Closing Reception for Zeelie Brown: A sonata to seed whatever flourishes...
Closing performance and premiere of Zeelie Brown’s new sonata, performed live with collaborators across voice, electronics, and strings.
Join Recess for the culminating event of a sonata to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire, a new Session project by artist Zeelie Brown.
For this closing performance, Brown premieres a new sonata developed throughout the course of the exhibition. Performed live in the gallery, the work brings together collaborators working across voice, electronics, and strings, creating a layered sonic environment that expands the installation into a full ensemble performance.
The evening marks the final moment of the project’s public unfolding—bringing together the sounds, materials, and ideas developed over the course of the Session into a collective listening experience.
Guests are invited to arrive early to experience the installation and remain after the performance for informal conversation with the artists.
Full list of accompanying artists to be announced soon...
About the Project
For their Session at Recess, Brown presents an evolving installation and performance laboratory exploring sound, ecology, and systems of value across the Gulf and Global South. Throughout the exhibition, the gallery functions as a site of research, rehearsal, and collective gathering as the artist develops a new sonata alongside sound works, altars, and hand-painted fabric hangings.
Visit Thursdays - Saturdays, 12-5pm
46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
Either the artist or Recess staff will be available to view the project in process. Most days, Zeelie will be present for open rehearsals, which you are welcome to respectfully witness. During open hours, visitors are invited to play records from the artist’s personal collection.
About Session
Recess’s Session program offers artists flexible time and space to develop ambitious projects in a public setting. Visitors encounter works-in-progress, installations, and collaborative experiments as they evolve in real time.
Session supports the creation of new work by giving artists a project stipend, artist’s fee, technical support, mentorship, and approximately two months to transform Recess into a hybrid of a productive studio space dynamic exhibition platform. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.
About Recess
Recess partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen publics to create transformative cultural experiences.
Our programs welcome radical thinkers to imagine and shape networks of resilience and safety. By challenging dominant narratives and activating new forms of creative production, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary art.
Recess is free and open to the public to serve as a meeting place to generate art, ideas and actions.
Closing performance and premiere of Zeelie Brown’s new sonata, performed live with collaborators across voice, electronics, and strings.
Join Recess for the culminating event of a sonata to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire, a new Session project by artist Zeelie Brown.
For this closing performance, Brown premieres a new sonata developed throughout the course of the exhibition. Performed live in the gallery, the work brings together collaborators working across voice, electronics, and strings, creating a layered sonic environment that expands the installation into a full ensemble performance.
The evening marks the final moment of the project’s public unfolding—bringing together the sounds, materials, and ideas developed over the course of the Session into a collective listening experience.
Guests are invited to arrive early to experience the installation and remain after the performance for informal conversation with the artists.
Full list of accompanying artists to be announced soon...
About the Project
For their Session at Recess, Brown presents an evolving installation and performance laboratory exploring sound, ecology, and systems of value across the Gulf and Global South. Throughout the exhibition, the gallery functions as a site of research, rehearsal, and collective gathering as the artist develops a new sonata alongside sound works, altars, and hand-painted fabric hangings.
Visit Thursdays - Saturdays, 12-5pm
46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
Either the artist or Recess staff will be available to view the project in process. Most days, Zeelie will be present for open rehearsals, which you are welcome to respectfully witness. During open hours, visitors are invited to play records from the artist’s personal collection.
About Session
Recess’s Session program offers artists flexible time and space to develop ambitious projects in a public setting. Visitors encounter works-in-progress, installations, and collaborative experiments as they evolve in real time.
Session supports the creation of new work by giving artists a project stipend, artist’s fee, technical support, mentorship, and approximately two months to transform Recess into a hybrid of a productive studio space dynamic exhibition platform. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.
About Recess
Recess partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen publics to create transformative cultural experiences.
Our programs welcome radical thinkers to imagine and shape networks of resilience and safety. By challenging dominant narratives and activating new forms of creative production, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary art.
Recess is free and open to the public to serve as a meeting place to generate art, ideas and actions.
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- 4 hours
- In person
Location
Recess
46 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
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