12.20.14-12.21.14: AMRA: SET THE MOOD

Set The MOOD is a multisensory art show by AMRA. Come and be led through a dark vibrating space scored for our inner desires. Enter the MOOD as installed art pieces illuminate one at a time, curated aromas dance around large-scale abstract paintings, MOOD altars interact with singing light bodies. Relax and enjoy the MOOD choir.

Two Performances:

Dec 20th 2014 doors at 8:00pm, show starts promptly at 9

Dec 21st 2014 doors at 5:00pm show starts promptly at 6:00

Set The MOOD is

performance

projection

light

scent

video

dance

installation

music

meditation

West Coast Sound Bath!

Featuring:

The Mood Choir: Jesse Marie DiCarlo Wagner, Riley Bray, David Park, and Angel Olivencia.

Performance by,

Jeepneys

Big Bugs

AMRA

Costumes by Angel Olivencia

DJ Jeffzilla of Cool World.

and Plus True Light. 

http://www.amraisland.com

12.13.14: Nikki Darling Performance and Book Launch

12.4.14: RezErect: Native Erotica

Carriellyn Xwementelot Victor (Chiyo'm:M/Coast Salish), P'q'el'qel (PaK'el'Lul), 2013Thursday, December 4, 8PM

Gwaai Edenshaw and Kwiaahwah Jones are co-curators of RezErect: Native Erotica, a recent exhibition at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. They will be speaking about the exhibit, Native American sexuality and Indigenous curatorial practices. This event is organized by UC Riverside Professor Michelle Raheja, author of Reservation Reelism. 

11.25.14 White Magic + Matthew David's Mindflight + Moomaw ∆

WHITE MAGIC (with band)

Mathew David's Mindflight

Moomaw ∆

8PM 7$

11.24.14: Decolonizing the White Box II

A follow up to last month's community gathering initiating conversation about structural racism in and around the art world.

We are still defining the shape of this conversation—but this event will have a more traditional structure: we will stage a roundtable conversation with a handful of artists and art-workers, and then open the event up to conversation with the audience. Confirmed panelists: Carolyn Castaño, Amitis Motevalli and Ricardo Abreu Bracho.

We would like to welcome people with a slideshow — send us examples of work that inspires you, work that opens up one's thinking about what it means to develop a decolonial practice, imagine a different future, another world, to mine the past. Work by your spirit guides, work of your own that you would like to share. You can send images to HRLA by emailing us through our website, or by posting to the facebook event page for this event. 

Nearly 200 people showed up for the first of these gatherings exploring the colonialism of the structures and modes of relation that people of color especially encounter in and around the art world. This is more than twice the size of any audience that has attended previous community forums at HRLA—and it meant that the first phase of the event was, for many people, unwieldy. Many left in the first hour, but more stayed. We worked our way toward conversation—and engaged in important listening exercises with each other. People shared powerful stories of exclusion and erasure.

For this session, we will listen to a panel of artists and art-workers with different kinds of practices and experiences, and talk with them. Hopefully, as spaces and collectives continue to program events supporting the exchange of anti-racist perspective and ideas, people can enjoy the sense that each event is part of a larger, ongoing and heterogenous process.

Event photo by Audrey Chan: the audience at the start of October 17th event.

11.22.14: The 16 Hour Experience (Sleepover)

A Sleepover at HRLA: 7PM Sat Nov 22-11AM Sun Nov 23

Folding Structures, Storytelling, Tarot Readings

HRLA opens its doors for an all-night experience which invites the public to join the artist in a range of hands-on activities, storytelling, card readings, and a prolonged collective inhabiting of the gallery after-hours. Once started, the doors will shut and participants will commit to a long duration interaction between each other as a collective and develop through time a new understanding of the space, each other, and the work through the act of collective inhabiting. This intimate art experience is a rare opportunity to realize the fantasy of staying inside after the place closes. For more information about this sleepover, email: info@humanresourcesla.com.

