BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Human Resources - ECPv6.15.17//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:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110826T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110826T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1090-1314316800-1314316800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:howardAmb and Leila Adu DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/howardamb-and-leila-adu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110823 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110825 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160522T195729Z UID:1089-1314079200-1314165599@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:MGM Grand: NUT DESCRIPTION:“MGM Grand is coolness incarnate.” ~ New York Times \nNUT is structured like a nut: a fruit with a skin\, meat\, and a seed. NUT speaks to our relationship with dance\, as practice and as a discipline. NUT is MGM’s first dance created during the winter months. It questions the aesthetics of produced dance\, and how it is expected to affect an audience and a venue. NUT takes cues from diverse performance cultures and historical influences such as Motown\, elements of the mid-90’s NYC dance improvisation scene and Tommy DeFrantz’s dance class for undergraduates at MIT. \nMGM Grand (Modern Garage Movement)\, an (un)disciplined art dance group\, started as a threesome in a one-car garage in CA. Since 2005\, MGM has taken themselves on the road\, transforming spaces into arenas for audience-mobilizing dances: garages\, galleries\, alleyways\, schools\, movie theaters\, streams and valleys. NUT began in Cambridge at MIT\, premiered at The Kitchen\, was recently performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) and will travel up the West Coast Aug/Sept 2011. \nMGM is Biba Bell\, Jmy Leary and Piage Martin\, with R McNeill. \nPrevious works include Oneness: Making It With Love (2010)\, Easy Royce (2010)\, Royce (2009)\, Dajointe (2009)\, Tonight (2009)\, New Gree (2008)\, THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE\, IT IS FROM BEDSTUY. (2007) and Maynard (2005). \nMGM has performed at numerous places\, including American Dance Festival\, Durham\, NC; Artissima\, Turin\, Italy; Bohemian National Home\, Detroit\, MI; Callicoon Fine Arts\, Callicoon\, NY; Capital Theater\, \nOlympia WA; Creative Time OceanFront Pavilion at Miami Art Basel\, Miami\, FL; Esalen Institute\, Big Sur\, CA; Henry Miller Library\, Big Sur\, CA; Jack Hanley Gallery\, NY\, NY; MacArthur b Arthur\, Oakland\, CA; Milk & Honey\, Sebastopol\, CA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Cambridge\, MA; Mission Creek Music Festival\, San Francisco\, CA; Museum of Jurassic Technology\, LA\, CA; Pace Wildenstein Gallery\, NY\, NY; Pacific Northwest College of Art\, Portland\, OR; Pleasure Pad\, San Francisco\, CA; Shane’s llama barn\, Portland\, OR; Subterranean Arthouse\, Berkeley\, CA; The Kitchen\, NY\, NY; and Twin Peaks Orchard\, Lincoln\, CA. \nFor more information\, visit www.moderngaragemovement.com.\nmoderngaragemovement@gmail.com URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/jmy-and-mgm-grand/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/NUTband.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110819T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110819T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1087-1313712000-1313712000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Dorian Wood and Dave Dominique of Killsonic DESCRIPTION:pick one day for an opera and Dave Dominique to perform for a night URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/dorian-wood-and-dave-dominique-of-killsonic/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110811T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110905T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160523T095924Z UID:1085-1313020800-1315180800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Peter Harkawik/Group Show DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/show-proposal-peter-harkawikgroup-show/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110809 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110811 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170521T103240Z UID:1084-1312869600-1312955999@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:The Action Bureau: Free Clinic #1 DESCRIPTION:Free Clinic #1\nOrganized by The Action Bureau \nJoe Deutch\nJeff Huckleberry\nJamie McMurry \nTHE ACTION BUREAU is pleased to present FREE CLINIC #1\, the first installment in a forthcoming series which features new works in performance by contemporary artists. FREE CLINIC #1 will take place on Tuesday\, August 9\, 2011 from 7pm-10pm and is hosted by Human Resources\, the performance-focused art collective occupying the former Cottage Home Gallery in Chinatown. The FREE CLINIC provides a platform for artists to explore action-based performance art and will pair Los Angeles-based artists with those from