Explore/Archive
June 2023
Everyday Objects, Complicated Histories
Kleaver Cruz
written in conjunction with artist Francheska Alcántara's Session project, Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones.
January 26 – March 4, 2023
Suhyun Choi
The public is invited to donate their broken personal devices and write loving farewell letters to acknowledge their relationships
January 14, 2023 at 3:00pm
Columbus Confessionals: Closing Reception & Performance
A participatory performance that will include a guided meditation and vocalization and musical accompaniment of the collective liturgy to be offered.
December 17, 2022 at 1:00pm
In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn the basics of plaster and silicone mold-making.
December 10, 2022 at 3:00am
Dr. Katherine Hite, professor of Political Science at Vassar College will discuss her work with the Politics and the Art of Commemoration in Latin Ame
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.
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.
September 7–October 19, 2021
Dana Davenport
Dana’s Beauty Supply constructs an experimental beauty supply store and hair gel manufacturing lab.
January 9–February 22, 2020
Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin
Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization.
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,.
November 6–December 15, 2018
Camilo Godoy
Out of Control is a project that will transform Recess into a dance studio to develop a choreography entitled What did they actually see?
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
January 9–March 3, 2018
Doreen Garner
Invisible Man Tattoo is a pop up tattoo shop offering designs that reflect the histories and experiences of Black people and the African Diaspora.
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
November 3–December 23, 2017
Troy Michie
A Ponemos Chancla is an installation that simulates a men’s formalwear shop to explore camouflage, the semiotics of fashion.
May 30–August 9, 2012
Abigail DeVille
DeVille will amass bricolage, painting, and sculpture into a selective history of culturally invisible classes of people.
November 18, 2002 at 5:00am
Recess Session artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak will host a conversation with Samah Hijawi, a Brussels-based artist and researcher, and Noa Charuvi,