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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.

April 15–May 21, 2017

Recess: May 21, 2014

Am Schmidt

Recess: May 21, 2014, a month-long summoning of musician Dave Navarro.

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

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–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 6–17, 2015

1/2 a Cord

Jessica Segall

Jessica Segall’s installation at Recess involves a very simple task rendered complicated in New York City.

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.

October 2015

Four to the Fourth

Morgan Bassichis, Jaime Shearn Coan, Katherine Brewer Ball, and Leeroy Kun Young Kang

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.

January 31–April 25, 2011

Engage and Control

Lior Shvil

Shvil’s video project will launch Recess’s collaboration with Charlotte Kidd and Dustin Yellin from Kidd Yellin Studios.

October 2017

Kitchen Sink Drama

Joshua Simon

March 14–18, 2012

VVAVE (3 of 6)

Christine Sun Kim, John Andrew, and Aliza Simons

Christine Sun Kim will initiate a live and continuous 72-hour radio and internet broadcast as the third event in, Feedback.

December 2012

Handicapped Spaces

Joanna Smolenski

September 8–October 28, 2017

The Service Room

Maayan Strauss

The Service Room is a project that will create a unique environment and framework for the communal exchange of services.

November 17, 2022–January 14, 2023

Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals

Jean-Marc Superville Sovak