2.24.16 Postcommodity, White Boy Scream, Carmina Escobar 8PM

Postcommodity
http://postcommodity.com/
https://postcommodity.bandcamp.com/

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist. Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.

White Boy Scream 
http://www.micaelatobin.com/wbs

White Boy Scream is a solo experimental-music project that dissects the operatic qualities of the voice through a series of electronic effects pedals and looping stations.  Micaela Tobin aims to dismantle and ultimately, reconcile, the construct of the classically-trained soprano within the genres of noise and drone.

Carmina Escobar
http://carminaescobar.com/

"I am an experimental vocalist, performer, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City. My work focuses primarily on the voice, the body and their interrelations to physical, social and memory spaces. At the moment I live and breath in Los Angeles, CA."

2.22.2016 Gaymer Cave

Monday February 22, 2016 6-9pm

A StreetPass enthusiast get together and video cave with videos by Johnnie JungleGuts!

Get together and max out that StreetPass! Play casual games of Smash Brothers, Pokemon and Mario Kart, or whatever the kids are into these days! Just hang out! outlets for charging will be available! This event is entirely free!

Don't StreetPass? Come anyway and experience an outrageously massive 3 channel floor to ceiling video installation! View these videos by Johnnie JungleGuts in their ideal environment- around gamers!

Come in cosplay! Johnnie's two favorite cosplayers will get gift certificates to Comics Vs. Toys for $100 each! Decision will occur at 8 pm!

Also, this cave utilizes an installation from Martine Syms show, "Black Box" and you should all go check it out whle it's up!

Johnnie JungleGuts is a professional fan. He is best known for drawing every Pokemon. He was in Art in America for drawing Pokemon AND he was on an episode of Storage Wars where he appraised a collection of My Little Ponies. He does a video series called L3T'S GAY! where he interviews people while playing Final Fantasy 6 and you can find it on YouTube. He has a comics and more talk show on Kchung Radio called Outbreak. He does the social media for Comics Vs. Toys, a comic book store in Eagle Rock. He is currently organizing a Pokemon tournament to raise money for the Sante D'Or cat shelter. His favorite X-Man is Kitty Pryde.

2.21.16 QUEER POP

QUEER POP 8pm, $5

Sophia Cleary + Bradford Nordeen assemble a coterie of luminary queers for this one-off night of dance, drama and dissonance. Rending pop from its staid axis with underground sounds and outré styles, Queer Pop brings together an international roster of musicians and performers:

Macy Rodman (NYC)

Xina Xurner (LA)

PRICE (Switzerland)

TMO (LA)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Macy Rodman is a NYC based recording artist and producer whose debut EP "HELP" was released in February 2016.  Macy's work contains elements of Pop, Punk, and Dance/Electronic music and deals with such topics as nightlife, misandry, and her trans experience.  In 2015, Macy released "Lazy Girl" as the first single from "HELP" along with a video directed by Josef Kraska featuring an all trans and gender non-conforming cast.  Lazy Girl has been featured in Vice, Original Plumbing and Bullet Media and was featured in a spread for ArtForum Magazine in which avant garde pop producer Sophie named Macy as one of his favorites acts of 2015.  Rodman got her start as producer and curator of the notorious queer performance party "BathSalts", and frequently collaborates with performance artists and musicians like QT, Colin Self, Jake Dibeler, JX Cannon, and Cecilia Corrigan. 

Xina Xurner is a music and performance collaboration between LA-based artists Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak. Xina Xurner melds together a variety of musical genres (including industrial, happy hardcore, punk, house, noise), to create sadical and exuberant diva-dance anthems driven by sweat, sex, death, and transformation. Their performances seek to embody a unique form of drag terrorism that brings together Queer People of Color communities, while expanding the limits of understanding queer bodies beyond the fixed terms of gender and sexuality. Xina Xurner regularly performs at a wide variety of spaces throughout LA, including live music venues such as The Smell and Pehrspace, Queer parties such as Coolworld and Mustache Mondays, and art spaces and museums such as the Hammer Museum, Night Gallery, and LACE. Xina Xurner will make you sweat.