the performance community at large. The FREE CLINIC will also engage the local public with the growing discourse surrounding the performance art medium. Each clinic in the series will include a publication featuring photographs and writings on the artists’ work\, to be distributed free-of-charge to attendees. \nFREE CLINIC #1 presents live works by renowned artists Joe Deutch\, Jeff Huckleberry\, and Jamie McMurry. These artists have reputations for creating intensely visceral works which engage the audience in their highly personal\, often-times violent battle against the dominant moral economy. Through their unique methods\, each structures a sequence of actions\, which together describe a collision of physical and psychological space. Each artist has idiosyncratic means of attributing value to their own actions and in doing so\, they question the rationality that allows us to perpetuate cultural standards at the expense of our own desires. \nAbout the Artists \nJOE DEUTCH received a BFA from Webster University\, St. Louis\, in 2001 and an MFA from UCLA in 2007. Working in video\, installation\, and performance\, Deutch has been steadily barreling challenge against the rational. He has exhibited at PS1 MOMA\, and is represented in Los Angeles by Parker Jones Gallery. \nJEFF HUCKLEBERRY received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. Jeff has been performing art for the last 20 years\, both nationally and internationally. Upcoming exhibitions include TIME EATERS w/ Vela Phelan at Grace Exhibition Space\, Brooklyn\, NY September 8th\, and Préavis de désordre Urbain\, Marseille\, France\, September 17th-24th. \nJAMIE McMURRY has been an active organizer\, educator and artist in the fields of performance\, installation\, video and conceptual art for over fifteen years and is currently based in Los Angeles. His upcoming exhibitions include: SubStation Gallery\, Singapore; Existence Festival\, Brisbane\, Australia; Guangzohu Live\, Guangzohu\, China; and curator of “This Is Performance Art” exhibit\, CCA Glasgow\,Scotland. \nAbout the Organizers \nTHE ACTION BUREAU is a curatorial collective founded by artists Parker Davis and Paul Waddell.\nPlease visit us online at http://actionbureau.tumblr.com/ URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/action-bureau/ CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/tumblr_lpu7wtmnhS1ql9tcvo4_r1_1280.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110803T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110805T020000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1082-1312329600-1312509600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Hana Van Der Kolk DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hana-van-der-kolk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110802T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110802T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1081-1312243200-1312243200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:max markowitz double feature DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/max-markowitz-double-feature-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110730T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110730T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1080-1311984000-1311984000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Lady noise and friends DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/lady-noise-and-friends/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110726T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110726T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1077-1311638400-1311638400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:max markowitz double feature DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/max-markowitz-double-feature/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110719T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110719T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1076-1311033600-1311033600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:max markowitz double feature night DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/max-markowitz-double-feature-night/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110717T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110717T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104302Z UID:1075-1310860800-1310860800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Thank You Rosekind and Little Band of Sailors DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/thank-you-rosekind-and-little-band-of-sailors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110715T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110715T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1074-1310688000-1310688000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Grant Capes show DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/grant-capes-show/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110714T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110714T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1073-1310601600-1310601600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Garbaej