday\, 12-6pm \n*Gallery will be closed on Sunday\, May 14th \nFree and open to the public. \nAn exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based collaborators Candice Lin and Patrick Staff. \nLESBIAN GULLS\, DEAD ZONES\, SWEAT AND T. is a new site-specific project for Human Resources\, taking the form of a foggy installation within a roughly framed wooden structure. Reminiscent of construction sites\, the space contains various squatted objects— ceramics\, hacked electronics\, herbs\, erotic texts\, hormonal joints and greasy stains. The installation is organized in a loose hexagonal layout\, referencing the chemical compound of benzene\, part of a phyto-hormonal change that occurs during the aromatization of certain plants. \nFilling the space\, the artists have hacked commercial fog machines to vaporize homemade herbal tinctures into hormonal smoke. The common botanical ingredients used – such as licorice and black cohosh – are natural anti-androgens\, a class of drug typically known for suppressing testosterone production in the human body. The installation of these fog-machine sculptures creates a slow forming cloud\, enacting a potential intrusion of disruptive botanical knowledge\, and proposing a cross-pollination and infection between bodies\, ecosystems\, and institutions. \nLin and Staff’s research and queer re-readings of botanical texts inform the foundation of the project\, beginning with a consideration of how herbal treatments were historically associated with female social roles of healer\, herbalist\, and witch; and the transplantation and exploitation of plant knowledge through colonialism; its suppression\, renaming and regulation. Within this lineage\, the artists propose a non-binary queer exploration of hormone therapy and toxic sex\, both seeking to pervert pollution and queer the possibilities of endocrine disruption. \nConstructed from simple household and hardware materials such as fans\, funnels\, hot plates and aluminum roasting pans\, the sculptural machines reference an unassuming auto-didacticism\, wherein grassroots knowledge of both DIY construction and herbal medicine can be utilized. The smoke that rises from them points to the ways in which inanimate matter\, and specifically ephemeral\, shifting\, and permeable matter\, takes on human\, biopolitical and necropolitical significance and effect. \nSimultaneously empty and dense\, dispersed and ingested\, LESBIAN GULLS\, DEAD ZONES\, SWEAT AND T. invites visitors to lose the illusion of their bodily boundaries and float within the influence of a hormonal mist\, suggesting questions of relationship and care\, dosage and tolerance and inciting a dissipating redefinition of subjectivity and knowledge. \nAvailable at the show is a new artist edition by Lin and Staff\, produced by Closing. \nCandice Lin and Patrick Staff live and work in Los Angeles\, and have been collaborating since 2010. Their collaborative practice focuses on the queer potential of herbal practices and cross-species interactions. Their work has been shown at Gasworks\, London; Teoretica\, Costa Rica; Centro Para Os Assuntos Da Arte E Arquitectura\, Portugal; 18th Street Arts Center\, Los Angeles; and as part of Witchy Methodologies at the ICA\, London\, 2017 and the Serpentine Galleries’ Transformation Marathon\, 2015. Candice Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Gasworks Gallery\, London; François Ghebaly Gallery\, Los Angeles; Artissima\, Turin; and Galeria Quadrado Azul\, Porto. Patrick Staff’s recent solo exhibitions include MOCA\, Los Angeles; Contemporary Art Gallery\, Vancouver; Institute of Modern Art\, Brisbane; and Chisenhale Gallery\, London. \nThanks to Ghebaly Gallery for additional support \nAll photos by Ian Byers-Gamber URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/candice-lin-and-patrick-staff/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/DSCF0193.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T200000 DTSTAMP:20170405T230413Z CREATED:20170329T215045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T230413Z UID:2567-1493496000-1493496000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:The Experimental Music Yearbook Presents: Carolyn Chen and Happy Valley Band DESCRIPTION:The Experimental Music Yearbook’s 2016 issue is celebrated with a performance of Carolyn Chen’s Signs of Struggle as well as a special Los Angeles appearance by David Kant’s Happy Valley Band. \nCarolyn Chen “SIgns of Struggle” (2016) photo credit: Daniel Pufe\nCarolyn Chen’s Signs of Struggle is a piece for people listening and reacting to different degrees of uncertainty when given a series of variably cooperative\, weight-sharing tasks. Using Antonioni’s Blow Up and Coppola’s The Conversation as sonic and procedural references\, a choreography of sound\, listening\, and movement is explored by a frequently-blindfolded quartet. Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket\, demolition district\, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday to retune habits of our ears through sound\, text\, light\, image\, and movement. For a decade she has studied the guqin\, the Chinese 7-string zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature\, which has informed her thinking on listening in social spaces. Recent projects include a marble chase\, an ASL interpreter strung to chimes at a distance\, and commissions for Wild Rumpus and Klangforum Wien. \nThe Happy Valley Band is the Great American Songbook heard through the ear of a machine. Composer / bandleader David Kant uses custom-built machine learning software to “unmix” pop songs and transcribe them back into musical notation. Imagine James Brown backed by a simmering Sun Ra Arkestra\, Madonna with a jittery freak-out synth rhythm section\, and Herb Alpert with a Tijuana Brass that must have been led by Charles Ives. The machine analysis has no concern for the limits of human performance\, and the resulting transcriptions are extremely complex\, literal\, and often impossible to play. The Happy Valley Band\, an ensemble of Bay Area and New York City musicians\, plays what comes out. \nThe Experimental Music Yearbook is a repository for composers\, performers\, and the public to glean the methods and styles of various artists working in the experimental music tradition. As the modes of experimentation in the sonic arts change from year to year\, the Experimental Music Yearbook’s annual issues will build into a comprehensive\, and varied\, database of experimentation in music/sound. Since the inaugural edition in 2009\, the Experimental Music Yearbook has featured contributions from such artists as Tom Johnson\, Bill Dietz\, Tashi Wada\, Cat Lamb\, Vinny Golia\, Jessie Marino\, Julia Holter\, and many\, many more. Along with the three permanent editors (Casey Anderson\, Scott Cazan\, and John P. Hastings)\, each year features a guest editor who provides curatorial direction. The 2016 edition features guest editor Jessie Marino (On Structure\, Ensemble Pamplemousse). Former guest editors have included Michael Pisaro\, Sara Roberts\, Laura Steenberge\, Olivia Block\, and Travis Just. Live performances of contributions have occurred in Los Angeles\, New York\, Chicago\, San Francisco and Cologne\, Germany. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/the-experimental-music-yearbook-presents-carolyn-chen-and-happy-valley-band/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ORGANVM-PERCEPTVS-Liner-Notes-Booklet-1_1340_c.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T220000 DTSTAMP:20170311T215938Z CREATED:20170311T215404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170311T215938Z UID:2548-1493406000-1493416800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Antiphony\, Otherwise: Friday Joy Night Service DESCRIPTION:Antiphony\, Otherwise: Friday Joy Night Service \n7:00pm\, April 28\, 2017 \n(FREE) TICKETS \n“Antiphony\, Otherwise: Friday Joy Night Service” is a sound art event that brings together musicians\, singers\, foodies and audiences to intentionally consider the role of the senses in Black religious practice and sacred traditions. To do so\, “Antiphony\, Otherwise” utilizes the Hammond organ instrument with its use in Black Christian worship to be the particular “site” from which questions about gender\, sexuality\, spirit\, enfleshment can emerge. The Hammond instrument and the musician do not work alone but with others\, with the sound of handclaps\, foot stomps\, tambourines ringing and singers. “Antiphony\, Otherwise” consists of three movements: \nI. Singing \nII. Talkback with Musician and Lead Singer \nIII. Eating \nCurated by Ashon Crawley\, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California Riverside\, “Antiphony\, Otherwise” approaches and makes more intentionally considered the concept of the multisensory\, the way Black religious traditions are about feeling as the grounds for practice. “Antiphony\, Otherwise” illustrates how the senses in Black religious spaces are unitary\, how sense experience is one of simultaneity\, how the senses are nondivisional. So to remember and recall the way the Hammond B-3 sounds is also to hear