xinaxurner.com

xinaxurner.bandcamp.com

Mathias Ringgenberg (born 1986 in Zurich) finished 2015 the master theater & performing arts at the College of the arts Bern in Switzerland. In his current performative works called, “Can not say much about anything that’s new” and the associated debut album “Greatest Hits” or its video performances “A: I am impressed B: Well - I am in love” or “Home is a place we all have to find”, Mathias developed the fictional character PRICE. In this project, he investigated mechanisms of mainstream pop while attempting the potential of musical and performative formats to explore. The forms of his work are mutating through their showrooms or clubs and can be experienced always differently. His works are musical and performative situations which deal with the topics of ‘love’, ‘faith’, ‘desire’ and ‘sex’. He uses the language of pop culture, which embodies the language of folk culture, the masses, society and globalisation. This aesthetic he brings in connection with sociological issues such as the issue of transparency society of self-expression urge, the language as the house of being and how PRICE would say his homeless Generation Y.

Called an "interdisciplinary gospel immortalist" by Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tyler Matthew Oyer is an artist, writer, and organizer based in Los Angeles. He has presented work at MoMA PS1, REDCAT, dOCUMENTA (13), Hammer Museum, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bergen Kunstall, Rogaland Kunstsenter, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, High Desert Test Sites, Highways Performance Space, Human Resources LA and the Orange County Museum of Art. He has written works of performance including GONE FOR GOLD, Shimmy Shake Earthquake, and 100 Years of Noise: Beyoncé is ready to receive you now. Oyer is represented by Cirrus Gallery and his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY). Oyer is the founder of tir journal, an online platform for queer, feminist, and underrepresented voices. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012. He is currently working on his first movie, Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide. TMOSTUDIO.COM

2.19.2016 Meet And Greet

MEET & GREET 2016: A project fair & party for new & independent contemporary arts groups in Los Angeles

Organized by Human Resources, Project X / X-TRA and LA Contemporary Archive

What is MEET & GREET 2016?

It’s somewhere in between a party and a science fair: an opportunity meet some of the new & independent arts organizations in Los Angeles. Come to have a drink, mingle and hear short 2-minute presentations from some of the unique upstarts that make Los Angeles so great.

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:
Actual Size
As It Stands
BBQLA
Contemporary Art Review LA
Chin’s Push
Coaxial
Contemporary Art Daily
Eastside International
Equitable Vtrines
Full Haus
Hakuna Matata
Hesse Press
KCHUNG
The Kingsboro Press
metro pcs
Monte Vista Projects
Nonsensical
PAM
Pieter
Poetic Research Bureau
Pssst
Vacancy
Veggiecloud
..and more...

$$ All proceeds from the cash bar will be raffled off to one of the presenting groups to support programming! $$

The event is free and open to the public.

2.15.2016 Sun Foot / Sally Timms

Human Resources, in collaboration with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, presents an evening of music performed by Sun Foot (Brian Mumford, Ron Burns, Chris Johanson) and Sally Timms (of The Mekons) accompanied by Sun Foot + Money Mark.

Please note that this event will take place at LACA (2245 E. Washington Blvd LA CA 90021)

8pm

$10 Suggested Donation

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2.14.16 Valentine's Day Kick-Off Party / Benefit for Decolonize LA

C O O L W O R L D presents

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2.13.2016 Arcadia Missa / Dominica Reading

Join Arcadia Missa and Dominica at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive on Saturday, February 13th at 8pm for readings by Hannah Black, Sarah M. Harrison, Rin Johnson, and Arian Dean on the occasion of two new releases, and in connection with the exhibition Martine Syms: "Black Box" on view at Human Resources!

please note that the reading will take place at LACA (2245 E Washington Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90021), not at HR

2.12.16 - 2.13.16 Border Labs

Contemporary performing artists gather from Los Angeles and Tijuana to exchange ideas in an informal salon. These free events will feature short works that muddle, illuminate, and transmute the Baja/Alta California border. Open discussion will follow with live interpretation by Antena Los Ángeles, a language justice advocacy collective that supports groups in the creation of effective bilingual and multilingual spaces through translation, interpretation, and other tools of cross-language practice. 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 8:30PM

1. Taco Two Time 

           Antena: Jen Hofner (LA) and John Pluecker (Houston, TX) 

2.  Todavía (Still) 

     Hernán Del Riego (Mexico City / TJ) 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 8:30PM

1. Estrategias Para Cambiar La Frontera

    Relaciones Inesperadas: Ingrid Hernández and Abraham Ávila (TJ)

2. Erramos Perdidos En Una Cuidad de Millones, Work-in-progress

    Rebeca Hernández (LA)

3. Dialegesthai 

    Cognate Collective: Amy Sánchez- Arteaga (Santa Ana) and Miseal Díaz (TJ) 

Salon will continue in Tijuana with the same artists at Estacion Teatro on February 19th and CECUT on February 20th. 

