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Human Resources presents Scott Benzel and What does possession mean to you? Opening and Performances Saturday April 27 7-10PM
Shows Close Saturday May 18
Artforum Must See Show
http://humanresourcesla.com/
Object index pdf
Essay pdf
Human Resources is pleased to present two concurrent shows by Scott Benzel. The downstairs space will feature a show of the artist’s recent work including large-scale installations, vitrines containing new works, and performances. The upstairs will feature What does Possession Mean to You? a selection of works and objects from Benzel’s collection to be deaccessioned, stored, or promised to individuals and institutions following the close of the show.
A new performance, Un Coup de Des / Presence, and a ‘recombination’ of Benzel’s Folk History and Non-Genre I for Female Black Metal Guitarist and Belt Sanders (2012), will take place during the opening Saturday April 27 from 7-10 pm.
Scott Benzel is a Los Angeles-based artist and composer. His work was featured in Made in LA 2012 at the Hammer Museum and has been shown or performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, LAXART, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. This is his second solo show at Human Resources.
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.
An Homage to Mike Kelley presented by Gagosian Gallery
also LA Art Book Fair, MOCA
List of Contributors
Index of Works
A Minor Canon, contribution to An Homage to Mike Kelley:
The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film
by Michael J. Weldon
Maldoror
by Comte De Lautreamont
The Sad Sack (Classics of Modern American Humor Series)
by George Baker
Harry Partch: Enclosure 3
by Harry Partch, Philip Blackburn
The four seasons and the archangels: experience of the course of the year in four cosmic imaginations;: Five lectures given in Dornach, Switzerland, from 5th to 13th October 1923
by Rudolf Steiner
The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space
by John Cunningham Lilly
Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock ‘n’ Roll
by Julian Cope
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music 1st edition by Lewis, George E. published by University Of Chicago Press Hardcover
by George E. Lewis
The All-American Outhouse: Stories, Design & Construction
by Bob Cary
Reich Speaks of Freud : Wilhelm Reich Discusses His Work and His Relationship with Sigmund Freud
by Wilhelm Reich; Higgins, Mary; Raphael, Chester M.; Pol, Therese Reich
Doris Day
by Eric Braun
Psychedelic Art
by R.E.L. Masters, J. Houston
Text–Sound Texts
by Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Philip Glass,Claes Oldenburg, Jack Kerouac, Richard Kostelanetz(Editor)
The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-Garde Letters
by Gertrude Stein, Richard Kostelanetz (Editor)
H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
by Michel Houellebecq
The Psychoanalysis of Children (The Writings of Melanie Klein, Vol. 2)
by Melanie Klein, H. A. Thorner (Editor), Alix Strachey(Translator)
Spirit World
by Jack Kirby
Psychic Photography: Threshold of a New Science?
by Hans Holzer
Detroit Television (Images of America)
by Tim Kiska , Ed Golick
Colour
by Rudolf Steiner
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Scott Benzel plays selections from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of Feb. 28, 2013 (2013) Dem Passwords, LA
The Recitation Excerpt from Profondeurs Vertes Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel Musee Louvre Paris (released 2012)
Exposition Chaos from A|D Liz Glynn and Scott Benzel with Corey Fogel and Giles Miller (2012) Public Fiction, LA
Sines (for Michael Asher) Excerpt 2 channel version of a 4 channel installation (2011) CAM St. Louis
Concentric Circles (before and after David Smith) Mvmt I for 3 lock-groove lacquers and string trio (2010) LACMA
Fewg Flash Bam Pow Music from the Trip (1967) in the style of…(2009) SASSAS Program PDF * **
Inversion I (retrograde) Excerpt Inversion I (retrograde) after Dennis Wilson (2010) Blum and Poe* **
Blak Bloc I Excerpt Blak Bloc II Excerpt BLAK BLOC FOR STRING QUARTET AND FEEDBACK (2009)* **
Nativity Electronique Coda from Day is Done- Original Soundtrack by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel (2005)*
*full album available on iTunes ** full album available on Spotify
The Academy/The Chthonic at Eleusis one person show at Public Fiction September 21
With a live performance by Ezra Buchla
& a tape-loop by Scott Benzel:
Sines for Michael Asher 2-channel loop 15 ips – 7 ips- performed by Allison Wyper and Jos McKain
This stage of sorts will host a series of performances & events. Including:
A set of dinners by Liz Glynn on October 12th &13th.
A|D, a meal in five acts by Liz GlynnMusic orchestrated by Scott Benzel, performed by Corey Fogel and Giles Miller.
As part of Scott Benzel’s current exhibition The Academy / The Chthonic at Eleusis
“…most important of all is the structure of the incidents.
For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life,
and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.”
A|D, a meal in five acts by Liz Glynn
Music orchestrated by Scott Benzel, performed by Corey Fogel and Giles Miller.
As part of Scott Benzel’s current exhibition The Academy / The Chthonic at Eleusis
“…most important of all is the structure of the incidents.
For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life,
and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.”
The Academy/The Chthonic at Eleusis one person show at Public Fiction opens September 21
With a live performance by Ezra Buchla
& a tape-loop by Scott Benzel:
Sines for Michael Asher 2-channel loop 15 ips – 7 ips- performed by Allison Wyper and Jos McKain
This stage of sorts will host a series of performances & events. Including:
A set of dinners by Liz Glynn on October 12th &13th.