FOLDING STRUCTURES

Argote's installation My Father's Side of Home is an exercise in folding and unfolding the architectural layout of the spaces we inhabit. Argote works with manta, a staple fabric with a rich tradition and ubiquitous presence in everyday Mexico. Argote's Mantas are themselves drawings in plan that fold and unfold both physically and mentally.

Folding Structures invites participants to collaborate with the artist in the folding, ironing, and pleating of fabric. Through the action of measuring, planning, and constructing cardboard structures that fold the fabric, participants explore both through touch and through context architectural drawing, sculpture and the process of ritual. Through the use of these folding structures, participants are invited into an almost ritualistic experience that hopefully creates connections to memory through repetition and labor, folding and unfolding ideas and possibilities and creating structures conducive to memory and shared histories.

STORYTELLING

Participants are invited to share stories of their father's side of home. Stories and memories will resurface as we experience long stretches of time together. If architecture is never idle and its effect is a constant, then our prolonged exposure to the white cube will cause many stories to resurface and emerge in our shared inhabitance.

TAROT free reading

During the tarot card reading, the gallery and the work within it become a space to commune with psychic energy and for the  experimentation and access to our collective supernatural energy. Through an intuitive tarot card reading, participants will be invited to narrate their own interpretation of the cards to fellow participants, drawing on their own personal histories and experiences. Inherently an extension and a reflection of the self onto another, the electric current that binds us through experience and shared history and shared space will undoubtedly activate the supernatural. Our collective selves will go beyond our own narrated interpretations and reveal electrical connection.

11.15.14-11.23.14: My father's side of home

HRLA is proud to present My Father's Side of Home, an installation project by Carmen Argote.

OPENING November 15th. 2014 7PM-10PM

With MY FATHER'S SIDE OF HOME, Carmen Argote shares one result of her process of inhabiting Mansion Magnolia, a neoclassical style mansion built in the early 1900's that belongs to her family in Guadalajara, Mexico. Argote explores personal history though architecture, using the act of inhabiting as process to investigate both the influence of the spaces that house us and how these spaces shape our notion of home and place. The artist uses memory, touch and intimate histories to explore and understand her own immigrant experience, the experiences of her father, her family, and the experience of the everyday shaped under the constant influence of architecture and history.  

The installation project is itself inhabited by "My Home Electrical," a suite of programs curated by Lorena Peña Brita.

Preview: Nov 14, 12-6

Opening: Nov 15 7PM-10PM

Schedule: Nov 16-22 12PM-7:30PM, with nightly film screenings beginning at 6PM

Closing Event: Nov 22 7PM-Nov 23 11AM - 16 Hour Sleepover

MY HOME ELECTRICAL, a Public Program curated by Lorena Peña Brito

SCREENINGS November 16th - November 21st, 6PM- 7:30PM

THE 16 HOUR EXPERIENCE November 22th 7PM - November 23rd 11AM

MY HOME ELECTRICAL attempts to both create a deeper understanding and connection to the exhibition through dialogue and by creating tools for haptic perception that compliment and extend the work through empathy and shared personal histories.

My Home Electrical invites the viewers to become participants, working along with the artist and curator to explore the intersections between their own personal history and the structures that house them. Through these activities, we hope to help develop your own awareness between body and structure and between your physical body and the spaces that you mentally inhabit. 

MY HOME ELECTRICAL, curated by Lorena Peña Brito 

Evening Screenings: Nov 17 - Nov 22, all screenings start at 6pm

My Home Electrical includes a nightly program of films that fosters dialogue between the themes inherent in “My Father's side of Home” but also opens potential pathways and/or wounds for new growth and development. These films create and explore small traumas between/within architectural spaces, the urban environment, the immigrant experience, our everyday rituals,  and between the voyeuristic nature of the other and ourselves.

