april 28th - Closing party for "Vessel"

Artist Curated Projects' "Vessel" will run through Saturday April 30th, but please join us for a closing event on Thursday, from 7pm-10pm.  

Suzanne Wright
Tony Payne

www.artistcuratedprojects.com 

April 7th - "Vessel" Suzanne Wright and Tony Payne opens

ACP @ Human Resources / Cottage Home
runs from - April 7- April 30
410 cottage home street. LA CA 90012
in China town
...

Artist Curated Projects is pleased to present the work of Tony Payne and Suzanne Wright. Each artists' work is inherently concerned with the body though their approach to the subject is vastly different.
Using text, Tony Payne’s work explores both the actual letterforms and their various levels of context - the text / image is rendered in a painterly fashion - using hand made materials (pigment) with elements directly related to the body (it's host, the interior), saliva, blood, semen. Words (often parts of lyrics, found text or elements of the artist's dreams) subconsciously emerge to become subjects. The letters somehow both stand for, and come from the body, mirroring the struggles (the elation, the power) within.

In Wright's collages and drawings, structures simulate and fuse with the body. This body is not always represented but elements of its framework resonate in the images. Function is removed from the architectures depicted and they are often reduced to orificial devices. Often Wright's initial excitement when beginning a body of work, referencing the experience of Penthouse as a child, becomes the investigated subject that is rooted in the comfort of evocative memories, while also exploring the slippage between imagined progress in the 70’s versus the reality of our present experience of the predicted and not yet realized future.

For more information please visit www.artistcuratedprojects.com

March 24th - music music music!

Chiara Giovando 
Mortbaladam
L.A. TEX
Oscar Santos
Dawn Kasper
Corey Fogel

Thursday March 24th, 2011

Human Resources at Cottage Home
410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012-1415

doors open at 8pm
show starts at 9pm
BYOB
$3 donation

see you soon lovers

love,
HR

Eileen Myles at Human Resources video footage

Eileen Myles At Human Resources from rockypoint Press on Vimeo.

January 22nd - The Activity of Collectivity - Panel Discussion

This discussion includes artists, writers and curators who initiate collaborative projects through forms as varied as open-source schools, experimental curatorial and exhibition programs, and new publishing platforms. A central question will be to investigate how the activity of collectivity might generate new aesthetic forms or models today. 

Panelists:
Miles Coolidge, moderator
Stacey Allan, East of Borneo
Sean Dockray, Telic Arts Exchange, Public School
Patrick Meagher, Silvershed and Collective Show
Michael Minnelli, WPA

This event is organized in conjunction with ART2102’s recent publication launch of Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles and Collective Show, Los Angeles, a collaboratively curated "group show of group shows" with over 20 artist-run organizations, collectives, and independent initiatives in Chinatown, January 20-30th. 

Visit our website for full publication and program details: www.art2102.org

As part of the Collective Show

collectiveshow.org

January 13th - Tree Farm (Video from Oregon)

8pm - 10pm

Tree Farm (video from Oregon)
Featuring work by:
Mike Bray
Tom Greenwood
MK Guth
Jared Haug
Gretchen Hogue
Rose McCormick
Matt Nixon
Melody Owen
Patrick Rock
Jesse Sugarmann

Tucked up and away on a geographic shelf, Oregon is a clouded and
introspective state.  Adopting the term "Pacific Wonderland" as an
official identity, Oregon mistook Carroll's rabbit hole for a
political model early on, leading the state to develop its imagination
rather than its commerce.  Currently, Oregon leads the nation in only
three ways: percentage of children who are read to every day, number
of Starbucks per capita, and percentage of deceased cremated rather
than buried.  And these numbers effectively outline the pan-Oregonian:
over-nurtured, over-caffeinated, bookish, and carrying with him the
ashes of the dead.
Ditch Projects of Springfield, Oregon is pleased to present you with
Tree Farm, a collection of video art from Oregon.  Combining the
efforts of both established and emerging artists, Tree Farm explores
Oregonian approaches to narrative and document, providing a telling
(if not thorough) portrayal of the Wonderland experience.
Image attached: Tom Greenwood, The Salem Singers, Video still, 2010