2.12.16 Eric Frye | Sean McCann + Matthew Sullivan | Ellen Phan

Doors at 9pm, $7 

Quadraphonic Sound

Eric Frye (MN/Anòmia/Salon)
Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan (LA/Recital/Salon)
Ellen Phan (LA/VRS)


Please Note: This event will be held at LACA
2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021

2.6.2016 - 2.27.2016 Martine Syms "Black Box"

Opening Reception Saturday February 6, 7-10pm

On View February 6 - 27, Wednesday thru Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment

Black Box is an exhibition of sixty new and recent videos by Martine Syms. These works are part of a long, incomplete poem in 180 sections titled Lessons. Each lesson is exactly thirty seconds in duration.

"Syms simulates flipping through television channels, repurposing advertisements and listings culled from TV Guide. The flickering, repetitive sensation of moving from one neatly contained narrative to the next creates a glut of signifiers through which to wade. The edges of visual memory become less resolute and are subject to confusion and total collapse. The televisual presents a multiplicity of entries and departures, which Syms puts in the service of defining possibilities for a culturally specific aesthetic tradition. That definition, however, remains assertively porous." — Ayesha B. Jones

Martine Syms is an artist based in Los Angeles, born 1988. She is the founder of Dominica, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring blackness in visual culture. Her artwork has been exhibited and screened extensively, including presentations at the New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, MCA Chicago, Green Gallery, Gene Siskel Film Centre, and White Flag Projects. She has lectured at Yale University, SXSW, California Institute of the Arts, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, and MoMA PS1, among other venues. Syms’ recently presented the exhibition Vertical Elevated Oblique at Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York. Forthcoming exhibitions include Electronic Superhighway 2016-1966, Whitechapel Gallery, London and COM PORT MENT at Karma International, Los Angeles.

2.5.16 Phill Niblock / Carl Stone

8pm Friday February 5th 2016 at Human Resources 410 Cottage Home St. LA CA 90012

Tickets: $15 pre-sale / $20 at the door

Human Resources, in cooperation with VOLUME, is pleased to presents acclaimed intermedia artist Phill Niblock and one of the pioneers of live computer music Carl Stone.

Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60’s he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world among which: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; ZKM; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard; World Music Institute at Merkin Hall NYC. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the curator of EI’s XI Records label. In 1993 he was part of the formation of an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium – EI v.z.w. Gent – which supports an artist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock’s music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label.

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan. A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, Carl Stone is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts. In 1984 he was commissioned to compose a new work premiered as part of the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles. His music was selected by the dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones for the production 1-2-3. in that same year. In 1989 he resided for 6 months in Japan under a grant from the Asian Cultural Council and in that same year, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles commissioned a new work, Thonburi as part of the radio series “Territory of Art”. In 1990 he was commissioned to create music for a 60-minute program for ZDF Television in West Germany entitled Made in Hollywood. In 1991 he received separate commissions from Michiko Akao (She Gol Jib, for traditional Japanese flute and electronics), Sumire Yoshihara (for percussionist and electronics) and Sony PCL (Recurring Cosmos, for High Definition video and electronics), which was awarded special honors at the International Electric Cinema Festival in Switzerland in 1991. In 1993, he was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble to create a new work, Ruen Pair, with funds from the Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program. In 1994 he was commissioned by the Strings Plus Festival, Kobe to create Mae Ploy, for string quartet and electronics. In that same year he also created Banh Mi So, for ondes martenot and piano, at the request of Takashi Harada and Aki Takahashi. In 1995, he was commissioned by NTT/Japan to create a new work for the internet , Yam Vun Sen, as part of IC95. In 1996, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, he created music for The Noh Project, a collaboration with choreographer June Watanabe and Noh master Anshin Uchida. In 1997 he was commissioned by Bay Area Pianists and Cal Performances to create a new work, Sa Rit Gol, for disklavier and pianist, as part of the Henry Cowell Centennial Celebration at UC Berkeley. Other festival performances in 1997 included Other Minds (San Francisco) and TonArt (Bern). In 1999 he was invited as Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center. In 2001 he served as Artist-in-Residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Japan, and in that same year he joined the faculty of Chukyo University’s School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences.