MONDAY 17 Arturo Ripstein, LA TIA ALEJANDRA (1 hr. 27 minutes, 1979) Spanish/no subtitles. For a family with three children, the trauma begins with the arrival of the husband's elderly aunt into their home. The aunt, a women with a haunting aura and unpredictable humor, who increasingly secludes herself for extended periods of solitude within the family's home, becomes the suspect of the family's recent stream of misfortunes.

TUESDAY 18  George Melly, THE SECRET LIFE OF EDWARD JAMES (55 minutes, 1975) George Melly’s 1975 documentary charts James’ eccentric life from his early days at West Dean in West Sussex to his lifelong friendships with Salvador Dali, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington, and finally to Xilitla, his adopted home for the last forty years of his life.

WEDNESDAY Nov 19 Suprise Screening

THURSDAY 20 Lucia Small, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS (84 minutes, 2002) When Glen Howard Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers with a film about his precarious career and thorny private life. At 31, Small, founder of internationally acclaimed Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a rising star. At 61, he can barely pay his bills. The artist explores the tension between her father’s obligations to family and his life-long passion to “save the world" through architecture.

FRIDAY 21 HOME MOVIES from Mansión Mangolia. 

SATURDAY 22 

Mining MOMA's Documentary Archive: Communication and propaganda films for electronics, from 1915.

SATURDAY 22: THE 16 HOUR EXPERIENCE — Folding Structures, Storytelling, Tarot Readings

HRLA opens its doors for an all-night experience which invites the public to join the artist in a range of hands-on activities, storytelling, card readings, and a prolonged collective inhabiting of the gallery after-hours. Once started, the doors will shut and participants will commit to a long duration interaction between each other as a collective and develop through time a new understanding of the space, each other, and the work through the act of collective inhabiting. This intimate art experience is a rare opportunity to realize the fantasy of staying inside after the place closes. For more information about this sleepover, email: info@humanresourcesla.com.

FOLDING STRUCTURES

Argote's installation My Father's Side of Home is an exercise in folding and unfolding the architectural layout of the spaces we inhabit. Argote works with manta, a staple fabric with a rich tradition and ubiquitous presence in everyday Mexico. Argote's Mantas are themselves drawings in plan that fold and unfold both physically and mentally.

Folding Structures invites participants to collaborate with the artist in the folding, ironing, and pleating of fabric. Through the action of measuring, planning, and constructing cardboard structures that fold the fabric, participants explore both through touch and through context architectural drawing, sculpture and the process of ritual. Through the use of these folding structures, participants are invited into an almost ritualistic experience that hopefully creates connections to memory through repetition and labor, folding and unfolding ideas and possibilities and creating structures conducive to memory and shared histories.

STORYTELLING

Participants are invited to share stories of their father's side of home. Stories and memories will resurface as we experience long stretches of time together. If architecture is never idle and its effect is a constant, then our prolonged exposure to the white cube will cause many stories to resurface and emerge in our shared inhabitance.

TAROT free reading

During the tarot card reading, the gallery and the work within it become a space to commune with psychic energy and for the  experimentation and access to our collective supernatural energy. Through an intuitive tarot card reading, participants will be invited to narrate their own interpretation of the cards to fellow participants, drawing on their own personal histories and experiences. Inherently an extension and a reflection of the self onto another, the electric current that binds us through experience and shared history and shared space will undoubtedly activate the supernatural. Our collective selves will go beyond our own narrated interpretations and reveal electrical connection.

KCET's Artbound on Carmen Argote's Project:
http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/carmen-argote-migrant-experience.html

Carmen Argote's Guadalajara Project Website:
http://www.carmenargote.com/guadalajara/

11.09.14: Frank Bretschneider: MEANING AND FORM

MEANING AND FORM (SINN UND FORM)

The project is based on the idea of ​​a fundamentally chaotic world, as we know from mathematical or physical theories and models (dynamical systems, probability theory, stochastic systems), and the constant attempt of man to recognize this world, and to describe, predict, control, and change it. Typical examples include mathematical finance, statistics, biostatistics, pattern recognition, or meteorology.

