Guest Lecturers
Mark Raizen
Professor of Physics
Susanne Neubauer
Art Curator & Historian
Matt Mullican
Artist
Eric Fischl
Internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor
Artists In Residence

Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture (Greece)
Charlie le Mindu (France)
Jakob Oredsson (Sweden)
Alejandro Moreno Jashés (Chile)
Megan Whitmarsh (US)
Matthew Salata (US)
Nazanin Fakoor (Iran)

Peter Coffin (US)
Santiago Taccetti (Argentina)
Katya Grokhovsky (Ukraine / Australia)
Alexander G. Lyle IV (US)
Ryan McNamara (US)
Patricia Dominguez (Chile)
Carlos Soto (US)

Carrie McGrath (Australia)
Celine Barel (France)
Ben Schmidt (Germany)
Emanuelee “Outspoken” Bean (US)
Clo’e Floirat (France)
Andressa Bomfin (Brazil)

Andy Gilchrist (US)
Annick Lavalle-Benny (Canada)
Adrian Madlener (Belgium/US)
Christopher Knowles (US)
Zach Simonson (US)
Abdullah al-Awadi (Kuwait)
Vladimir von Arx (Norway)

Performing Arts Workshops

Einstein on the Beach
Robert Wilson’s and Philip Glass’ legendary Einstein on the Beach will be revived in 2012. This workshop serves to further develop and check the design, prototypes and marketing material as well as discuss technical issues for the world tour produced by Pomegranate Arts.

Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter
Montclair State University Theater is commissioning Robert Wilson in collaboration with Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon, and Jacqueline Woodson to conceive a theatrical-musical play based on the afro-american self taught artist Clementine Hunter to premiere in January 2012.

Art and Science: Insights into Consciousness
The second annual workshop will bering together a new group of high-profile scientists and artists to investigate the nature of creativity and how ideas change our perception of reality and come into consciousness. the workshop will focus on the development of a collaboration between Marina Abramovic and the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill College of Cornell University and the creation of ideas for other collaborations between artists and scientists. This project will be premiered in Moscow in the fall 2011. The workshop is generously supported by the Mortimer D. Sackler Family Foundation. Click HERE to read recent press about this workshop.

Macbeth
In collaboration with Change Performing Arts and the Teatro Comulale di Bologna, Robert Wilson is developing a staging concept for Verdi’s first adaptation of the Shakespeare play to be premiered in Bologna in February 2013.

Lulu
In collaboration with Change Performing Arts and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Robert Wilson is developing a staging concept for Alban Berg’s Lulu based on the Wedekind play by the same name which Wilson directed with great success at the Berliner Ensemble in the spring of 2011. The opera Lulu will premiere in Naples in October 2013

I WAS SITTING ON MY PATIO THIS GUY APPEARED I THOUGHT I WAS HALLUCINATING
Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs with producer Some Serious Business are working on reviving the legendary 1977 production for the Pacific Time Festival in Los Angeles. It will be premiering at the REDCAT Theater in January 2012.

SHELTER
A a site-specific work at Sylvester Manor created and designed by The Watermill Center International Summer Program Participant Artists, curated by Robert Wilson.

Design Projects

Traps
The Museum for African Art are commissioning Robert Wilson in collaboration with curators Enid Schildkrout and Ida Nicolaisen to design an exhibition for traps to open as one of the first exhibitions in the new building on fifth avenue and Central Park north.

Rooftop Garden
After a successful fundraising campaign for the creation of an organic rooftop garden that wil feed participants, artists and residents alike, Robert Wilson will design with participants from the summer program the Watermill Center’s future rooftop garden.

Via Crucis
In collaboration with Bauhaus Weimar, the Hochschule Fuer Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar and the Kunstfest Weimar, seven artists from Watermill and seven art students from Bauhaus Weimar are developing the concept for an exhibition/ performance around Liszt’s music piece ‘Via Crucis’ to be curated by Robert Wilson.

BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts Brussels
Robert Wilson will develop a new lighting concept for the concert hall at the famous arts venue BOZAR in Brussels as well as a concept for a staged concert to be performed at the BOZAR and then on tour to partner institutions.