Human Resources

This physically vulnerable choreography frames the male body between violence and pleasure -- a microphone is bound to the body and swung from the pelvis evoking forms in the realm of BDSM, pornography, athletics, games, and flagellation. Through genital hypnosis and rigorous discomfort, this is a dance of (narcissistic) pleasure and (quiet) longing, (self) mutilation and (self) care. A dance to flatten and complexify the male body, to tenderize the flesh, to move beyond and to newly inhabit — a phallic solo to recompose the phallus.

BABY: WHO IS BABY Friday, April 22 - 7:30PM Saturday, April 23 - 7:30PM BIO Baby ... is “ummmmmm” & “ahhhhhhhh” & “please be quiet” & “sighhhhh” & “why you gotta be like that” & “noooooo” & “okay, okay” & “lets do it” & “reeeeeeealllllllllly” & “shhhhh don’t tell” & “you are so weird” & […]

An evening of rare filmic treats, a bar, an accordionist, a Yididish interlude, and a reception to follow. Presented as part of Chantal Akerman: Contre L'Oubli/Against Oblivion
- with a lecturette by film maker and programmer Courtney Stephens

Come join us for a night of ---- Embarrassment Envy Euphoria Excitement Pretend you are someone else for a night Dress up as your favorite whatever (preferably from the 1920s, Victorian, Rococo or Elizabethan era) You will be filmed There will be lots of fog 3 lovely hosts (who only speak in riddles) will help […]

Join Chinatown community members, community stakeholders, and Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) members for a movie screening of a film called "Everything Will Be", a film that presents stories of different community members in Vancouver Chinatown. After we watch the movie together, we will have a discussion about similarities and differences between the stories […]

Evening of live audiovisual performances and experimental abstract films by the Dutch media arts collective Macular and a selection of Dutch filmmakers.

KCHUNG presents BRUJAJA, A Gathering of Witches "First, there has been the desire to rethink the development of capitalism from a feminist viewpoim, while, at the same time, avoiding the limits of a "women's history" separated from that of the male part of the working class. The title, Caliban and the Witch, inspired by Shakespeare's […]

SOME WARE at Human Resources (SW004) Samo Sound Boy SISSA DJ Cuntry Noise Some Ware DJ

Performances by:

Anya Liftig
Gracie Devito
Samuel White

This series of readings and performances includes work that explores the limits of the body, aims toward transformation, seeks plants and animals as models or collaborators, expresses saturated or hysterical emotion, embraces femme aesthetics, and moves toward the horizon of queerness (after José Muñoz).

Performances at 7:30 and 9pm Shades of Gray is an excerpt from Andrew Berardini's work-in-progress the Standard Book of Color to be read in Alice Wang's exhibition, with music by ?Luke Fischbeck? / Lucky Dragons?. ?E?ach shade will be ?read in immersive atmosphere by a different voice.?? The Standard Book of Color is a compendium […]

CoH (Sweden) (Ge-stell) http://www.post-pop.org/ CoH (Cyrillic) is a Russian sound artist, based in Sweden, who has been active since 1998. He has released numerous works on esteemed experimental labels like raster-noton, Editions Mego, Coil's Eskaton, and more. He is well-known for his collaborations with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Coil, among others. His works explore texture, atmosphere, […]

In the trans-genre film "This Unwieldy Object" the animated dinosaurs of Hollywood cinema meet the petrified ghosts of colonial science. You follow the protagonist on a road trip into the dusty heart of the USA, where fossil traders, sculptors and scientists are trying to reconstruct the plot of natural history, the plot of progress. Organized by Clara López Menéndez.

Oakland based experimental music composer, new media artist and active writer, David Kanaga exploring interactive possibilities of music in games and other dynamic environments joined with Ben Babbitt.

A night of experimental music with Postcommodity where they promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.

A video game get together and video installation by Johnnie JungleGuts Bring your 3DS and max out that StreetPass! Play casual games of Smash Brothers, Pokemon and Mario Kart, or whatever the kids are into these days! Just hang out! outlets for charging will be available! This event is entirely free! Friendly to all, LGBT […]

Sophia Cleary + Bradford Nordeen assemble a coterie of luminary queers for this one-off night of dance, drama and dissonance.

A very rare chance to see some very deep and free musicians together under one roof. Jason Ajemian's Folk-Lords is the sound of an outstanding group of New York improvisors performing six conceptual, visual & sonic landscapes. Meditative Mingus ballads, imaginary conversations between Sun Ra & Thelonious Monk, poetic takes on pop culture, and an […]

MEET & GREET 2016:
A project fair & party for
new & independent contemporary
arts groups in Los Angeles

A benefit / kick-off celebration for HRLA's Decolonize LA series.

