Explore/Archive
Opens September 14, 2025
Portals: Traversing Black Continuums
Kendra Bostock, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Monique Murray
This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.
Opens April 27, 2025
How to Become an Octopus (and Sometimes Squid)
Miriam Simun
A psycho-physical practice for human enhancement, with the octopus, squid and cuttlefish as our role model species.
March 2025
Glenn Quentin
written in conjunction with artists' KING COBRA's and Hue Hallums' Session project, Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present.
December 20, 2024, 12:30 – 5:00pm
Dancing While Caged + DJ Set with Stefan Ruiz
June Canedo de Souza
a conversation around the experience of dancing inside prison while incarcerated; whether individually, socially, in a classroom, or choreographer.
November 2024
Holding Space: Void Spa as a Site of Care and Resistance
S. Erin Batiste
written in conjunction with artists' S. Erin Batiste for A. Sef and Akeema-Zane's Session project, Void Spa.
October 5–November 23, 2024
Zain Alam
Enacts in miniature and in music the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset.
October 21, 2023, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Resonant Being: A journey through Ashtanga/Vinyasa style yoga, Energy and Sound Healing
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
A blend of yoga and sound healing to offer a comprehensive approach to well-being that encompasses your physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.
September 23, 2023, 1:00 – 3:00pm
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Step into the realm of profound healing as you immerse yourself in a transformative yoga and Reiki collaboration between Yaya and Master Hue.
September 14, 2023, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present Opening Reception
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Join the artists for introductory remarks and celebratory drinks.
September 14–November 10, 2023
Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present: Ancestral Healing Through Shamanic Reiki, Tattoo, and Sound
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Combining the sacred power of tattoo and shamanic reiki healing during this year's harvest and initiation season.
June 10, 2023 at 5:00pm
Void Spa Closing Performance & Reception
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Cafe offering by pleasure ceremony (cy x). Live sound facilitation by a²z and brandon king (subt.le fka leon grey).
May 20, 2023 at 6:00pm
A. Sef and Akeema-Zane
View the installation, hear sound by a²z, Akeema-Zane’s music/sound practice arm
May 20–June 13, 2023
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Void Spa aims to challenge and subvert the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within the luxury wellness industry.
September 15–October 29, 2022
LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo
using perception neuron motion-capture suits to witness signature movement vocabularies across the Black diaspora
January 13–March 4, 2022
Rowan Renee
A Common Thread will transform Recess into a collaborative weaving studio that explores craft.
July 2, 2021, 5:00 – 6:00pm
Opening the Manipura Sanctum: First Offerings, a performance by Smita Sen
Smita Sen
A performance by artist Smita Sen in which she will begin nurturing an altar space an altar space devoted to caregivers of all styles.
June 29–August 10, 2021
Smita Sen
In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.
January 5–February 16, 2021
Ogemdi Ude and Sydney King
Living Relics draws out a shared sense of loss and understanding of death that hasn’t yet been physicalized in the body or manifested in thought.
November 16–December 30, 2020
Marcela Torres
Petición; for Exorcism is an installation that uses scent as a tool for ritual practice, the space will often have smoking incense and ash.
November 6–December 15, 2018
Camilo Godoy
Out of Control is a project that will transform Recess into a dance studio to develop a choreography entitled What did they actually see?
On view
Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice
Assembly
a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum and co-curated by our collaborators
July 13–September 1, 2017
Brendan Fernandes
Steady Pulse is a club that plays host to a diverse range of happenings and interventions, including performances, movement workshops, conversations.
May 27–July 9, 2017
Allison Janae Hamilton
Wonder Room is a hybrid of a treehouse, resource lounge, imaginative think tank, and community environment.
January 12–March 9, 2017
Shaun Leonardo
Assembly is invested in reframing the narrative around the justice system with and for court-involved participants