Explore/Archive
March 2021 - April 2022
Assembly
Political Intimacy, a collaboration between Recess: Assembly and Pratt Institute students, demystifies and humanizes local electoral candidates.
March 11, 18, & 25, 2021
Assembly x NYU 2021: Art and Abolition
Assembly
The Gallatin Galleries, Assembly, with Shaun Leonardo and Peer Leaders—What role can art, the image and and performance play in abolition?
March 2–April 13, 2021
Through: The Fold, The Shatter
Charisse Pearlina Weston
Through: The Fold, The Shatter continues material investigations into the ways in which glass creates encounters of perceived visibility, intimacy.
February 2021
Ever Present and in Process: Breathing and Grieving With Ogemdi Ude and Sydney King
Jehan Roberson
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.
January 2021
Transitory States, Intimate Matter: Smoke and Scent in Petición; for Exorcism
Alexis Wilkinson
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.
September 14–October 26, 2020
something else (Variations on Americana)
Kiyan Williams
The American flag, when deep-fried, forms an outer skin that appears to be cankerous, bubbling with calcified flour and charred detritus.
August 2020
Shuffling the Deck: Queer Communities and Evolutions in Naima Green’s Pur·suit
Madeleine Seidel
February 2020
Speaking Nearby Tiffany Jayeon Shin’s Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings
Ana Iwataki
January 16–March 21, 2020
Naima Green
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.
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
Christopher Udemezue
Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.
October 2019
Have You Seen Mohammad? Or, Finding Tender Nuance Amidst These Sinister Screens
Adina Glickstein
October 2019
Dynasty and Disruption: E.t. Chong’s Queer/trans Api Aesthetics of Intervention
Che Gossett
September 3–October 26, 2019
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Life of Mohammad constructs a fictional single life from the lives of seven real people named Mohammad.
June 20–August 3, 2019
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.
May 30–August 3, 2019
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.
April 19–June 8, 2019
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.