Human Resources

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 […]

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 by:

Anya Liftig
Gracie Devito
Samuel White

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

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.