Explore/Archive
October 22, 2022, 2:00 – 6:00pm
Black Movement in Digital Spaces: Part 1
Day 1 of 2—incorporating a mediation workshop, a motion capture workshop, followed by a panel discussion.
September 22, 2022, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Opening Reception: LaJuné McMillian's Black Movement Pop Up Library
Artist LaJuné McMIllian and curator Yvonne Mpwo invite you to the first look at LaJué's Session space.
September 15–October 29, 2022
LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo
using perception neuron motion-capture suits to witness signature movement vocabularies across the Black diaspora
Fall 2022 - Present
Assembly x Red Hook Community Justice Center
Assembly
visualization & embodiment exercises that invite us to challenge our preconceived notions, while developing a historical understanding of policing
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 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.
January 13–March 4, 2022
Rowan Renee
A Common Thread will transform Recess into a collaborative weaving studio that explores craft.
November 11–December 18, 2021
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.
October 2021
A History of Black American Beauty and a Meditation on the Beauty Supply
Brooklyn White
September 7–October 19, 2021
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
Smita Sen
In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.
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.
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.