Downtown Light and Sound

Based in Los Angeles, California, DLS Solution was formed in 2012 by a collection of artists seeking day-to-day solutions for the fast-paced culture industry. DLS (Downtown Light and Sound) is a concept-level architecture and event design firm specializing in high-fidelity sound, real-time special effects, symbolic architecture and live media demonstrations. Our firm also produces and leases digital content for various surfaces, such as media architecture and radio promos. Members of the DLS have developed display logistics for corporate activations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), architectural design for ____ and ____, live music events at clubs and concert venues, and have contributed to numerous exhibitions of fine art. For more information, please visit DLS Solution on the web at http://www.dlssolution.com.

This activation of DLS Solution is made up of O.A. Biddle, Cayetano Ferrer, Nate Hess, Ashland Mines and Daniel Pineda.

Sunday Feb 9 (Evening)

Doors (9:30pm)

Exceptionally rare full-band Jackie-O Motherfucker appearance in Los Angeles!

PLUS sets by 
Tara Jane O'Neil (Rodan)
Bobb Bruno (Best Coast)
Derek Rogers (Circuit Rider)

Plus DJ Lee Noble spinning tunes between bands!

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Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than forty members drawn from the U.S. experimental scene. As of 2008, the core of the group is founding member Greenwood.

Jackie-O Motherfucker's music draws from a variety of subgenres including various folk musics of the world (American folk and blues, Native American song, Traditional English folk ballads, etc.), drone, free jazz, and space-rock, and is heavily improvisational in its nature. Because they are a collective, rather than a consistent band or group, the sound of their music can change from performance to performance. The group operates its own label of CD-R live recordings, the U-Sound Archive, which features concert recordings from Jackie-O Motherfucker as well as like-minded subterranean artists such as Double Leopards, Sunroof!, Decaer Pinga, and Vibracathedral Orchestra.

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Tara Jane O'Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with her brilliant friends. Her recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures.

As a solo artist, TJO has released 7 albums internationally. She was a founding member of Rodan and several other bands, and has collaborated on recordings and stages with musical artists such as the groups Ida, Mirah, Jackie O MF, Mount Eerie, Papa M, Come, the vocalist Nikaido Kazumi, and many more. In addition to rock clubs, galleries and DIY spaces all around north America, Europe, and Japan, she has performed at All Tomorrow’s Parties, the Centre de Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, TBA festival (portland), High Desert Test Sites and many many others. She has shown her visual art in galleries all over the northern hemisphere and had four monographs of her visual art published. 

This show is an album release show for TJO's new album on Kranky. Check out a new track here: 

https://soundcloud.com/kranky/tara-jane-oneil-wordless-in
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Goliath Bird Eater member and frequent Pocahaunted, Robedoor and Upsilon Acrux collaborator, Bobb Bruno is clearly a regular man about town, albeit one adorned in some kind of easter bunny costume with over-sized head. Bruno brings his cartoonishly psychedelic visual approach to this DNT release, but be warned: it's not just cutesy fun on this cassette. Opening with the slow synth jaunt "Snail's Pace," Bruno begins with dark chordal patterns working and reworking themselves underneath fuzzed out rhythmic bits. The piece stays fairly motionless for some time, brooding in a sort of spaced out, underbelly of the mind kind of way until drum machine enters and it takes a decidedly more industrial slant as fed through break beat weirdnesses. As soon as that beat drops out it's an endless tunnel descent, Alice in Wonderland style, before this plodding drum beat comes in that gives the whole thing a form all its own. Some soundtrack to neon induced LA life-binges or something, slow-mo as all hell, a real head nodder for the mind rotter. The synth work is layed on deep here, maintaining its dark, organ(ic) riffage--it's the Phantom of the Opera remix, he all hunched over in his castle weaving some crazy arpeggiation while Bruno and company are hunkered down behind him, bunny costume adorned, partying it out. The record's called "Clown's Castle" after all... When the beat drops out its all guitar fraying and synth rides. Super reverbed out stuff here, whose muddy bass runs and clearer, less blown out high synth runs do bring to mind something not totally un-Skaters like, albeit with a more formalized structure and slightly dancier take on the whole thing--given that dancey is defined as "potentially bringing to mind movement in a club setting" rather than some sort of beat oriented toe-tapper. This would be one dark club, and surely few would be shaking it. The album titled second side starts off with some heavy metal Sunn O))) riffage, not far off from the sounds of Bruno's Goliath Bird Eater. Buzzing comes into play as the guitar slows itself down and rides it out. The beast keeps building as choral vocals sweep across and the beat drops, making the whole thing as heavy as concrete feet over San Francisco Bay. Really heavy duty stuff that just rides and glides, the beat dropping in and out as it emits itself toward eternity. It's a real soul crusher, so don't be fooled by the blue pig and the cute pines on the cover. Limited to 79 and sold out at the label, but I'm sure Tomentosa and other like-minded distributers will have it soon. Beautiful. " 