Kaetz DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/garbaej-kaetz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110709 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110808 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161218T213620Z UID:1072-1310191200-1312696799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:mal-dis-tri-bu-tion - Scott Benzel DESCRIPTION:mal-dis-tri-bu-tion\, a solo show by Scott Benzel\nUpper Gallery \nDownload Maldistribution Publication for ipad/iphone epub format\, control click and save \n‘Maldistribution’\, solo show @ Human Resources at Cottage Home\, Chinatown\, Los Angeles\, through August 6 \nArtforum Review. pdf \nArtReview Oct. 2011 Review \nMaldistribution I pdf \nChecklist pdf Bison Dele pdf \n\n\nmal-dis-tri-bu-tion \n\nn. Faulty distribution or apportionment\, as of resources\, over an area or among a group. Maldistribution is a term generally applied to economic disparity: It most often refers to \nthe inequal distribution of resources or capital. \nIt is a term that also suggests ‘bad’ distribution- a common complaint of producers of cultural artifacts: records\, films\, mass-produced objects. In this context\, it refers to a lack of wide commercial availability of a specific product\, usually through the fault of the distributor. Maldistribution has poor consequences for mass-produced objects and good consequences for their opposite in the realm of distribution: objects of art. \nA work of art actually benefits from lack of accessibility\, from ‘bad distribution’. Its rarity is the source of much of its value. The editioned print or photograph\, the one-of-a- kind painting\, the small-print-run book are all infused with value through scarcity. Simultaneous with scarcity\, publicity plays a vital role in the value equation: the work must be visible through publicity\, reproduction\, and discourse while remaining physically inaccessible. Through the combination of publicity and scarcity\, the work of art’s physical existence is charged with value in a process dialectically opposed to that of the mass-produced object. \nThis is a collection of objects which have been repurposed in ways that generate ambiguity or friction within the continuum of intention and reception. The complex interactions between the roles of producer and distributor of mass-cultural artifacts in creating and reframing meaning inform the ‘afterlives’ of these objects- the ways in which they are processed and used exceed the scope of their original intent\, and contradictory effects ensue when an object’s original meaning-value is unhinged. \nThe complexity of these effects is similar to that of the ‘use’ of art upon reception by the art viewer and provides some insight into contemporary art making\, distribution\, and reception. Increasing difficulty and complexity in determining a static author of a show or an artwork and questions regarding artistic identity\, autonomy\, and artistic license are all outgrowths of these same effects. \nExamples of the phenomenon of ‘repackaging’ -with the term expanded to include censorship and withdrawal from distribution of works\, retooling existing works to maximize commercial opportunity\, counterfeiting\, and the manipulation of financial markets- are juxtaposed with examples of mimicry\, dissimulation\, and Trojan Horses. The resulting objects become articles of ‘bad faith’ in relation to their original intent within the culture: an American distributors’ repackaging and alteration of Jean Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samorai into the subpar The Godson through dubbing and repackaging in an attempt to capitalize on the success of The Godfather and (the film’s star) Alain Delon’s trial for murder; a distributor’s non-sensical attempt to repress references to LSD in the marketing of the entirely LSD-themed film The Trip: the secret inclusion and reattribution on a Beach Boys album of a song written by Charles Manson; the manipulation of the BATS Index\, a financial market\, to create ‘drawings’ on the \n\n\n\n\ncharts; the Stuxnet virus\, a Trojan Horse regarded as the first piece of ‘war software’ -not so different from Linda Benglis’ sexually explicit ad in Artforum magazine which led to the resignation of several editors and creation of October magazine; and the Chinese counterfeiting of the never-produced Nike ‘Heaven’s Gate’ SB Dunk shoes -suppressed prior to release when a media storm ensued regarding the stylistic relationship of the shoes to the Heaven’s Gate cult suicide. \nThe counterfeit presupposes not only the existence but the value of the original- it is useless to counterfeit the worthless. The question of value here supersedes the seemingly a priori question of existence. The ‘afterlives’ of these objects presuppose and incorporate their original uses\, sometimes resolving their internal contradictions\, more often leading to a state of ambiguity and suspended animation: the objects’ are ‘value- added’ through misuse. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/scott-benzel-upstairs/ 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/2016/03/LipstickPipewDiagramWeb-600x412.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110704 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T210241Z UID:1069-1308895200-1309672799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Queering Sex DESCRIPTION:Queering Sex is a performance and video exhibition that features the work of artists who are dealing with gender and sexuality. This cross-generational\, trans-historical video program explores sex and sexuality via ideas and actions related to performance\, and thereby highlighting a relationship between performativity and identity. The exhibition includes the participation of over 40 artists from Los Angeles\, New York\, and abroad. \nA word from co-organizer and artist Kathryn Garcia: \nNowadays everything is queer; there are very few new frontiers of queer-dom yet to be explored. Probably because we’ve been there already. Masculinity\, femininity yeah we got that; we know the two from top to bottom\, left to right\, up down all around\, and from both sides. Men adopt the feminine\, women adopt the feminine\, men adopt the masculine\, women adopt the masculine – and now we’ve finally gotten to the point where we are adopting children. Milk won the Oscar\, James Franco kissed Sean Penn and probably Klaus Biesenbach as well or so the rumor goes. The Kids are All Right is all anyone could talk about for a while (although the film retreats safely back into heteronormative stereotypes). Until A.L Steiner dropped the bomb and shot a Community Action Center art “porn” and showed it at a Chelsea gallery\, then THAT was all anyone could talk about. AA Bronson curates a “queer ” Film Series at MoMA with no womyn in it and dykes start grumbling\, then we have the queers fighting amongst themselves for inclusion and so on and so forth\, a not-so-welcome throwback to the F.H.A.R . To make a very long story short – we’ve made some progress\, we’re doing it – we’re here and we’re queer. But perhaps the only thing queer about being queer at this point is the actual word “queer” and what does that mean anymore anyway when uh\, it’s all supposedly okay now?!! The kids are all right\, let’s go bare back in the mountains — We’re mainstream folks! G A S P — Normalcy oh N to the O. PANIC — Should dykes start fucking men and queens vice versa to break out of the neat little categories we’ve been placed in (or created for ourselves) and regain our queer-NESS? Because at this point with all of the stereotypes in place\, a queer fucking the opposite sex is what really seems queer. The point is what we’re doing today is no longer just queer (yes there’s a little bit of that ) but let’s be honest\, queer has become so prevalent that even my straight friends qualify. What we are as a whole is POLY: meaning more than one\, and that’s really all we’ve ever been\, because honestly it’s about inclusiveness\, not separation\, not binaries\, we’re not Queer because they’re Normal\, to us it is all valid (as long as it’s dirty). So we hope that you will join us at Human Resources to explore the multifarious meanings of the word SEX. \nSincerely\, \nKG \nAMAZING PERFORMANCE LINE-UP: \nJune 24   FINE ART UNION (Norway) \nJune 25   MATT GREENE (Los Angeles) \n                TALL PAUL \n                 U.S. Premiere of “9 Days of Cry Out” by TOSHINORI TANAKA \nJune 26   SPHINX (New York) \nJuly 2      DAWN KASPER (Los Angeles) \nPLUS MANY MORE SURPRISES and VIDEOS by: \nTheo Adams\, Skip Arnold\, CHOKRA\, Coco Dolle\, Zackary Drucker\, Juan Pablo Echeverri\, Fine Art Union\, Gordon Flores\, Kathryn Garcia\, Paul Gellman\, Katy Grannan\, Wynne Greenwood\, David Jones\, Dawn Kasper\, Brian Kenny\, Rosalie Knox\, Lynn Hershman Leeson\, Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Lars Laumann\, Bruce La Bruce\, Danielle Levitt\, Lovett/Codagnone\, Manon\, Nadja Verena Marcin\, Lucas Michael\, Slava Mogutin\, Tameka Norris\, ORLAN\, Maria Petschnig\, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge\, Hunter Reynolds\, Natalie Rodgers\, Michael Rudnick\, Ira Sachs\, Rafael Sanchez\, Carolee Schneemann\, Scottee\, Michael Sharkey\, Jack Smith\, Matthew Stone\, Toshinori Tanaka\, Tobaron Waxman\, Marnie Weber\, Samuel White\, Martha Wilson\, Rona Yefman… and more! \nQueering Sex considers how artists across generations are using sex as a way to understand and explore what lies at the core of one’s identity. Among the works included are a select group of videos created during the sexual revolution of the 1970s and the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s- both extremely significant decades that propelled the advent of identity and queer politics. We are intent on bringing together a disparate group of artists to open up the critical and institutional discourses surrounding these ideas. Instead of proposing one strict agenda\, the exhibition’s inter-generational and cross-cultural