Explore/Archive
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.
December 19, 2024, 12:00 – 3:00pm
June Canedo de Souza
Food Futures, a conversation series led by artist Zacarias Gonzalez that examines how urban food systems impact equity.
June 19, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Helina Metaferia
Celebrate Juneteenth with the Wide Awakes at a closing event designed as a meditative space for grounding and celebration.
June 1, 2024 at 2:00pm
Helina Metaferia
Exploring Palestinian culture, history, and resilience through the lens of movement and contemporary performance.
May 11, 2024 at 2:00pm
Meeting #1: By Way of Revolution | Facilitated by Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia
Session artist Helina Metaferia will explore the overlapping practices of performance art and protest movements.
September 2023
Chinyere Okafor
written in conjunction with artist Suhyun Choi's Session project, Memorial for Laptop.
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.
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
May 20–June 25, 2022
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 - 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.
September 7–October 19, 2021
Dana Davenport
Dana’s Beauty Supply constructs an experimental beauty supply store and hair gel manufacturing lab.
May 4–June 15, 2021
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
Assembly
Political Intimacy, a collaboration between Recess: Assembly and Pratt Institute students, demystifies and humanizes local electoral candidates.
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.
February 14–April 6, 2019
Lizania Cruz
$200 From… To… -With Love a participatory art project focused on remittances, the money migrant send to their homelands.
January 3–February 9, 2019
Demian DinéYazhi´
R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY is a project that will explore how outrage and anger can be mobilized not as tools of division,.
May 10–July 28, 2018
Xaviera Simmons
a multimedia video presentation and as a documentary filmmaking studio to compile a series of interviews designed to decenter Whiteness
May 3–June 2, 2018
Manuel Molina Martagon
EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.