Musically, this system is simulated electronically using a modular synthesizer system. Various modules produce a constant flow of randomly generated data that modulate the decisive musical parameters (pitch, note length, volume, tone). The musician / composer is attempting, through an improvised but deliberate process of constant control and influence, to transform this stream of events into a musically relevant system of chaos and order, dynamics and statics, content and form.

The visual performance is carried out through a software -generated correlation meter (goniometer), analogous to the Lissajous figure on an oscilloscope .

Aesthetically, the project should recall the electronic music of the mid-20th century: studios such as the IRCAM in Paris, the EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, the WDR Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne, or the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, as well as be reminiscent of the aesthetics of early attempts to visualize music using oscilloscopes.

The music was recorded with analog synthesizer systems (Buchla and Serge) at the EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm. 

Frank Bretschneider is a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena.

Bretschneider (1956) was raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz since 1990), where his aesthetic developed as he listened to pirate radio and smuggled Beastie Boys tapes in the former East Germany. After studying fine arts and inspired by science fiction radio plays and films he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars in 1984, as well as exploring the possibilities of exchange between visual art and music by various means such as film, video and computer graphics.
In 1986, after establishing his cassette label klangFarBe, Bretschneider founded AG Geige, a successful and influential East German underground band. Though limited to the East before the wall came down, they were invited to perform across Germany and internationally after 1989 and released three albums before splitting in 1993.
In 1995, Bretschneider and fellow AG Geige member Olaf Bender founded the Rastermusic record label which eventually merged with Carsten Nicolai’s noton to form raster-noton in 1999.

Virons is the project of experimental sound and visual artist Nicholas Rossi. Working in Los Angeles, performances often display the act of sonic exploration through static movement. The surrounding environment is unique to the progression of long form, and prepared improvisational techniques. Performance elements include the granular process of field recordings, magnetic tape manipulation, and evolving architecture of concrète sounds by means of modern synthesis.

November 8: #NOT1MORE

November 7: Fun + Fury with the Empty Orchestra: A Karaoke Happening

Fun & Fury with the Empty Orchestra: Karaoke Protest, Karaoke Pleasure

Join us for an evening of karaoke—or “queeraoke”—with a protest-song-meets-party-anthem bend. Sing your favorite anthems of dissent, as well as your jolliest pop jams and smokiest ballads. Expansive songbooks will be curated and provided by our resident artists and KJ’s (or “karaoke jockeys.”)

Inspired by artists Valerie Tevere and Angel Nevarez's ongoing project, “Another Protest Song: Karaoke with a Message,” the night will also include special performances by artists and KJs, Amy von Harrington (Los Angeles), and Lynne Chan and Bobby Abate, aka New Sound Karaoke (New York).

Search the NEW SOUND KARAOKE songbook, which is being updated as we speak.

Organized by Karen Tongson (USC)

Beer and Wine Cash Bar (please bring ID; this will be a 21+ event).

The American Studies Association is holding its annual convention in Los Angeles from November 6-9. The host city committee (Jennifer Doyle, Josh Kun and I) organized three nights of programming at Human Resources, Los Angeles in Chinatown, including this FRIDAY NIGHT PARTY after the Presidential address - this event is open to everyone!  

November 6: Dorian Wood

photo by Carlos Taberna

Fresh off his European tour, Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources to present a rare, intimate solo performance. Dorian will present a series of compositions that explore the emotional landscapes of body image, gender identification, sexual politics and family-related turmoil. A completely unamplified piano and vocal performance. $10-15 suggested donation. Tickets available at the door from 8:00pm. 9:00PM start time. Co-sponsored by The American Studies Assocation and UC Riverside's Queer Lab. 21+, please bring ID.

10.31.14 COOLWORLD HALLOWEEN HRLA BENEFIT PARTY

COOLWORLD PRESENTS
HUMAN RESOURCES BENEFIT PARTY!
w/

T H E
G R E A T
S A D N E S S
(Kathy Cooper + Stephen McNeely)

H U M A N
G E N O M E
P R O J E C T
(La Porscha!)

