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BROUHAHA is a shape-shifting habitat, with a sculptural skate ramp positioned in the space as its physical anchor.

A two-month project that will forge links between Recess and Argo Electronics, located on Canal Street one block away from our storefront.

Assembly is invested in reframing the narrative around the justice system with and for court-involved participants

Faked/Out is a multi-platform response to the world’s current information crises.

Recess: May 21, 2014, a month-long summoning of musician Dave Navarro.

Wonder Room is a hybrid of a treehouse, resource lounge, imaginative think tank, and community environment.

Steady Pulse is a club that plays host to a diverse range of happenings and interventions, including performances, movement workshops, conversations.

The Service Room is a project that will create a unique environment and framework for the communal exchange of services.

A Ponemos Chancla is an installation that simulates a men’s formalwear shop to explore camouflage, the semiotics of fashion.

Invisible Man Tattoo is a pop up tattoo shop offering designs that reflect the histories and experiences of Black people and the African Diaspora.

Shug Avery’s Kiss, a project that will turn the physical space of Recess into a juke joint.

EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.

Harris and Daughter Home Goods will transform Recess into a hardware store, cooking show set, showroom, and interrogation of the American Dream.

Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin will investigate the material agency of melanin, the natural pigment that determines skin color

Out of Control is a project that will transform Recess into a dance studio to develop a choreography entitled What did they actually see?

R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY is a project that will explore how outrage and anger can be mobilized not as tools of division,.

$200 From… To… -With Love a participatory art project focused on remittances, the money migrant send to their homelands.

The Inside Room is a project that transforms Recess into a production studio for impromptu, tactile TV made for the body and voice.

Slaysian Dynasty is a media installation that will serve as a space of dialogue and performance exploring the intersection of Asian Queer and Trans.

Life of Mohammad constructs a fictional single life from the lives of seven real people named Mohammad.

Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.

Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization.

Pur·suit is a 54-card poker deck by artist Naima Green that features portraits of queer womxn, trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people.

The American flag, when deep-fried, forms an outer skin that appears to be cankerous, bubbling with calcified flour and charred detritus.

Petición; for Exorcism is an installation that uses scent as a tool for ritual practice, the space will often have smoking incense and ash.