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SUMMARY:There in Green California / هناك في كاليفورنيا الخضراء
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Saturday\, March 30\, 6 – 10pm \n\n\n\nAli Eyal\, Andre Keichian\, Ignacio Perez Meruane\, Izdihar Afyouni\, Golrokh Nafisi\, Hande Sever\, Susu Attar \n\n\n\nGallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday\, by appointment. Contact info@humanresourcesla.com to make a reservation. \n\n\n\nIzdihar Afyouni\, 2024 (detail)\, oil on canvas\, 2024\n\n\n\n\nIt is difficult\, even righteously offensive\, to make art in the face of so much destruction and death which need little interpretation. The work of art (making)\, exhibition (making) and writing are never separate from their makers. And what of our “marginalized” identities if we can’t transform our lived experiences into ways of seeing and being in the world? Like grains of sand melted into a solid and fragile piece of glass\, the alchemy allows for light to be filtered through so we can be guided by it. It is through this lens that we can see life and write about living in a carceral world invested in our slow and sudden death. \n\n\n\nThe artists in this exhibition address cycles of violence and loss. From the most abstract to the figurative\, the material or psychological\, they provide embodied perspectives across experiments with material and form. A violent memory of disappearance\, dispossession and displacement etched onto a surface\, rebuilt through layers of paint; An image that self-effaces as soon as it emerges. What is the role of memory in the age of total destruction? \n\n\n\nThere in Green California brings together works by artists who have been making work with the bombs already dropping; already on the run from the kidnappers and their haunting memories; already violated and already under siege; generations displaced and memories already relived through so many stories there is no separating them from fiction. And there is no dreaming without the nightmares.  \n\n\n\nThe artists remind us of how the perceived peacefulness of our homes here is not in contrast to\, but at the price of war at home over there. Here in our (not for much longer) green California\, at the rate with which weapons are being made\, we have been living in war for as far back as we can remember. Here in green California it is our struggles against indigenous dispossession and land theft\, and our fights against the police and military industrial complex that connect us to the homes we have been uprooted from.  \n\n\n\nAs I write this text the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is continuing in the hands of the necrophiliac Israeli government and with the direct support of the so-called United States and its allies. Here in the West where rhetoric is constantly utilized to distract us from the material reality of genocide and ethnic cleansing\, I am more wary of the art jargon. Moving away from rhetoric\, it is the material that confronts me: the layers of paint on canvas forming the guts of an animal; the paper rolling down onto the floor to keep the image of a body afloat; the pristine yet dismembered body parts replicated from the monument of a colonizer; the black and white gradients of mundane photographs as testaments to systemic removal; wet clay that fire has fixed into the shape of bullets preserved from memory; lines that connect one arm to another extended across separate sheets of paper; and glass that\, by letting light through\, makes but the process of seeing visible. \n\n\n\nThere in Green California borrows its title from Ghassan Kanafani’s 1956 Letter from Gaza. In the fictional letter\, Palestinian author and novelist addresses his comrade\, Mustafa:  \n\n\n\nI won’t follow you to “the land where there is greenery\, water and lovely faces” as you wrote. No\, I’ll stay here\, and I won’t ever leave. The choice to leave\, the choice to stay or live one’s life as defined by crossing a border and living on both its sides\, is not a question of privilege. Exile comes in its different shades and colors.  \n\n\n\n–Gelare Khoshgozaran \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHuman Resources Los Angeles commits to the Palestinian international call for Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). The commitment to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is twofold. It is a refusal to participate in the normalization of occupation and apartheid by Israel and a commitment to instead bring awareness to the material realities of these structures in Palestine. We stand with our colleagues who have already joined this movement\, and who are putting their name on solidarity statements. We urge all arts organizations\, writers\, cultural workers\, and artists to take action now. This boycott is a principled refusal to participate in artwashing. Learn more: https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/there-in-green-california/
LOCATION:Human Resources LA\, 410 Cottage Home\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
CATEGORIES:exhibition
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SUMMARY:Gaza Community Aid Fundraiser & Art Raffle
