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

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

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

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

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.

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

In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.

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

Through: The Fold, The Shatter continues material investigations into the ways in which glass creates encounters of perceived visibility, intimacy.

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.

Petición; for Exorcism is an installation that uses scent as a tool for ritual practice, the space will often have smoking incense and ash.

The American flag, when deep-fried, forms an outer skin that appears to be cankerous, bubbling with calcified flour and charred detritus.

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.

Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization.

Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.

Life of Mohammad constructs a fictional single life from the lives of seven real people named Mohammad.

Slaysian Dynasty is a media installation that will serve as a space of dialogue and performance exploring the intersection of Asian Queer and Trans.

The Inside Room is a project that transforms Recess into a production studio for impromptu, tactile TV made for the body and voice.

$200 From… To… -With Love a participatory art project focused on remittances, the money migrant send to their homelands.

R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY is a project that will explore how outrage and anger can be mobilized not as tools of division,.

Out of Control is a project that will transform Recess into a dance studio to develop a choreography entitled What did they actually see?

Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin will investigate the material agency of melanin, the natural pigment that determines skin color

Harris and Daughter Home Goods will transform Recess into a hardware store, cooking show set, showroom, and interrogation of the American Dream.

EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.

Shug Avery’s Kiss, a project that will turn the physical space of Recess into a juke joint.