approach allows there to be room for numerous points of view. Inherent to the very nature of the content\, oftentimes the works in this exhibition directly or indirectly challenge normative binaries\, patriarchal institutions and other systems of control that consciously or unconsciously affect us. \nThe title of the exhibition is meant to expand upon queer notions of sex and challenge the idea of queer vs normal. For years\, the word could not have been used without derogatory connotations. Even before it was reclaimed by the gay community as a sign of defiance\, it was also used to define anything that was considered deviant\, outsider and/or abnormal. According to Judith Butler\, queer is “a site of collective contestation\, the point of departure for a set of historical reflections and futural imaginings”. In Queering Sex\, with its inter-generational approach\, we are positing that queer exists on multiple planes of non-linearity and is beyond hetero and homo-normative distinctions. Queer is an idea that is constantly evolving\, changing\, and adapting to its current climate. \nAs a whole\, Queering Sex proposes the question\, what does it mean to be “queer” nowadays? \n\n  \n\n\n\nLeft: Tall Paul (Gellman)\, curators Sarvia Jasso and Kathryn Garcia\, artist Matt Greene\, and Human Resources cofounder Eric Kim. Right: Fine Art Union. \n\n\nON THE EVENING of June 24\, as lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage in New York\, a group of artists and activists on the opposite coast were instigating a less normative (though perhaps no less traditional) celebration of sexuality: the opening night of “Queering Sex\,” a weeklong performance and video series at the downtown Los Angeles nonprofit Human Resources. While the event-cum-exhibition didn’t start any fires with the boilerplate press-release “positing” that “queer exists on multiple planes of non-linearity and is beyond hetero and homo-normative distinctions\,” the lineup itself comprised a group of folk whose varying practices demonstrate a happily nuanced take on sex (as a critical and aesthetic tool)\, with special emphasis on historical constructions of queerness\, the hyperbolic performance of “outness\,” and our (hopefully) evolving relationships to genders and identities. True to form\, the sizable crowd that spilled out of the gallery (a former movie theater in Chinatown) resembled the young\, aggressively polysexual (trans)demographic that curators (and Vicemagazine “power couple”) Kathryn Garcia and Sarvia Jasso aimed to represent: women in tailored blazers and work boots; men in girdles and Fluevogs; dads with babies; babes with daddies; femmes\, womyn\, twinks\, dykes\, beards\, “straights\,” a lady in a vagina costume—but mostly typical arty Eastsiders. People comfortable with quotation marks. \nThe exhibition commenced (after a successful Kickstarter campaign) with a screening to set the feel: works by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge\, Orlan\, Skip Arnold\, Nadja Verena Marcin\, Marnie Weber\, and Lovett/Codagnonem\, among many others. But I missed all that. So I jumped into the fray via a performance by the Norwegian collaborative Fine Art Union (artists Synnøve G. Wetten and Annette Stav Johanssen). The masked\, bald-capped glamazons crooned\, screamed\, toppled a cardboard monolith\, simulated fighting and fucking\, hurled turdlike rubber wads at the audience\, and smeared “menstrual-y” crimson paint onto each other’s faces. Against a backdrop of Freudian projections (a black hole\, a snake)\, Fine Art Union performed what could be considered a “girling” of femininity\, or id-like primitivism\, or the resignification of sexual subjectivity . . . but maybe it was all just a drag. After the performance\, artist Brian Getnick—the only viewer to throw turds back at the performers—whispered\, “I wish it was as cathartic for us as it was for them.” \n\n\n\nLeft: Sphinx in performance. Right: Artist Bobbi Woods and Joe Deutch with Semiotext(e)’s Hedi El Kholti \n. \n\n\nMatt Greene’s performance the following night was a comparatively repressed affair. As the audience found their seats\, two severe-looking women in black—artists Lisa Anne Auerbachand Jennifer Cohen—appeared carrying trays of meatballs (veggie and beef) to satiate the crowd. As a black-clad Greene joined them\, they took to a table at the center of the gallery and proceeded to read a hypnotizing narrative of dislocated desire: “There are those who in soft eunuchs place their bliss and shun the scrubbing of a bearded kiss [. . .] beautiful\, take-charge type females believe in loving but old-fashion type methods when dealing with haughty husbands [. . .] cuckoldry is not all that it is cracked up to be.” Playing the joyless ballbusters\, the women riffed on Greene’s self-deprecating delivery by subtly altering their vocal range from monotone to snobbish taunt\, at times almost panting. “I’ve been researching castration anxiety\, which Freud called the root of all fetishes\,” Greene offered after the action. “I also recently watched The