New York-based artists Hsiao Chen and Ama Saru present an installation and performance. In their collaboration, Saru, from Bucharest, Romania, and Chen, from Taipei, Taiwan, focus on the ways people process, remember, and forget past events through their bodies. Working with fellow artists of varied physical abilities, this collective will [...]
Brazilian filmmakers, choreographers, and dancers Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, known as ChameckiLerner, share images from their current work-in-progress, The Collection. As Watermill's Spring Artists-in-Residence, ChameckiLerner will also screen their previous film Flying Lesson. The screening will be followed by an artist talk and panel discussion with filmmaker and collaborator [...]
Powderburn, titled after a racial slur, is a performance piece that follows one man from his sun-burnt, war-torn homeland to an unnamed country in which cultures clash in cracked basements, men become brothers become enemies, and a class system assigns him the forever role of exoticized, eroticized, animal-like performer. As [...]
In a residency taking place September 22–October 4, the German-born, Rotterdam-based performance and video artist Katharina D. Martin takes advantage of the Watermill Center’s unique locale, in addition to its resources for interdisciplinary work. Entitled Forest Time, her project will entail her living, glamorously dressed throughout, in the woods surrounding the [...]
GIRLMACHINE is a free theatrical investigation of Futurism's ambiguous vitality and its complex relationship to the modern body, exploring notions of masculine identity and mechanized erotics. This inaugural performance unfolds an associative journey through various texts ranging from Futurist poetry and manifestos to contemporary sources, through the neo-Renaissance-style Teatro. Taking [...]
Revolutionary Spaces is an exploration of the art of theatrical set design. From challenging gravity to creating a language through non-realistic imagery, Revolutionary Spaces explores the interaction of the audience and the stage. This project questions how and where the viewer experiences recognition and intuitive understanding of the content of [...]
The installation KANT ELEGANT derives its inspiration from Immanuel Kant. Kant was not only well-known in his time in Königsberg as a teacher, writer, and thinker, but also as an inherently elegant man. In clothing and dress he matched colors based on flowers because, as he said, "Nature doesn't produce [...]
Steven Vega’s film Harbor combines costume design, dance, video, and music to create echoes of a surreal world. Set within a seamless black space, Harbor focuses on various combinations of light and texture. It presents a dialogue between characters through dance. It highlights the subtle fluctuations of a conductor along [...]
New Folk, New Freedom, and New Woman follows three main lines that help to reshape cultural paradigms through a focus on history from its larger themes to its smaller nuances. New Folk reinvents folklore through the use of fragments of information, stories, songs, landscapes, and practices. New Freedom uses the [...]
Inspired by scientific events and theories of our time, Baby Universe is an original work using hand-and-rod puppets, robots (The Stephen Hawking 5000), video projection, and animation. It is about the search for answers to the philosophical questions of our existence, as told through the relationship of an isolated woman [...]