advance tickets available here

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2.2.16 Odwalla88 / Gxnt Valentine / Headband / Unica

Human Resources presents an evening of performances by:  

Odwalla88
Gxnt Valentine (Trinity County)
Headband (Baltimore)
Unica

at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive

2245 E Washington Blvd 
Los Angeles, CA 90021 

8pm Doors
9pm Music
$7 Suggested Donation

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1.28.16 RON ATHEY : Invitation to Yin Yang

Invitation to Yin Yang

Join us Thursday, January 28th at 8pm for a performance by Ron Athey with Darryl Carlton (aka Divinity Fudge) and David Harrow, as part of the Live Artists Live: Performance Art and the Archive program. This event is sponsored by USC's Visions and Voices Program. People with reservations should arrive between 6:30-7:30 to pick up wristbands. Event begins at 8pm prompt. We will admit folks with reservations first, and then those without. Thank you! 

Event is free, reservations are required. For complete list of events and RSVP, please click here.  

Image: Catherine Opie, Ron Athey/The Sick Man (from Deliverance), 2000, Polaroid. Courtesy of Ron Athey

1.26.2016 DaiKyoFuroShiki (Cammisa Buerhaus / Tamio Shirashi / Felix Bernstein)

Doors at 8pm, Music at 9pm

For the West Coast Civilization Shuffle Tour, Buerhaus will be playing her Frankenstein guitar, a rebuilt electric guitar, as well as manipulating field recordings of public + private transportation modes, and controlling Shiraishi’s field recorded rhythms. Shiraishi will be playing his saxophone, and both members vocalize.

Felix Bernstein will join the performance, reading sections from his second book, Burn Book.

Shiraishi stays in the highest register possible, while Buerhaus’ guitar maxes out at the lowest end. DaiKyoFuroShiki makes large sounds with minimal instrumentation in order to slice the room.

Sonically unhinged but physically + spatially deliberate, this is will be a measured investigation of liminal space and tension, using strategies of improvisation developed over years of rehearsal and site specific performances across NYC’s five boroughs.

Cammisa Buerhaus is a sound artist and actress who lives in NYC. She runs the record label Wild Flesh Productions, is a member of the theatre company NYC Players, cofounded the band 大凶風呂, and writes fanfiction about American politics. Her sound art and performances have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the CDG Cultergeist Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal and as sound designer for Felix Bernstein's Bieber Bathos at The Whitney Museum of American Art.
https://vimeo.com/140238008

Tamio Shirashi needs no introduction; he was a central figure in the Club Minor scene in Japan, jammed in Taco and A-Musik, helped form Fushitsusha, and has released various works of site specific saxophone playing. His style is some of the most atom splitting minimalism to ever locate your body in space. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_4m0v--OY

Thus, the sound of 大凶風呂敷 is a tense drama whose nerve chilling minimalism literally encodes the space for terrifying truths to appear all around you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SA4-AHFPvw

Felix Bernstein is the author of Burn Book (Nightboat) and Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry (Insert Blanc Press). His writing has been featured in Bomb, the Believer, Poetry Magazine, The Awl, and Hyperallergic. His performance, Bieber Bathos Elegy just wrapped at the Whitney Museum.

heres a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhT6lgi9Zms

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1.25.16 WEEDEATER - SCREENING AND FUNDRAISER

All the money raised goes towards getting this film on the road. 