DESCRIPTION:We are raising funds to help multiple families evacuate Gaza. Your raffle ticket costs will be entirely redirected to individuals working on the ground helping evacuate and resettle families. \n\n\n\nJoin us Sunday\, April 14\, 4-9PM at Human Resources Los Angeles: \n\n\n\n♦ Listening sessions by DJs Discostan\, Princess Dimebag & Friends♦ Mezze by Levant Bistro & Brothers Products♦ Homemade warm & cold beverages \n\n\n\nRaffle Prizes:⬦ Astrology readings & natal chart reports by Alice Sparkly Kat⬦ Qi Gong sessions by bones tan jones⬦ Artworks by Ali Eyal\, Saj Issa\, Candice Lin\, Stanya Kahn\, Izdihar Afyouni\, Bailey Hikawa & more! \n\n\n\nYou can enter the raffle remotely by purchasing tickets online.One raffle ticket gives you entry to the event. There is no limit to the number of raffle tickets you can buy. \n\n\n\nIf you prefer to make a direct donation\, you can do so through the following link. Please put a “thank you” note only in the memo/comment section: https://linktr.ee/gazafam
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/gaza-community-aid-fundraiser-art-raffle/
CATEGORIES:fundraiser
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SUMMARY:WRITING ON RAVING: LOS ANGELES
DESCRIPTION:Writing on Raving is a reading and performance series curated by Zoë Beery\, Geoffrey Mak and McKenzie Wark. The series opens a space for critical thinking\, creative language\, and verbal performance that celebrates\, critiques\, contextualizes\, and vibe-checks the rave\, the club\, the dance floor\, and techno from diverse and unheard perspectives. Featuring readings and performances by Zoë Beery\, Sebastian Hernandez\, Haley Hopkins\, Michelle Lhooq\, Geoffrey Mak\, Natalie Robehmed and weepingwillowtree.  \n\n\n\nZoë Beery is a journalist and harm reduction worker in Brooklyn. She has co-organized safer spaces programs for Nowadays\, Sustain-Release\, Horst Arts & Music\, and Return to the Source. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, Resident Advisor\, and many other publications. Sebastian Hernandez is a multi-disciplinary artist and DJ\, who received a B.A. in both Art Practice and Dance and Performance Studies from the University of California Berkeley. Sebastian explores making art with mediums like movement\, sculpture\, performance\, photography\, creative writing and DJing. Hernandez works with and through feminist\, queer\, indigenous and gender theoretical frameworks as well as notions of collectivity to generate works that complicate Mexican and Chicano narratives in the contemporaneous social imagination. Their art making is embedded in personal narrative\, their indigenous Mexica (Aztec) ancestry\, queer club culture and the history of the brown body in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderland. Sebastian’s movement based practice is informed by their long standing practice of danza Mexica (Azteca)\, Vogue and a wide range of modern dance techniques like GAGA\, Flying Low\, Laban and Afro Modern. Expanding and growing from solo works to more collaborative art works and performances\, Sebastian has worked with a variety of visual\, sound\, dance and fashion designers specific to their hometown of Los Angeles. These collaborative works have become a channel for new creative challenges that push to question and speak to the complexities of queer kinship and traditional art and dance today. Hernandez has presented work at REDCAT\, Human Resources\, LACE\, Commonwealth& Council\, MOCA Geffen Contemporary\, ICA LA\, MUSTACHE Mondays\, Club Scum\, NAVEL LA\, ONE ARCHIVES\, 4th street Bridge\, Santee Alley\, BOFFO\, Performance Space New York\, Palm Spring Art Museum\, Jessica Silverman Gallery and more. In 2020\, Sebastian was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award.  \n\n\n\nhaley hopkins is a longtime dancer and friend to the rave scene. They have a background in performance art\, critical theory and herbalism.  In the daytime world they work with native plants\, art handle and write.  They’re concerned with exploring/exploding power dynamics and playing language games\, they feel devotion to class analysis and dirt.   \n\n\n\nMichelle Lhooq is a writer who\, by some combination of tenacity and youthful stupidity\, decided to make a career out of being really\, really good at partying. She was born in Singapore\, an anti-hedonic country that William Gibson famously called “Disneyland with the death penalty\,” and growing up under its extreme restrictions on assorted freedoms made her obsessed with drugs and nightlife like a bad kink. Lhooq’s work\, mainly published in her newsletter Rave New World\, is currently centered on the shifting paradigms of counterculture\, underground raves\, and psychedelics. She is the author of  WEED: Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask (Penguin Random House)\, and her writing can also be found in The Guardian\, GQ\, The Los Angeles Times\, and Bloomberg. Once in a blue moon\, she throws psychedelic parties in Los Angeles\, where she is based. \n\n\n\nGeoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys: A Personal History. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Artforum\, The Guardian\, Spike\, and other publications. He has staged “performative readings” at Swiss Institute\, CTM Festival\, Kaje\, and The Lab. He lives in Brooklyn.  \n\n\n\nNatalie Robehmed (aka Ghorba) is a Lebanese-British writer\, musician and DJ. She has performed alongside artists including Rrose\, Mama Snake and Light Asylum across the U.S. and Europe. She co-created the Feminist Synth Lab\, a workshop series and synthesizer lending library for marginalized genders in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Forbes and CNN as well as on several hit podcasts. Brought up in the U.A.E\, they are now based in Los Angeles.  \n\n\n\ncleo (weepingwillowtree) is a DJ and digital media artist from Palmdale. The majority of her work explores themes of horror\, self discovery and acceptance\, and her roots as a black trans woman.  \n\n\n\nAdmission to this event is free. HR’s entrance is accessible via ramp\, and an ADA-compliant restroom is located on our ground floor. Indoor mask use is recommended.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/writing-on-raving-los-angeles/