January 5th thru January 18th - Divine Violence

full release here

Human Resources is pleased to present Divine Violence, an exhibition featuring a workshop and week-long collaborative installation process culminating in an opening event on Friday, January 14, 2011.  The opening event will feature a reading by Maggie Nelson from her soon to be released book, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, a performance titled Cordon Off the Contempt in a Word Compartment (and Other Whispering Moments) by Joshua Kit Clayton and video and photographic works by Sayler/Morris and an installation created by Sayler/Morris with the Divine Violence workshop collaborators: Sofia Arreguin, Arely Villegas, Sean Grattan, Sarah Wang, Nora Berman, Asher Hartman, Giles Miller, Malene Dam, Sandy Medina, Solomon Bothwell, Sille Storihle, Kate Wolf, Ko Kawashima.

During the week prior to the opening event Sayler/Morris will conduct a workshop titled Divine Violence (An Object Lesson) with a group of collaborators. The group will read and consider excerpts from seminal texts on violence and collect artifacts to incorporate into an installation at Human Resources Gallery.  Questions addressed by the group and exhibition include: 

• Why are we attracted to violence?  Why are we repulsed by it?
• Can we find representations of the sort of invisible, systemic, “objective” violence that Zizek articulates in his book Violence? Does that help anything?  Is the “dialectic of concealment and revelation,” as Maggie Nelson writes, crucial to our understanding (and mitigation) of violence?
• Is some form of violence helpful or even necessary to achieve social or political change?  In other words, can violence ever be justified (something Walter Benjamin does under the aegis of Divine Violence)? 

From Saturday January 8^th until the opening on January 14^th, the gallery will be open and viewers are invited to witness the progress of the installation.  Sayler/Morris will be “in residence” at the gallery, studying violence, working on the installation and engaging visitors.  In the gallery there will be violence mediation terminals, as well as daily screening of films at 2 pm.   Gallery times are Saturday, January 8^, 12-2 pm (no screening); January 10 – January 18, 12-5 pm (closed Sunday).

Screenings will be announced on the blog for the program: divineviolence.wordpress.com.

The opening event on January 14^th will be from 7:00 to 10:00 with performance by Joshua Kit Clayton at 7:30 and reading/Q&A with Maggie Nelson at 8:30.

Clayton’s video-directed group exercise/meditation/conversation, Cordon Off the Contempt in a Word Compartment (and Other Whispering Moments), investigates the uses and values of contempt, hygiene, language, and importantly, of whispering as a means of containment, paradoxically, through the process of propagation. The hour long video asks audience members to consider and/or discuss their own relationship to contempt and other topics within the space of the video itself.

January 5th thru January 18th - Divine Violence

Tonight Oct 30! - Divining Power Dance Party

music by:

KINGDOM
NGUZUNGUZU
TOTAL FREEDOM

with:

a performance of not knowing
by Vincente Colomar - from Madrid

and Dawn Kasper

It's our last hurrah at 510 Bernard so come dressed for the occasion and have a drink and a dance...

Thurs October 28 - Crying over Spilled Milk

CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK

ALEXIS DISSELKOEN 

BRIAN GETNICK 

PAUL PESCADOR

Organized by Paul Pescador

Human Resources
510 Bernard St, Los Angeles, CA
info@humanresourcesla.com

Performance | October 28, 2010 | 7pm-9pm

Crying Over Spilled Milk, is a one night performance event featuring the work of Alexis Disselkoen, Brian Getnick, and Paul Pescador, Crying Over Spilled Milk, will focus on site-specific situational and interactive performances. The event will examine the creation of performative objects as a means to develop live performance. Whether its costumes, props, or even photographs, the event will focus on the power of an object to provoke and encourage performativity.

Human Resources will be divided into three separate spaces: hallway, gallery, and back courtyard. Each performers will separate their piece into one of these location. As the event unfolds varying parts of each performance will begin to move, by the end of the event: performers, objects, and audience will begin to blur into one another.

The two hour performance will be begin at 7PM. 

ALEXIS DISSELKOEN 

Through the use of group activities and event based situations Alexis Disselkoen strives to connect contemporary issues of identity and the scholarship of interpersonal relations. She works around constructions of power that inform art production, viewership and participation by creating encounters that are participatory and directed by the people that are involved. Simple devices and material become the atmosphere and space that viewers must negotiate with when experiencing the work.

