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Opens May 14, 2026

DAWN-DUSK-DAWN

Bel Falleiros

A project that calls us, in this moment of social and environmental collapse, to make space to be with nature.

Opens March 22, 2026

sonata for cello, electronics and voice to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire 

Zeelie Brown

The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice

Opens January 14, 2026

Abolition Film Society

Kriss Li

A circle of creative exchanges between Assembly youths and 3 incarcerated participants from Parole Prep’s Archive-Based Creative Arts program

Opens November 13, 2025

Sick (Music) Center

Anna RG

An experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick Listening and Music

Opens September 14, 2025

Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

Kendra Bostock, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Murray

This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.

April 3, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00pm

Game Night: A Spades, Tarot, Uno Kickback

Cleo Reed

A night to explore Black & Indigenous mysticism, communion, and fun.

March 29, 2025, 12:00 – 6:00pm

Labor is a Moving Image: Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Cleo Reed

films centered around workers’ unions and anti-capitalist movements throughout history

Opens March 15, 2025

CUNTRY: Always the Horse, Never the Jockey

Cleo Reed

A set of musical works, sculptures, and performances working to protest against the demand of labor and productivity in the US.

March 15–April 26, 2025

What Does A More Restful CUNTRY Look Like?

Cleo Reed

Unreleased snippets from Cleo Reed’s forthcoming album, a library of books curated by Cleo representing rest, labor, capitalism, black art, and more.

Opens February 13, 2025

Untitled (Screen Tests)

A.K. Burns

After months of research & collaboration with a screenwriter, the artist will stage public screen tests that will be used to develop a new video work.

On view: December 12, 2024–February 12, 2025

Deli Radio

Deli Radio

By merging these two concepts, Deli Radio reimagines familiar, everyday interactions as catalysts for community-building and collaboration.

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.

July 16–August 18, 2024

The Forever Museum Archive: Circa 2020_An Object 

Onyedika Chuke and Assembly

a series of events, political polls, and artistic gestures chronicling events of 2020 in hindsight

May 9–June 19, 2024

The Meeting Place

Helina Metaferia

A site for transformative gatherings by and for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender)

March 7–April 19, 2024

Lavendra/Recovery Project

E. Jane

fueled by a reverence for the artistic legacy of Black American R&B divas

November 11, 2023–January 25, 2024

Session & Assembly Collaboration: BARRO

Marcela Torres and Assembly

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

September 14–November 10, 2023

Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present: Ancestral Healing Through Shamanic Reiki, Tattoo, and Sound

KING COBRA and Hue Hallums

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

July 8–August 12, 2023

Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation

SFPC

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

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.

March 23–April 29, 2023

Offering of Dreams

AYDO

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

January 26 – March 4, 2023

Memorial for Laptop

Suhyun Choi

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

November 17, 2022–January 14, 2023

Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals

Jean-Marc Superville Sovak

The question of what to do with monuments that have potentially outlived their ideological usefulness

September 15–October 29, 2022

Black Movement Pop Up Library

LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo

using perception neuron motion-capture suits to witness signature movement vocabularies across the Black diaspora

May 20–June 25, 2022

I Woke Up and Chose Violence

Caroline Garcia

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

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.