8.7.10 Gustavo Herrera's the Birth of Satan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Human Resources
510 Bernard St.
Los Angeles, Ca 90012
Opening Reception: Saturday August 7th, from 7pm-11pm


Human Resources is pleased to host: The Birth of Satan a multimedia interactive art installation by Gustavo Herrera. 

The installation ruminates on specific cause and effect relationships pertaining to the conceptual allure of such figures as Jesus, Satan, David Koresh, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger, Anton LaVey, and Timothy McVeigh. By addressing the fascination with the manner in which esoteric, mysterious, and arcane principals are embedded into our everyday lives, Human Resources will play host to a happening in which the performance program is integrated into the installation.

Herrera’s work consists of drawings, sculpture, text, images culled from a variety of sources, and Xeroxes made into a labyrinth of individually modular stationed off rooms built around a performance platform functioning not only as an artwork, but as a space to host a variety of performances, video screening, musical performance, lectures, and ritual. The performances are scheduled and executed throughout the duration of the show, working directly and indirectly with the subject matter of the installation by way of physical interaction, and conceptual device.

Some performances will include The Legend of Satanarchy a ritualistic exorcism conducted by William Burgess on Saturday August 14th at 8pm, Jason Triefenbach’s Potato Canyon Tapes (exhibit b) on August 21st, and Michael Decker and Christian Cummings’ Ghost-Assisted Drawings at the opening on August 7th. There will also be several musical performances, and screenings throughout the run of the show.

Herrera received his MFA from Claremont University 2004. His work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, Art Basel 2007, The Armory 2006, Black Dragon Society, and Perez Projects Berlin.

Human Resources is a collective of individuals that aims to support the expression of art performers by providing them with a gallery venue as well as video and sound archiving and documentation of performances. Human Resources is entirely volunteer run and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts and to serve as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and ideas.


The Birth of Satan will run from August 7th- September 14th
www.humanresourcesla.com

Comprehensive Perform! Now! Schedule and Map

Schedule

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Perform! Now! July 29th - August 1st

July 29th to August 1st, 2010

Human Resources will be curating performances from July 29th- July 31st.

Chinatown will play host to the second annual PERFORM! NOW! Festival. Upwards of 40 performances will take place inside and outside an array of Chinatown venues. The programming allows for appropriate focus, time, context and space for uninterrupted engagement with large audiences, and provides the best possible arena for each performance.

Expanding on the premise of the inaugural event, Perform! Now! will seek to further develop and explore the delicate relationship between performer, audience, and environment. Los Angeles' historic Chinatown neighborhood harbors many unusual and exciting areas with limitless performance potential, that when paired with the wealth of talent included in this year’s roster, promises for an energizing and dynamic experience. 

Participating artists include:

Skip Arnold, Math Bass, Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand, Mariel Carranza, Marcus Civin, Dorit Cypis, Megan Daalder, Alexis Disselkoen, Zackary Drucker, Fundación Wanna Winni, Brian Getnick and Kristian van der Heyden, Liz Glynn and Corey Fogel, Douglas Green, Matt Greene, Micol Hebron, Gustavo Herrera, Marc Horowitz, ing, Vishal Jugdeo / Aram Moshayedi / Matteo Tannat, Joel Kyack, Morrisa Maltz, Emily Mast / Jerome Bel, Yong Soon Min, Lucas Murgida, Warren Neidich, Paul Pescador, Nancy Popp, Andrew Printer, Jules Rochielle, Margie Schnibbe, Sister Mantos, Alex Staiger, Team Zatara, Julie Tolentino, Jason Wallace Triefenbach, Samuel Vasquez, Dorian Wood and Joseph Tepperman. Material Press Presents: The Oratorium featuring Farrah Karapetian, Jason Underhill, Susan Silton, Ellen Birrell, Ginny Cook, Dee Williams, Dan Hockenson, Daniel Lucas Guimaraes, Kim Schoen, Olivia Booth, and Wendy Mason. In addition, two days of sound performances curated by Volume.

Participating venues Include: 

Actual Size
The Box
The Company
Francois Ghebaly Gallery 
Dan Graham
The Happy Lion
Human Resources
Charlie James Gallery
Jancar Gallery
Parker Jones
Kunsthalle LA
Sabina Lee Gallery
Pepin Moore
Tom Solomon Gallery
SolwayJones
Via Cafe
WPA
... and more...

With support from participating organization LA><ART

Organized by Francois Ghebaly, Marcus Civin, Dino Dinco and Danielle Firoozi. 

PERFORM! NOW! runs from July 29th - August 1st, 2010

Sunday July 25th

On sunday July 25th we will have a BBQ/screening/panel discussion with Margie Schnibbe, and William E. Jones Moderated by Catherine Taft. The event will start with some grilling of various food items around 6:00 pm, and continue when the sun goes down with various artist selected video screenings and a panel discussion moderated by critic and curator Catherine Taft. The screenings and talk will be outside, so bring appropriate clothing!

Friday July 16th

 

7/16/10

As part of our Mystics Circle Exhibition, we will host a night of video with accompanying cocktails curated by Brian Bress. 

8pm

free!

