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.