Tape Music at the Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, featuring William Basinski, John Wiese, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley, Pauline Oliveros, Cortical Foundation curated by Scott Benzel August 25, presented by SASSAS Program PDF
Michael Ned Holte Artforum Review
Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf
Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) in collaboration with Mark Hagen, Blum and Poe Sept. 15, 5:30pm
Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) in collaboration with Mark Hagen, LAXART, Sept. 1, 8pm
Venice Beach Biennial with Mark Hagen July 13-15
(Threnody) A beginner’s guide to Mao Tse-Tung for 2 tape loops, dancers, violin, viola, cello, and percussion
(Threnody) Program Pdf
Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf
(Threnody) A Beginner’s Guide to Mao Tse-Tung-June 22 7:30 pm @ Hammer
(Threnody) June 28 7:30 pm @ Hammer
SCOTT BENZEL: IVORY NEIGE, L’ORIGINE DU MONDE, MAGIC ERASER at CCS Bard
Essay by Theresa Choi pdf
Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel: Opus 1 Performance at Hip-O Ranch Marfa, TX, for Ballroom Marfa, 5.26.12
http://scottbenzel.tumblr.com/
EVENING SALE: BETWEEN CONNOISSEURSHIP AND HUMILIATION- WORKS FROM THE SCOTT BENZEL COLLECTION at Cirrus Gallery/Actual Size through May 5,2012
Download ipad/iphone Catalog in epub format, control click and save
Essay by Michael Haight pdf
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/black-box-by-liz-glynn/
Recombinant Folk History and Non-Genre I for Belt Sanders and Female Black Metal Guitarist, a performance/musical work at Black Box, curated by Liz Glynn Jan. 20, 2012 part of Pacific Standard Time, organized by LA><ART
http://rebeccataylorny.tumblr.com/
L.A. Weekly
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/ball-of-artists/
After Funhouse in the Style of the penultimate sequence of The Lady from Shanghai (1947) for 3 voices, rock trio, and saxophone
Greystone Manor, Beverly Hills, Sat. Jan. 28th
L.A. Times Review
Chinashop Magazine
http://www.sassas.org/welcomeinn/
John Cage Variations IV, realized by Scott Benzel and Dave Muller
January 29, 2012 Welcome Inn. Eagle Rock
Seven Los Angeles Artists Index.pdf Seven Los Angeles Artists Essay.pdf Sublimated Los Angeles.pdf
Kathryn Andrews, Anonymous, Anonymous, Erin Cosgrove, Mark Hagen, Mike Kelley, Rodney McMillian, curated by Scott Benzel at Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Oct. 15-Dec.17 2011
Sublimated Los Angeles: a film series highlighting little-seen films either shot
in or with strong ties to Los Angeles and suppressed for various reasons:
Play it as it Lays (1972) Let there be light (1946)
Pumping Iron (1977) Dial M for Murder in 3D (1954)*
Curated by Scott Benzel. *3D glasses provided
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: Front Room: 2 4-channel Sound Installations by Scott Benzel
String Quartet No. 2, 4-channel sound installation, string quartet; Sines for Michael Asher, 4-channel sound installation, sine wave generators
http://camstl.org/exhibitions/front-room/scott-benzel/
Sines (for Michael Asher) Excerpt. mp3 2 channel version of a 4 channel sound installation
Scott Benzel Web Guide pdf
Trespass/Parade: http://trespassparade.org/ presented by West of Rome, part of Pacific Standard Time, Oct. 2,1
Variations for Commercial Arcade (Gamut I-XXI), Cassia Streb, viola
Joy Prowl, Slogan for Trespass/Parade
Pig Rococo, Slogan for Trespass/Parade
Blum and Poe July 3 – August 28, 2010
Billy Al Bengston, Justin Beal, Scott Benzel, Gil Blank, Jennifer Bornstein, Carol Bove, Cameron, Anne Collier, R. Crumb, Lucy Dodd, Sam Durant, Roe Ethridge, Amy Granat, Ed Kienholz, Margaret Kilgallen, Nate Lowman, John McCracken, Adam McEwen, Dave Muller, Aleksandra Mir, Catherine Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Phillips, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Reena Spaulings, Vincent Szarek, Guyton \ Walker and Christopher Williams With a video program by Drew Heitzler and a ‘zine with text by Jan Tumlir
Animal Style: The New Warrior – Pepin Moore, Los Angeles
July 9th through August 14th 2010
Black Suns/Black Holes (Colby Posters) 2010, Engraving on letterpress posters, 14×17″
http://mankindproject.org/
Go check out the link above to learn more about the Mankind Project and their New Warrior Training weekends. My shrink was really pushing me to do this, so after researching it a bit, I found a new shrink. Shortly there after, my friends Genevieve and John Ryan told me they were opening a new gallery in Chinatown. They asked me if I would curate a summer show for them to operate as a forward to their official opening in September. Since I have a stoner attention span (and appetite), I immediately thought of the New Warrior Training and then In and Out burgers.
I’m guessing you know that besides their regular menu, In and Out has all these options that are off menu. Animal Style is extra everything. It got its name in the early sixties when In and Out first became popular with surfers. They would order their burgers this way. The clean-cut employees (In and Out still has weird born-again affiliations) referred to the shaggy surfer boys as animals, thus Animal Style. Coincidentally, early versions of the new warrior training sessions were called Wild Animal Weekends.
So there you go. Messy burgers and self-help retreats that lead to ideas of inclusive exclusion, cult behavior, new age family values, masochistic machismo rituals, spirit animal journeys, passive aggression, and enlightenment. I love California.
Artists in the exhibition include Justin Beal, Scott Benzel, Gil Blank, Jedediah Caesar, Matthew Chambers, Fritz Chesnut, Krysten Cunningham, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, and Lucy Raven
For more information, please contact Pepin Moore at gallery@pepinmoore.com
Mandrake Invite
Lightshow, wheatpaste poster, 24x36, 2009
The Medium, 2 wheatpaste posters, 24x36" each, 2009