the voices of saints singing and talking\, to remember the tactility and touch of carpet or wooden floors underfoot\, to smell the cooking of food and then\, also and of course\, to taste the fried chicken\, the fish\, the hot sauce. This is why eating will be integral to the show as part of the event itself\, not something occurring “after” we have finished. “Antiphony\, Otherwise” stages the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ to think about sense experience itself. \n“Antiphony\, Otherwise” will be a space of multiple beliefs\, doctrinal and theological positions. It will be an intentionally and explicitly safe space for Christians believers and believers from other religious traditions and sects\, as well as a safe space for agnostics\, atheists\, non-believers and for TQPOC people to gather together and share with one another. \nMusician \nAbdul Hamid Royal: Mr. Royal was recently awarded the coveted OVATION AWARD and LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD for Best Music Direction for his work on the Los Angeles production of The Gospel At Colonus. He was previously awarded the NAACP IMAGE AWARD for his work on Broadway’s FIVE GUSY NAMED MOE and recently awarded the NAACP Theater Award for Best Musical Direction for his work on THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS. His Broadway credits\, as well as National and International tour credits\, read like a Broadway hit list – Five Guys Named Moe\, Smokey Joe’s Café\, Twist\, Sophisticated Ladies\, Ain’t Misbehavin’\, Jelly’s Last Jam\, The Wiz\, Truly Blessed\, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom\, Fiddler on the Roof\, Betsy Brown\, Concerts for the Earth\, Colors of Christmas and Sound of Music. Born in Wisconsin\, Royal was raised in the Midwest and began piano lessons at the age of 4 at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. He completed a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance/Jazz Studies at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music\, received a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from Northwestern University\, a Master of Theological Studies from the Claremont School of Theology and is currently working on his PhD. He says\, “The sanctified church is my inheritance and gospel music is my culture and the genesis of my musical experience. My first love was the sound of the hand-clapping\, foot-stomping\, tambourine accompanied sounds of the Hammond organ; the Leslie speaker and the click\, click\, click were the pulse of my soul. Then and now\, nothing moves me more than ‘the sound’ of gospel music.” \nSong Leader \nTroy Sanders: Pastor Troy Sanders’ relationship with the divine started when he was a toddler\, preaching on the front porch of his home in Denmark\, South Carolina\, and has served as the bedrock of his faith and ministry. As he grew so did his yearning and zeal for spiritual things\, resulting in a life-long ministry designed to affect the lives of youth and adults. His ministerial background includes over 25 years as a licensed and ordained minister\, and over 15 years of church administration\, where he created training curriculums and modules for leadership development; lecturing; and the development and institutionalization of a gospel choir in his hometown of Denmark. In 2001\, he completed his Bachelor’s of Arts program from Beulah Heights University (Atlanta\, GA) and completed a dual Master’s of Divinity and Masters of Art degree at the Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta\, GA). Pastor Troy is the Episcopal Liaison for the Greater Atlanta Area and servers the Executive Committee of The Fellowship Of Affirming Ministries\, under the leadership of Bishop Yvette Flunder\, an international movement of radically inclusive religious organizations committed to promoting liberation and addressing pivotal issues regarding racial\, social\, and economic equity. And he is pastor of Rehoboth Fellowship of Atlanta\, United Church of Christ\, Inc.\, a ministry called to be a 21st century prophetic voice admonishing all to Love God\, Love Self and Love People. \n  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/antiphony-otherwise-friday-joy-night-service/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-hammond-1024x685.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170427T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170427T200000 DTSTAMP:20170422T224135Z CREATED:20170422T223859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170422T224135Z UID:2595-1493323200-1493323200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Keith Fullerton Whitman / Sean McCann / Jessika Kenney DESCRIPTION:live in concert: \nKEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN\nSEAN McCANN\nJESSIKA KENNEY \ndoors at 8 / sound at 9 \n$12 at the door \nadvance tickets also available as a convenience for $10 plus fees: http://tiny.cc/KFWatHRtix \n\nKEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN \nThrough more than two decades\, Keith Fullerton Whitman has continuously explored and celebrated the technologies and many facets of electronic music\, plumming its history and scouting its cutting edges. Assuming the role of a contemporary “Contemporary Classical” composer\, Keith has also made the case that this music is a ‘popular form’ by serially choosing to release on labels intent on bringing such niche music to a wider audience. Keith’s discography is itself a dizzying catalogue of influence; labels that count his total-art aesthetic as part of their identity include Kranky\, Editions Mego\, PAN\, Room40\, No Fun Productions\, Rare Youth\, Root Strata\, Amethyst Sunset\, among other good companies. \nThe past couple of years Keith has focused on realizations of a “Live Electronic Music” that utilizes both software and hardware – improvisation with a laptop and modular rig both on stage. This activity has culminated in a piece – or perhaps a process – called Redactions. Each instance of this work incorporates “thematically and geographically relevant Musique Concrète elements” thus rendering each iteration – as well as the manner in which it is diffused – necessarily site-specific. Sonically\, the outcomes can be radically different\, or even abruptly shift styles within the same performance. Subtle landscapes of magnetic snow\, electro-acoustic gurgle and scrape\, sustained tone play\, or drifting particles of pulse. \nPrevious performances of Redactions have been staged in Europe\, Australia\, and the U.S. at various venues of note\, including Boston City Hall. KFW on Redactions: “It’s the most complete performance solution I’ve come up with to date; very much a live performance work and as of yet remains undocumented by a tangible commercial recording… please come hear it live.” \nThis will be Keith’s first L.A. appearance in over four years\, and also his first since relocating from Boston to Melbourne\, Austraila. The Los Angeles debut of Redactions will be presented in Quadrophonic Sound. \nhttp://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/redactions/ \n\nSEAN McCANN \nDrawn to the timbres of the orchestra\, Sean McCann has meshed acoustic instrumentation back into the possibilities of new sound fields\, painting pastoral landscapes with voicings near and clear. Since 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble he’s drifted away from overtly electronic sonics\, creating seamless studio assemblages of imaginary and – possibly impossible – ensembles. In live settings too\, classical instruments come into the fold as fodder for the mix. Human voice is never far away\, even if phonemes are reconfigured or processed. Indeed\, McCann’s work – and that of his “Recital Program” imprint – draw inspiration from an array of aesthetics: the “guttural tape work” of Fluxus artists\, experimental librettos\, certain margins of the New Age\, and many an artist who practiced outside of the spotlight. \nFor this – his first local performance since his most recent release Music for Public Ensemble – McCann will convene an ensemble to present a mostly-acoustic chamber-based piece\, augmented by live electronics\, to be preceded by a sound poetry / tape music piece. \n\nJESSIKA KENNEY \nWhether singing amidst gamelan tones\, classical Persian music\, the heaviest metal\, or the noisiest fuzz\, Jessika Kenney keenly considers the play of frequencies\, and how song acts as a conduit for words and meaning. Her solo works – as well as projects with her core collaborator Eyvind Kang – offer an audio syncretism that draws from established forms while conjuring new expressions. Her sense of the spectral has been heard in the ensemble of Persian ney master Hossein Omoumi\, as well as at the helm of the Austrian Choir on Sunn O)))’s Monoliths and Dimensions. Though her practice includes many a studied approach\, she finds a continued freedom in musics of rebellion; her brushes with the Indonesian punk scene resonate. \nFor this event\, Kenney will perform her new work\, This Is My House\, a gritty live-electronics-affected sung-recitation of The Persian Poems by Kathy Acker. Through time-bending efforts on both