Explore/Archive
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
June 1, 2024 at 2:00pm
Helina Metaferia
Exploring Palestinian culture, history, and resilience through the lens of movement and contemporary performance.
January 5, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Marcela Torres and Assembly
Artist Marcela Torres and Assembly will make a series of food vessels and ask Recess community members and the public who want to attend, to bring dis
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.
May 5, 2023
Gallery Noir: A Celebration of Black Artisty
Assembly
a community talk + artist showcase centering and celebrating Black queer safety through joy and dance
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 - 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
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?
May 30–August 3, 2019
Ash Arder
Ash Arder will develop Disco Gardens, a roving micro library and record shop devoted to the study of environmental concepts in Black music.
March 21–May 11, 2019
blue are the feelings that live inside me
AMERICAN ARTIST
From March 21 – May 11, 2019, American Artist will present blue are the feelings that live inside me, a series of photographs responding to a growing
September 6–December 22, 2018
Oscar Rene Cornejo
exploring printmaking as a vehicle for engaging the ways trauma and memory are shaped by institutionalized violence, displacement, and exile
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
On view
Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice
Assembly
a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum and co-curated by our collaborators
April 19, 2018
Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice
Assembly
Shaun Leonardo, along with members of the program’s peer leadership group led a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum
March 8–April 28, 2018
Tiffany Smith
inspired by traditions of West African portrait photography and the cultural practice of using the wicker throne peacock chair
January 4–March 3, 2018
Alexandra Bell
exploring the role of stereotypes, messaging, and news media to directly engage issues of racism, gun violence, and police brutality
September 7–December 22, 2017
Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK) POP-UP Workshop
Stephanie Dinkins
an investigation of algorithms exposing pervasive forms of digital discrimination
June 23–September 1, 2017
then the street lights–like a warning bell
Sable Elyse Smith
a project by Sable Elyse Smith consisting of constellation of works that simultaneously reference sites of play and enclosure
March 30–June 17, 2017
Salome Asega and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
a speculative lab and resource library operated by Salome Asega and Ayodamola Okunseinde that maintains a collection of digital and physical artifacts
January 12–March 9, 2017
Shaun Leonardo
Assembly is invested in reframing the narrative around the justice system with and for court-involved participants