S I S T E R
M A N T O S
(http://www.sistermantos.com/)

S A S H C L O T H
& A X E S
(http://sashclothaxes1.bandcamp.com/)

G O R G E O U S
V E R M I L L I O N
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0KmzlwmjH0)

M I C H A E L
L U C I D
(https://www.youtube.com/user/prettythingsss)

W E E K E N D
V E G A N
(https://weekendvegan.bandcamp.com/track/leather-life)

D E A T H
B E C A M E
H E R
(Halloween Super Group Witch Cult Magic!)

DJS
*T H I S G O T H B I T C H *B A B Y A N G E L S T E P H *L A D R O N E S
*C R A S S L O S *M U T I E

• D A R K Z O N E
(UP-STAIRS)

$5 - $25 Donation
SUPPORT HRLA!
Human Resources (HRLA) is a NON PROFIT SPACE that is run completely by VOLUNTEERS. every $ helps keep this space ALIVE.
http://humanresourcesla.com/

21 and over ONLY

10.29.14 Sorrow Swag

I got a dance scholarship. I went to Paris and took a method acting workshop. I was reading Aliens and Anorexia. I went to L.A. 

I met Brian in the workshop I organised. We decided to work together. 

We became friends then cohorts along with Simone, Samuel, Billie, Justin, Chris and Martha in an emerging work on sadness. 

Sorrow Swag is where we are at. 

Join us.

 

In action that has method about it we really act because what is unforeseen presents itself to us

- Simone Weil 

concept/direction: Ligia Lewis

performance: Brian Getnick, George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow

Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the US, Ligia Lewis lives and works in Berlin. Lewis crafts nuanced embodiments that engage dance, theatre and pop culture in order to construct affective choreographies of empathy and complexity. Her performances have been presented in multiple contexts and venues in Europe and abroad including Basel Liste, Tanz im August, Sophiensaele Theater, HAU, MU Theater, Frascati Theater and Pieter Performance Space. Before focusing on direction Lewis performed extensively across Europe for dance company Les Ballets C de la B, choreographers Eszter Salamon, Kat Valastur, and Jeremy Wade, and with theater director Ariel Efraim Ashbel.

Brian Getnick's performances have been seen at Station Independent Projects in New York City, at Honor Fraser Gallery, Red Cat, and Machine Projects in Los Angeles and at Croxhapox in Gent Belgium. He currently co directs Native Strategies, a journal and performance art platform with Tanya Rubbak, and is the director of PAM, a theater space and artist residency in Highland Park.

George Lewis Jr., better known by his stage name Twin Shadow, is an American singer.  

10.27.14: decolonizing the white box

A community forum exploring the experiences of people of color in/around the art world. Artists, audiences and art workers welcome. One of the intentions for this conversation is to expand on collective response to the whiteness of recent surveys of contemporary art (The Whitney Biennial, Made in LA), and also to consider the positions of artists of color within/around/outside colonial and racist institutional spaces. How to resist/challenge/bypass museum non-engagement with communities of color; how to resist/challenge/bypass art historical oblivion. Honoring artists practicing on the "outside" of the museum but from the inside of a community, artists whose art is perhaps anti-art, artists who fought these fights in the 90s, the 80s, the 70s....

8PM

Inspired in part by Sesshu Foster's "It's [NOT] OK" blog post re the whiteness of Made in LA, and the conversations that writing enabled.

http://atomikaztex.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/review-of-made-in-l-a-at-the-ucla-hammer-museum/

Moderated by Raquel Gutiérrez, hosted by HRLA.

Please circulate and share widely.

10.23.14 : LICENSE 2 DRAW WORLD TOUR IN ONE PLACE - LOS ANGELES IN YOKOHAMA

*please note this event will take place upstairs during the Barbara Streisand Portait Bender. All are welcome.