Empress Dowager\, and the plot involves a fake eunuch. There’s a lot of comedy potential with a fake eunuch.” Slapstick may have been a more appropriate term. \nSpeaking of terms\, there was a lot of chatter all weekend around the word “queering”: “The queerest thing about the idea of queer is the word itself\,” summed up artist Spencer Douglass\, who then added\, “Why is queer so gay?” More clues came Sunday afternoon at a release party at a private home in Los Feliz (unrelated to Human Resources) for the fifth issue of writer Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer’s zine Pep Talk\, a collection of brilliant wordsmith Bruce Hainley’s writings and letters. The issue’s introduction offered a list of keywords for “getting in the mood”: ANAL\, LANA\, WARHOL\, FAGGOTRY\, ENGENDER\, (DIS)EMBODIED\, RAMIFICATIONS\, (GET A) LOAD\, BLEW (MY MIND)\, BLUELY\, BEAUTY\, AVITAL RONELL\, WITHDRAWAL . . . As I caught up with partygoers\, it seemed that just about everyone had their own publication to talk about: artist Brian Kennon’s latest 2nd Cannons release Alice Cooper/Suzi Simpson; artist William E. Jones’s Halsted Plays Himself; books in the works by Semiotext(e)’s Hedi El Kholti\, ZG Press’s Rosetta Brooks\, and art historian Jane McFadden; and more to come from Hainley on Sturtevant. Reflecting on the cool\, relaxed scene\, writer Jennifer Krasinski and artist Jeff Burton observed that only in LA do intellectuals sit around a swimming pool\, smoke pot\, and talk literature. “People in New York just don’t believe that this is what a typical party is like out here\,” mused Krazinski. And she was right—this was the third pool party I had stopped by over the weekend (and\, sadly\, the only one without skinny-dippers). \n\n\n\nLeft: Artist Dawn Kasper in performance. Right: Artist Jennifer Cohen. \n\n\nI slipped away from the bookishly chic affair and cruised back to “Queering Sex” in time to catch the last jewel tones of Jack Smith’s Normal Love flickering in lapidary complexity\, reflecting that parallel world where curiosities shape-shift into conventions. Garcia gave props to Gladstone Gallery for facilitating the loan of the film. “The fate of Jack Smith’s archive was so uncertain.” The rarely screened\, never-finished follow-up to the infamous/infectious Flaming Creatures was a wise inclusion in the program. Its decadent denizens and simulated screen sirens delivered the perfect filmic appositeness of (and also\, strangely\, escape from) so much queering. Alongside the many inclusions of “Queering Sex”—absurdist rock-’n’-rollerblader Tall Paul (Gellman); New York femdom-metal band Sphinx; the frenetic\, abstrusely feminist\, and gravity-defying actions of Dawn Kasper; the hypnotically hetero stoner slowness of Joel Kyack’s band Street Buddy; and countless other videos—Normal Lovestands out as a touchstone for generations fighting against sexual conformity in all its articulations. Let’s just hope the next generation of polysexuals\, et al.\, can plug a little realness into the new “normal.” \n— Catherine Taft URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/queering-sex/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/70d128bf099518fced514b3a0fe4e7fd_original.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110622T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110622T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1068-1308700800-1308700800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Grant Capes music show DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/grant-capes-music-show/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110616T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110623T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T080038Z UID:1067-1308182400-1308787200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:NewVillager's Temporary Culture - Residency and Performance DESCRIPTION:NEWVILLAGER Residency at Human Resources \nAN INSTALLATION AT HUMAN RESOURCES GALLERY DESIGNED FOR LIVING\, SLEEPING\, PERFORMING\, AND AN INSTALLATION AT HUMAN RESOURCES GALLERY DESIGNED FOR LIVING\, SLEEPING\, PERFORMING\, AND GOING THROUGH STAGES OF CULTURE. \nhttp://www.newvillager.com/ \nPERFORMANCES: \nTh 16 – Ilirjana Alushaj (ApacheBeat) DJ\nFri 17 – Matt Kivel (Princeton) & friends\nSat 18 – JohnPaulJones (Worst)Friends) DJ\nSun 19 – Calmer + Julia Holter\nMon 20 – Emily Lacy + David Scott Stone\nTue 21 – NewVillager — Integrative Concert + IAMSOUNDsystem DJ set \nCONTRIBUTORS \nKatie Bachner\, Joseph Barber\, Benjamin Bromley\, Conor Buckley\, Ashley Carter\, Judge Dylan\, Sonya Genel\, Julia Holter\, Liz Janssen\, Kalen Kaminski & Astrid Chastka (for Upstate Clothing — www.youreupstate.com )\, Eli Langer\, Eric Lister\, Lucky Dragons\, BrianVillanuevaMendez\, Collin Palmer\, Blake Salzman\, Ross Simonini\, Cassie Thornton\, Zach Wojcik URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/new-villager-anh-do/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:exhibition,one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/tempculture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110612 