In Process @ The Watermill Center is our ongoing series of studio visits that invite the community to gain insight into the creative process of our international Artists-in-Residence, cultivating an understanding of how artists from across the globe develop new work.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Morgan Bobrow-Williams
Post Disciplinary
Morgan Bobrow-Williams is a post disciplinary artist from Augusta, Georgia, experimenting at the intersection of dance, performance, sound, film, design and installation.
Project Description: “sTARBABY: The Fountain of Youth” is a post-disciplinary installation dynamically combining sculpture, film, and live performance activation; it explores the euphemism “tar baby” and draws inspiration from global Fountain of Youth folklore. This experimental work revolves around sTARBABY, a polymorphic, ubiquitous being of the African diaspora. It presents a non-linear narrative, studying the character in relation to black production and expropriation mechanisms in America (The West) and visually mirrors a factory or waste facility, emphasizing capitalist ambitions and the exploitation of Earth’s resources.
sTARBABY is incubating underground, beneath Watermill. Blackness is slowly percolating from the surface*
Catherine Chen
Creative Writing
Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet living in Brooklyn. Their practice activates an architectural writing that is scaffolding by rituals of desire, mourning, and embodied labor.
Project Description:”Spirit Articles” narrates histories of time, place, and grief in relation to my family’s history of surviving in postcolonial Taiwan. I’m interested in the ways settler colonialism becomes naturalized in the colonized body and how this process magnifies destabilizing effects across generations, resulting in incomplete accounts and memory.
This project is inspired by Songs of Chu, a Zhou Dynasty-era poetry anthology detailing creation myths, rituals of mourning, and shamanism; and my recent discovery of a great-uncle, a dissident who disappeared during the 228 Massacre in Taiwan in 1947.
At Watermill, I am continuing to research and write for a manuscript – “Spirit Articles” – Part elegy, part archive that explores the enduring landscapes of colonialism as it is assembled through state violence and undermined by ongoing political struggle.
Georgios Cherouvim
New Media/Computer Animation
Georgios Cherouvim (b. 1981, Athens, Greece) is a Brooklyn-based artist working with computer animation and code. He experiments with algorithms, new technologies and installation in pursuit of new aesthetics and visual languages. He often programs custom tools and instruments, which he uses to produce his work, and enjoys shifting between the roles of the developer and the artist.
Project Description: “GeoSynth” is a prototype instrument, a digital audio synthesizer that uses 3D objects as the source input for audio synthesis in real time. The custom software transcribes the shape and topology of each object to determine its sonic signature, and any additional geometric deformations can interactively modulate the output audio. This interactive tool is an ongoing study in data sonification and the relationship between form and sound. The final work will be an audiovisual performance.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please note: The Watermill Center no longer requires visitors to wear face-coverings for indoor events. The use of masks is encouraged, and disposable masks will be provided by The Center upon request. We thank you for supporting our efforts to keep both our international and local community of artists and alumni safe and healthy during their stay at The Watermill Center.
Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for the check-in process.
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Photo copyright Lindsay Morris.
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