Thursday July 15th

A night of Music with Le Chat Lunatique, Missincinatti, and Jessica Fichot. July 15th at 9pm. $5

As unpredictable, fearless, and entertaining as their namesake, Le Chat Lunatique (Albuquerque) purveys an addictive genre they call “filthy, mangy jazz,” a signature sound that makes you want to smoke and drink a lot—if only you could get off the dance floor. Le jazz hot of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli is their north star, but they use that beacon to navigate through a wide range of genres, blending Western swing, classical, reggae, and doowop, into original compositions and reworked standards alike.
www.lechatlunatique.com

Missincinatti dives into the salty seas of yore to uncover forgotten tales of shipwrecks, fantastical crocodiles, a suicidal captains mistress, and the various hardships and sorrows of a life at sea.  These seasoned stories are told through chamber-esque compositions, field recordings, and timeless arrangements of old melodies created by Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake and Corey Marc Fogel. www.myspace.com/missincinatti

Jessica Fichot is French at heart, but with a soul that's truly international. Her multi-ethnic French/Chinese/American upbringing colors the songs she likes to write. Jessica takes the listener on a journey out of the French chanson tradition, into the lands of gypsy, Chinese andLatin American folk music, and through the classics of American repertoire.
www.jessicasongs.com

Friday July 2nd - A night of performance and music!

Come and see Box Scheme, the CalArts MFA exhibit in Chinatown and visit HR!
With: 

Native Fauna
Learning Music
and a performance piece by Matt Fielder and Rachel Kessler

Dj'd by Eyad Karkoutly

Starts at 9. Free!

Thursday June 24th - X-TRA SUMMER LAUNCH PARTY with Brandon LaBelle and Benjamin Lord

X-TRA is pleased to present artist and writer Brandon LaBelle in conversation with X-TRA 12.4 feature contributor Benjamin Lord.

In addition to the new issue of X-TRA, we’ll celebrate the release of Brandon LaBelle’s book Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life. LaBelle will present a performative reading aiming for the dynamics of sound culture and acts of listening. 

LaBelle will be joined by Benjamin Lord, LA-based artist and writer, who wrote the feature for Vol 12, no. 4, titled, No Ghost Appears: Luciano Chessa's Reconstructions of the Futurist Intonarumori.

About Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life: From underground environments to the home, Brandon LaBelle traces the cultural and social movements of auditory life. Acoustic Territories continues the author’s interest in sonic culture and extends his earlier work, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, elaborating on the dynamics of sonic materiality and experience. LaBelle follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and ultimately queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. 

http://www.brandonlabelle.net/

http://www.continuumbooks.com/

We’ll draw the winner of our iPod Shuffle with a mix by Jan Tumlir. 

To enter the raffle, fill out our 2010 Reader Survey. 

Go to www.x-traonline.org and click on Reader Survey Button on the right.

go to www.x-traonline.org for more information

FRIDAY JUNE 11TH - Premiere of "Whole Halves" by Eve Fowler and Anna Sew Hoy

Human Resources hosts the premiere of “Whole Halves,” a new video by LA-based artists Eve Fowler and Anna Sew Hoy. The program begins at 8pm, featuring a screening of Whole Halves as well as additional video projects created by the artists who assisted in the making of Whole Halves. 

These artists include: Math Bass, Mariah Garnett, Pearl C. Hsiung, Dawn Kasper, Visperd Madad-Doust, Lucas Michael, and Marty Windahl.

This is a free event.  For details click.

Friday June 4th - Rats, Jarrett Silberman, Lady Noise

An evening of experimental music and sound!

Reprint from LA Times

Performance artist Dawn Kasper 'always swirling'

The Los Angeles artist's latest work, the 'On' series, explores existential themes through what she calls 'visual poems.'

May 16, 2010|By Holly Myers, Special to the Los Angeles Times

 

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  Katie Falkenberg

Dawn Kasper's first solo show out of graduate school, at Circus Gallery in 2007, was titled simply "Life and Death," which gives you some idea of the scope of her inquiry. Working in video, installation and performance primarily, she's made works exploring "Evil," "Love" and "Truth." She's currently working on a group called the "On" series — as in, "On Forgetting," "On Religion" "On Existence" — and another she's dubbed "Clues to the Meaning of Life."

  

She is an artist preoccupied, in other words, by the Big Questions, either unwilling or unable to home in on a more reasonable set of parameters. Her works, as a result, are generally quite messy: materially, thematically, emotionally. They leave stains and scars — sometimes literally; "residue" is a word she uses often — and rarely come to tidy conclusions. The effect for the viewer, however, can be exhilarating.

In conversation as well as in performance — and the line between the two appears none too distinct — Kasper has an eager, frenetic tone, the air of one struggling to get her head around a problem, continually tipping between revelation and bafflement. Thirty-three years old, with short, dark hair, expressive features and the intensity of a natural performer, she speaks as one who has too many thoughts in her head at once.

"I have so many ideas and so many interests," she says, "always swirling, and a short attention span and, oh my God — overwhelming sometimes."

Speaking in the bedroom that doubles as her studio in the Koreatown apartment she shares with a roommate, she describes her approach in quasi-scientific terms: She begins with a question or a hypothesis and undertakes a series of actions to answer that question, to prove or disprove that hypothesis. (The majority of her work is performance-based, or else — in the case of installations and photographs — generated out of her performances, though she makes drawings as well.)

The series for which she first became known in L.A., begun while in grad school in the New Genres program at UCLA , was rooted in the darkest of questions.

"I wanted to know what I looked like dead," she says.

She'd been obsessed with horror films, serial killers and Weegee's tabloid photographs, making videos and installations that mimicked crime scene investigations. After a while she began to use her own body, staging live dioramas that simulated her demise in disturbingly and sometimes absurdly gory ways.

  

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