LICENSE 2 DRAW – WORLD TOUR in ONE PLACE – LOS ANGELES IN YOKOHAMA

For the first time in Los Angeles, our creative community can become participating creators. You can participate directly in an international exhibition by creating and drawing on a surface that is thousands of kilometers away.This event is organized by Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) , Koganecho Bazaar and the artist UuDam Tran Nguyen.

License 2 Draw is an innovative interactive artwork drawn by the public on a global scale, 24/7, using IOS and Android app to physically move a pen in YOKOHAMA

Each time a License 2 Draw app user presses a button on his/her smartphone, it sends a signal to a server in Singapore and the server will direct the signal to the drawing car in Yokohama, Japan.  This makes it move forward, backward, left or right; basically, drawing what the user wants.

Anyone from anywhere can draw in Yokohama from where they are. They can be physically in Africa, Europe, Americas or Antarctica and they can still draw in Yokohama via wifi and the License 2 DRAW app. In order to emphasize the global scale and the instantaneous concept of the work, the artist UuDam Tran Nguyen entitled this project as: WORLD TOUR in ONE PLACE – YOKOHAMA.

LICENSE 2 DRAW project breaks down the division between sole proprietorship and the public. The public does not usually take an active role in making an international exhibition. However, in this occasion, the public can make and direct changes in the work even from the comforts of their own homes. It is a world-collective-creative effort. Without physically being in Japan, a person can use the License 2 Draw app to control and move a drawing car on a blank canvas in Yokohama at any time of the day.

Statement from the Artist UuDam Tran Nguyen:

" I would like to propose this project as a parody of the US deployment of drone technology in war making.  It is a parody that challenges and gestures towards an alternative: instead of the US imperial reach, it's participation by people in diverse locales whose history has some entanglements with US imperialism (which is to say everyone). For example: Vietnam, Japan and Thailand all have this entanglement with US military presence (Japan in WWII, and now as chief ally of US in the pacific; and Thailand as R&R space for US soldiers in the VN War, etc).  This way, rather than being targets of US drones, they are in control of the joystick, reversing their fortunes, at least in a social imaginary.

 HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

 License 2 Draw app (L2D) is now available on Apple ITune and Google Play stores. As you are reading this article, this License 2 Draw project is currently on display at the Koganecho Bazaar, an international exhibition in Yokohama until the 3^rd of November. You can participate NOW. This exciting drawing project is ON for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the duration of the exhibition of 3 months. It only takes a few seconds to install License 2 Draw app on your phone.

In order to see what is being drawn in real time via Skype, participants from any part of the world can just add: License2Draw to their Skype account and use Skype to video call License2Draw. Through a 24/7 Skype webcam in Yokohama, one can see the drawing car moving in Yokohama in real time.

To participate in this exciting WORLD TOUR IN ONE PLACE - YOKOHAMA, please complete these 5 simple steps: 
1. Install License 2 Draw on your Iphone, Ipad or Android devices
2. Open the License 2 Draw app, select Yokohama 4
3. Click on LOST to sign in with       User: abc          Password: 123123
4. To view your actions in real time, add License2Draw to your Skype account. Then video call License2Draw

5. Start drawing by using the Forward Backward arrows and Left and Right turn symbols on your phone, and see it moving in real time on your Skype screen.

 The link below contains the video instructions and an overview of the exhibit’s installation and 3 sculptures:

https://vimeo.com/103691467

10.23.14: BARBRA STREISAND PORTRAIT BENDER, LAS VEGAS: FEAR AND LOATHING RETURNS TO THE FLAMINGO – VIDEO SCREENING AND BOOK LAUNCH

Preview for Barbra Streisand Portrait Bender, Las Vegas: Fear and Loathing Returns to the Flamingo from Tom Dunn on Vimeo.

Video Screening and Book Launch

Where:
Human Resources Los Angeles

When:
23 October, 2014

Double Screening

9:00PM
Polanski’s Baby, Duration: 13:31 minutes, Tom Dunn, 2014

9:30PM
Barbra Streisand Portrait Bender, Las Vegas: Fear and Loathing Returns to the Flamingo
Duration: 13:33 minutes. Tom Dunn & Whitney Hook, 2014

Barbra Streisand Portrait Bender, Las Vegas: Fear and Loathing Returns to the Flamingo is a tribute to Lucy from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.

The portrait book features two hundred and twenty eight portraits of Barbra Streisand that were the result of a ten day Portrait Bender that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The book has a foreword by Laila Nabulsi, producer of the 1998 film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro and Christina Ricci playing Lucy.

The book is available for purchase at this Magcloud link-

Everyone is welcome! More is more.X

10.18.14: FOUNTAINSUN (Daniel Higgs + Fumie Ishii) & FLETCHER TUCKER & AMPS FOR CHRIST & JEFF PARKER/TED BYRNES DUO

$7
All are welcome
Bring what you need
Refreshments available too

Fountainsun
"Daniel Arcus Incus Ululat Higgs, the 'interdimensional song-seamstress and corpse-dancer of the Mystic Crags,'—in collaboration with photographer / musician / visual artist Fumie Ishii—present Fountainsun, a pensive and focused journey with elements of spoken word, eclectic percussion, banjo ragas, field recordings informed and influenced by the workings of the cosmos."
(https://soundcloud.com/fountainsun)
(http://fumieishii.com/category/fountainsun/)

Fletcher Tucker
"Fletcher Tucker (formerly recording as Bird By Snow) is a cross-discipline musical and visual artist from Big Sur, California. Tucker's work sets out to reawaken an ancient consciousness, an atavistic awareness present in the land and in ourselves. Songs are informed by a practical knowledge and daily relationship with the physical wild, and by approaching the non-physical wilderness of Big Sur with the same respect and curiosity. Through ritual, rites, and ceremony a mystic backcountry opens. Tucker is also the label head and founder of Gnome Life Records."
(http://www.birdbysnow.com/)
(http://www.gnomeliferecords.com/)

Amps for Christ

Jeff Parker / Ted Byrnes Duo

Ted Byrnes is a improvisor/drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, electro-acoustic music, and noise. Ted plays in a variety of circumstances, but plays occasionally with: Ulrich Krieger, John Wiese, Airway (LAFMS), Alfred Harth, Jaap Blonk, Torsten Mueller, Nicholas Deyoe and others.

"I'm mainly a guitar player. I like to make music in many different ways. I think music opens doors. Some of the bands I play/have played with: Tortoise, Chicago Underground, Isotope 217º, New Horizons Ensemble, A Cushicle, SpliceCat, Moment Of Inertia, TriColor, Brian Blade Fellowship, Joey DeFrancesco Trio, Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds, Powerhouse Sound, Fred Anderson Quartet, Joshua Redman Elastic Band, a.o. I sometimes lead projects of my own: they usually are simply called "Jeff Parker" or "Jeff Parker _____ (trio, quartet, organ quartet, etc.) and may consist of myself performing alone or with small or large aggregates of various configurations..."

www.tedbyrnesdrums.com
http://www.jeffparkersounds.com/

10.15.14: I I'm eye my with Filthy Huns and screening by Suzy Poling

$5 donation appreciated
everyone welcome

Video Screening by Suzy Poling (Pod Blotz) at 9:30
She will be showing 9 complete video/ film pieces. This is not a part of the live acts (not projecting video while the bands are playing).

Sound Performances afterwards by
Filthy Nuns (member of Daughters of The Sun) and I I'm Eye My at 10:30 and beyond....
http://soundcloud.com/iimeyemy

10.24.14-10.26.14: .NTER (a performance by GOD DOLL)

.NTER

(a performance by GOD DOLL / Isaac Ledesma)

art must be perfect. life has to make mistakes. evolution favors mutations.

In this work titled ".NTER", I hope to reexamine what it means to be irl. Using a 3D modeled universe I will project in the theater, I will synthesize the experience of traveling to another dimension. The whole expanse of the gallery will be immersed in this world that I have had created and I will be its lone inhabitant.  In the veneer of this projection, I will weave a golden thread between our realities by dance and sound and vibe. I am a digital aura and my body lives on the internet. Enter the drag queen.