the micro and macro levels – 25 years after Kenney’s initial obsessive readings of Acker’s writing – the fictional process of Janey learning Persian and the actual process of Jessika learning the radif collide. \nOrganized by Tim Leanse URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/keith-fullerton-whitman-sean-mccann-jessika-kenney/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KFW_HR_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T210000 DTSTAMP:20170425T015235Z CREATED:20170418T180124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T015235Z UID:2581-1493233200-1493240400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Having Left: Intersectional Perspectives on Migration DESCRIPTION:Having Left: Intersectional Perspectives on Migration\nHuman Resources\, Los Angeles\nWednesday\, April 26\, 2017\n7:00–9:00pm \nTransnational and intersectional perspectives on feminism encompass questions that challenge postcolonial frameworks and scrutinize the destruction carried out by Western imperialism. Several artists from the Asian diaspora will present work exploring global migration\, labor\, and gender identity. Christine Dianne Guiyangco will re-stage a candle-lighting ceremony that marked her eighteenth birthday\, a coming-of-age debut in Filipino tradition\, which will involve three white women who were present at the event. Thinh Nguyen will perform the “War Cry” series as Long Long\, a reclaimed superego from Nguyen’s childhood memories growing up as a girl. Seo Yun Son & eunhae yoo will engage the audience in an interactive performance that narrativizes the Korean concept of jeong through a consideration of intergenerational and traditional labor. \nCurated by Hyunjee Nicole Kim\, and presented by Intersectionality NOW as part of their spring 2017 programming residency at the Women’s Center for Creative Work. \nARTISTS \nChristine Dianne Guiyangco was born in Philippines in 1992 and moved to United States in 2001. She currently works and lives in Los Angeles. She actively works in a range of fields including performance\, painting\, writing\, installation\, video\, and sculpture. In 2014\, she received her BA at the University of California Los Angeles. The process of displacement and reestablishment that began from her childhood engender identity politics to ground her project based interdisciplinary art practice. \nThinh Nguyen’s work is a complex contemporary look at a few converging issues investigating the personal\, social\, cultural\, and historical while innovatively engaging the public in the process. He explores formal and conceptual process in different media as a strategy to continue the development of critical exchange and aesthetic innovation. He received an MFA at Claremont Graduate University and BFA a California State University\, Fullerton. \nSeo Yun Son is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles\, California. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from the University of California\, Los Angeles. As an undocumented immigrant\, her practice examines the politics of constructing one’s identity by remapping territory and citizenship as well as the circulation and progression of one’s personal memory and history. \neunhae yoo is a Los Angeles-based artist who received her BFA in Fine Arts from University of California\, Los Angeles. She grew up in South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. in 2002. Her identity-based works stem from her undocumented status and the internal split caused by dichotomous cultural influences and memories. Through her conceptual practice\, the artist inspects the fluid – and often clashing – nature behind the sense of belonging to oneself and to a larger entity. \nIntersectionality NOW is a collective that believes FEMINISM NOW must be intersectional (we reject hierarchies based on race\, class\, gender\, ability\, sexuality\, or age) & that it must work to AMPLIFY the most marginalized women. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/having-left-intersectional-perspectives-on-migration/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nguyen_T_06.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170423T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170423T160000 DTSTAMP:20170410T203350Z CREATED:20170410T203350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170410T203350Z UID:2578-1492956000-1492963200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Sing Stitch Resist DESCRIPTION:Blending techniques of a sing-along\, sit-in\, and sewing circle\, artist and activist Emily Lacy invites the public to give voice to sonic resistance in challenging times. At this gathering\, the rich legacy of politically active music in America is both enacted and added to\, by mixing traditional protest songs from the past with new songs and sound pieces written for the present. Drawing from another community-oriented folk tradition\, that of the sewing and quilting circle\, participants are invited to embroider a message while listening or singing along. Custom sewing kits and materials are provided. The event is a celebration of folk forms and their potential to be adapted for contemporary contexts that encourage inclusive and compassionate expression. Participants are invited to wear attire and bring signs or other visual aids normally associated with a march or a demonstration. All ages are welcome. Lacy has generated work in music\, film\, and other media for many years\, and her performances and recordings have been included in various exhibitions at PS1 MOMA\, MCA Chicago\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Hammer Museum\, the Walker Art Center\, and LACMA\, in addition to various DIY spaces all throughout America. \nSpecial guest performers will include Charlyne Yi\, Carolyn Pennypacker-Riggs\, Laura Steenberge\, and Elana Mann with the Take a Stand Marching Band. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/sing-stitch-resist/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Banner_image_patchwork.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170425 DTSTAMP:20181026T195537Z CREATED:20170316T015555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195537Z UID:2552-1491976800-1493013599@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Indecent Exposure DESCRIPTION:Indecent Exposure\nApril 12-23\, 2017\nopening reception 4/12\nGallery Hours: Daily 8pm-midnight \n“Sex is a gift we are given\, and we should all just have fun with that.”\n-Margie Schnibbe (as Vena Virago) in I Had Sex with a Gigolo on Reality TV (2015) \nIndecent Exposure is a retrospective of Margie Schnibbe’s sexually explicit videos and includes over twenty years of work. Paying homage to Cinemaland\, the building’s previous tenants\, the main gallery is utilized as a casual movie theater\, with a ninety-nine minute video program projected as a continuous loop. The seating arrangements are comfortable and migratory; viewers are encouraged to sit close together or far apart\, to mingle\, to come and go as they please. The upstairs galleries are spaces for invited artists to create intimate performances that encourage participation. The lobby operates as a bar and gift shop. The exhibition is organized by John E. Kush\, and will be open nightly. \nSchedule of nightly intimate performances\nApril 12th: Karl Petion\, D Og\nApril 13th: Johnnie Jungleguts\nApril 14th: Kim Ye\nApril 15th: Joe Merrell\nApril 16th: Esater Sunday Screening of Porn Star Pets (9:30-10:30)\nApril 17th: Molly Shea\nApril 18th: Stephen van Dyck\nApril 19th: Alan Ishi\nApril 20th: Whits n Giggles (Whitney Gibson & Shelley Holcomb)\nApril 21st: Sarah Gail\, Travis D\nApril 22nd: Badly Licked Bear\nApril 23rd: Gregory Barnett \nSchnibbe’s videos chronicle her life\, often portraying her friends\, jobs\, partners\, pets\, and sometimes herself. The program begins with Mistress Samantha Diet Doctor (1994)\, filmed while Schnibbe worked as a dominatrix in New York City. The video documents one of the artist’s co-workers in a scene with a client/sub and a MOMA poster with the image of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Schnibbe’s other early works include Art Farm (1995)\, the staging of a go-go dancer in Kostabi World Soho with a soundtrack by Heidegger\, Hans Object of Desire (1995)\, a document of her dachshund’s passion for munching on her colleagues’ sex toys\, and First Date (1997)\, a psychedelic home-porn mash-up of the artist and former fuck buddies. \nAfter attending graduate school in California\, Schnibbe abandoned New York’s Lower East Side for Los Angeles’ Silver Lake and became fascinated with the San Fernando Valley porn scene. While working for an adult website in Chatsworth called Babenet (a partner of VCA Pictures)\, Schnibbe and friends filmed Teaparty! (2001)\, a soft-core girl-girl wrestling movie with infantilism themes. Around this time the artist became an adult film guide for the internet portal About.com and wrote about porn films and actors\, conducting interviews and visiting porn shoots. Crystal Cleans My House of Consciousness (2005) documents a heavy-metal housekeeper gone wild and Tweak (2002) is