Social Residency 2020 at Human Resources, Chinatown Los Angeles Presented by untune, March 13 to 17, 2020 Note: Most of the events related to this exhibition were cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. An all new iteration of what initially began in 2017 at untune with Alison O’ Daniel, Kathleen Kim, Marcia Bassett, and Angel …
Social Residency 2020
March 13 - March 17, 2020 Opening Reception March 13, 8-11pm Human Resources Ideas as inventions called artifacts [Buckminster Fuller] Social Residency is an artifact Called ideas as notes Revealing threads, bleeds, crossings, streams of conscience From a group of artists housed virtually Exchanging notes Processing a single part a reference point a collective meeting …
Khal Publication Launch – 2 Day Event (postponed)
March 19 & 20, 2020 (Postponed due to COVID-19 until further notice) Human Resources 410 Cottage Home Los Angeles CA 90012 Thursday March 19, 7-11pm (Opening launch and Performances) - $10 Gallery open for viewing at 7pm Performances begin 8pm and feature: Swing State (Angel Chirnside and Helga Fassonaki) will perform Khal score Hypocrisy Jessika …
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Khal Publication: April 2020
Khal publication includes 110 loose-leaf pages + double cassette compilation English, 7.75 x 4.75 inches Edition of 150 A project by Helga Fassonaki Designed and Co-edited by Sming Sming Books Co-published with Drawing Room Records After years of gathering and communicating with a growing number of participating voices, I am thrilled to present a dedicated …
Beta-Level, 9-15-19
Chinatown, Los Angeles Photos taken by Sandy Yang, 2019
Berkshire Botanics – 2019
Situating myself on a vast empty meadow surrounded by a circularly positioned audience of massive shedding trees - this became my chosen studio site for two weeks while an artist-in-resident at All Is Leaf in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts - somewhere on a mountainous range between the Taconic and Mohawk trails. A becoming ritual …
Top Soil
soil gathered and filtered from different areas where the land shows signs of degradation [ongoing] the forms notate my studies of labyrinth designs found in archeological history
Social Exchange Theory
This Land #1
Revisiting ‘One Song Two Sides Bold Breathing’, one of sixteen visual scores from my Khal project, I created a new composition involving eight participants who together create a sound performance piece referencing an old American song “This Land Is Your Land” originally written and sung by Woody Guthrie in 1944. This auditory spatial experiment will …
Joshua Tree, CA – 2019
Circle #2 (part of a series involving the creation of 100 foot circles on different land masses, first ignited by a Lew Welch poem) was created in a remote area of Joshua Tree where I inscribed the circle right into the dusty earth. I choreographed a piece where fellow artist Mira Billotte and I walked in …
Helga Fassonaki 
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