Human Resources

Human Resources Human Resources at Cottage Home

Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Human Resources is entirely volunteer run and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts by encouraging maximum community access. Human Resources also serves as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art forms. Contact HR at:

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Live in Concert at HRLA October 15th: 𝗔 ⋂ 𝗗
Angela Frances Wilson (modular synth) and Devin Sarno (bass + electronics) c...
10/12/2026

Live in Concert at HRLA October 15th: 𝗔 ⋂ 𝗗

Angela Frances Wilson (modular synth) and Devin Sarno (bass + electronics) combined to form A ∩ D (or: A Intersects D), a mostly-musical project that emphasizes the experience of music – which always goes beyond.

Part of a show also featuring sets from Music Research Strategies, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu & Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Kevin Corcoran, Adam Lion & Wilson Shook. An unprecedented confluence of creative voices from California and beyond, this concert’s audiovisual offerings substantiate diverse angles of approach to the fundamental questions of how to listen and what to do about it.

🎟️ Advance tickets are available now via the HRLA website, link in bio!

In the duet On the floor two friends attempt to piece together traces of the 70s and 80s q***r San Francisco. Specifical...
10/09/2026

In the duet On the floor two friends attempt to piece together traces of the 70s and 80s q***r San Francisco. Specifically the legacies carried by dance music genres of the late 70s and 80s in relation to the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The piece weaves together nightlife, the virus, and q***r memory, drawing on materials gathered throughout Dcx and Silk’s research: interviews with DJs and club goers, Patrick Cowley’s music and personal diaries, live recordings of Sylvester, practices like flagging and fan dancing, and ephemera from@clubs like the I-Beam and the Trocadero Transfer. Working in relation to this archive Dcx and Silk push themselves into altered states induced by dance, moving through an inner space of hedonism, exhaustion, escape and discipline.
Warning: this performance contains strobe lighting Choreography and performance: Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk. Photo: Robbie Sweeny

Live in Concert at HRLA October 15th: 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻 ＆ 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸
Improvising as a trio for the first time,...
10/09/2026

Live in Concert at HRLA October 15th: 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻 ＆ 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸

Improvising as a trio for the first time, but with overlapping collaborative histories, Kevin Corcoran (SF), Adam Lion, and Wilson Shook bring a deep appreciation for the irreducible complexity of moment and place, a fine attunement to its possibilities and constraints, and an abiding commitment to chucking it all and doing something completely different.

Part of a show also featuring sets from Music Research Strategies, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu & Michael Pisaro-Liu, and A ⋂ D: An unprecedented confluence of creative voices from California and beyond, this concert’s audiovisual offerings substantiate diverse angles of approach to the fundamental questions of how to listen and what to do about it.

🎟️ Advance tickets are available now via the HRLA website, link in bio!

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Adam Lion

The 10 year anniversary exhibition of Cruise is open 12-6pm till Sunday. Sunday, October 11, from 12–6 pm: archive exhib...
10/08/2026

The 10 year anniversary exhibition of Cruise is open 12-6pm till Sunday.

Sunday, October 11, from 12–6 pm: archive exhibition closing celebration featuring flash tattoo by Comonground Studio artists Charlie Boy and Roz, bootblacking by Cruise LA community bootblacks, and exhibit walkthroughs with Cruise LA founders Ponylee & Vanessa Craig with q***r nightlife photographer Amina Cruz.

Live in Concert at HRLA next Thursday October 15, an unprecedented confluence of creative voices from California and bey...
10/06/2026

Live in Concert at HRLA next Thursday October 15, an unprecedented confluence of creative voices from California and beyond, this concert’s audiovisual offerings substantiate diverse angles of approach to the fundamental questions of how to listen and what to do about it. 👂🏼

𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻 ＆ 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸
Improvising as a trio for the first time, but with overlapping collaborative histories, Kevin Corcoran, Adam Lion, and Wilson Shook bring a deep appreciation for the irreducible complexity of moment and place, a fine attunement to its possibilities and constraints, and an abiding commitment to chucking it all and doing something completely different.

𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀
In from Oakland, Music Research Strategies performs “Throwin’ Hands” – a solo double bullroarer and traps vector from “Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement: Floating Signifier.” “Throwin’ Hands” is microtonal, socio-legal communication praxeology for theorizing critical and ethical social contracts with Indigenous Knowledge Systems (De-Center for UNKNOWING).

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗛𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗛𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘂 ＆ 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗼-𝗟𝗶𝘂
Performing a new version of Burnt Rose #2–9, involving a minimal installation, live music, video, and film performance.

𝗔 ⋂ 𝗗
Angela Frances Wilson (modular synth) and Devin Sarno (bass + electronics) combined to form A ∩ D (or: A Intersects D), a mostly-musical project that emphasizes the experience of music – which always goes beyond.

🎟️ Advance tickets are available now via the HRLA website, link in bio!

kevin c
Adam Lion
Music_Research_Strategies
Ang Wilson
Devin Sarno
Michael Pisaro-Liu

GRAVES, HOLES, AND MYTHOGRAPHIES Film and performance by Vitreous Chamber-Malic Amalya and Nathan Hill-Two nights of fil...
10/03/2026

GRAVES, HOLES, AND MYTHOGRAPHIES

Film and performance by Vitreous Chamber
-Malic Amalya and Nathan Hill-

Two nights of film and live sound performance

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 — 8PM GRAVES & HOLES
A night to worship at Vaseline graves, descend into holes, and rest toward the death of cinema

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 — 6PM MYTHOGRAPHIES
A political and sober excavation of myth, living lessons and your first breath on Mars

Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Normal Dreams – Liana Zhen-Ai + Astrid SonneNovember 4thNormal Dreams, is a performance by dancer Liana Zhen-Ai and musi...
09/30/2026

Normal Dreams – Liana Zhen-Ai + Astrid Sonne
November 4th

Normal Dreams, is a performance by dancer Liana Zhen-Ai and musician Astrid Sonne.

