RECESS

RECESS is a monthly performance series where both works-in-progress and established pieces can be shared in an intimate setting. Innovation. Experimentation. Deep dives. Creative reviews. It’s all welcome here! RECESS is a safe space for exploration and forging new artistic connections. We offer a public program, performance series, network, platform, and ongoing opportunity to engage performers, patrons, artists, and audience members in a night of performance and creative dialogue. RECESS continues to promote and celebrate the work of diverse artists, in solidarity, throughout 2025 and onward.

 
 

ALEC LICHTENBERG: SPOKEN WORLDS VOL.2: A BENEFIT FOR IMMIGRANT ARTISTS

RECESS EVENT, June 9th 2025

EMMAGRACE SKOVE-EPES: FLUID EXCHANGE

Fluid Exchange calls on sensuous absurdity, tactile curiosity, and slow time as ways into contending with my own dynamic disability and medical mythologies of anatomical “normativity” and “deformity”. Projecting larger than life images of my own body in duet with an anatomical model of a pelvis onto surfaces of a room- floor, ceiling, walls, windows, curtains, mirrors, and vessels of water, this work resituates small and seemingly subtle bodily actions as huge and multiplying. Sensation is cast as its own form of fluid language that simultaneously traces and transforms memories and fantasies of moving, surfaced amidst my own periods of very limited mobility.

 

GALLIM: BILLY BARRY, DONTERRO CULP, THOMAS HOGAN, AND GEORGIRA USBORNE

SUMMER MINERVA AND ADAM GOLUB: SUMMER WITHIN

Fitting into her conservative Italian American community has always been a challenge for Summer, an eccentric, gender fluid artist. On a quest to learn more about her ancestral roots, she goes to her Italian grandmother, Nonna, who emigrated to NYC in the 1950s to learn more about their family’s past. Due to Nonna’s worsening dementia, Summer is unable to get the answers she yearns for, and decides to voyage Summer’s journey immediately hits home when she discovers an ancient tradition of 3rd gender people in this region of Italy, the femminielli, who open her up to a whole new way of belonging.

Chez Bushwick branch of JBAF
304 Boerum Street #23
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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RECESS Membership brings together entrepreneurs, creative­ thinkers, philanthropists, young patrons, curators, and artists.

RECESS Annual Membership offers access to:
Exhibitions and Openings
Local Receptions
Studio Visits
Prestige Dinners
Access to VIP Seating at Public Programs

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