Contemporary artists from Los Angeles and Tijuana exchange ideas in an informal salon with works that muddle, illuminate, and transmute the Baja/Alta California border. Open discussion will follow with live interpretation by Antena Los Ángeles.

Human Resources, in cooperation with VOLUME, is pleased to presents acclaimed intermedia artist Phill Niblock and one of the pioneers of live computer music Carl Stone.

Invitation to Yin Yang Join us Thursday, January 28th at 8pm for a performance by Ron Athey with Darryl Carlton (aka Divinity Fudge) and David Harrow, as part of the Live Artists Live: Performance Art and the Archive program. This event is sponsored by USC's Visions and Voices Program. People with reservations should arrive between 6:30-7:30 to […]

music performance with ‘daiKYo,furo shIKI and book launch of Felix Bernstein's work Album can be heard here: https://daikyofuroshiki.bandcamp.com/album/yuu YUU by DaiKyoFuroShiki 大凶風呂敷 (‘daiKYo,furo shIKI) is a brainbending collaboration between Tamio Shiraishi and Cammisa Buerhaus, that fuses handmade sound, free noise, and guttural blooms of tone poetry. Artist and multi instrumentalist Buerhaus plays her self built […]

Entry is $5. All the money raised goes towards getting this film on the road. Hosted by Casey Jane Ellison Artist Auction includes: Jibz Cameron, Aimee Goguen, Molly Larkey, Edie Fake, John Batki, Yuval Pudik, Amanda Marsalis, Anna Craycroft, Nicole Eisenman, Lee Maida, Davida Nemeroff, Pearl Hsiung, Dylan Mira, Anna Sew Hoy, Eve Fowler A.L. […]

Video program. Part 2, conceived in conjunction and in dialogue with the exhibition "The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning." Curated by Suzy Halajian and Clara López Menéndez, the program features works by Malin Arnell, Phil Collins, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, and Basim Magdy, followed by a Q&A with the curators and Malin Arnell, Harry Dodge, and Stanya Kahn.

The End of the Party, 2015 subtitled by my sister, Rita: (I hope she doesn’t) Fall Asleep In The Ocean Julie Tolentino with the eternal players: Mark So, Pigpen, Maria Garcia, John Bertel, Patrick Murch, Tamaki aka Banetoriko, Leon Hilton, Ivan Ramos for N.T. and the rest of the worst of us Saturday, December 5, 2015, 11pm […]

Machine Project and Cabinet magazine team up to present two new episodes in the life of bounce from artist (and former professional squash player) Carlin Wing – hosted by Sabrina Chou’s experimental sporting exhibition, HR. Following the workshop at 5pm, we’ll head to the bleachers for Episodes in the Life of Bounce, an illustrated talk by […]

From 1pm to 4pm, join us for a Live Ball Orchestra! Artist Carlin Wing, assisted by Luke Fischbeck, will lead a workshop about the sonic and musical properties of bounce. Participants will use balls of all types to sound out the architectural space of Sabrina Chou’s exhibition at HRLA. We will explore the aural characteristics […]

performances and readings on desire, yearning, love, and sex. Manuel Solano http://manuel-solano.com/ Guan Rong www.onehousearts.org/ Johnnie Jungleguts http://johnjungleguts.tumblr.com/ performances start at 8:00 sharp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMF3ackBvE

Join us for a celebration of the publication of Bellamy's When the Sick Rule the World, and Doyle's Campus Sex/Campus Security

Sound performances at HR, in the exhibition "HR" by Sabrina Chou

On Sunday October 25 we want to pay tribute to Chantal Akerman, a filmmaker that has changed our lives and our eyes to see cinema, to be cinema. We can’t believe and don’t want to accept her disappearance.

The Adonis Project: Masquerade Saturday, October 10th, 2015 For the second year in a row the notorious Adonis Theater, legendary gay adult movie house will be creatively resurrected for one night only as artists from the LA queer community descend on Human Resources to share their hot visions around themes of Gay Sex and Queer […]

ohanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory proposes that sick bodies are the 21st century’s sites of resistance: chronic, pathologized, and historically feminized illnesses ought to be read as modes of protest against the unlivable conditions of neoliberal, imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist cis-hetero-patriarchy.

Karen Anzoategui brings their solo show Catholic School Daze to Human Resources LA in Chinatown, Oct 2nd-4th, 2015. Catholic School Daze is an autobiographical solo performance that tells the story of ‘Karen’ who finds humor and pain while surviving the challenges of gender norms, sexuality, and faith. Karen is forced to take the blame for […]

He loves me. He loves me not. He's from the wrong side of town. Parents don't understand. Boys are good. Boys are bad. These issues defined the sweet and sassy songs of girl groups from the 1950s & 60s.