-- ear conditioned nightmare review of his superb "Clown's Castle" cassette

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The thrill of uncovering hidden sounds is what first drew Derek Rogers to drone. "Sometimes phrases or sustained tones that churned in an engrossing repetition offered a completely different experience than other music I'd heard previously," he recalls. "This specific attention offered a chance to recontextualize the phrase by hearing subtle overtones and patterns that previously had been hidden." He cites as inspiration the work of William Basinski and Gavin Bryars, but says that "at some point I just got tired of absorbing all of these amazing records and not being able to express my own ideas, so I just started obsessively recording and playing shows.

The latest fruit of that obsession is Saturations, two 15-minute tracks of gritty, tactile drone/ Rogers is especially adept at turning grinding static into precise texture, and finds emotional resonance in sonic abstraction. He has little training on his current instruments, guitar and piano-- "I can't play a scale to save my life," he admits-- but he's used those limitations to his advantage, making music that's simple on the surface but complex underneath. "I've always been drawn to a "less is more" approach," he says, "and creating the most with minimal means necessary."

Rogers had a little help making Saturations. Contributions from two Texans, trumpeter Regina Chellew and violinist Petra Kelly, add diversity to the LP's busy pieces. Their participation also helps make Saturations a personal time-capsule for Rogers, who recorded the album not long before moving from Austin to Los Angeles. "I think Saturations serves as both a snapshot of a very specific time in my life-- the feelings of anxious excitement associated with a huge cross-country move," he reflects. "And fear of what the future holds, and the innate desire to represent the present while also giving a nod to the past."

-- Pitchfork Media interview and "Saturations" review by Marc Masters

Sunday Feb 9 (afternoon) - Save Music in Chinatown

JANUARY 15 - 25: I + We Collective Movement Workshop

I + We Collective Movement Workshop

Join and move together in power!
Human Resources
January 15th  -  25th
Opening January 22th 7-9pm


I + We is an experimental and participatory (political) movement workshop. Borrowing techniques from dance, social sculpture, and new games, the structured hour and-a-half experience explores collective identity, play, and movement.

Workshop Schedule (additional dates, details TBA)
Please RSVP to slowtractor@hotmail.com
 

1/15 at 6:00 pm (wed.)

 1/18 at 1:00 pm with partner-yoga instructor and artist Nancy Popp (Sat.)

 1/19 at 10:00 am with organizer from SEIU’s Adjunct Action Campaign (Sun.)

 1/22 Opening 7-9:00 8:30 Screening of Right On/Ceremony Of Us, document of 1969 movement inter-racial encounter between Anna Halprin and Studio Watts.

 1/23 at 6:00 pm (Thurs.)

1/25 at 1:00 pm with conflict resolution mediator and artist Dorit Cypis (Sat.)