Hosted by Casey Jane Ellison
Artist Auction includes: Jibz Cameron, Aimee Goguen, Molly Larkey, Edie Fake, John Batki, Yuval Pudik, Amanda Marsalis, Anna Craycroft, Nicole Eisenman, Davida Nemeroff, Pearl Hsiung, Dylan Mira, Anna Sew Hoy, Eve Fowler A.L. Steiner, Lindsay Brant, Iris Porter, Suzanne Wright, Christine Wang, Julie Burleigh, Mel Shimkovitz, Ali Liebegott, Hayden Dunham,
Shannon Ebner, Erika Vogt, Brica Wilcox, Waggy Baby, Mikki Olsen, Meriem Bennani, Miriam Klein Stahl, Jaye Fishel, Bill Daniel, Kranky, Jana Brevick, Jasmine Shokrian, OW, Jen Smith, Bessie Kunath + Art ECF, Onya Hogan Finley, Lisa Sitko, Sarah Cromarty, Suzy Poling, Zen Sekizawa, and Veronica De Jesus

music by awesometapesfromafrica

Raffle Prizes by Nance Klehm, Marty Windahl, Amy von Harrington, Eden Batki, Dune, Fancy Dinner Tickets and more.

7pm-10pm

facebook link https://www.facebook.com/events/201563563530039/

1.23.16 BILL NACE / JAKE MEGINSKY / kathleen kim / andrew choate

9PM , $8

"the humble and unentitled"
pleasantly submit

solo sets by

BILL NACE . JAKE MEGINSKY . KATHLEEN KIM . ANDREW CHOATE

doors at 8pm
sound at 9pm

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Los Angeles is the terminus of a January 2016 coast-to-coast tour by Jake Meginsky and Bill Nace. Though this pair of New England experimentalists have been collaborators for a decade and a half, on this trek each plays a solo set.

Guitarist Bill Nace brings a shredder instinct and deft touch to any gig or sesh, as he's done with figures as diverse as Chris Corsano, Aaron Dilloway, and Joe McPhee. This show will be Bill's first solo set in L.A. this decade and also his first since embarking on what has become his best known project: the heavy-art guitar duo Body/Head with Kim Gordon.

Jake Meginsky is a rarefied percussionist who can embrace, eschew, or simply chew on rhythm. Jake's tour rig may now be a shuffle of bits and bytes, but his instincts as a hitter-of-things are intact. His digital concrète has opened the possibility of a spectralized batterie: recombining elements into a new flow, or -- just as easily -- reducing them to crackle.

Kathleen Kim is a Los Angeles-based violinist and member of avant-chamber quartet L.A. Fog. Though she can extend through technique and technology, the core of her sound imagination is an idiomatic play of the violin itself — fluidly free sailing as motifs rise and fall.

Andrew Choate is an L.A. poet with humor and howl. His readings are LIVE and no doubt informed by the musics his Unwrinkled Ear chases: the new, the out, and the free. Those partial to entendre might say he is a "post" poet as he is currently blazing a new medium for the form via his instagram feed, Saint Bollard.

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For the sour serious and beer curious, a private reserve of Oude Gueuze from Belgium's Brouwerij DeTroch will be poured along with other refreshments. FB event page

1.8.16 - 1.24.16 Sille Storihle: ONE MAN SHOW

Opening reception: January 8, 2016 – 7-10pm
Exhibition dates: January 9 - 24, 2015 - Thursdays-Sundays, noon-6pm

ONE MAN SHOW is Berlin-based artist Sille Storihle’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The show centers on two documentary shorts, The Stonewall Nation (2014) and The Tomorrow Show (2015). Drawing on archival material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the exhibition examines the performative potential of archival documents. Using the interview format as a framework, ONE MAN SHOW engages in the telling and retelling of history by examining utopian ideas and myths concerning sexual liberation in California in the 1970s.

Invested in the transmission of history across generations, Storihle has worked closely with the accomplished Los Angeles-based actor Michael Kearns. In The Stonewall Nation (2014), Kearns impersonates the activist Don Jackson, revisiting his aim to establish a gay settlement in Northern California. The film portrays a man yearning for community and belonging, while questioning the ideological framework of his idea of a promised gay land. 

The Tomorrow Show (2015) takes Michael Kearns’ own story as its starting point. Shot in his own bedroom, the film focuses on Kearns’ life as the The Happy Hustler in the mid-70s, a fictional role he took on and acted out both on and off screen. It recounts Kearns’ memory of a trick he turned before going on the talk show, The Tomorrow Show - a return to a role that unsettles narratives of identity and history.