a portrait of a neighbor on drugs who can’t ejaculate\, despite the artist’s repeated solicitations and unwavering gaze. \nIn the mid-aughts Schnibbe worked for Vivid Entertainment and Hustler Video as a production designer and director of commercial pornography under the moniker Vena Virago. The program includes several trailers from Virago’s feature-length movies: Silverlake Scenesters (2006)\, Eastside Story (2007)\, Honey Bunny (2008)\, and Nietzsche Bangers (2005). In 2008\, for the first time in over ten years\, Schnibbe once again put her naked self in front of the camera in Case 1112: Forty is the New 14\, a somewhat fictionalized self-portrait of the artist as a sentimental masturbator. \nAfter retiring from porn and sex work\, Schnibbe turned to documenting the perversion in her personal life. Shot in the Silver Lake dog park\, Bareback PhD (2013) tells the story of a polyamorous OK Cupid hookup who fails to coerce the artist into having sex without a condom. The Cowboy (2010) and Women’s Work (2016) are meditations on the artist’s past experiences performing dirty sex acts for money in the S/M House. Schnibbe reveals her passion for gay porn and watching men jerk off in A Brief Portrait of Gregory at Age 30 (2012) and I Am a Tourist I Would Like to See Him Naked (2015). In Broken Hearts Are for Assholes (2016)\, the artist engages an exhibitionist masturbator from Tinder to help her recuperate from a lost love. Schnibbe returns to the porn set as Vena Virago\, this time as a multi-orgasmic performer when she appears on the Showtime Network’s real-sex television series titled Gigolos. I Had Sex with a Gigolo on Reality TV (2015) is an unauthorized bootleg of the artist’s performance\, recorded from the television during the episode’s premiere. \nVideo program:\nhttp://margieschnibbe.com/indecentexposure/videoprogram.html \nSchnibbe’s work has been exhibited at venues including Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam)\, Arsenal Institute for Film/Video Art and Kino Moviemento (Berlin)\, Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna)\, Arte TV (Germany/France)\, Anthology Film Archives\, Center for Book Arts\, The James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center\, Monkeytown (New York)\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)\, and in Los Angeles at LACE\, Film Forum\, Charlie James Gallery\, MOCA\, The Hammer Museum\, Francois Ghebaly Gallery\, The Box\, and David Kordansky Gallery. \nSchnibbe received a MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1998\, and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 1991. Schnibbe was born in Yonkers\, New York and studied at Hunter College of the City University of New York in the late eighties. Schnibbe lives and works in Los Angeles and hosts a monthly program on KCHUNG Radio. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/indecent-exsposure/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1_1994_Schnibbe_Mistress_Samantha.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170407T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170407T220000 DTSTAMP:20170405T224624Z CREATED:20170401T014252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T224624Z UID:2569-1491595200-1491602400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:$3.33 - "DRAFT" Tape Release Feat. Album-Length Screening of Original Film by Miko Revereza DESCRIPTION:$3.33 Tape Release of “DRAFT” on Leaving Records \nFeaturing an album-length screening of an original film by Miko Revereza\n+ Drinks and Snacks by Chef Jazzy \nhttp://www.threethirtythree.biz/ \nhttp://www.mikorevereza.com/ \nhttp://www.jasminesarp.com/ \nhttp://leavingrecords.com/ URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/3-33-draft-tape-release-feat-an-album-length-screening-of-an-original-film-by-miko-revereza/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3.33-DRAFT-HR-FLIER-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170331T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170331T230000 DTSTAMP:20181026T195342Z CREATED:20170316T222150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195342Z UID:2560-1490988600-1491001200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:UNTAMED DESCRIPTION:UNTAMED \nOn March 31st Human Resources LA presents the work of five female artists working in the mediums of dance\, performance\, visual projections and film. The evening will feature three dance films by Olivia Mia Orozco\, Andrea Ordaz and Rebeca Hernandez and performances presented by choreographers Andrea Ordaz\, Livya Howard-Yashar\, Zoe Rappaport\, and Olivia Mia Orozco. \nDoors 7:30pm. Show at 8pm. Stay for music by Sudan Archives from Stones Throw and drinks before and after the show. \n$5-10 Suggested Donation \n$3 Beer and Wine URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/untamed/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/unnamed-8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170329T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170330T180000 DTSTAMP:20181026T195406Z CREATED:20170322T234353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195406Z UID:2563-1490817600-1490896800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Fidelity of Nothing DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Wednesday\, March 29\, 8 – 10pm \nGallery Hours: Thursday March 30th 12pm – 6pm \n\n\nFidelity of Nothing is a group exhibition of video installation and sculptures by Lily Yu\, Jamie Kim\, Michelle Lee.\n\n\n\n\nIDLE was shot on 16mm b/w reversal with Arri ex. Hand processed through traditional negative processing and reversal processing. Tinted with fabric dye. IDLE features dancer Alexandra Bender. \nA-Gah- Mi (아가미) is about longing that particular someone. This project begun after a loss of my father. \n“I wanted to put all my blues in this square frames and wished my world outside of the frames would be happy. “ \nMichelle Lee works vary from painting\, sculpture\, video where materiality of a human body and thoughts about human condition in relation to the human body are explored. The installations displayed in the show embody (the) idea(s) regarding the fascination of the space\, divided and outside of our individual skin\, as an extension of one’s own body and mind. The human body\, encapsulated as the negative space separate from the space outside of the human skin\, in tandem with human conditions—including/such as longing\, companionship\, loneliness\, insatia- ble desire of being loved / accepted\, and the inclined involvement of bodies to one another. \nLily is a teaching artist and lmmaker from Oakland California. Her work is primarily documentary and analog lm with the focus on ethnography and close portraits. She has worked with Bay Area Video Coalition\, Bump Records\, Echo Park Film Center\, TEDx\, and PBS. Her work has been shown in San Francisco International Film Festival\, AFI Docs\, and TedX Vancouver. \nJamie is a Korean born artist/ lmmaker who predominantly works with 16mm lms. Her work is derived from mental and emotional aspect. She is focused on capturing what is impalpable and ephemeral into a tangible medium. Her work has been shown in IlShin Hall in Seoul\, South Korea and Chang Ucchin Museum of Arts in YangJu\, South Korea. \nMichelle Lee was born in San Francisco\, CA\, in 1994. Her past exhibitions include frottage (2017)\, Thoughts on Living Matter (2015)\, Inland: BFA work from Art Center\, CalArts\, UCLA (2015) and Invisible and Physical (2014). URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/fidelity-of-nothing/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/17358588_1483934511619310_7822657938977768379_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170325T160000 DTSTAMP:20170323T233220Z CREATED:20170316T184110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170323T233220Z UID:2558-1490457600-1490457600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:34\,000 Pillows​ Workshop DESCRIPTION:Since 2007\, US Congress mandated that Immigration & Customs Enforcement maintain a quota of 34\,000 detained immigrants per day in its 250 facilities around the country. \nAs part of the exhibition MAKING PLANS taking place at Human Resources LA (March 18 – March 26)\, artist duo Díaz Lewis will be holding 34\,000 Pillows Workshop. Participants in this free\, hands-on art-making session can join the Los Angeles-based artists in person as they take on the US Congress’s mandate — aiming to create a pillow for each bed. The ever-growing pile of pillows reflects the number of beds required to be filled each night\, translating the mandate in a way mere statistics cannot. The price of each pillow reflects the amount US taxpayers spend to detain one person per day. 100% of the proceeds of each pillow is donated to Human Rights Watch. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nDíaz Lewis – the collaborative duo comprised of Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis – create art to prompt social change. After the couple met in 2012\, they worked across the divide between Cuba and the US. Now based in Los Angeles\, their practice as artists and activists is fueled by deconstructing social processes and the symbols and politics behind them\, from two distinct and often opposing angles. Recent exhibitions include “Home Land Security” For Site Foundation\, San Francisco (2016); “Soul Asylum” Weinberg Newton Gallery\, Chicago (2016); “A Dream Deferred” Aspect/Ratio\, Chicago (2015); “Cul De Sac” Mission Gallery\, Chicago (2015); and “The Other’s Voice” Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival\, Chicago (2014). Díaz Lewis were most recently artists-in-residence at the Chicago Cultural Center through the support of the Joyce Foundation. Díaz Lewis are represented by Aspect/Ratio Gallery\, Chicago. \nin conjunction with the exhibition MAKING PLANS URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/34000-pillows%e2%80%8b-workshop/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Profile.00_00_50_43.Still002-1038x576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170328 DTSTAMP:20180725T231459Z CREATED:20170220T224713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180725T231459Z UID:2535-1489816800-1490594399@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Making Plans DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: March 18\, 7-10pm\nGallery hours: Tuesday – Sunday\, 12-6pm \nMAKING PLANS brings together a coalition of artists engaging with issues of labor\, access\, invisibility\, and power through various actions. In the introduction to Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974)\, a transcription of interviews with working people\, oral historian Studs Terkel begins by likening work to violence. This “daily humiliation\,” is at the root of a Capitalist condition which\, as Marx wrote many years prior\, “uses up its material factors\, its subject and its instruments\, consuming them\,” yet continues to endure\, despite an established discourse and data all but exhausting its systemic flaws and troubled histories. \nThis violence also emphasizes a search for daily meaning\, rationale for the empty hours\, dissent and hopelessness of that condition. In MAKING PLANS\, new economies of production emerge or return in retaliation\, deliberately positioning life and practice in such a way that acknowledges complicity\, yet still consistently working to eradicate that which does not work. \nIf we accept that Capitalism has failed us\, but that a true Communism cannot [yet?] be achieved\, how do we proceed? As Paulo Freire’s writes\,“only human beings are praxis;” a constant and vigilant re-examination of the pervasive\, endangering methodologies are needed\, so that something else\, something better\, might arise. \n“I’m not so much despairing as asking a question about making plans.”\nFred Moten \nArtists in the exhibition include: Astrovandalistas (Rodrigo Frenk\, Lleslie Garcia and Thiago Hersan)\, Di?az Lewis (Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis)\, Ishi Glinsky\, Nuttaphol Ma\, Jimena Sarno\, Aram Han Sifuentes and Kim Zumpfe. \nMAKING PLANS is organized by two artists\, Kyle Bellucci Johanson and Matthew Lax. An additional essay by Clara Lo?pez Mene?ndez accompanies the exhibition in a book designed by Gia Ahn (online version available here). \nADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING:\nSaturday\, March 25 @ 4PM Participatory workshop by artist duo Di?az Lewis\nSunday\, March 26 @ 6PM Film screening of work by Nuttaphol Ma\, Behrouze Rae and others\n \nstill from “A Grain of Rice Under A Microscope\,” 2013\, Nuttaphol Ma\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nphotos by Christopher Wormald URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/making-plans/ 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/2017/02/unnamed-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170311T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170312T170000 DTSTAMP:20181026T195428Z CREATED:20170306T200252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195428Z UID:2545-1489262400-1489338000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Inside You Is Me - Jaqueline Gordon DESCRIPTION:A dynamic sculpture with moveable walls\, multichannel sound pieces\, and a staged performance SATURDAY EVENING\, featuring FAY and Jon Mandabach.\nhttp://jacquelinegordon.net/ \nHOURS:\nSaturday Night:\n6:00 – 8:00 Visiting Hours\n8:00 – Jon Mandabach\n9:00 – FAY\nSunday:\n11:00 – 5:00 Visiting Hours \nFAY:\nFAY will be premiering her new record “Deal” (release date: February 24\, 2017) within the sculptural infrastructure of Inside You Is Me.\nForging an idiosyncratic musical language\, told through striking rhythms and adventurous wordless vocal explorations\, ‘Deal’ is FAY’s boldest work yet. A conversational interplay between drum and voice is at the center\, highlighting an alluring human element. A loose\, primal urgency guides these compelling and playful electronic compositions that favor intuitive sense perceptions over self-expression. The voice acts as a beacon throughout the record\, leading the rhythms and arrangements towards their next move. Each moment is deliberate and precise\, while simultaneously being executed with a pulsing of life energy.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/FAYshadows/ \n“Inside You Is Me” was originally installed at The Lab (SF) during the month of October 2016. http://www.thelab.org/projects/2016/10/1/jacqueline-gordon URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/inside-you-is-me-jaqueline-gordon/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC01599.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170304T220000 DTSTAMP:20181026T195517Z CREATED:20170223T045425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195517Z UID:2538-1488654000-1488664800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Monster Romp Live! DESCRIPTION:Chess is widely regarded as an intellectual game\, and often used as inspiration in cerebral artworks. This is checkers. \nMonster Romp originated as a short film featuring a game of checkers. Monster Romp Live!\, a performance in three acts\, is an extension of that film. The first is a satire of fascist militaristic displays of power\, self­regulation\, punishment\, and torture. The following act is an improvisational dance by a mercurial creature\, performed by Samantha­Jane Gray. The third act is a violent\, slapstick battle between the last two remaining pieces on the board. \nThe game of checkers is a contest between two oppositional forces divided by superficial difference. In Monster Romp\, checkers embodies the inherent brutality of binary opposition. Two monsters conjoined at the head\, the Twins\, play an unfriendly game\, pitting the checkers against one another. The pressure created by antagonistic relationships erupts into violence between and within both sides. \nLos Angeles based artists BeckandCol use humor and chaos to examine the crisis of human exceptionalism. Through costume based performance and video\, their work explores alternate universes populated with monsters who obsess over humanity and emulate its dominant attributes. Within these universes\, BeckandCol analyze humanity’s construction of sexualized\, racialized and naturalized others. The monsters are at once silly\, playful and exceptionally brutal. Through comical yet violent antics\, their monsters are both mimicking human behaviors and challenging them. \nMade possible in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. \ndoors at 7pm\, performance at 8pm \nsuggested donation $5 URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/monster-romp-live/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/family-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T220000 DTSTAMP:20181026T195517Z CREATED:20170226T233215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195517Z UID:2541-1488394800-1488405600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Los Angeles Council District 1 Candidates Forum and Election Info-Session DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles Council District 1\nCandidates Forum and Election Info-Session \nConfirmed Candidates: Joe Bray-Ali\, Giovany Hernandez\, Jesse Rosas and Luca Barton (write-in candidate) \nAlso featuring social justice\, environmental and political action organizations including: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)\, Los Angeles Community Action Network\, LA Poverty Department\, Decolonize LA\, Artist Political Action Network\, LA Womens Impact Collective\, Critical Resistance\, and more. \nModerated by Human Resources LA \nWednesday\, March 1st at 7pm \nHuman Resources\n410 Cottage Home Street\nLos Angeles\, CA 90012 \nVOTE MARCH 7th \n  URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/los-angeles-council-district-1-candidates-forum-and-election-info-session/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-3.21.00-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170228T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170228T230000 DTSTAMP:20181026T195613Z CREATED:20170131T221649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195613Z UID:2521-1488312000-1488322800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Sirrah's