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Opens May 14, 2026

DAWN-DUSK-DAWN

Bel Falleiros

A project that calls us, in this moment of social and environmental collapse, to make space to be with nature.

Opens March 22, 2026

sonata for cello, electronics and voice to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire 

Zeelie Brown

The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice

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.

January 11, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00pm

Deli Radio Presents: Co-Creations at the Farm

Deli Radio

Hosted by Madalyn Warren, Co-Creations at the Farm explores how we connect with our plant family.

December 19, 2024, 12:00 – 3:00pm

Food Futures

June Canedo de Souza

Food Futures, a conversation series led by artist Zacarias Gonzalez that examines how urban food systems impact equity.

May 2024

BLESSED BE OUR CARE!

Chinyere Okafor

written in conjunction with artist Suhyun Choi's Session project, Memorial for Laptop.

February 3, 2024 at 2:00pm

reflections of barro: a ritual for closure

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 18, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00pm

In the Barro: An Evening of Performance

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 11, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Holding Water: Workshop 1

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 5, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Community Potluck

Marcela Torres and Assembly

Artist Marcela Torres and Assembly will make a series of food vessels and ask Recess community members and the public who want to attend, to bring dis

December 16, 2023, 2:00 – 4:00pm

Community Brick Making and Soil Altars

Marcela Torres and Assembly

November 11, 2023–January 25, 2024

Session & Assembly Collaboration: BARRO

Marcela Torres and Assembly

Torres in collaboration with Assembly will explore the history of New York through its soil and natural clay deposits.

January 26 – March 4, 2023

Memorial for Laptop

Suhyun Choi

The public is invited to donate their broken personal devices and write loving farewell letters to acknowledge their relationships

November 16–December 30, 2020

Petición; for Exorcism

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.

January 9–February 22, 2020

Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings

Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin

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

November 7–December 21, 2019

Duppy

Christopher Udemezue

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

May 30–August 3, 2019

Disco Gardens

Ash Arder

Ash Arder will develop Disco Gardens, a roving micro library and record shop devoted to the study of environmental concepts in Black music.

May 27–July 9, 2017

Wonder Room

Allison Janae Hamilton

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

May 14–July 9, 2016

Kingdom Splurge (4)

Lauren Halsey

An interplanetary liquid environment composed of hyperreal gardens, fantasy landscapes, and pools of beauty water.

August 7–October 6, 2013

Citizen Bridge

Nancy Nowacek

Nowacek will design, create and test a series of prototypes for an eventual footbridge that crosses the Upper New York Bay waterway.