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110614 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161218T205054Z UID:1066-1307858400-1307944799@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Rats / Tes Elations / Town Hall (NY) / The Relatives (NY) DESCRIPTION:Some really great bands! \n5pm (Early Show)\n$5 cover \nRats –\nhttp://www.ratstheband.com/ \nTes Elations –\nhttp://www.facebook.com/teselations \nTown Hall –\nhttp://townhall.bandcamp.com/ \nThe Relatives –\nhttp://relatives.bandcamp.com/ URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/rats-show-with-seven-bands/ LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012 CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110611T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110611T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1065-1307750400-1307750400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Fielded DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/fielded/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110602 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110611 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161218T203945Z UID:1157-1306994400-1307685599@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Say You're An Artist - Mark Roeder and Johnnie Cochran Middle School Artists DESCRIPTION:Human Resources is pleased to present Say You’re an Artist\, an exhibition of new and recent work by art students from Johnnie L. Cochran\, Jr. Middle School. Organized by artist and teacher Mark Roeder\, the exhibition will feature a collaborative installation process culminating in an opening reception on Saturday\, June 4\, from 4:00 to 8:00 PM. \nFeaturing drawings\, paintings\, collage\, and sculptures by twenty-six artists\, the exhibition traces the students’ inquiry into artistic perception\, creative expression\, historical and cultural context\, and aesthetic valuing. Together\, students and teacher have puzzled-out a profound exploration of human subjectivity and its relation to the external\, objective world. \nJohnnie L. Cochran\, Jr. Middle School\, through a collaborative team effort\, is committed to developing the whole child as a successful life-long learner by creating a positive school culture through the effective delivery of a rigorous standards-driven curriculum based on assessed student needs. \n“Student art exhibitions allow students to share their work and visual arts experiences with peers and adults. Exhibited work needs to include examples of works in progress in addition to finished pieces.”\n–California State Board of Education\, Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/mark-roeder-and-johnnie-cochran-middle-school-artists/ CATEGORIES:exhibition,one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/jcmiddleschool.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1061-1306454400-1306454400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Maggots and Men screening DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/maggots-and-men-screening/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1059-1305504000-1305504000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:The New Brutalists DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/the-new-brutalists/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110515T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110515T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1058-1305417600-1305417600@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Lee Lynch DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/lee-lynch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110514 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110603 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161218T201534Z UID:1057-1305352800-1306994399@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Paul Pescador DESCRIPTION:Paul Pescador \n\nMay 14-June 1\, 2011\nOpening May 14\, 7-10pm. Film will screen promptly at 9pm.\n\nIn 1\, 1 1/2\, 2\, the space will be used as a theater\, art gallery\, and screening room simultaneously. The show explores the relationship between live events\, performances\, everyday objects\, and their photographic documents. These photographic documents are then used as the source material for the creation of new social interventions. Performances become images. Images become books. Books become films. As these works exist in a constant cycle of use\, the document becomes both an archive and a directive for new events. 1\, 1 1/2\, 2 is a culmination of a one year investigation\, which explores the use of numerical systems to dictate social dynamics and personal relationships. The social relationships in this project being 1: the individual\, 1 1/2: the individual and remnants or absence of another\, and 2: the couple\, the pair\, or the double. Each of the works are in\ndialogue with one another to inform as well as complicate the structure of the exhibition as a whole.