Sunday Jan 17, 2pm

Conversation: ONE MAN SHOW

Artist Sille Storihle invites curator at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives David E. Frantz and actor Michael Kearns for a conversation on her current exhibition at Human Resources in Los Angeles. The conversation will contextualize the exhibition and discuss questions of queer archives, transmission of history and community.

The exhibited works include print and video material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sille Storihle is an artist and researcher based in Berlin, working mainly with short films and publications. Her central areas of interest include gender politics, nationalism, and history. With Liv Bugge, she runs the Oslo based platform FRANK, aiming at building community, showing contemporary art and generating discussions addressing hegemonic structures in society relating to gender and sexuality. Her artistic and curatorial projects have been shown at The Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art (2014), ONE Archives (2014), MoMA PS1 (NYABF, 2014), Manifesta 10 (On Board, 2014), The Jerusalem Show VII (2014), Kunsthall Oslo (2013), Bergen Assembly (2013), Performa 13 (2013), 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013), Unge Kunstneres Samfund (2013), and Kunstnernes Hus (2012). She holds a BA in Fine Art from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts.

The exhibition is supported by OCA.

 

12.24.15-12.26.15 JEFFZILLAWORLD

Jeffzilla presents JEFFZILLAWORLD, a three-night installation and performance series that will transform HRLA into a fantasy fun house from beyond the pumpkin.

Jeffzilla, aka Jeff Galvan, is an an LA based multi-disciplinary artist, musician and co-founder of the infamous Coolworld Party LA.

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*A queer little pumpkin, a jolly fat fellow,
Stood close to his mother so rotund and yellow.
"What a stupid old place! how I long to aspire,"
Cried he, "I was destined for something much higher."
"My son," said the mother, "pray do be content,
There's great satisfaction in life that's well spent!"
But he shrugged up his shoulders, this pumpkin, 't is true,
And acted just like some bad children will do.

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Thursday Dec 24
Open 5pm-midnight
Friday Dec 25
Open 12pm-10pm
Saturday Dec 26
Open 12pm-7pm & Closing Celebration 9pm
featuring live music and performance by Scourge & Coolworld Djs + More TBA

https://www.facebook.com/events/1527231947590937/

12.18.15 - 12.20.15 Mark Golamco: GHOSTLIGHT

Mark Golamco founded and hosted a monthly performance cabaret called Ghostlight at the infamous (and now shuttered) Cafe Dancer bar in New York City. Ghostlight is an eclectic night of performance featuring exceptional artists and DJs. Each night is grounded by an intimate solo performance by Golamco self-accompanied on the viola.

Ghostlight has now become a nomadic series, recently staged aboard the steamboat SS Lilac on the Hudson River and at Judson Memorial Church in NYC. Mark is thrilled to bring this performance series to HRLA. He will be joined by musical guests, Michael Gerald Bauer, Oscar Santos and the DJ Earthen Oxytocin. The performance will also include ssome installation magic by Felisa Funes from Of The Flowers and Travis D of Project Rage Queen. Special guest appearece on Saturday night by Gorgeous Vermillion and Beast Nest featuring Alexander Brown and John Brumley.

These artists will be charging the space with energy before and during the performances through art making, installation and elemental ritual. The public is invited to see the remnants of these occurrences as well as impromptu performances during open gallery hours.

Friday, December 18th

Doors 8PM Show starts at 9PM

Saturday, December 19th

Doors 8PM Show starts at 9PM

Sunday, December 20th

Gallery Hours 11AM-6PM

https://www.facebook.com/events/1543449542546671/

12.11.15 Video Screening and Q&A. Part 2: The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning

Image: Phil Collins, "marxism today (prologue)", 35 min, 2010

Friday, December 11 - 7pm

Video program. Part 2
This program is conceived in conjunction and in dialogue with the exhibition The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning

Part 2 is a video program and Q&A curated by Suzy Halajian and Clara López Menéndez.

Featuring works by Malin Arnell, Phil Collins, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, and Basim Magdy, followed by a Q&A with the curators and Malin Arnell, Harry Dodge, and Stanya Kahn.

Malin Arnell, This is What We Do Part 1, 2:37 min, 2009
This is What We Do Part 2, 3:30 min, 2009
Phil Collins, marxism today (prologue), 35 min, 2010
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Winner, 15:33 min, 2002
Basim Madgy, The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys, 13:22 min, 2014