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SUMMARY:Dorian Wood: This is not goodbye\, it's just I won't ever see you again (a final purge)
DESCRIPTION:Dorian Wood bids farewell to Los Angeles\, her birthplace and also her home for over 40 years. To mark her transition to the East Coast\, Human Resources will host an event that features over 1\,000 of Dorian’s original art works\, t-shirts\, prints\, records and zines\, all on display and available for purchase. Attendees will also get to experience an ongoing sound installation comprised of audio recordings from all of Dorian’s past performances at Human Resources. The event will culminate with one final performance by Dorian. All proceeds from the art sale will go to the artist–to help with her moving costs – and to Human Resources.  \n\n\n\nArt sale and installation from 2pm to 6:30pmPerformance from 7pm to 8pmAdmission is free
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/dorian-wood-this-is-not-goodbye-its-just-i-wont-ever-see-you-again-a-final-purge/
CATEGORIES:exhibition,music/sound,performance
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SUMMARY:VENUS 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm; Sunday performance begins at 6pm. Click here to purchase tickets. \n\n\n\nVENUS 2.0 is a large-scale multi-media music performance by Tyler Matthew Oyer. \n\n\n\nSet within a fantastic and dystopian dream-like sculptural and light installation\, Oyer creates a full-length performance concert that combines their history with and research into the nightclub\, esoteric rituals\, experimental/queer theatre\, and altered states of reflection\, ecstasy\, and togetherness. The movement of two performers mimics the celestial orbit of Earth and Venus as they orbit the sun – a metaphorical exploration of queer relationality beyond this planet and its oppressive forces. \n\n\n\nIn this gestamkunstwerk\, the connective tissue is Oyer’s original music album BERLIN ALIEN. \n\n\n\nVENUS 2.0 is a conjuring. It is a fantasy. It is a temporary release from the here and now. \n\n\n\nCo-performer and choreographer: Kevin Zambrano (Dorian Electra\, Post Malone\, The Weeknd\, Solange\, Charli XCX\, Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker\, Gerard & Kelly\, Andy Blankenbuehler\, West Side Story Broadway debut) \n\n\n\nLighting design: Veslemøy Rustad Holseter (lighting design at Berghain Ostgut\, Trauma Bar und Kino; performs as Grinderteeth) \n\n\n\nStage design: Luc Sequeira \n\n\n\nLocation: Human Resources Los Angeles (Chinatown) \n\n\n\nThis performance is funded in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, NY.
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CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:HRLA Studies: Alan Poma "Art\, Time And Rebellion In Ancient Americas"
DESCRIPTION:Art\, Time\, and Rebellion in Ancient Americas is the second installment of HRLA Studies\, a series of free study sessions intended for skill sharing\, thought provocation\, collective learning and expansion of the commons. Two sessions are being offered this Spring. The sessions are free and open to everyone. No RSVP necessary. They take place in parallel to other HRLA programs at HRLA and around the area.HRLA Studies is a proposition instigated by clara lópez menéndez. Because the most memorable things we learn for free\, like stolen fruit taste better. \n\n\n\nArt\, Time\, and Rebellion in Ancient AmericasHosted by Alan PomaApril 29\, May 6\, and May 136:30 – 9pm \n\n\n\nThis seminar delves into the connections between pre-Columbian art and contemporary practices\, offering a critical examination of ancestral traditions. Organized into three thematic sections—object and time\, space and sound\, celebration and rebellion—it enables participants to engage with diverse artistic forms and worldviews\, highlighting how these expressions can also serve as a form of cultural resistance. \n\n\n\nReading for the first session: “‘Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties’: Incarnation\, Incantations\, Animism\, and the Powers of Pre-Columbian Visual Imagery\,” by Thomas B.F. Cummins.  \n\n\n\nAlan Poma is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist who has developed the concept and practice of Andean Futurism. In his work\, Poma investigates the characteristics of ancient American inhabitants\, discovering resonances with the present. Alan’s work combines site-specific projects and various art forms\, exploring connections between Avant Garde art traditions and Andean culture through collaboration with artists and scholars.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hrla-studies-alan-poma-art-time-and-rebellion-in-ancient-americas/
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