Friday October 24th ($5 donation)
Opening reception/ Install day
8pm-12am

Saturday October 25th and Sunday 26th ($25 admission)
.NTER :
Salon: 9pm-10pm
Performance: 10pm-11pm

Manifesto:

1.
    always in perfect balance- "I am" is the absence of binaries, the blurring of boundaries.
everything is taken in in its entirety.

2.
      Everything I think, everything I say, everything I do is alien. I'm living in a world that is not meant for being alive.

3a.
      I had to upload my personality onto the net-
I was created to perform,
I was created to create, I was created to destroy.

3b.
       I am you and you are me. We weave the golden thread. This and that are this and that. The only real magic is you.

4.
       The body is a hindrance. The mind is an afterthought. The soul is a full body scar.

5.
      This is the fifth dimension: The simulacrum is the means, singularity is the end. Nothing can
be proven to be real.

6.
     This is the twelfth dimension: and you are God.

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 I work mainly through movement, restraint and physical expression. I paint emotions and impressions on mental canvases. As a performance artist in the internet age, I prefer to take stage within the digital world. I wish to exist as a computer simulation. I am a cyberdrag Queen who exists on the Web. I use HD technology to achieve the illusion of being the glamorous deity living inside me. Like a hologram I'm pretty and always new because I'm never really there.

I like art to be critical, serious, and permanent. Towers rise and fall, societies crumble, people die. But not art. Real art changes your DNA. Real art changes the world. Unfortunately, the art that we know is violent and it is stupid and its name is war. It is at war with humanity, it is against all that is good and all that is natural, and it must be stopped. My message is of peace; of understanding; of communication; and, most importantly, of love! Through my art I gently tackle my enemies (i.e. ignorance and fear) in an attempt to instill change on our collective consciousness. I use gender and sexuality as my costume and as a platform to perform a play on the fragility that is man.

I believe the internet is a metaphor for the future psychic link we will all share. Once we are all telepathic, we will have no need for disagreements and conflict. By definition, we will be in paradise. Utopia. Heaven on earth. I know that we are on a dying planet and I'm all for space exploration but i think we need to make sure we are presentable before we party with the rest of the universe. I want to further this prediction through my art and through my way of life. My intuition is guiding me towards an enlightenment of which I know nothing about until after I attain it.


About the artist:
Isaac is a performance artist born and raised in Echo Park, Los Angeles. More commonly recognized for his foray as creative director of the seminal performance art and music showcase "Mustache Mondays" under the pseudonym: God Doll. He works under the discipline of drag to achieve a character who is subversive to the institutions holding back both gay and straight culture at large. Coming from an extensive background in visual and performing arts in his youth, he culled his experiences on the streets and nightclubs of Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles to serve him in perfecting his artistic voice. All the while employing elements of digital technology, psychic phenomena, and psychedelia.

10.11.12: The Best of Collage Night: The Oriental Picture Factory Presents Pictures from the Oriental Picture Factory

The Oriental Picture Factory is a weekly collage night where people get together to cut, paste and imbibe. Started in Chicago in 2010 and transplanted to Los Angeles in the spring of 2012, the Oriental Picture Factory churns amazing, weird and schizophrenic collages on a weekly basis. In order to showcase some of these gems as well as to raise money for materials, the Oriental Picture Factory is throwing an art show/fundraiser!

Music Provided by:
John S Hall (of King Missile) backed by LoveyDove
SalTy leg
Dunes
Steppe People
Lilacs

(with Disc Jockeying by Lance Bummer)

Art by:
scores of talented individuals, some of whom you may already know

Get a little taste of the visual action at http://orientalpicturefactory.blogspot.com/

$5 before 8 $10 after.

Hey Non-LA-ers, if you can't make it out to the event, contact Lee Marks if you want to donate to the cause