Workshops  will include “floor work” and the use of “play apparatuses;” slides, ladders, masks, and restrictive toys. Sociologist Alberto Melucci suggests that in today’s alienated culture people find deep meaning and power through group identities that emerge through political social movements. I & We was first hosted by the Elizabeth Foundation in NYC, June-July 2013, with support by A Blade Of Grass

JAN 10: GABIE STRONG, TED BYRNES & JACOB WICK, YEK KOO, and OBSCURER

Start 2014 with another celebration,
explosion, 
sound immersion with
GABIE STRONG, TED BYRNES & JACOB WICK, YEK KOO, and OBSCURER 

9p doors, music shortly thereafter 5 bucks

http://tedbyrnesdrums.com/
http://www.jacobwick.info/
http://www.gabiestrong.com/
http://helgafassonaki.net/
http://www.olmhatch.com/yek_koo.html

January 7: Cruising the Horizon

January 5: the BAND BACK TOGETHER show

PSYCHIC REALITY: SF->NY transplant Leyna Noel (formerly of Pocahaunted) transmutes plastic keyboards, titchy drum machine sounds and epic vocals into pure SONG, SOFT AND STRONG. a truly gifted performer who owns you from the moment she takes the stage, in LA recording her new LP (FIRST PSYCHIC REALITY SHOW IN LOS ANGELES IN OVER 3 YEARS!)

PLUS SETS BY LOCAL FRIENDS

CAMERON STALLONES (of SUN ARAW, rare SOLO SET)

M. GEDDES GENGRAS (your local modular synth guru)

and a guided meditation by DIVA DOMPE

plus DJS LEECH, LEY and CHARDI, only $5, a true bargain by any standard

DOORS/DJS 8pm, FIRST ACT 9 SHARP

NYE: Coolworld

N E W Y E A R S E V E A L L N I G H T E R

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+ LAQR ZINE TABLE

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*RITUAL MAGIC PERFORMANCE HEART DANCE THUMP POST KEYBOARD SASSY TRANZ DISCO OLD PUNK HOUSE ROCK AND ROLL BANGIN SURF SYNTH GUITARS RIOT NEW WAVE POP TECHNO METRO DRAG SLAP GARAGE MUTANT STYLE FAMILY FUN GIRLS GOTH SOUL QUEER ART HEAR SEE NOW VOGUE! http://coolworldpartyla.tumblr.com/

Happy Holidays

  

Thank you to the people who make HRLA possible with generous contributions of creative energy and attention, dollars and sense.

2013 featured a huge range of exhibitions, performance art, experimental sound, music, lectures and debates, workshops and readings.

2013 also marked our first year in fundraising from our community: over 150 people became HRLA members by making a financial contribution to HRLA's operating expenses.

(Look out for membership drives in 2014, but do consider making a donation this holiday season - every amount helps.)

2014 promises to yield a calendar full of experimental energy: below are just a few of the programs that we are excited to share with you, as well as an overview of the past year of programming.

We are looking forward, in 2014 to:

Robby Herbst

Cayatano Ferrer

Pearl Hsiung

Tribute to Stom Sogo

Dorian Wood

Anthony Bodlovic

Kitchen Poetics: LA Women's Collage Show & Book Release

La Porscha & Ossian

Krysten Cunningham

Statues & Attitudes (Group Exhibition)

And much, much more

Looking backwards, we celebrate 12 months of HRLA: 

12/13

SAT DEC 7 - PERFORMANCE / Dominique Gilliot + Nikki Darking + John Birdle + Lucky Dragons + Sarah Williams & Laure Vigna + Sister Mantos   8PM - 2AM

SUN DEC 8 - BENEFIT / SAVE MUSIC IN CHINATOWN / Bob Forrest + Lucky Dragons + Deredoorian + LA Fog 2PM-6PM  TICKETS

THU DEC 12 - FORUM / STUPID PILLS

FRI DEC 13 - PERFORMANCE / Paul Salveson/Crown Shape perform Pulsar Through SE-70

TUE DEC 17 - MUSIC / RORO + TI FEMME + MIKE WEXLER + FILTHY HUNS + BOXED 8PM

THU DEC 19 - GAZELLE RECORDINGS PRESENTS/ The Dandelion Council Cassette Release 9PM

11/13

SAT NOV 2 - SMASHISM: VIDEO ART, SOUND, INSTALLATION/ Suzy Poling + BRock Fansler + Eva Aguila + Jealousy + Pod Blotz + Spahire Slows + Robedoor 8 PM

SUN NOV 3 - BOOK LAUNCH / The Suiciders by Travis Jeppesen 2 PM

WED NOV 6 - SOUND / IMMERSOUND_LAX / Christopher Bissonnette + Tim Hecker + Akira Rabelais 7 pm [SOLD OUT] / shibui_oto and VOLUME present Tim Hecker & M. Geddes Gengras 10 PM TICKETS