BRIAN GETNICK 

Brian Getnick is a Los Angeles based artist and the director of THE BALLET, a performance troupe of hand made costumes. These costumes, with their sculptural details, are the primary text for each performance. Through collaborate, Getnick explores how materials can translate subconscious desires from creator to performer. Getnick develops his performances with local dancers, actors, musicians and artists. These collaborations open up beyond a singular pathology and into an arena in which the interactions between performer, object, context and audience merge.

PAUL PESCADOR 

Paul Pescador conducts small-scale gestures and performances that occur in both social and private environments, such as homes, sidewalks, and galleries. The actions are small and lend themselves to repetition as a means to understand, activate, and disrupt a surrounding environment. Whether these events occur in front of an audience in a gallery or alone in a park, they are documented with a camera. The camera becomes the primary witness to the event. The event wouldn't occur if it wasn't recorded and the photograph without the action. They are linked and rely on one another to exist.

Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression.



Friday October 22nd - "Ad Hoc" Series Event hosted by SASSAS

NEW “AD HOC” SERIES TO SUPPORT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOURING MUSICIANS
Collaboration with Human Resources to feature visiting musicians from Norway and Australia, Kim Myhr and Jim Denley, on October 22, 2010

(LOS ANGELES) SASSAS is pleased to announce Ad Hoc, a new concert series presented in collaboration with the Chinatown based collective, Human Resources. Ad Hoc #1 takes place Friday, October 22, 2010 at Human Resources’ space in Chinatown and features the renowned experimental musicians Kim Myhr (Norway), Jim Denley (Australia) performing as Mural, and local artist GE Stinson.

Since its founding over ten years ago SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound) has presented the best experimental music to Los Angeles audiences through the sound. series of concerts. While sound. requires months of advance planning,  all to often, SASSAS is approached by national and international touring musicians looking for venues to perform in Los Angeles with little advance notice. Ad Hoc was founded out of the belief that it benefits the greater Los Angeles community and the reputation of LA in the international sound community if these musicians are able to add Los Angeles to their tour schedule.

Developed in collaboration with the Chinatown-based collective Human Resources, Ad Hoc is designed to accommodate short term requests by national and international touring musicians wanting to perform in Los Angeles. SASSAS and Human Resources collaborate to find lodging for the musicians and transportation as needed. All Ad Hoc concerts are volunteer run and low cost with tickets sold on a first come, first serve basis the night of the show. The majority of door proceeds go directly to the touring musicians.

Doors for Ad Hoc #1 open at 8:30pm on Friday, October 22 at Human Resources,  510 Bernard St. in Chinatown, 90012. Tickets are $8.00. For show info visit www.sassas.org or phone 323/960-5723.

A quietly outstanding piece of Improv, a haunting world of breathtaking timbral beauty … an extraordinary creation - The Wire on nectars of emergence by Jim Denely and Kim Myhr

Jim Denley is considered one of Australia’s foremost improvisers of new music with a career spanning over three decades. An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to his work. He was recently awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council and is currently working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone; to establish its relevance to ancient and current traditions in Australian music, and to extend its range with the addition of innovative electronics and miking. Denley also runs the record label Splitrec. In Mural, Jim plays flute and saxophone. (http://www.splitrec.com)

Kim Myhr is a guitarist and composer based in Oslo, Norway. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has since had an active performance schedule with concerts throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and North-America. In 2008, he received the JazZtipend at the Molde International Jazz Festival which included a commission for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a large ensemble consisting of thirteen handpicked improvisers from Norway and Australia; the one hour piece received wide critical acclaim. Myhr is also the co-director of the Fri Resonans festival, which has been presenting cutting-edge and innovative music in Trondheim, Norway since 2005. (http://www.myspace.com/kimmyhrmusic)

Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Contact Human Resources at info@humanresourcesla.com or find out more information at http://humanresourcesla.com/

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS)
is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that series as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area. Programs include the sound. concert series; online concert archives at www.soundnet.org and www.youtube.com/sassasdotorg; soundNet recordings, CD compilations drawn from sound. concerts; and soundShoppe, a monthly open jam for experimental musicians and sound artists. For further information on SASSAS visit www.sassas.org or phone 323/960-5723.

