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May 20–June 25, 2022

Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones

Francheska Alcántara

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

May - June 2022

For Freedoms: Another Justice By Any Medium Necessary

Assembly

This For Freedoms billboard campaign will culminate their series of creative programming exploring dimensions of carceral justice.

April 9 – May 15, 2022

C.R.E.A.M.: A career fair for more than just survival

Assembly

Assembly collaborated with Performance Artist Ayana Evans for C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me): A career fair for more than survival

April 2–May 6, 2022

The Motion Picture Association for Maintaining Personal Ambivalence

Rashayla Marie Brown and Jamila Raegan

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

January 13–March 4, 2022

A Common Thread

Rowan Renee

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

November 11–December 18, 2021

Black Tape Ebony Frame

Zachary Fabri

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.

September 7–October 19, 2021

Dana’s Beauty Supply

Dana Davenport

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

July 2, 2021, 5:00 – 6:00pm

Opening the Manipura Sanctum: First Offerings, a performance by Smita Sen

Smita Sen

A performance by artist Smita Sen in which she will begin nurturing an altar space an altar space devoted to caregivers of all styles.

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.

May 4–June 15, 2021

Untitled (Incall)

Sophia Giovannitti

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

March 2021 - April 2022

Political Intimacy

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.

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 2020

Morsels

Sami Hopkins

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.