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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

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

Combining the sacred power of tattoo and shamanic reiki healing during this year's harvest and initiation season.

The Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation (ECPC, pronounced easy-peasy) is an internet cafe being developed in real time.

Void Spa aims to challenge and subvert the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within the luxury wellness industry.

Several total transformations, as each selection of dreams adapted into performance-based videos are situated in different imagined worlds.

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

This session is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap.

I Woke Up and Chose Violence is a response to the murders and deaths of BIPOC people inflicted by the hegemonic systems.

RMB will fashion the Session into an independent filmmaking space where audiences can alter the traumatic endings of movies they want to love.

A Common Thread will transform Recess into a collaborative weaving studio that explores craft.

Black Tape Ebony Frame celebrates the living moments of Fabri’s African American family and friends by creating a reel-to-reel analog audio recording.

Dana’s Beauty Supply constructs an experimental beauty supply store and hair gel manufacturing lab.

In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.

Untitled (Incall) interrogates the material overlap between the art and sex industries to address the ambivalent labor identity of cultural producers.

Through: The Fold, The Shatter continues material investigations into the ways in which glass creates encounters of perceived visibility, intimacy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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