First presented as a part of the Pairings series at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York, curated and produced by Cameron Sczempka. Expect never heard before songs, movement, noise, props and a video call from the big apple.

Doos at 7
Perfomance at 8

Presented by Pretty but Wicked

About the artists:
Liana Zhen-ai is a Brooklyn/London-based dancer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles. She has performed as a soloist with choreographers Holly Blakey, Andrea Miller, and Akira Uchida. Her dancing has been featured in Vogue US, NOWNESS, and Face Magazine, and in venues including MoMA, Lincoln Center, Southbank Centre, and Théâtre Chaillot de Nationale. Liana’s work uses the lenses of new materialism and object-oriented ontology to interrogate shame, nature, and narrative. Her choreographic practice sits at the intersection of dance, dramaturgy, and scholarship, and her work has been presented at Prototype Festival, Amant, Center for Performance Research, and Green-Wood Cemetery in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic.

Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours. On her most recent album Great Doubt (January 2024) this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer’s own vocal in the fore. The tone of each track is unmistakably Sonne’s, structured around contrasts through an impeccable sense of timing. Lyrics on the album are sparse, merely highlighting different scenes or emotional states of being, leaving the music to fill in the blanks. Yet they also form a pattern of ambiguity, consolidated through the album title, searching for answers through looking at how and what you are asking, questions for the world, questions of love.

Ticket link in bio

liana zhen-ai Astrid Sonne PBW PRESENTS

Setting up for “RE-ENACTING THE LIE” a new performance by Los Angeles Poverty Department, tonight at 7pmSaturday- 9/26/2...
09/26/2026

Setting up for “RE-ENACTING THE LIE” a new performance by Los Angeles Poverty Department, tonight at 7pm
Saturday- 9/26/26

Los Angeles Poverty Department was founded in 1985 by director-performer-activist John Malpede. LAPD was the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people, and the first arts program of any kind for homeless people in Los Angeles.

Skid Row Los Angeles is the poorest area in the city, with the largest concentration of homeless people of any neighborhood in the US. LAPD, as the first arts organization on Skid Row, immediately became active in a conversation and a movement with advocates, residents and social service professionals, that put forward the idea that Skid Row could be improved, by embracing and nourishing the powers of the people who live there.

LAPD tells the rest of the story, what you don’t hear elsewhere. We create change by telling the story of the community in a way that supports the initiatives of community residents. We want the narrative of the neighborhood to be in the hands of neighborhood people. We work to generate this narrative and to supplant narratives that perpetuate stereotypes used to keep the neighborhood people down or to justify displacing the community. We want to create recognition of the community and its values.

Tonight at 7: early videos made by Vishal Jugdeo between followed by a Q&A with Casey Jane EllisonFriday 9/25A program ...
09/25/2026

Tonight at 7: early videos made by Vishal Jugdeo between followed by a Q&A with Casey Jane Ellison
Friday 9/25

A program of short videos made by Vishal Jugdeo between 2004 and 2012 showcases his method of collaborating with performers to co-create experimental narratives, drawing on televisual tropes like sitcoms and talk shows. This collection highlights the videos’ fragmentary compositional structure, where performers improvise scripted (and stilted) language to generate both absurdity and cogency. Rotating casts of friends and lovers (including Jugdeo’s long-term partner Billy Wright), play off one another to explore subtle transmissions of power, intimacy and alienation. Throughout, language flops and misfires, highlighting its inadequacy to communicate hidden dynamics in relationships.

Violent Broadcast, 2010, 8 minutes

Square Configuration (Decorum) Study, 2009, 8 minutes

Three Approximations of the Space Between Two, 2005, 4 minutes

Thought Composition with Model of the World, 2010, 9 minutes

Stage Design for Disassociation, 2011, 11 minutes

Goods Carrier, 2012 – 18 minutes

Vishal Jugdeo Casey Jane Ellison

Friday 9/25 at 9pm: the iconic BY HOOK OR BY CROOK (2001), Directed by Harry Dodge & Silas Howard.TRT: 103 min. Conversa...
09/23/2026

Friday 9/25 at 9pm: the iconic BY HOOK OR BY CROOK (2001), Directed by Harry Dodge & Silas Howard.
TRT: 103 min. Conversations and Q&A after the movie.

Starring: Carina Gia, Harry Dodge, Joan Jett, Silas Howard, Stanya Kahn

By Hook or By Crook is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome, gender-bending, small town dreamer with a nagging messiah complex. Emotionally defeated after the death of his father, Shy heads to the big city to sink himself into a “life of crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine, a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for her birthmother. The two freaky grifters join forces and learn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted, anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust and redemption.

Harry Dodge Silas Howard Steak House - Steakhaus Productions Altered Innocence Stanya Kahn Joan Jett Frank Jaffe

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