Adam Laiben screens his 2011 film HOME AGAIN, an adaptation of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's 2009 French documentary, HOME. A six-minute short film by Laiben will accompany the feature film. Also, come early and stay late for live music by Izapa.

Free Show

claire cronin leaves for georgia soon. last chance for her songs in los angeles. they are good joined by ezra buchla http://catfact.net/ kathleen kim! of LA Fog and Shekhan. sounds and mysteries and the inimitable emily lacy, gracing us again and it is our great fortune to have maestro daniel brummel in the building

An evening of solos, experimentations, works-in-progress organized by Ron Athey. Featuring Rosé Hernandez, boychild, Divinity Fudge and La Porscha, plus a special group finale, Walking Meditation with Sage Charles on percussion.

Night of music and video installation. Zeek Sheck (SF Bay Area) Multimedia artists that recently performed with Black Spirituals (a recent group that played HR). ZS is led by Canner Mefe and has performed in a variety of art spaces: http://www.cannermefe.com/bio/ Peter Kolovos (Los Angeles) Local experimental guitar player Peter K has confirmed to want to […]

Set within the highly collaborative exhibition Epitaph for Family currently on view at Human Resources, tir journal hosts a conversation between Johanna Breiding, Cary Cronenwett, Jennifer Moon and Tyler Matthew Oyer. Following the conversation will be a screening of the critically acclaimed film She Male Snails (Pojktanten, 2012) directed by Ester Martin Bergsmark. 72 minutes, […]

YOUR MOTION SAYS sets up its final night at human resources with dances to arthur russell's music by christopher argodale, shade theret, peter hernandez, eydie mcconnell & nika kolodziej, tatiana lubovski-acosta, and emily jane rosen. performance starts promptly at 9pm $5 admission this event is occurring within "epitaph for family" by johanna breiding, a multi-media […]

Join Michelada Think Tank on Monday, June 29 at 7pm for the launch of Race, Art, & Survival. This project is part of our summer residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and in conjunction with Chats About Change. In this kick-off session we pose the question, “If there were a PoC Survival Guide for artists, […]

Heaviness from the midwest, expansiveness from the west. 9pm/$5

Doors at 8PM SONOPTIK & HRLA presents an evening of smeared electronics and ambient force fields. CEDIE JENSON - An electronic producer from Brisbane, Australia, that has spent the last few years fusing soundscapes with pop. Visting LA for the first time. http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/08/cedie-janson-in-the-light-official-video/ http://thump.vice.com/en_au/article/musical-reflections-and-refractions-listen-to-light-works-from-brisbane-producer-cedie-janson http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/interviews/cedie-janson-talks/ ANENON (Non-projects/Ghostly) -  http://soundcloud.com/anenon http://www.facebook.com/anenon TOM HALL (Sonoptik) - http://tomhall.com.au/ […]

Doors at 8PM, $5 more jazzy weirdness than you can shake a stick at

$7 solo trumpet from far out, funneled thru NYC 8:30 PATRICK SHIROISHI'S BLACK SUN SUTRA - soaring saxes and clashing drafts of drums and bass... swirling images adrift in the haze of memory 9:15 COREY FOGEL - drums and guns... well no guns actually 10 PETER EVANS - "New York City - based trumpeter, composer, […]

$7 gives you entry to a lovely night of sights and sounds, sips and slips.... 8:30 - BERARDI/LIEBIG duo Improvised textures, rhythms and atmospheres for bass, drums and a steaming pile of electronics from these two local magicians. history is littered with the corpses of unrequited genius™ 9:30 - HELENE RENAUT - Video Release - […]

L'INFERNO: A GROUP ART SHOW / LIVE FILM EVENT FRIDAY, JUNE 12th $5 DONATION / DOORS AT 8:30PM; PERFORMANCES AT 9:00PM ALL AGES +ALL PROFITS BENEFIT WEST LA ANIMAL SHELTER+ A full multimedia art show in the vein of last year's acclaimed 'Try To Forget' show, the 'L'Inferno' event brings together some of the most […]

Doors 9PM / $7 Organic tension noise composition; emphasis on being in the moment — minds, bodies, rooms. Our terms. Discomfort, anxiety, struggle, obsession, dynamic, and intention through sound — and the necessity to create our own vocabulary within it. Discarding what doesn’t hold resonance while refining what does. Aesthetic integrity. Line in the sand. In […]

2PM-2AM help us help you come listen to new and exciting music, eat some hot dogs, drink some drinks in the evening part of the show... life is good two shows in one... bring what you can and we'll take care of the rest.... but remember this is a benefit and we need dough to […]

Doors at 9PM; $7 all ages life is good This article is about a secretion of mammalian genitals. For the substance that covers the skin of a baby at birth, see Vernix caseosa. For the experimental noise band, see Smegma (band). MSHR is beyond anything we have ever seen and heard... craftsmanship of alien proportions... intensity […]

