Explore/Archive
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 22, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Helina Metaferia
Join OlaRonke Akinmowo of TFBWL for a writing workshop that interrogates the possibility of afro-futurism, daydreaming, and world-building.
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.
Opens May 2, 2024
Helina Metaferia
A site for transformative gatherings by and for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender)
April 19, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Lavendra/Recovery Project Closing Reception & Zine Launch
E. Jane
Artist E. Jane is concluding their Session with the release of two new zines featuring research, music video stills and production notes.
April 4, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Screening & Q+A: Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7
E. Jane
Join us for a screening of Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 (89 min, 1962, France).
March 21, 2024 at 6:00pm
93-’99 Revisited: Music Video Screening #3 with Alex G. Weheliye
E. Jane
Join us as we watch and discuss music videos made between 1993 and 1999. ASL interpretation will be provided.
March 14, 2024 at 6:00pm
93-’99 Revisited: Music Video Screening #2 with with Chakeiya Richmond aka Keiyaa
E. Jane
Join us as we watch and discuss music videos made between 1993 and 1999. ASL interpretation will be provided.
March 7, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm
93-’99 Revisited: Music Video Screening #1 with Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
E. Jane
Join us as we watch and discuss music videos made between 1993 and 1999. ASL interpretation will be provided.
March 7–April 19, 2024
E. Jane
fueled by a reverence for the artistic legacy of Black American R&B divas
January 27, 2024, 2:00 – 3:30pm
Marcela Torres and Assembly
January 11, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Marcela Torres and Assembly
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.
September 14–November 10, 2023
Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present: Ancestral Healing Through Shamanic Reiki, Tattoo, and Sound
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Combining the sacred power of tattoo and shamanic reiki healing during this year's harvest and initiation season.
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.
May 20–June 13, 2023
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Void Spa aims to challenge and subvert the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within the luxury wellness industry.
March 23–April 29, 2023
AYDO
Several total transformations, as each selection of dreams adapted into performance-based videos are situated in different imagined worlds.
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
November 17, 2022–January 14, 2023
Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
September 15–October 29, 2022
LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo