Friday and Saturday January 27th and 28th - Pacific Standard Time

A Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival Event
Commissioned by the Getty and LA><ART

FRIDAY, January 27th
8-10pm

OPENING NIGHT / LIVE PERFORMANCES

Sheree Rose begins at 8pm (durational all night main space)
Raquel Gutierrez and Jeanne Cordova 8:15pm (main space)
Oscar Santos (w/ Alex Black, Samuel Vasquez, Karen Centerfold, Alice Cunt, Paloma Parfrey, Rafael Esparza, Allen Bleyle, Larissa James / Organizer: Oscar Santos / Psychic Director: Asher) 8:45pm (backroom storage space)
Tyler Matthew Oyer 9pm (main space)
Larissa Brantner James 9:30pm (main space)
Chiara Giovando 9:45pm (main space)
TJO 10pm (main space)

HUMAN RESOURCES UPSTAIRS GALLERY PRESENTS …
MEETINGS
a collaboratively curated exhibition
with works by ...
Karen Lofgren, Laurel Frank, Molly Larkey, Larissa Brantner James, Dylan Mira, Juliana Paciulli, Fette Sans, Mariah Garnett, Kate Hoffman, Alison Zukovsky and Marija Gaies

SATURDAY, January, 28th
2:30-5pm "casual" artist talk 'discussions on performance and politics and so much more'
Dino Dinco, Dorit Cypis, Dawn Kasper, Jennifer Doyle, A.L. Steiner, Megan Hoetger, Eve Fowler

Project information at:

reset0000.com

Human Resources looking for volunteers

Human Resources is looking for volunteers to help with operations in 2012.  To help out, or find out more about how to be involved with HR activities, please contact us.

info@humanresourcesla.com

Thank you for your interest and hope to see you in 2012!

Friday Dec 16th - Semiotext(e) release of Halsted Plays Himself by William E. Jones

Screening of L.A. Plays Itself begins at 7pm

Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. Although his cultural notoriety at one point equaled that of Kenneth Anger or Jack Smith, Halsted's star waned in the 1980s with the emergence of a more commercial gay-porn industry. After the death from AIDS of his long-time partner, lover, spouse (and tormentor) Joey Yale in 1986, Halsted committed suicide in 1989.

In Halsted Plays Himself, acclaimed artist and filmmaker William E. Jones documents his quest to capture the elusive public and private personas of Halsted--to zero in on an identity riddled with contradictions. Jones assembles a narrative of a long-gone gay lifestyle and an extinct Hollywood underground, when independent films were still possible, and the boundary between experimental and pornographic was not yet established. The book also depicts what sexual liberation looked like at a volatile point in time--and what it looked like when it collapsed.

About the Author
William E. Jones is an artist and filmmaker who teaches film history at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has made two feature length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997), several short videos, including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998), the feature length documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004), and many video installations. His films and videos were the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern, London, in 2005, and at Anthology Film Archives, New York, in 2010. He has worked in the adult video industry under the name Hudson Wilcox.

Gallery Hours for The Trap Door - Thursday thru Saturday 12-6pm

The Trap Door

Jedediah Caesar and Shana Lutker
Exhibition Dates: November 23 – December 8, 2011

Reception with the artists:
Friday, December 2, 2011
8 – 11 pm
Featuring DJs Joey Kotting and Aram Moshayedi
and special guests D3


Human Resources is pleased to present a display of large art-related items that were previously exhibited in other contexts. These objects were constructed and collected by the artists between the years of 2003 and 2010 and have been residing in Los Angeles for a period of time without purpose. The large conglomerations have now been brought to Human Resources and installed in new configurations by the artists for a ceremonious goodbye before they are retired to a 40-yard bin.

Shana Lutker contributes fifteen steel support structures (pedestals now without objects), and a sculpture consisting of most of the New York Times from the years 2003-2008. 

Jedediah Caesar shows a set of eight massive casts of earth. Originally made within an architectural frame, here, outside of that framework, each part functions as its own stage. 

Re-presenting these pieces, the parameters of the work are unstable. This stop on the road from the studio to the landfill is a pause to consider the physical limitations and expectations of these objects. Both artists are collectors of things, of objects from the world, but also their own work. Getting rid of parts of the collection is an anxious and uneasy decision. For the artists, this project is the trap door. 

Jedediah Caesar and Shana Lutker are both artists who live in Los Angeles. 

About D3
D3 is an artist-run service specializing in object divestment. Dealing with objects that are emotionally burdensome and have outlived their welcome, D3 provides a personalized step-by-step process to clients who wish to deaccession such items from their personal collections. This process is founded upon the 3 Ds: Deliver, Document, Destroy. This approach to destroying an object functions to transform matter, reorganize the energy it represents, and disperse the formidable associations triggered by the object. D3 accepts submissions on an ongoing basis. 
For more details, visit www.D-three.org. 

Essential Document extended until December 10th