\nAccompanying the exhibition is premier of the film 1\, 1 1/2\, 2\, which will screen once a day throughout the duration of the exhibition.\n\nPaul Pescador is a Los Angeles based artist\, art organizer\, and filmmaker. His interest in small-scale actions and gestures manifests in the form of photographic objects\, performance events\, and curated exhibitions. He co-directs Workspace\, a project space in Lincoln Heights\, and is an MFA candidate at the University of California\, Irvine. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/paul-pescador-2/ 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/2016/03/222.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1056-1304812800-1304812800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Chris Kraus Films DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/chris-kraus-films-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110507T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110507T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1055-1304726400-1304726400@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:MATEO TANNANT screening DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/mateo-tannant-screening/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110506T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110506T230000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161218T195726Z UID:1054-1304712000-1304722800@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Nuts in May DESCRIPTION:Anh Do and Kate Shoults present \nNUTS IN MAY \nSound + performances by JON BRUMIT\nand DAVID SCOTT STONE \nDance performance by WIFE \nReadings by WOLFBOY\nJOHN TOTTENHAM\nand ALEXANDER ZEVIN \nDancing with DJ DINER \nplus FARMER DAVE’S HOT NUTS \nFREE URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/nutsinmay/ LOCATION:Human Resources on Bernard St.\, 510 Bernard St.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:one-time event at HR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.h-r.la/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nuts_Flyer_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1053-1304208000-1304208000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:Chris Kraus Films DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/chris-kraus-films/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110430T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110430T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161218T200834Z UID:1052-1304190000-1304190000@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:May Day Eve: Re-Opening Event DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \nWIFE\nAsher Hartman / The All Stars of Non-Violet Communication\nTotally Serious\nPaul Waddell\nDaniela Sea\, Will Schwartz\, Patty Schemel\, and Bo Boddie Band\nLadyboys of Sweaty Sundays choreographed by Ryan Heffington \nHomemade soda stand by Eden Batki\nDoors open at 7pm \nPress release: \nHuman Resources\n410 Cottage Home Street\nLos Angeles\, CA\nWeb: humanresourcesla.com\nEmail: info@humanresourcesla.com \nHuman Resources’ Grand Re-Opening May Day Event\nCelebrating the Performative Arts \nLos Angeles\, California\, April 15\, 2011 – On April 30\, 2011\, Human Resources officially re-opens at its new Chinatown location\, the former Cottage Home Gallery. On the eve of May Day\, the re-opening event celebrates the inclusion of performance diversity with a full program of innovative theater\, dance\, performance art and music. The performance program begins with the dance collective\, WIFE\, founded and choreographed by Jasmine Albuquerque\, Kristin Leahy\, and Nina McNeely. Multi-faceted artist and performer\, Asher Hartman\, whose work engages a wide range of mediums including theater\, painting and video\, follows with a presentation of his thirty minute play\, “The All Stars of Non-Violet Communication.” Experimental prog rock duo\, Totally Serious\, comprised of Jesse Appelhans (Modern Drummer Magazine’s Top Ten Prog Drummer) and bassist\, Eric Kiersnowski\, plays a set. Artist Paul Waddell\, who has shared his boundary-pushing interactive performance nationally\, also performs. Waddell is followed by the uplifting musical sounds of artist and musician Daniela Sea\, Will Schwartz (of Imperial Teen)\, Patty Schemel and Bo Boddie Band. The program ends with a dance performance choreographed by widely acclaimed Ryan Heffington featuring the Ladyboys of Sweaty Sundays. A homemade soda by Eden Batki will be available for purchase throughout the evening. Doors open at 7pm. Admission is free. URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/may-day-eve-re-openings-party/ 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/2016/03/hr_grand_re_opening_128w.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110429T000000 DTSTAMP:20260413T024213 CREATED:20160310T104301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T104301Z UID:1051-1304035200-1304035200@www.h-r.la SUMMARY:WIFE rehearsal DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/wife-rehearsal/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR