FEB 13-FEB 15

HR BENEFIT PARTY: Maricón Collective 9pm - 2am

Maricón Collective presents Scam N Jam a Valentines Dance Party!

Maricón Collective brings its Eastside backyard party to Human Resources. DJ sets by Maricón Collective, go go boys, photo backdrops, scamming room, y mas. This party will be reminiscent of a high school Valentine's dance with decorations, art, photo ops and of course sexy slow jams throughout the night. $5-20 suggested donation.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14 SYMPOSIUM: Overstimulated: The Limits of Performance

OVERSTIMULATED is an afternoon and evening of presentations exploring the limits in performance — limits of the body, performance, aesthetics, material conditions, institutional practices, pleasure, or desire. Amelie Jones, Jennifer Doyle, Nao Bustamante, Sheree Rose, Zackary Drucker and Heather Cassils. 

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14 PERFORMANCE: Rocio Boliver and and Thibault Delferière: The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab 8PM 

A performance art icon comes to Los Angeles for the first time! Capstone event for The Limits of Performance (see above). Boliver's work explores and pushes against the traditions, the regimes of thought that would control the female body. Rocio Boliver's performance of "The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab" is from the series Between Menopause and Old Age. We are pleased to welcome Thibault Delferière, a painter and performance artists form Belgium—this is his first performance in the US; this is Boliver and Delferière's third international collaboration. [VIDEO]

10$

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 PERFORMANCE: HRLA and Volume present M Lamar: Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche  7PM/$10 advance, $15 at the door This music theater piece for countertenor and piano emerges from the constant violent and sexualized surveillance of the black male body—plantation overseer, the NBA, police executions of unarmed black men, the United States penal system.