Explore/Archive
October 21, 2023, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Resonant Being: A journey through Ashtanga/Vinyasa style yoga, Energy and Sound Healing
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
A blend of yoga and sound healing to offer a comprehensive approach to well-being that encompasses your physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.
September 23, 2023, 1:00 – 3:00pm
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Step into the realm of profound healing as you immerse yourself in a transformative yoga and Reiki collaboration between Yaya and Master Hue.
September 14, 2023, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present Opening Reception
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Join the artists for introductory remarks and celebratory drinks.
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.
June 10, 2023 at 5:00pm
Void Spa Closing Performance & Reception
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Cafe offering by pleasure ceremony (cy x). Live sound facilitation by a²z and brandon king (subt.le fka leon grey).
May 20, 2023 at 6:00pm
A. Sef and Akeema-Zane
View the installation, hear sound by a²z, Akeema-Zane’s music/sound practice arm
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.
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
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.
June 29–August 10, 2021
Smita Sen
In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.
January 5–February 16, 2021
Ogemdi Ude and Sydney King
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.
August 2020
Shuffling the Deck: Queer Communities and Evolutions in Naima Green’s Pur·suit
Madeleine Seidel
On view
Naima Green
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.
November 7–December 21, 2019
Christopher Udemezue
Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.
May 3–June 2, 2018
Manuel Molina Martagon
EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.
September 8–October 28, 2017
Maayan Strauss
The Service Room is a project that will create a unique environment and framework for the communal exchange of services.
September 1–October 29, 2016
Canaries
Canaries will address the two primary components of their practice—collective care and self-care—through programs and documentary activities
February 15–April 26, 2013
Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth
Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York
March 22–April 11, 2012
Me and Everyone That is With Me
Alex Casso, Graham Hamilton, and Dan Herschlein
Artists collaborate with the Education Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art on classes for students from the Regent Family Residence.
November 8–December 11, 2011
Leila Hekmat
Hekmat will fuse the therapist’s office, researcher center, and performance set.
September 27–December 1, 2011
Park McArthur and Yve Laris Cohen
Laris Cohen and McArthur will use Recess as a space to work on individual and collaborative projects concerning the politics of inclusion.
October 28–December 11, 2010
The Brown Bear: Neither Particular, Nor General
A.K. Burns and Katherine Hubbard
Burns and Hubbard will adapt Recess into a working installation that will intentionally conflate the hair and art salon.