Human Resources

Alan S. Tofighi: Legal Fictions & Critical Bands (1993-2024) Traces trajectories from two ongoing work cycles; Critical Bands (2010-present) and Legal Fictions (2014-present). Respectively rooted in histories & counter histories in the performance of objects and the processes of aesthetic forms utilized to forge and manipulate social structures, retrocausal collaboration of these separate arcs interlock and […]

Gallery hours: Friday, March 15th, 2 - 6pm; Saturday, March 16th 12 - 5pm A collaborative show by Canción Paz and Amia YokoyamaTo read texts about the show (in English / en español), click here. A parade with the main material being friendship (sacred relatedness) among ceramics, drawings, bells and fabric dolls. With pieces (flags) […]

Springing Studies is the first 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 […]

In commemoration of Black History Month, Black Revivalist and Human Resources Los Angeles are proud to present a night of ‘90s underground black queer cinema. This double-header features Stephen Winter’s Chocolate Babies (1996) and Lawrence Elbert’s Days of Pentecost (1995). DJ NAYGOD/@naygod, of Supernatural/@supernaturaldisco, will be spinning music throughout the evening. Chocolate Babies follows an […]

with Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel and Mireya Lucio, moderated by Ajani Brannum Being Work is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists, edited by Dorothy Dubrule and published by Insert Press, which offers access to varied experiences of performing in live exhibitions. The authors capture a spectrum of mundane and profound moments that arise within […]

First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists at all stages of their creative development. This round's artists include Emma Alley, Wesleigh Gates, Kirsten Michelle Schnittker, and Kevin Wong + Mariia […]

Human Resources Los Angeles presents Seven Channel Aura, a night of music by Beli and Friends.  Live sets by Clarion and Angel Meat.  DJ sets by Stealth Angel, Jonny Mystery, and Allangelsonline (beli)  live is back. Piercing and atmospheric sounds by our gifted friends xx at @humanresourcesla 8 p.m. until 2 a.m.  $10 entry fee  […]

para by para para by para is a (hyper)active listening party featuring performances by sound artists Slow Rose and jeremy +/ kennedy, under her new moniker D.J. Again. para by para tiptoes the edge of the event horizon, taking an expansive approach to composition, with instrumentation that encompasses sound, movement, immersive/multichannel video, and you. Pull up a chair. Friday February 23rdHuman Resources Doors at […]

untitled|unknown Wednesday, February 21st, 8:30pm Free Admission https://ensemble-adapter.de/ https://mattiebarbier.com/ http://franzson.com/ Specifically tailored to the architecture of Human Resources, untitled|unknown is a collaborative project initiated by L.A.-based Icelandic composer Davíð Brynjar Franzson, performed by Ensemble Adapter (Iceland/Germany) and mattie barbier (LA). Adapted to the resonant frequencies of the room, untitled|unknown creates a slowly undulating mass of […]

a screening and art show with Meejin Hong opening Friday, February 16th, 5 - 8pmGallery hours: Saturday, February 17th and Sunday, February 18th, 12 - 6pm Meejin Hong is an experimental animator deeply rooted in the fine arts. She thrives off of a stream of conscious brainstorming that propels her into the fantastic, more primitive […]

Join HRLA for a panel and conversation about statements and solidarity. (RESCHEDULED from 2/6) Endorsements of PACBI, calls for ceasefire, individual expressions of solidarity — what do different kinds of statements do? What does it mean to dismiss a statement as performative? If words count for so little, why is so much effort spent on […]

Friday, February 9th, 6pm - 10pmPerformances: 8pm - 10pmFeaturing: Jules Chimes Gårder and Nat Decker, Star Feliz and Cielo Saucedo, thai Lu, Life Em Stebbins and Jazmin Romero Gallery Hours: Saturday, February 10th and Sunday, February 11th,  12 – 6 pm Free admission; donations will be split between Sensi Skins and the Palestine Children’s Relief […]

Gallery hours: 12 - 6pmOpening: Saturday, January 20, 6 - 9pm featuring work by:0ll668Derek HolguinJiayun ChenRodolfo Sousa Minor Gaps Between is the result of several conversations about the arcane and mystical. The title of the exhibition describes the vacuous space between the beginning and end of the void, where the inexplicable intrusion of primordial impulses […]

Tickets are free of charge. Reserve a spot by clicking on the appropriate link: Friday, January 12th / Saturday, January 13th / Sunday, January 14th A three night survey of plays, written and directed by Arnold J. Kemp. Featuring an all star cast including: Carolyn Castaño, Laura Heyman, Chelsea Gaspard, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Anna Sew Hoy, […]

Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources present So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure  With guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) Due to popular demand, LA Filmforum and HRLA reprise the screening/lecture focussed on Palestinian films. Please provide proof of donation to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medical Aid […]

Tickets are $10 at the door. In celebration of Tati au Miel’s latest EP release Carousel with Texan label Halcyon Veil. This EP, birthing from Tati's lived experiences and personal reflections surrounding the concepts of nomadism, migration, nostalgia, and the Haitian spiralism movement, manifests itself as a collection of electronic-experimental sound art pieces accompanied with […]

Doors at 8pmPerformance at 9pmFree (pay what you want - proceeds go to Venice Family Clinic) Kabir Carter will explore the spatial acoustics and resonant behavior of a circuit that flows between a loudspeaker, an audio mixer, a microphone, a folding chair, and his body. Kabir Carter is a research-based artist who uses sound, light, image, architecture, […]

ALSEA DIANA INVITES YOU TO AN IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION FEATURING BRAND NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORK AND A PREVIEW OF HER FEATURE-LENGTH DIRECTORIAL DEBUT PEREGRINE FALCON MUSIC – DRINKS – LOTTERY TICKETSGIRLS – GIRLS – GIRLSSPECIAL GUESTSTHIS IS A SOCIAL SPACE COME HANG OUT BRING FRIENDSDON'T OVERTHINK ITYOU'RE PERFECTTAKE A CHANCEGET LUCKYBE SAFE △ Curated by Emji […]

A reading of Use Me at Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline by Gem Evans (Monica) and Evan Ibarra (Sam).The reading will be followed by a conversation about the book as it relates to queer literature and history, between author Anuradha Vikram and artist Badly Licked Bear. Music selected by DJ Izzy, to conclude […]

Los Angeles Filmforum and Human Resources Los Angeles presentSo Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian ErasureScreening + Lecture PerformanceFor more info: https://www.lafilmforum.org/ With guests curator Zaina Bseiso (in person) and Bahaleen Collective (via Zoom) Please provide proof of donation to Palestine Children's Relief Fund or Medical Aid for Palestinians for admission to […]

This project emerges as an adaptation of fragments from Gamaliel Churata's indigenist avant-garde masterpiece, "The Golden Fish," viewed through the lens of Andean Futurism. It combines music, video, poetry, and performance, focusing on key scenes that depict the origins of a mythological being in the future of the Andes. Additionally, the presentation includes Pumita Andino […]

A night of extreme music with artists from New York, Berlin, Stockholm and Los Angeles. Kanal Nula (NY)Touriszt (Berlin)Henrik Soederstroem (Stockholm)Hallasan (LA) With special guest, DJ Shitfun. $10 admission to support touring acts. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Opening reception: Friday, October 27, 6 - 9pmOpen hours: Saturday, October 28th and Sunday, October 29th 12 - 6pm A collection of drawings, prints, and one animation serving as windows before intangible subjects abbreviated in space. Zori Swanegan (b. 1996, Kansas City, MO) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her […]

Gallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 12 - 6pmOpening: Saturday, October 7, 7 - 9pm Smog Check is an exhibition of new sculptures and research by Carlos Agredano about the air-quality around Chinatown, which sits adjacent to the Harbor (I-110) Freeway and is the location of Human Resources Los Angeles.  This exhibition focuses on the legacy […]

This reading is presented in conjunction with Mirror Area, an exhibition of drawings by Michael Kennedy Costa (September 22 - 29, 2023). Book launch and reading of Michael Kennedy Costa's Mirror Area, published by Holoholo Books.  Michael will be joined by artists Alexandra Noel, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Aimee Goguen, Dakota Higgins, Keith J. Varadi, and Merideth Hillbrand, each […]

This concert is presented in conjunction with Mirror Area, an exhibition of drawings by Michael Kennedy Costa (September 22 - 29, 2023). The Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share (LAWWSS) is a horizontally organized learning project that provides space for participants to learn about wind instruments through free improvisation.  Wells Leng (1994-) is a multi-instrumentalist […]

Gallery hours: 12 – 6pmOpening: Friday, September 22, 6 – 8pm A selection from an ongoing series of line drawings. This exhibition includes two events: a concert with Los Angeles Wood Wind Skill Share & Wells Leng on Wednesday, September 27 at 8pm; and a closing launch/reading for Kennedy Costa's book Mirror Area (published by Holoholo […]

Artist Dorian Wood brings Musa Cerdota to Human Resources for its Los Angeles debut. The multisensory performance incorporates music from Wood's 2020 album REACTOR. After the project's 2022 premiere in Barcelona, music magazine Muzikalia noted: "It was not a concert: this was an exorcism from which I did not want to return." Preceding the performance is a rare screening of […]

A gathering with some of LA’s most exciting independent art organizations, presented with X-TRA Magazine. Feral art spaces will briefly present on their organization’s work and mission in PechaKucha style presentations. The goal of the gathering is to create points of access and fruitful overlap for future connection. Proceeds from the bar will be raffled off […]

a screening of video works by Hazel Katz, Jack Coventry, Stanton Cornish-Ward, Theo Cuthand, Trent Crawford, Wren Gardiner, and more : - ) Stanton Cornish-Ward is an artist and filmmaker based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work explores the nuances of memory, intergenerational trauma, and the human impact of advancing technologies. Recent exhibitions include Palazzo San […]

A night of experimental documentary shorts weaving through the body as an archive, as well as a site of criminalization and/or pleasure—sites that are navigating history as present, past and future through the personal and the collective narrative—circling and probing politics of intimacy, responsibility and closeness through different lenses.  And some music videos for the […]

First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists at all stages of their creative development.  Artists showing 8/14: Camirin Farmer, Mia Simonović, Cuahtémoc Peranda, Emily BaraschArtists showing 8/15: Sam Wentz, Joey Navarrete-Medina, Andrea Soto, Stacy Dawson Stearns Tickets […]

FCK82 (FKA The Ensemble Whose Name is Uhhhhhmm… ) makes their first IRL appearance EVER with a screening of a 45-minute-long set created originally for the SPIEL! Games as Critical Practice conference held in Basel, Switzerland earlier this year. Accompanying this will be a selection of films and videos related to ideas in the work […]

Gallery hours: 12 - 6pmOpening: Friday, July 21, 7 - 9pmPoetry reading by Jennifer Tseng and performance by Christos Tejada at 8pm Waxing & Waning enveloped letterlost in transitcall her “Death”,a return to pure surface before, she was a messagecoded & overgrownbut today, she’s envelopefour white corners, paperthin like church wafers which pass from hand to […]

Gallery hours: 12 - 6pm “Our culture is defective. Perhaps you mean that we ought to study the problem and look for a solution. Perhaps we could, if it wasn't so late. Altogether too late." Anemoia is a group exhibition that addresses the climate crisis through the concept of nostalgia as a future oriented emotional […]

Hothouse Dirty Looks Inc presents Hothouse, a program of erotic film and video art focusing on ‘realcore’ non-genital sex and symbolic eroticism. Originally curated as part of the exhibition Fulgora, organized by EO Gill for Sydney World Pride 2023, Houthouse works with the understanding that notions of reality and authenticity are the mainstay of conventional pornographic […]

Featuring Fmin, Dbmin, F#min, Amin, and Dbmaj in the harmonic chromatic language of soft blue, yellow, yellow-orange, soft red, and blue-green—the colors of summer sunsets along oceans and seas. Civil twilight occurs at 8:36 pm-9:07 pm on July 11th, 2023 in Izmir, Turkey, a city on the eastern side of the Aegean Sea. Civil twilight […]

Vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood return to Human Resources as BIH, expanding on their performance of Blood is here back in April. The three consider the contexts of space, public proximity and ancestral energy to construct a web-like spatial environment consisting of their interacting voices. Each artist brings their respective trajectory to this […]

Gallery hours: Noon-6:00pm Smorgasbord is a collection of paintings and sculptures that revolve around abstracted formal investigations of colour, shape, and play. Hand-sewn fabric compactions augmented and calcified with heavily applied color. Bizarrely deformed three-dimensional structures with rough and sandy honeycombed surfaces resembling computer generated imagery, a motion graphic still-life. Large swaths of smooth colorful frostings, seemingly dipped […]

Opening: Saturday, June 24, 6–9pm Exhibition Dates: June 24-27, 2023 Gallery Hours: Sunday June 25 11am - 2pm and by appointment Robison’s immersive installation showcases new work in an experimental audio/visual arrangement. Images, objects, sounds and other phenomena are pushed to new interpretations as they wander between physical and digital reference points. Jean Robisonjeanrobison.com Jean Robison […]

Local percussionist Corey Fogel hosts a program of four diverse, improvising soloists from NY, Mexico, and California.   Sam Weinberg is a saxophonist and improviser living in New York City. He has participated in many improvised contexts which have included Henry Fraser, Jason Nazary, Weasel Walter, Sandy Ewen, Andrew Smiley, Laura Cocks, Charmaine Lee, Barry Weisblat, […]

Reverb is a quartet movement based performance that thinks through ideas of queerness, kin, sorrow and the body. This performance asks the performers to question their commitment to performance, movement, and art making. How do we give and conserve energy. How do we survive in times of duress? How do we breathe amidst legislative violence? […]

This event is a conversation between Ari Brostoff, author of Missing Time, and Emily Segal, author of Mercury Retrograde, about their respective books--two reflections on the cultural and political vertigo of the 2010s. Possible discussion topics: information theory, cultural experimentation, political commitment, historical memory, New York Jews.  Ari Brostoff is the author of the essay collection Missing Time (2022) and […]

On Saturday June 10th MACULA DOG – the enigmatic, electronic, off-kilter, self-contained band and performance unit from New York City – bring themselves and their holographs to Human Recources Los Angeles via UPEND. Plus, the blurp and pivot of BROMP TREB, a single human – Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young – who teases a tangle of crisscrossed gear […]

This weeks Wednesday Night Summer Screening Series features short videos Olivia Leiter and Prima Sakuntabhai. Olivia LeiterDrawing from archival materials and phone interviews, Amalgamated explores cooperation, unions, the 60s and 70s New York City tenant movement, compromises, financial issues and ideas around community and belonging. Special thanks to Ed Yaker, David Wayne, The Bronx Historical Society, The Kneel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives and […]

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Greetings Friends is a full-length essay film made by Pau Pescador, titled after a Disney Studio produced film. In 1941, the United States government created the Office of Inter-American Affairs out of concern for the potential Nazi infiltration in Latin America. They hired Walt Disney to produce animated cartoons, most of which focused upon Latin […]

A casual series of moving image works, presented every Wednesday night at 9 free image by Aimee Goguen

The first week of Human Resources Summer Screening Series includes video and animated works by Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh.  Camera direction, collage and personal archive are themes interwoven throughout these works. Curated by Aimee Goguen and Olivia Taussig these films navigate landscape and the human form with an […]

lily, rose is an installation and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles that brings to life the world of Kelly Link’s short story through live music and theatrics by M.A. Harms, navigating the woeful and complex reflections of our anti-hero, the story’s main character, as he reflects on his life post-mortem. This project explores periods of […]

Blood is here is a collaborative manifestation between vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood. It is an idea born from a recent collective performance within Wood’s touring 12-hour composition/installation Canto de Todes, in which the three artists considered the contexts of space, public proximity and ancestral energy to construct a web-like spatial […]

Reimagining Art Institutions and Community Saturday, April 15th at 4:00 pm This public panel will bring together artists, curators, arts organization leaders and community organizers from LA and beyond to explore alternative practices of art and community outside of traditional institutional structures. Panel participants include gallerist Young Chung from Commonwealth and Council (LA and Mexico […]

New performances on a Tuesday night. Jmy James Kidd dog - fly free - sing, Jmy dances on a felted flying carpet Isidro Pérez García Performing as the character Tuleño, the artist will weave a chair seat using tule/cattails harvested from an ecological reserve, while audience members sitting in spiral formation pass him the materials for weaving.   Sarah […]

Matt Savitsky reads seven issues of the Los Angeles Times, dated March 19 - March 26, 2020.  This project began in 2020 as thirty daily performances done live on Instagram in the first months of lockdown. Each day, Savitsky would free-associate to pictures he had removed from the newspaper and taped together in long strips […]

THE EAR* (*or how I became a person) is a performance by interdisciplinary artist Page Person Sunday, March 19 at 5:00 pm. At a time when the very existence of trans people is under attack, the artist describes how claiming space for their own existence healed a lifetime of being the subject of discrimination, bullying […]

Christine's 2022 Schedule C Christine Tien Wang Human Resources is ashamed to present a performative lecture by Christine Tien Wang. She will walk audiences through 12 years of filing taxes as a self-employed artist and reporting losses for many of those years. As a financial exhibitionist, Christine will also talk about her family's financial history […]

Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos by mia simonović / allie miks / diana relth Human Resources Gallery Wednesday, March 1st Doors at 7pm $10 suggested donation masks are encouraged “Exquisite Corps” is one night of 3 solo performances by 3 artists. mia simonović (they/them/she/her) is a Balkan-American movement artist and teacher. mia's choreography explores […]

Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyreana screening of new and recent films by Wayne KoestenbaumSunday, February 26, 20237 p.m. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum and the artistand filmmaker Pau S. Pescador, who curated the program. Wayne Koestenbaum is a New York-based writer, artist, and performer. He has published 22books, […]

  New performances on a Tuesday night. Amy Chiao Chicken Bones for the Capital Soul® is an American self-help, consumer goods, and performance media group. Starting in Chiao's kitchen during the 2020 lockdown, her bone cleaning turned accessories products began as a process art practice that ritualistically developed her spiritual entrepreneur alter ego, BBL, the Bone Business Lady. Inspired by maintenance art and […]

Nebula and Gentes were initially made for an extensive installation called CHARTI and exhibited in 2016. Nebula was also shown as part of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. The videos were recorded on Malta and Gozo over three summers starting in 2014. The work revolved around the rituals that the inhabitants of […]

The Opposite a Video Art Essay by Patty Gone with opening acts bySophia Cleary Aiden Arata Wall of Ears about The Opposite:Porn Film Festival Berlin Official Selection 2022Official TrailerWhat do ‘Seinfeld’ and a psychedelic pilgrimage across the US have in common? Gone wades through the history of comedy, eroticism, and hippieness to emerge on the other side with profound […]

Sad Girl Summer is a solo performance by Pau S. Pescador with opening performances and installations by Luna Fisher, Emji Saint Spero and Sammie Veeler.  This event is co-hosted by Art Reality Studio and New Art City .  --- Pau S. Pescador  Sad Girl Summer Sad Girl Summer is a three-act performance and installation, which […]

The wildly prolific emo ambient musician claire rousay brings new sounds to Human Resources in the new year. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance. L.A. Based composer and performer Ben Babbitt arranges sound in and […]

Sticker (Michael Gross and Dakota Higgins) was born at the Stonehead Society Headquarters in Gardena, CA, into a heap of Mexican alabaster. For a year, the two lived on beans and kimchi, played nightly, and slept on boulders. While their sound has changed significantly over time, one thing has remained constant: A dedication to improvisation, […]

Join us for a fundraiser sale of artworks by MFA students to support the UC academic worker strike. There will be a cash bar, performances, live sound, and other refreshments. All works are 200 dollars. 100 percent of all proceeds collected will be donated to a specific fund providing relief to students impacted by the […]

كان يا ما كان կար ու չկար there was and there wasn’t Over two days, Haig Papazian will build a new machine/instrument which he will play on Saturday, Oct 1. Doors open at 8:30pm, performance at 9:00pm. Haig Papazian (beirut 1986) is an artist, composer, and performer whose body of work include architecture, music, composition, […]

fault lines Friday, September 23rd at 7 pm Saturday, September 24th at 2 pm and at 7 pm Tickets can be purchased here   fault lines: activation #3 at Human Resources Los Angeles   Human Resources will host Bay Area based dance company pateldanceworks and the spirit Blue CHiLD. in a week-long experimental movement residency […]

  HRLA presents a night of poetry this Friday, July 29th at 7pm with the poets: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Kata De la Rosa Lupita Limón Corrales Viva Padilla *A 5 dollar donation is encouraged* Masks are encouraged inside the gallery.  

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Soft Traces An exhibition by Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza. Opening July 8th, 6-9pm Walk-through w the artists & Jennifer Doyle: Sunday July 10, 3pm Gallery is open daily 12-6pm till Sunday, July 17th.   Soft is delicate, supple, pliable, velvety, cushiony, flexible, fleshy, yielding. Trace is a fragment, a hint, a shred, a […]

Time to pull out your best looks. It’s prom night! Join us for a trans centered queer dance night at HRLA on July 3rd, from 8pm-midnight. From your black tie, to your blue jeans, or even that puffy dress you haven’t time to wear,  we want to see you dress for the queer prom of your […]

Join us on Thursday, June 30th at 7:30pm for a performance by Holly Harrell: Run, Run, Roxie Pickle!    Holly Harrell adapts past videos into a live performance. Through successive layers of interpretation, Harrell’s monologues are transformed by a recursive, increasingly abstract vocabulary of words, symbols, and gestures. Like some halter-topped John Cougar heroine, Run, […]