Explore/Archive
January 7–March 9, 2013
Rutherford Chang
Chang will create an archive, listening library, and anti-store to house and grow his collection of the Beatles’ iconic record.
February 15–April 26, 2013
Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth
Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York
March 26–May 25, 2013
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson
Dubbin and Davidson will create new works influenced by the geometries of sound.
March 26–May 25, 2013
Seeing Voice The Seven-Tone Color Spectrum
Christine Sun Kim
Christine Sun Kim will initiate a conversation led by seven presenters, all of whom will give a lecture without using audible voice.
August 7–October 6, 2013
Elizabeth Orr
For Circular Track, Orr will research the ways in which choreographed movement constructs narrative.
August 7–October 6, 2013
Nancy Nowacek
Nowacek will design, create and test a series of prototypes for an eventual footbridge that crosses the Upper New York Bay waterway.
August 17–October 12, 2013
Jacolby Satterwhite
Satterwhite will create a 3D animated video using drawing, CG animation, and improvised and mediated performance.
October 11–November 11, 2013
Molly Lowe
HANDS OFF invites artists to use Recess’s public space as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation.
October 22–December 21, 2013
Courtesy the Artists
“Trad.” is an abbreviation of “traditional,” which is listed instead of an author on folk recordings when the work’s origin is unknown.
January 8–March 22, 2014
Liz Magic Laser
Bystander will be developed at Recess through a series of interviews conducted by journalists and actors with members of the public.
March 25–May 26, 2014
Nina Horisaki-Christens and Takashi Horisaki
The main component of Metabolic Morphology will take the form of a semi-modular installation of cast colored latex and vacuum-formed plastic elements
June 3–August 2, 2014
Ruka (To braid/ to knit/ to weave)
Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Mutiti will play the role of the artist, designer, and researcher to a space for the study and practice of hair braiding.
September 2–October 25, 2014
Mira Friedlaender
The artist will unpack, document, and inventory the life’s work of Bilge Civelekoglu Friedlaender.
November 4–December 20, 2014
Chris Domenick
Domenick will explore the historical genre of the still life and its accompanying fruit basket.
January 6–17, 2015
Jessica Segall
Jessica Segall’s installation at Recess involves a very simple task rendered complicated in New York City.
January 22–March 14, 2015
PK
PK Worryshop will explore the cinematic trope of the “sad bar” along with the historical use of private cinema viewing machines.
March 19–April 25, 2015
Sara Magenheimer
Magenheimer will construct sculptural sets composed of photographs, objects, and film equipment that will become the backdrop for a new video.
April 30–June 27, 2015
The Institute for New Feeling
IfNf will create an installation that offers individuals a clairvoyant reading generated by the misuse of online search engines.
July 2–August 29, 2015
Katherine Hubbard and Savannah Knoop
Hubbard and Knoop will explore connotations of production through a synthesis of clothing-making, sculpture and installation.
September 4–November 3, 2015
Jonah Groeneboer
Double Mouth Feedback explores the human voice as an instrument to express, or conversely, to repress, the self.
November 10–December 19, 2015
Sondra Perry
Perry takes the television series The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) as the starting point for an investigation of multi-dimensional identity construction.
January 7–March 5, 2016
Total Effekt
The artists conducted a speculative archaeological study of “the home,” examining the practical and symbolic value of the dwelling.
March 12–May 7, 2016
Marie Lorenz
A two-month long project that proposes the titular structure as a site for investigating questions ranging from the practical to the poetic.
May 14–July 9, 2016
Lauren Halsey
An interplanetary liquid environment composed of hyperreal gardens, fantasy landscapes, and pools of beauty water.
September 1–October 29, 2016
Canaries
Canaries will address the two primary components of their practice—collective care and self-care—through programs and documentary activities