Dream DESCRIPTION:The first episode in a new performance series by Rachel Mason called “The Moving Mountain” weaves together fiction and true life stories. \nSirrah\, the largest and most powerful star in the Andromeda constellation recently detected that half of the world has been obliterated. Sirrah attempts to comprehend the destruction of an impossibly distant but beloved world as voices of real humans describe what they have discovered by living and observing planet earth. They include UCLA physicists\, Professor Mayank Mehta (neurophysics) and Professor Matt Malkan (astrophysics) as well as the artist Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses) and Hiroshima survivor\, Akiko Takakura. \nPerformance Features: Tora Kim\, Rachel Mason\, C. Spencer Yeh\, Yoshi Sakai and Neil Malick. \nPlease RSVP on Facebook if you can attend\, as there is limited capacity! \n$7 Admission at the door  \nPhoto by Ceci Moss URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/sirrahsdream/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T220000 DTSTAMP:20170207T194330Z CREATED:20170117T215148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170207T194330Z UID:2503-1487966400-1487973600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Ich Sehe Das Licht: Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in film\, video and performance DESCRIPTION:Kembra Pfahler and the girls of Karen Black present a performative screening featuring cinematic arcana\, voluptuous horrors and a Q&A confessional. Through her ongoing project\, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black\, Kembra Pfahler has been performing since the early 1990s in museums\, galleries and clubs the world over. Assembling an unprecedented program of film\, video and performance documents from Richard Kern\, Annie Sprinkle\, Steve Doughty\, Ned Ambler\, Mike Kuchar\, Charles Atlas and more\, Dirty Looks is thrilled to partner with Emalin Gallery London and the Los Angeles Art Book Fair to welcome Pfahler to Los Angeles for the first comprehensive screening of her work and appearances in the moving image. \nKembra Pfahler was born in Hermosa Beach\, California in 1961\, and she lives and works in New York City. Major solo exhibitions include Fuck Island\, Participant Inc. (New York\, NY\, USA\, 2012); Capital Improvements\, Emalin Gallery (London\, 2016); File Under ‘V’\, Rove Gallery (London\, UK\, 2005); Availabism and Anti-naturalism: A Feminine Experiment\, American Fine Arts Company (New York\, NY\, USA\, 2002); and Womanizer\, Deitch Projects (New York\, NY\, USA 2002). Selected group exhibitions include Future Feminism\, The Hole (New York\, NY\, USA \, 2014); New York Minute\, Garage Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow\, RU\, 2011) traveling to MACRO Museum (Rome\, IT\, 2011); Dead Flowers\, Vox Populi (Philadelphia\, PA\, USA\, 2010); and Whitney Biennial\, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York\, NY\, USA\, 2008). \nPurchase tickets here \nDirty Looks\, a platform for queer experimental film and video \nstaged in conjunction with the Los Angeles Art Book Fair with the cooperation of Emalin Gallery URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/ich-sehe-das-licht-kembra-pfahler-and-the-voluptuous-horror-of-karen-black-in-film-video-and-performance/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ferox2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170220T235500 DTSTAMP:20181026T195658Z CREATED:20170210T182720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195658Z UID:2525-1487617200-1487634900@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:SnatchPower Presents: FIGHT in HEELS DESCRIPTION:#SNATCHPOWER (the afrofuturistic women’s liberation artist collective) that brought you: FETISH WONDERLAND\, ELECTRIC LADYLAND\, AFROGOTH\, SNATCHKAOS\, & RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE proudly presents their premiere film in association with Really Not Radio: FIGHT IN HEELS. \n“Snatch” The only ones who heard the call were the ones it was meant for…this sci-fi tale focuses on the newest hearer of the call as she meets the Snatches: a bold group of afro-futuristic women hellbent on freeing women from the shackles of trendy fashion and teaching them to FIGHT IN HEELS. \nWritten by: sondriaWRITES\nEdited by: Really Not Radio\nStarring: Semi\, Chelsea Monet\, Teia “Tee Rex” Ricketts\, Xia \, sondriaWrites\, and TheUhuruverse\nSet Designer: Mai Shafik Potts\nFilmed by: Really Not Radio\, OMNIKLIX\, and Mai Shafik Potts \nMonday\, February 20\, 2017\nCost: $10.00 \nSCREENING TIMES:\n7:00PM\n10:00PM \nIn celebration of the director\, The Uhuruverse’s 30th b(EARTH)day there will also be two live band performances!!! \nSEASONS will perform live following the 7:00 screening\nEARTH ARROW will perform live following the 10:00 screening \nDJ BAE BAE (Kumi Iman) will keep you dancing all night and you will be able to purchase beer\, wine and rail drinks at the bar as well as eat vegan food prepared by Baba’s Vegan Cafe & enjoy some popcorn with an African twist made in Leimert Park\, CA. \nPerry Paints\, an AFROPUNK recognized painter will be doing live painting.\nAnd local artist Adam Valentin Villanueva will be displaying his art which was featured in the film! \nPlease save the date\, and invite all of your friends\, there is plenty of space for the entire city at this underground warehouse. \nOn behalf of the film crew and cast\, we look forward to sharing this project with you. We look forward to you taking a trip with us! SnatchPower URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/snatchpower-presents-fight-in-heels/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/SNACTHPOWER_Jesua_FightInHeelsFlyer7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170220 DTSTAMP:20170111T012419Z CREATED:20170111T005040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T012419Z UID:2494-1486706400-1487483999@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Yann Novak: Repose DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: February 10\, 7 – 10pm\nClosing Performances: Rebecca Bruno\, Sarah Rara\, & Geneva Skeen\, February 18\, 8 – 10pm\nGallery Hours: February 11 – 12 & February 15 – 18\, noon – 5pm\nCurated by Suzy Halajian \nRepose is a solo exhibition of new work by Yann Novak that explores how context changes perception. \nRepose consists of an audiovisual installation and series of seven chromatic prints. The installation presents a monolithic sound piece\, comprised of purely synthetic timbres devoid of traditional compositional elements\, accompanied by a projected field of light that continually shifts in color\, hue\, and saturation. \nThe series of prints\, titled Repose.Heptaptych\, is fabricated on acoustic absorption panels and installed in the gallery foyer. Each print represents one of the seven fundamental colors in the installation. The acoustic properties of the material serve to dampen the ambient sound outside the gallery as the audience enters the more sonically excited environment of the installation. \nThe first iteration of this project began as a performance commissioned for the 2014 AxS Festival and was performed in Cocky Eek’s inflatable SPHÆRÆ. The performance was an examination of the inseparability of sound from context\, and its effects on our perception of time\, space and subjectivity. In that piece\, Novak proposed that our experience of sound is highly dependent upon the listening environment\, and that the modernist notion of “reduced listening” introduced and championed by Pierre Schaeffer is problematic as our ability to understand and decode sound is always produced as a negotiation between phenomenon and context. For the listener\, there is never an opportunity to decouple the phenomenon of listening from the personal\, structural\, and political context within which the sonic field exists. \nWhile structurally similar to the 2014 performance\, Repose reframes the original inquiry into the relationship between sound and environment by extending it into the world outside the gallery. While the original performance asked\, “How does a simple shift in color influence our experience of sound?”\, Novak asks the audience to allow their own experiences as a witness of the recent US election debacle to precede their interpretation of the work\, and further asks\, “How do the economic\, political\, and social problems of the United States recode our collective listening experience? What does it mean to come together as participants\, as subjects\, and allies in this context?” \nThe exhibition’s closing will present performances by Rebecca Bruno\, Sarah Rara\, and Geneva Skeen. Rebecca Bruno will offer a choreographic response to Novak’s Repose.Heptaptych. A gestural run-on sentence performed in four orientations meditating on the relationship between movement\, subjectivity\, and repetition. Sarah Rara will present Separating the Air\, a new performance which involves games of listening and learning between voice and computer at the boundary between music and speech. Each part is a device to punctuate silence\, divide time\, move the air. Geneva Skeen will present Pop Song\, a temporal response to Novak’s drone work\, and a cultural response to our times. In harmonizing with Novak’s loop – divided into 3-4 minute segments (the average acceptable length of a pop song) – Skeen’s Pop Song acknowledges that populist times call for populist measures\, but refuses populist comfort\, acceptance\, and pale standards of beauty as means of resistance. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/yann-novak-repose/ 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/2017/01/Repose-Promo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T220000 DTSTAMP:20170207T003541Z CREATED:20170207T003541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170207T003541Z UID:2523-1486494000-1486504800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Breaking up with Amerikkka DESCRIPTION:Whether surprised by the results or not\, the complete and utter shittiness of the 2016 presidential elections has made one thing clear: for many\, if not most\, of us\, America is the worst boyfriend ever. We’re tired of explaining why something hurt us only to be told we’re imagining it. We’re tired of insufficient apologies that turn the blame back on us and tell us we’re too sensitive. We’re tired of hearing that America will change. When Donald Trump became president-elect\, the time for second chances and waiting to see what happens officially ran out. It’s time to break up\, America. It’s you\, not us. \nThis split is difficult\, even if it is necessary. It requires the support of the usual break up essentials\, friends\, wine\, and Beyoncé. Join host Artemisa Clark for a night of doing in public what we all\, by now\, have done in private: singing our favorite songs about the pain of and triumph over loss at the top of our lungs. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/breaking-up-with-amerikkka/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15401140_10105697940144079_7678690721200525835_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170207 DTSTAMP:20170204T213237Z CREATED:20170110T091232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T213237Z UID:2492-1486101600-1486360799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Statues And Attitudes DESCRIPTION:STATUES AND ATTITUDES\nAn imagined feminist vision\nJade Gordon and Megan Whitmarsh with guests \nFRI FEB 3 – Opening Event 7pm-10pm\nSAT/SUN FEB 4/5 – Exhibition Open to the public 1pm-8pm\nplus WORKSHOPS\, SCREENINGS\, and PERFORMANCES (see below for details) \nOpen during all exhibition hours: A Wider Net\, reading room curated by F.L.O.W. (Feminist Library on Wheels); also GIANT fabric magazine\, masks and sculptures. Singing with Becky Stark. Everything is participatory! \nRSVP for workshops: jagangormarsh@gmail.com\n \n\nFriday Feb 3 OPENING EVENT \n7pm Live music with Von Doog\n8:30pm VIDEO SCREENING – New Developments\, Inc (5:30 mins\, 2017)\, The Open Door (6 mins\, 2016)\, Women on the Edge of Time (5:55 mins\, 2015)\ncomplimentary cocktails by The Spirit Guild Distillery\n\n\nSaturday Feb 4 \n11am – 1pm: How Do You Stand In Relation To These Many Realms? Somatic workshop with Anne Howland – Feel into the wisdom contained inside your own body. Participants are invited to bring something (an issue in their lives) that is important and emotion provoking and alive for them in the moment. No one will be required to share this with the group. (RSVP Required)\n\n1pm – 8pm: Exhibition OPEN TO PUBLIC\n\n2pm – 4:30pm: Rainbow of Desire – Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop with Jade Gordon – Part of Brazilian director and activist Augusto Boal’s liberatory political theater methodology\, Rainbow of Desire is a range of exercises\, games and techniques to identify\, analyze and respond to internalized oppression. (RSVP Recommended)\n\n4:30pm – 5:30pm: CO-OP SPUTNIK: How to start a babysitting co-op. Talk by Rachel Allen – This workshop will outline the benefits of babysitting cooperatives\, for babies and their parents; describe a couple different kinds; and provide a guide on how to start one for yourself\, your family and your community\, and close with a few tips on how to sustain it over time. We may also have some testimonials from members of the Northeast LA Babysitting Cooperative\, aka Co-op Sputnik. (RSVP Required)\n5:30pm – 8pm: Light on The Path\, drop-in sewing workshop with Megan Whitmarsh – Resist branding by external forces by creating and broadcasting the message that you want to send. Claim the political space of your chest / breast by making a (fabric) message button.\n(No RSVP required)\n\n\nSunday Feb 5 \n11am-1pm: The Heart of The Matter\, Query-based workshop with Dorothy Henderson – We will use deep listening and clear questions to help participants gain deeper understanding of a concern\, inquiry\, or decision that they bring to the workshop. (RSVP Required)\n\n1pm-8pm Exhibition OPEN TO PUBLIC\n\n2-4pm: Activating the Feralscape: Somatic Plant Writing Ceremony with Amanda Ackerman and Saewon Oh – Working with time traveling plants\, we will explore the language embodied by each: by ingesting plants\, we’ll be sharing our bodies and co-creating a feral language to uncover stories of shifting timelines\, ancestral recovery\, and collective remediation. (RSVP Required)\n\n5pm: VIDEO SCREENING – New Developments\, Inc (5:30 mins\, 2017)\, The Open Door (6 mins\, 2016)\, Women on the Edge of Time (5:55 mins\, 2015)\n\n5:30-6:30pm: PERFORMANCE: Aaron M. Olson’s Musical Tracing Project – Taking familiar songs and musical pieces and reinterpreting them through a filter of naïveté via an unsuspecting large musical ensemble. This performance will feature the work of female composers.\n\n6:30-8pm: Past Lives Crystal Guided Meditation & Workshop with Azalea Lee of Place 8 Healing – Crystal healing is a form of metaphysical energetic healing facilitated by the vibrations in crystals and stones. (No RSVP required)\n\n \n \nWe will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom… Dislodge the mind from the lazy\, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.\n— Ursula K. Le Guin \nStatues and Attitudes is a three day exhibition and series of free public workshops and events; an imaginary educational institute and retreat center; a portal and a liminal space. Examining 1970s feminist speculative science fiction and themes such as environmentalism\, aging\, consumerism\, and time travel\, Statues and Attitudes investigates the trope of the futuristic female-only utopia as an exploration of female agency and liberation from patriarchy. Society faces a sudden catastrophic event. At this moment even the hope of human survival seems like a utopian desire. We seek to create a ritualized\, aesthetic space within which we will consider strategies for collective healing\, self-critique\, and social change. Metaxis is a Greek word that means an in-betweenness\, a way to exist in two different worlds at once. We visit astrologers and crystal healers. We have a sense of humor and a sense of responsibility. We find ways to protect and love each other. Statues and Attitudes gathers a chorus of women’s voices\, past and present\, that sings of things to come beyond the terrifying immediate future and of old possibilities that were never allowed to exist. We can make things happen. \nWe invite you. You are not a consumer but a participant. We want to uncover our connections and reveal our communities. What are you are thinking? How are you feeling? There is no outside where you can simply stand and watch. We travel through time. We are laughing and crying. We are listening and reaching out. Anyone willing to participate is invited. Climb the ladder and throw it away. The body is engaged with our process of thinking. Thinking takes place simultaneously in the brain\, the body\, and the world around us. The universe is participatory. The universe is relational. The space from here to there is fixed. Those are the riverbanks. But the space between is unforeseeable. The river you enter is always new. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/statues-and-attitudes/ CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SA-invite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T193000 DTSTAMP:20170110T023100Z CREATED:20170109T205331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170110T023100Z UID:2489-1484767800-1484767800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Written and Bitten: Ulysses Jenkins and the Non-Ontology of Blackness DESCRIPTION:X-TRA Winter Launch Event: \nA screening and conversation with Aria Dean\, Erin Christovale\, and Ulysses Jenkins \n“You’re just a mass of images you’ve gotten to know / from years and years of TV shows. / The hurting thing; the hidden pain / was written and bitten into your veins / I don’t and I won’t relate / and I think for some it’s too late!”\n—from Mass of Images (1978). \nDrawing on her essay in the winter issue of X-TRA\, “Written and Bitten: Ulysses Jenkins and the Non-Ontology of Blackness\,” Aria Dean will introduce Jenkins’ work\, followed by a screening\, and conversation between the artist Ulysses Jenkins and LA Municipal Gallery curator Erin Christovale about Jenkins’ work\, focusing on the late 1970s and early 1980s. \nThe screening will include Mass of Images (1978) and Two Zone Transfer (1979). URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/x-tra-winter-launch-event-written-and-bitten-ulysses-jenkins-and-the-non-ontology-of-blackness/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/8.-Jenkins_Just-Another-2_Print-700x489.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170117T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170117T203000 DTSTAMP:20170114T033026Z CREATED:20170114T033026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T033026Z UID:2500-1484685000-1484685000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Corey Fogel\, Dicky Bahto\, and Tashi Wada DESCRIPTION:Human Resources hosts a new performance by artists Corey Fogel\, Dicky Bahto\, and Tashi Wada. The hour-long structured improvisation will feature generative imagery on multiple slide projectors\, pitched metal percussion\, keyboard\, bagpipe\, electronics\, and sirens. \nCorey Fogel is a drummer and artist currently living in Los Angeles\, CA. His practice is based in spontaneous encounters often involving the intersection of sounds\, objects\, textiles\, foods\, frequently in collaboration with other musicians and artists. Fogel engages the viewer to consider sound as a medium on par with paint and cellulose. Fogel performs and composes in many rock\, jazz\, noise\, folk\, and chamber music ensembles. \nDicky Bahto makes work utilizing still and motion picture photography\, sound\, installation\, and performance\, which he has shown at places including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, the Huntington\, REDCAT\, San Francisco Cinematheque\, Monday Evening Concerts\, Jancar Jones Gallery\, the wulf.\, and the Echo Park Film Center. \nTashi Wada grew up in New York and lives in Los Angeles. His compositions use apparently simple structures and carefully calibrated tuning systems to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. Wada presents his music often in collaboration with other artists including Charles Curtis and Stephan Mathieu\, in addition to performing regularly with his father Yoshi Wada. Wada runs Saltern\, an imprint of Important Records\, which he started in 2014. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/corey-fogel-dicky-bahto-and-tashi-wada/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/HR_117d.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170114T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170115T210000 DTSTAMP:20170112T223002Z CREATED:20161224T222023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T223002Z UID:2467-1484391600-1484514000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Final Fantasy Art Show DESCRIPTION:It’s not the end that matters! It’s knowing that you have something to live for right now\, at this moment! Something you’ve worked for… something that’s worth protecting! As long as you have that…that’s enough!\n– Terra Branford\, Final Fantasy VI \nDo you like Final Fantasy? Do you like to draw? Do you like art at all? If you answered yes to any of those questions then come on out! \nAnyone can come and make drawings around the theme of “Final Fantasy” and get your drawings hung in a massive epic drawing mural. Recreate stills from gameplay\, draw from memories you have playing the games\, or (if you never played the games) just meditate on the meaning of the words “final” and “fantasy” and draw from there. Old strategy guides will be on hand as reference points. Final Fantasy is a wide ranging series that explores ecological issues\, misuse of technology\, class disparity\, and the nature of memory… So there’s a lot of material to work with. The work will be installed and exhibited as it’s made by anyone who wants to come- blurring the line between audience and artist in a way that reflects the porous and ephemeral relationship between a video game and it’s players. This workshop is for everyone who likes to draw no matter how talented you think you are or aren’t. \nEvents \nSATURDAY 1/14 \nSergi Gee and Camelliah Saleh: 11am\nDrawing with Marcos Siref: 12 noon\nDrawing with Nicky Rojo: 1 pm\nJames Raymond DJ set and Drawing: 2 pm\nMarisol Ceja Godinez from We the GEEKS of EAST LA: 3 pm\nJeffzilla: 4 pm\nComedy and drawing with Lauren White: 5 pm\nJasmine Nyende: 6pm\nKristin Smallwood DJ set: 7 pm\nNick Malkin DJ set: 8 pm\nMicah James DJ set: 9 pm \nSunday 1/15 \nBreakfast and Drawing with John Buttle\, Michale Piña\, and Guan Rong: 11 am\nSoyoung Shin: 12 noon\nDeana Uribe: 1 pm\nDrawing and DJ set with Jay Lizo: 2 pm\nViolin and more with Pauline Lay: 3 pm\nWhitney Gibson: 4 pm\nVegan Dinner Hour with Margie Schnibbe: 5 pm\nFinal Final Fantasy L3T’S GAY with Johnnie JungleGuts: 6pm \nThis event is also a party for the last Final Fantasy VI episode of Johnnie JungleGuts’ let’s play series\, L3T’S GAY. The final episode of L3T’S GAY FFVI will be projected and recorded at 7pm onto the Lifestream mural on Sunday\, January the 15th. Come hang out and be a part of the recording! \n\nFree and open to the public! \nsupplies provided (newsprint\, sumi ink\, pencil) \nDrawings will be screened for discriminatory content. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/final-fantasy-art-show/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2017-01-03-at-10.15.27-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170113T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170113T200000 DTSTAMP:20161229T190450Z CREATED:20161229T190236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161229T190450Z UID:2478-1484337600-1484337600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Red in the Missile Room DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of intimate performances in the reverberant sonic environment at Human Resources\, in celebration of the release of Jonathan Silberman’s new solo saxophone album Red in the Missile Room. \nPerformances by: \nJonathan Silberman \nLaura Steenberge \nJake Rosenzweig \nEric Kiersnowski \nAbout the performers: \nJonathan Silberman will be performing solo on tenor saxophone. Known for his collaborative music making\, he has composed and performed extensively as a member of the LA quartet Godzik Pink (5RC/Kill Rock Stars)\, the trio Rats and quartet LA Fog\, in addition to numerous other collaborations and ongoing experiments with solo saxophone. Jonathan runs the shop/studio/art space Character Projects. \nLaura Steenberge is a performer\, composer and researcher living in Los Angeles. Current interests include: songs\, vocal interference\, low frequencies\, nonsense\, tubes\, Byzantine chant\, paper\, aliens\, necromancy\, villains\, harmonicas\, tuning forks\, birds. Current Instruments include: viola da gamba\, contrabass\, piano\, guitar\, harmonica\, voice\, invented instruments. \nJacob Rosenzweig is a bassist/composer/improviser based in Los Angeles who performs in numerous musical capacities. Some projects include: Stupid Man Suit\, Three Thirds\, The Matty Harris Double Septet\, and Music for Bass Quartet. As a solo bass performer Jacob has developed a unique playing style and repertoire\, favoring the idiosyncratic and little known sounds of his instrument\, which can be heard on his 2016 album Janus. \nEric Kiersnowski is a musician and composer known for his unique playing and songwriting in projects including Godzik Pink\, Rats\, his current project Featherwolf\, Upsilon Acrux\, Totally Serious\, and others. On this night he will be performing original works for solo guitar. \nAbout the album: \nRed in the Missile Room is a new album of themes and explorations on solo saxophone by Jonathan Silberman. It is his first solo album\, after releasing recordings since the late 1990s with collaborative projects including Godzik Pink\, Rats\, and LA Fog. \nRed in the Missile Room is comprised of twelve tracks\, each of them performed on tenor or soprano saxophone\, recorded live and without overdubs. The tracks vary in approach\, from lyrical and angular melodies to ‘sound based’ multiphonic thematic improvisations. The common thread is a grounding in the present moment\, bringing together the experiences of performer and listener in an intimate way. \nA critical part of the vision for this album was to release it as a full length Vinyl LP\, as well as a digital release\, and a limited edition vinyl pressing of 520 copies has been made featuring artwork by the artist. The approach to recording was carefully conceived with engineer RJ Russell to capture a broad and colorful dynamic sound spectrum in high fidelity\, and represent the album’s fullest sonic potential. Financed in part with supporter contributions\, the album will be available at the show and also can be found online here: https://jlsrecordings.bandcamp.com/releases \nThis event is co-presented by Character Projects URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/red-in-the-missile-room/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/a2413083305_10.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR