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.
October 5–November 23, 2024
Meter & Light: Night
Zain Alam
Enacts in miniature and in music the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset.
September 23, 2023, 1:00 – 3:00pm
Soulful Synergy
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.
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
Void Spa Opening Reception
A. Sef and Akeema-Zane
View the installation, hear sound by a²z, Akeema-Zane’s music/sound practice arm
May 20–June 13, 2023
Void Spa
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.
January 13–March 4, 2022
A Common Thread
Rowan Renee
A Common Thread will transform Recess into a collaborative weaving studio that explores craft.
June 29–August 10, 2021
The Manipura Sanctum
Smita Sen
In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.
January 5–February 16, 2021
Living Relics
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
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.
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?
July 13–September 1, 2017
Steady Pulse
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
Wonder Room
Allison Janae Hamilton
Wonder Room is a hybrid of a treehouse, resource lounge, imaginative think tank, and community environment.
September 4–November 3, 2015
Double Mouth Feedback
Jonah Groeneboer
Double Mouth Feedback explores the human voice as an instrument to express, or conversely, to repress, the self.
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.
August 17–October 12, 2013
Grey Lines
Jacolby Satterwhite
Satterwhite will create a 3D animated video using drawing, CG animation, and improvised and mediated performance.
August 7–October 6, 2013
Circular Track
Elizabeth Orr
For Circular Track, Orr will research the ways in which choreographed movement constructs narrative.
March 26–May 25, 2013
Volumes for Sound
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson
Dubbin and Davidson will create new works influenced by the geometries of sound.