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April 19, 2018

Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice

Assembly

Shaun Leonardo, along with members of the program’s peer leadership group led a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum

May 3–June 2, 2018

EL RECREO

Manuel Molina Martagon

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

June 7–August 14, 2018

Harris & Daughter Home Goods

Ilana Harris-Babou

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

September 7–October 26, 2018

Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin

Jes Fan

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

November 6–December 15, 2018

Out of Control

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?

January 3–February 9, 2019

R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY

Demian DinéYazhi´

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

February 14–April 6, 2019

$200 From… To… -With Love

Lizania Cruz

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

March 21–May 11, 2019

blue are the feelings that live inside me

AMERICAN ARTIST

From March 21 – May 11, 2019, American Artist will present blue are the feelings that live inside me, a series of photographs responding to a growing

April 19–June 8, 2019

The Inside Room

Lex Brown

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

May 30–August 3, 2019

Ash Arder: 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.

June 20–August 3, 2019

Slaysian Dynasty

E.T. Chong

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

September 3–October 26, 2019

Life of Mohammad

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

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

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.