THU NOV 14 - EXHIBITION OPENING / RASMUS RØHLING

SAT NOV 16 - FILM / HRLA + LA Filmforum present A Warhol SLEEPover / Doors open 11:59 PM  TICKETS $10

10/13

OCT 3 - 13 - EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE / BASE I

OCT 17 - 27 - EXHIBITION / JOHN KNUTH / FADING HORIZON

SUN OCT 27 - PERFORMANCE / HECUBA + BRET NICELY  7 PM

9/13

WED SEPT 11 - PERFORMANCE / RACHEL MASON 8 PM

FRI SEPT 13 - MUSIC / GATE + THE RENDERIZORS + PETER KOLOVOS

SUN SEPT 15 - PAINTING PARTY / JOEL KYACK  1 PM - 6 PM

SAT SEPT 21 - PERFORMANCE / JEFF HUCKLEBERRY, ALEJANDRA HERRERA and LA POCHA NOSTRA (Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Erca Mott and Roberto Sifuentes)   8 PM

SEPT 25 - SEPT 27 - INSTALLATION and PERFORMANCE (on the 27th) / GEO WYETH

SEPT 29 - INSTALLATION and PERFORMANCE / FAULT LINES

8/13

THU - FRI AUG 1 - 2 - PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION / NOW OPEN 24 HRS presents KATE HALL AND JOHN WEISE 9PM AUG 1 - 9PM AUG 2

SUN AUG 4 - FILM / Paul Pescador's 1-9 screening at Cinefamily

SUN AUG 11 - MUSIC / SECRET FUN CLUB, UNICORN, INNERDS, HOT NERDS  3 PM - 7 PM

THU AUG 15 - AUG 28 - INSTALLATION / BYRON WESTBROOK

FRI AUG 30 - MUSIC / SCOUT NIBLETT & PG SIX 8 PM ($12)

7/13:

WED JULY 3 - MUSIC / LOGREYBEAM tour kickoff with CESSATION + MOOMAW + TELECAVES + PATHWAYS

SAT JULY 6 - CONVERSATION / CONSIDERING SHEREE ROSE & MARTIN O'BRIAN'S PERFORMANCE (email info@humanresourcesla.com for location!) / 2PM-4PM

TUE JULY 9 - ART/LIFE COUNSELING SESSIONS w/ LINDA MONTANO / 1PM-3PM  (email info@humanresourcesla.com for location and information)

WED JULY 10 - PERFORMANCE / RON ATHEY / 9PM (doors open at 8:30)

SAT JULY 20 - PERFORMANCE / RAFA ESPARZA / 7:30PM

SUN JULY 21 - MUSIC / JOSEPH HAMMER / ECSTATIC MUSIC BAND (OAK/LA) / DAMION ROMERO / RALE ($5)

WED JULY 24 - SOUND, MUSIC, NOISE / ROBERT CROUCH, PINKCOURTESYPHONE, YANN NOVAK, STEVE RODEN / 8PM-11PM ($5-$15 sliding scale)

SAT JULY 27 - SISTER ACTS: HRLA BENEFIT (coincides with PERFORM CHINATOWN) ($25 suggested donation

6/13:

SAT JUNE 8 - FILM / ROBBINSCHILD / 8PM

SAT JUNE 14 - CONVERSATION w/ MATH BASS / 3PM

FRI JUNE 28 - MUSIC / GHOST TREES + GUL BARA + SKYLINE ELECTRIC

5/13:

SAT MAY 11 - MUSIC / JAAP BLONK, TED BYRNES, JAKE ROSENZWEIG, RICK POTTS, JOE POTTS, CASEY ANDERSON, JOSHUA GEROWITZ

TUE MAY 20 - COMEDY/ 8PM

THU MAY 30 - EXHIBITION OPENING / MATH BASS & LEIDY CHURCHMAN

4/13:

MARCH 26 to APRIL 4 - INSTALLATION / SUNDOWN SCHOOLHOUSE: At Home in L.A.

~ DAY #08: TUE, APR 2 ~

CLOSED during the day

...6-8pm: Visual Music with DAWN KASPER

~ DAY #09: WED, APR 3 ~

...11am-1pm: open yoga - all levels with FRITZ HAEG

...3-6pm: knitting & crafting (bring projects)

...6-8pm: KCHUNG broadcasts from the rug

~ DAY #10: THU, APR 4 ~

...11am-1pm: open yoga - all levels with FRITZ HAEG

...3-6pm: knitting & crafting (bring projects)

...6:30-7:15: music with SK KAKRABA

...7:15-8pm: Gabie Strong on KCHUNG

APRIL 5, 6, 7 - Cleaning Human Resources / Lucy Campana, Hailey Loman, Gaea Woods

APRIL 7 - VIDEO & DISCUSSION / South Sexual Fictions (new date)

APRIL 11 - MUSIC & PERFORMANCE / EMA, Bouquet, DK, & Roses

APRIL 20 - OPENING / Scott Benzell solo exhibit

3/13:

MARCH 1st - 3rd INSTALLATION  / River Monument Proposal (Sketch #3) By Justin Miller, Andrew Sexton, and Adam Janes

MARCH 3rd   STREET ACTION / Asshole Festival, Self-Initiated Performance & Celebration of Antagonists / 1 PM - 3 PM

MARCH 3rd  BOOK LAUNCH / Penny-Ante & Tiny Creatures / An evening with Stewart Home / 7:30 PM

MARCH 10th MUSIC / Emily Lacy, Nora Keyes and Ora Cogan, 8 PM - 12 AM

MARCH 14th MUSIC / Benoit Pioulard & Sean McCann & Mirror to Mirror & ITASCO / 9 PM - 1 AM

MARCH 17th  PERFORMANCE / L.A.N.D. with Math Bass and Anna Sew Hoy

MARCH 18th  POETRY & PERFORMANCE / Unmanned Minerals

A poetry reading and performance featuring text, sculpture and electronics. Unmanned Minerals (Matthew Hebert, Jared Stanley, Gabie Strong) is an interdisciplinary California and Nevada-based public art group interested in the ways history and language mediate landscape in the Western U.S.

MARCH 23rd MUSIC / Danny Paul Grody + Chuck Johnson + Claire Cronin + Daniel Bachman  9p $5

MARCH 26th - April 4th EXHIBITION / Fritz Haeg, At Home in L.A.

2/13:

FEB 1st & 2nd JOURNAL LAUNCH & PERFORMANCE  / Native Strategies #3 Ritual and Congregations

Feb 1  7 - 9 PM / Invocations: Samuel White with Johana Kozma and Clay Gibson; Amanda Yates; Jane Brucker with Mary Beth Bolin; Guru Rugu

Feb 2  7 - 9 PM / Pilgrimages: Amanda Yates; Alexa Weir; Rafa Esparza

FEB 8th SERENE PROJECTION / Yann Novak's Snowfall / 6 PM - 12 AM

FEB 15th - 17th INSTALLATION / Travis Diehl "Walk Thru Walls"

Video installation up from 12 - 6 P.M.

ARTIST TALK with guest moderator MICHELLE DIZON followed by A RECEPTION, 6 P.M. held at HR on the 17th

FEB 19th MUSIC / BLUES CONTROL + LAMPS + JAWS + THE URXED + BYRON WESTBROOK / $5, 8 PM

FEB 22nd  MUSIC / BLACK LEATHER JESUS + GREY CELL + STRUGGLE SESSION + PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT + BLACK SCORPIO UNDERGROUND +  MORE / $5, 8 PM

FEB 23rd READING / Agathering of antagonists or Asshole Festival / 1 - 3 PM gathering on the sidewalk in front of HR.

1/13:

JAN. 5th MUSIC / NOW + INSECT ARK + MOOMAW + LESSNESSES  / $5, 9 PM

JAN. 9th MUSIC / Chris Forsythe with DJ JEFFZILLA / $5, 8 PM

JAN. 10th PERFORMANCE / Danielle Adair / Doors 8 PM, Performance 8:30 PM

JAN. 13th SYMPOSIUM / Critical Resources / 10 AM – 5 PM

10:00: a panel featuring Kristen Galvin, Jennifer DeClue and Tracey Zuniga

11:45: artist's talk featuring Christina Sanchez

1:30: artist's talk featuring Cake and Eat It

2:45: a panel featuring Ruti Talmor, Ronak Kapadia and Karrmen Crey

JAN. 22nd – 24th INSTALLATION / VIVA VOCE, Katharina Rosenberger and Heiko Kalmbach open 12 - 6 PM

JAN. 23rd BIG CITY FORUM at 7.30pm as part of VIVA VOCE

JAN. 27th INSTALLATION / Geo Wyeth's I AM SERIOUS MAN  performance featuring Narcissister, and Geo Wyeth 7pm

JAN. 29th BOOK RELEASE / Alyse Emdur's Prison Landscapes / 7 - 10 PM

*image credit: John Knuth Fading Horizon

DECEMBER 19 The Dandelion Council Cassette Release Show

Gazelle Recordings Presents:

The Dandelion Council's Cassette Release Show 

Featuring performances by:

Lee Noble
Vinyl Williams 

PLUS Live Improv Sound Design By Augustus Green of The Galaxy Electric between sets

Visual Projections created & curated by the bands themselves

The Dandelion Council's Cheyenne Mountain Text Adventure EP will be available on Cassette at this show 

Doors at 9pm
All Ages
FREE

December 13th - Paul Salveson/Crown Shape perform Pulsar Through SE-70

December 12: Senses on Leaves: the Fall of Perception

Comprehension-scrambling shorts for your untapped awarenesses.

Stupid Pills takes a field trip to Human Resources in downtown LA for an evening of cinematic misunderstanding. Discover uncharted territories of experience, fertile areas of creativity, and, with luck, the sublime.

The shorts:

Lydia's Interiors, dir. Diaz
(2013) 22 min.
The Georgetown Loop, dir. Ken Jacobs.
(1996) 11 min.
RGB XYZ, dir. David OReilly
(2007) 12 min.
The Girl Chewing Gum, dir. John Smith.
(1976) 12 min.

The talk:

Maja Manojlovic
from Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA,
and Media Arts and Practice Program, USC
David OReilly, filmmaker
Diaz, filmmaker

The central heating for the soul:

MC Hymnal, disc jockey

doors at 7 pm

screening at 8pm

discussion at 9pm

Free.

Last weekend to view Rage and Patience

Artist walk Through December 7th, 2 PM. Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2 - 6 PM

DECember 7: LAUGHABLY SIMPLE RIDICULOUSLY IMPORTANT EVENT

Four short performances, an opportunity of proving what a perfect dancer you are, and conceptual pies to elevate the soul

7th of december, 8 pm-2 am

Nikki Darling will do a reading. John Birtle will send a postcard with a microphone. Dominique Gilliot will be set on the interrogative mode. The Lucky Dragons are gonna keep it laughably simple. Sarah WIlliams and Laure Vigna will turn art into pies or the opposite. And finally, Sister Mantos will bring the beat, fire to the flames, left cheeks to right cheeks. Everybody is looking forward.

Rasmus Røhling: Rage and Patience

Opening Reception Thursday November 14, 7 - 10 PM

Runs through Dec. 7th

Special screening of Andy Warhol's Sleep, Saturday November 16, 12 AM - 7 AM
Walkthrough with the artist Saturday December 7, 2 PM

Human Resources L.A. is pleased to present the first U.S. solo exhibition by Rasmus Røhling. Røhling (b. 1982, Denmark) recently exhibited at Culturgest in Lisbon, Years Gallery in Copenhagen, Museum Für Gegenwartskunst in Basel and Inter Arts Center in Malmø.

ARTFORUM December pick 

Organized by Chiara Giovando
Gallery hours Th, F, Sa, 2 - 6 PM or by appointment, email chiaragiovando@gmail.com
This exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Council

Update on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 10:14AM by Human Resources

Please note the change in gallery hours.

Sunday Nov 3rd - The Suidiciders by Travis Jeppesen - A Book Release and Reading

6pm - 8pm Sunday November 3rd

The Suiciders
By Travis Jeppesen
Overview
My friends are merely effigies I keep to remind me of the animal inside my mind.
—from The Suiciders

"Like the best experimental writing, Jeppeson's prose impacts in ways that conventional narrative can't and, by virtue of its insights and audacity, consistently delights."
- Publishers Weekly

During the first decade of the second millennium, a group of seven friends—Zach, Lukas, Adam, Matthew, Peter, Arnold, and Taylor—occupy an indeterminate house in an unidentified American suburb and replay a continuous loop of eternal exile and youth. Permanently in their late teens, the seven young men are as fluid and mutable ciphers, although endowed with highly reflexive, and wholly generic, internal lives. “Once you learn how to love, you will also learn how to mutilate it . . . I want to feel so free you can’t even imagine . . . Let’s get out there and eat some popsicles. There is work to be done.” Eventually, the group decides to remove themselves from the safe confines of the house and to embark upon a road trip to the end of the world with their friend, the Whore, and their pet parrot, Jesus H. Christ. The Suiciders is their legacy.

Chronicling the last days of a religious cult in rural America, Jeppesen’s debut novel Victims was praised by the Village Voice for its “artfully fractured vision of memory and escape,” and by Punk Planet for its masterful balance of “the laconic speech of teenagers with philosophical density.” In The Suiciders, Jeppesen ventures beyond any notion of fixed identity. The result is a dazzling, perversely accurate portrait of American life in the new century, conveyed as a post-punk nouveau roman.

About the Author
Travis Jeppesen is the author of two previous novels, Victims and Wolf at the Door. His writings on art and film regularly appear in Artforum, Art in America, and Whitehouse Magazine of Contemporary Art. He lives in Berlin and London, where he teaches at the Royal College of Art.

SMASHISM / a night of video, performance and ephemeral installation

November 2^nd, 2013, doors 7, screening 8, performances at 9:30

Organized by Suzy Poling with Chiara Giovando

SMASHISIM is a collection of new images, video and sound that commonly draw from a dark psycadelia - dream-like, mind-bending, mind-altering, mind-expanding. SMASHISIM combines organic and synthetic concerns through experimental film works, live video synthesis and performance. Themes covered are: experiential rituals, complexities of the natural world and digital interferences, humans bodies as abstractions, a room as an exterior space and a mountain range as interior space. Mutations of static sound all blend together into one night and are confused in the murk of pixels. 

Video Screening: Cary Loren (Detroit), Rolan Vega (LA), Sporay (LA), Kamau Amu Patton (NYC), Sabrina Ratte' (Montreal), Sara Ludy (Vancouver), Collin McKelvey (SF), Alivia Zivich (Detroit), John Davis (SF), JJ Stratford (LA), Shana Palmer (Baltimore), Amanda Siegel (LA), Carlos Gonzales (Providence), Robert Beatty (Lexington), Andrew Benson (SF), Chris Duncan (Oakland), Black Hole Cinema (Oakland) 

Installation: Brock Fansler & Eva Aguila (LA), Suzy Poling (LA), ESP TV (NYC), Andy Ortmann (Chicago), live video synthesis by Andy Puls (SF) 

Music Performance: Jealousy (SF), Pod Blotz w/ Chiara Giovando (LA), Sapphire Slow (Tokyo), Robedoor (LA)

Hecuba - CRIME

HECUBA – CRIME a collaboration with John Knuth.

BRET NICELY – A Sculpture made alongside, but unconnected to, millions of tiny acts.

Sunday, Oct 27, 2013 7:00 pm start time.

Special Performance: HECUBA - CRIME

The LOCATION of Crime will be Human Resources, Los Angeles.

The SPACE of Crime will be John Knuth Fading Horizon

The LENGTH of Crime will be its natural duration.

The STIMULUS of Crime will be heat, light, sound, smell, smoke, people and Fading Horizon.

The SOUND of Crime will be created with digital and analog electronic instruments and human voices.

The PEOPLE of Crime will be Hecuba, John Knuth, Lita Albuquerque, Mecca Vazie Andrews, Diaz, Dawn Kasper, Johanna Kozma, Sarah Rara, and Ami Sioux.