Doors open at 6PM, Screening at 6:30PM; $8 suggested donation Vanessa Roveto, Excitability, 32 min., 2013 Michael Robinson, Light Is Waiting, 11 min., 2007 Michael Robinson, All Through The Night, 4.20 min., 2008 Michael Robinson, These Hammers Don't Hurt Us, 13min., 2010 Michael Robinson, The Dark, Krystle, 9min., 2013 Queer pop cultures collide in the exciting video work of Vanessa […]

May 1st, 2015 - Doors at 8pm - $10 An evening of contemporary and experimental music and performance. A Solo Voice by Odeya Nini is an investigation of extended vocal techniques, resonance and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of […]

Doors at 8PM, $10 all ages. Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes duo, touring in support of 'Matterings', their new record on Erstwhile Records Ted Byrnes and Scott Cazan duo James Rushford and Tashi Wada duo Florent Colautti ABOUT JEPH JERMAN I grew up in a military family, so we moved around a lot, a different […]

COMMUNITY FORUM & Book Launch for Manuel Vason's Double Exposures. Tuesday April 28, 7:30PM Join us a community forum exploring the relationship of performance art to photography, and photography's relationship to performance art. This forum celebrates the publication of Manuel Vason's Double Exposures, a series of collaborations between the London-based photographer and some of today's […]

8PM One week across five different cities we will introduce you to Max 7 and its creative possibilities. Whether you’re a seasoned user or have only thought about downloading our 30-day demo, we want to hangout with you and talk about Max. Not since the introduction of Max 5 has a new release included so […]

8:30pm-midnight

Saturday April 25th 2015 Sarah Harron / Jenny Sayaka NONO / Divided Daughters a night of performance, sound and video curated by Oscar Miguel Santos. DOORS at 10pm STARTS at 1030pm ***** Sarah Harron’s work is narrative based and system seeking. Composed of controlled structures that once setup beget their own chance and destiny.  Her […]

The publication includes feature essays and reviews by: Jonathan Griffin Travis Diehl Anthony Pearson Anna Breininger Eric Morse/ Alexandra Grant Barnett Cohen Mateo Tannatt Kate Wolf Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal Keith Vaughn Evan Moffitt Catherine Wagley Aaron Horst and Cal Siegel And new editioned series by : Nora Slade (Waggy Tee) Ben Medansky Lauren Cherry & […]

Doors at 9PM; $5, all ages. An expansive experimental tour of psychedelic trance to jump cut tape music. A RARE chance to see two of Finland’s most acclaimed sonic adventurers – neither have ever performed in California before! ARTTU PARTINEN member of Avarus, Amon Dude, Heteroskeleton. “If heaven exists, Andy Kaufman and Hunter S. are […]

Doors at 9PM; $5 FLESHTONE AURA with live projections by WINSTON HACKING “Fleshtone Aura serves his spicy dinner with a tangle of source cassettes and electronics that deploy the deeply arousing aromas of both a series of poignant and extraordinairily well timed belches and farts (or the equivalent thereof) AND the grandest gestures of the […]

Join HRLA as we welcome Chicago-based artist Keijaun Thomas. This is Thomas's first performance in Los Angeles. Sunday evening, April 19. 6PM-8PM. 10-15$ suggested donation. Partitions of Separation and Trespassing Section 1. Selective Seeing Part 2. Looking While Seeing Through Section 2. Painted Images, Colored Symbols Part 3. Sweet like Honey, Black like Syrup   […]

Doors at 9PM; $7, all ages welcome. I SPEAK MACHINE - music/ film duo from Los Angeles that create sci-fi/ horror short films that are screened with the score performed live. Tara Busch will be playing the live scores to THE SILENCE and GAGGLEBOX plus a few extras! The soundtrack to their first film, THE […]

Doors at 9PM; $5. Mike Tamburo (Pittsburgh, PA) - https://miketamburo.bandcamp.com/ East coast hammered dulcimer, gong and meditation master comes to float your boat Brown bread (Beacon, NY) - https://brownbread.bandcamp.com/ Drifting nebula of a cappella vocal harmonies and keyboard swirl Dj E-Spinfiniti - https://soundcloud.com/djesp-infiniti-1 Interdimensional DJ and meditative sounds for the upliftment of all creation Kevin Greenspon - http://www.kevingreenspon.info/ Ambient […]

Directed by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie, this expansive project utilizes a mobile television studio to explore the artist dialogue with broadcast transmission, analog and digital media, and televisual liveness. E.S.P. TV’s live TV studio hybridizes technologies old and new to realize synthetic environments for performance that also expose the process of production. Each live […]