October 20 and 21 - Two performances w/Nicholas Grider, Ryan Majestic, Aaron Drake, David Earle, Elena Mann, and Julia Snapper

Masculinity Cycle (Houdini)

Nicholas Grider with Ryan Majestic

Wed. Oct. 20th, 8pm

Human Resources, 510 Bernard in Chinatown

For this performance I'll restage a famous Houdini rope challenge which goes like this: three audience volunteers tie me to a chair with 100 feet of rope.  Then I escape (probably).  Where Houdini would have moved on, though, we'll go back to the beginning and do the whole thing over again and again with new volunteers each time until either I or the audience give up.  I really need (male) audience volunteers for this so come prepared to get me secured to that chair.

Ocean of Noise

Aaron Drake, David P. Earle, Elana Mann with Juliana Snapper

Thurs. Oct. 21st, 8pm

Human Resources

Ocean of Noise is an evening of music, sound art, and performance by the above-named artists working at the intersections of these media and work with ideas of disconnection and miscommunication.  Ranging from answering machine messages to muffled lectures to reconstructed opera, each work in the event speaks to something that can get lost, orally and aurally, during human communication.



Closing Party October 17th - Mariah Garnett Solo Exhibition

Thurs Oct 8 - Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin a 16mm installation by Mariah Garnett.

Mariah Garnett at Human Resources
510 Bernard St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012.
October 8-19, 2010.
Opening Reception: October 8, 
Closing Reception: October 19
info@humanresourcesla.com
213-290-4752
Gallery hours are 12-6 pm, Thursday through Saturday and by appointment

Human Resources are pleased to host: Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin a 16mm installation by Mariah Garnett.

“Doesn’t she look like me?”
- Peter Berlin.

Garnett deals primarily with monumentality, narcissism and the ways in which our heroes are embedded into our identities, and manifested through the body. Through a variety of gestures, Garnett highlights the pervasiveness of this practice alongside its ultimate inevitable failure. 

Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin: The Remix depicts evidence of a brush with a deity through a 16mm sculpture in which two projectors loop 100ft of hand painted film. The image, the artist posing as Peter Berlin, is splintered and refracted off the surface of a mirror ball, spewing out across the walls of the gallery. The piece recasts obvious markers of identity politics in a formalist context and highlights the labor of narcissism.

Also on view is a three-part film, Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin (Parts 1, 2 and 3), in which Garnett moves through various stages of anxiety, idolization and actual touchdown with 70’s gay sex icon Peter Berlin himself, capturing both the apparent and the hidden. The film guides the viewer through the process of making contact with a figure who exists only in his own photographs. 

Mariah Garnett is pursuing her MFA at Calarts in Film/Video. Her work has shown internationally in festivals and galleries including: Acuna Hansen Gallery (Los Angeles), Montehermoso Cultural Center (Vittoria, Spain), Rencontres Internacionales (Paris, Madrid), Gender-Bender (Milan) and The Los Angeles Film Festival. 

Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression.

collective show nyc 2010

Human Resources is participating in Silvershed organized Collective Show:

COLLECTIVE SHOW is an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art collectives. This collaboratively curated "group show of group shows" features local artist-run spaces, independent curatorial initiatives, not-for-profit endeavors and web-based groups established in the last decade.

Collective Show is an open-source project sponsored by Silvershed, an artist-run project space in New York and Los Angeles. The organizers co-curated ABCyz in October 2009. Collective Show aims to further creative relationships and conjure new ideas by fostering locally-run "collective shows" in art metropoles globally.

COLLECTIVE SHOW NEW YORK 2010
September 19th, Participant, Inc. 253 East Houston St, New York, NY www.participantinc.org
RECEPTION Sunday, September 19, 7-9pm
EXHIBITION Wednesday, September 15- Sunday, September 26, 12-7pm
Collective Show NEW YORK 2010 »

CONTACT US

Silvershed - 119 West 25th St, PH, New York, NY 10001
Phone: 646.322.3324 | Email: info@collectiveshow.org | press@collectiveshow.org 

Saturday Sept 11th - Puppetry and Music w/Embarassing Powers and friends

$5

Join EMBARRASSING POWERS for a night of hypnotic puppetry and electronics, with members of howardAmb, blackblack, LA Fog and Chicken Skin Ranch.

With a KILLER Lineup including:

MISSINCINATTI
docking in Chinatown, fresh from the desert
http://www.myspace.com/missincinatti

STLS
drumcore from Portland
http://www.myspace.com/stls

ANNA OXYGEN
getting the psychedelic dance party started!
http://www.myspace.com/annaoxygen

Wednesday Sept 8th - 6 Bands you will learn to love...

A rare program of punk and experimental sound and music, curated by Trulee Grace Hall!

$5 - beverages available

8.20.10 Ghost Assisted Drawings and Manlicher Carcano

In conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's Birth of Satan exhibition, we present a performance of Ghost Assisted Drawings as performed by Christian Cummings and Michael Decker, and Manlicher Carcano's record release for This Is Really Happening Vol. 1 on Pleonasm Music. The evening starts at 9pm, and admission is Free! 
It is rumored that Gustavo Herrera will be elating us with some of his prosaic fineries...

A little background: 
Spectral Psychography is a form of psychic mark-making invented by Los Angeles based artists Christian Cummings and Michael Decker. The Psychographer uses an adapted Ouija device (a planchette) to collaborate artistically with unseen forces. Blindfolded, the hand forms an image while the mind remains unaware of what the hand is doing. 
Since 2004 Cummings and Decker have been collaborating with ghosts in the service of drawing, painting, poetry, sculpture and musical composition. To date they have created hundreds of Spectral Psychographs and have collaborated with the likes of Barnett Newman, Paul Klee, Walt Disney, Kieth Harring, Tony Smith, David Smith and Norman Rockwell (to name a few). Their work has been performed and exibited at creativetime New York and at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions.


Mannlicher Carcano is an improvisational audio collage group that formed in Winnipeg, Canada in the mid-80’s. The core members of the group are Really Happening (Los Angeles, CA), Porter Hall (St. John's, NL) and R.F. (Gogo) Godot (Winnipeg). MC’s sound has affinities with post-punk DIY experimentalism, avant-garde classical, experimental turntablist, and plunderphonic traditions. The group uses traditional and invented instruments (spring-strung bass, Ventor, cast aluminum cello), trickle-down electronics, portable record players playing warped Montovani at the wrong speed, stuck religious tirades or anything else on vinyl, children’s toys, radios, live phone calls, tape loops, field recordings of environmental soundscapes and contact miked appliances (plus frequent visual components) in their ongoing quest to come to terms with the contemporary urban acoustic ecology.

In addition to their weekly telephone-linked live radio program/webcast The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour (www.cfru.ca - since 1998) MC have issued numerous self-released recordings, appeared on experimental music and radio art compilations, produced soundtracks for experimental film, and created installations for gallery and museum spaces. Mannlicher Carcano is a seriously playful experiment in anarchistic collaborative creativity.

8.21.10 a night of music and performance art

Human Resources presents: In conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's interactive exhibition, "The Birth of Satan", a night of music and performance art with Thee Snow Snake Orchestra, Jason Triefenbach, and Cooperation. The night will be DJ'd by the illustrious Quinn Brayton 9pm. 7.21.10 $5 suggested donation.

Thee Snow Snake Orchestra- 
headed by Don Bolles, with 45 Grave member Paul Roessler. They play "45 Grave, Vox Pop and Germs songs, plus other ass kicking stuff along those lines..."

Jason Triefenbach- An amazingly "severe" performance artist who attempts to confront and inhabit Mystery, Cruelty, and the Uncanny. He will be performing the second part of his Potato Canyon Tapes, the first of which was well received at the Perform Now festival on 7.31. 

Cooperation- A rocking band fronted by Pleonasm music contributor Dan Plaza. "Cooperation's brand of rock looks forward to tomorrow while taking you back to pure california gold"- Bobby Beausoleil

8.14.10 The Exorcism of Nitai Cook as conducted by Weirdo Club

Conducted by Weirdo Club, and in conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's interactive exhibition "The Birth of Satan", THE EXORCISM OF NITAI COOK is a 12 cycle rite of exorcism applying the techniques of psychic trance algorithm, rune work, empathic magic, and organized ritual.

SUBJECT is Nitai Cook
CONTROL is Crystal Claire
DRIVE is Ignacio Genzon
EXORCIST is William Burgess

Please join us SATURDAY AUGUST 14th
10pm

Human Resources
510 Bernard St.
Los Angeles 90012

FREE ADMISSION
donations bar

www.burgessministry.com
www.humanresourcesla.com