The ACTION of Crime is undetermined.
BRET NICELY – A Sculpture re-made alongside, but unconnected to, millions of tiny acts.

A performance lecture on possible futures for art. 

John Knuth: Fading Horizon

Oct 17 – Oct 27, 2013

Opening Reception: 
Thursday, Oct 17, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Gallery Hours: 
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm and by appointment

Special closing performance with HECUBA and Bret Nicely Sunday Oct. 27 starting at 7 pm

Human Resources is pleased to announce a new show by John Knuth: Fading Horizon. This all-encompassing installation will utilize 1,000 pounds of sugar, light bulbs and Mylar thermo blankets.

The floor of the gallery will be covered with Mylar thermo blankets, light bulbs and mounds of sugar. As the light bulbs heat the sugar, the sugar caramelizes and creates small volcanoes which mark the blankets underneath. The gallery fills with sweet smelling smoke that is at first enticing but soon becomes overwhelming. Eventually the blankets are hung on the walls, displaying the minimal abstract compositions left behind by the carmelized sugar. These compositions change over time as the material slowly drips down the blankets and on to the floor.

Fading Horizon is a commanding fusion of material, sculpture, painting and installation work, which evokes ideas of climate change and entropy. Knuth is inspired by sugar as a material with infinite sculptural possibilities. It can be diluted in water, crystalized, eaten, caramelized or molded into forms. The pure white color of sugar gives the sense of a blank canvas with the deep brown caramel rivulets providing a stark contrast. The show explores the idea of chance, uncertainty and change as an amorphous, transcendent place.

John Knuth’s work engages base level alchemy. He often employs simple materials that transcend their base quality. He has fed hundreds of thousands of houseflies paint, which they regurgitate on to canvas to make delicate abstract compositions. His work explores the physical quality and poetic meaning of materials. 

John Knuth has most recently exhibited his work in a solo show at SOD Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. His fly paintings were featured in a video entitled "Made in Los Angeles" on MOCAtv which quickly went viral and was picked up by the Huffington Post, BoingBoing.net, Gizmodo.com, Wired, among other news outlets. He has shown work at Another Year in LA, International Art Objects, Greene Exhibitions, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, LACMA, LACE and Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, and Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, KY. He has show internationally in Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Sweden and England. Knuth was born in 1978 in Minneapolis, MN and received an MFA from USC and a BFA from the University of Minnesota.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday - Base: Session I concludes

http://basesessions.org/session1

Niv Acosta
Gina Dell’Amico
Nick Duran
Lauren Davis Fisher
Madeline Hollander
Arley Marks
Temra Pavlovic
Mårten Spångberg
Sylvie Spencer

Session I is a choreography of spaces.

All architecture is impermanent. All human spaces are constructed. Some walls are meant to conceal.

Structured space dictates human flow; it is a choreographic force.

A sewing factory; a cinema; a corral; an arena; a cell; a corridor, the Beverly Hills Hotel.

HUMAN RESOURCES, LOS ANGELES
OCTOBER 3 – 13
OPENING RECEPTION OCT 3 6 – 8 PM
EXHIBITION HOURS 10 AM – 10 PM DAILY

BASE is a series of choreography exhibitions.
These Sessions incorporate performance, workshops, video, and material research.

BASE is the curation of choreography which reflects the specific nature of the medium. BASE seeks to construct a viewing experience that promotes the consideration of choreographic works as artworks, but disrupts traditional relationships between viewer and objects, spectator and performer. Choreography implies the intentional construction of relationships of bodies to space, architecture, other bodies, and viewers. BASE explores the multitude of possibilities for a choreography of the viewing experience.

BASE: Session I will be held at Human Resources, Los Angeles, whose mission is to broaden public engagement with experimental, interdisciplinary and conceptual art and foreground underexposed modes of expression. For the duration of the exhibition, artist Lauren Davis Fisher will continuously construct a mobile skeleton structure, dividing the warehouse space into multiple, shifting interiors that will support works from a selection of artists and performers. These modules become evolving organs examining the conscious and unconscious potentialities of the body, performance, and perception.