In Process @ The Watermill Center is our ongoing series of studio visits and open rehearsals 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.
Ralph Lemon and Darrell Jones will not be present at In Process at The Watermill Center on March 22, 2024*
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Joana P. Cardozo
Performance/Visual Art/Interdisciplinary
Joana P. Cardozo (b. Sao Paulo, 1979) is a Brazilian visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her art practice is rooted in rituals and spirituality, exploring ideas of mortality, domesticity, and identity through photography, mixed media, installation, and performance.
Project Description:
Time is a prison. Our bodies, minds, souls, essence, and Self are trapped in time. Drawing inspiration from the writings of the Brazilian scholar Leda Martins, who explores the relationship between body, time, performance, memory, and knowledge production, Cardozo will create a series of durational performances. The artist must transcend time when performing an endurance piece. Time is no longer linear but spiraling, ascending, descending, amplifying, and shrinking. Martins suggests that spin is a central component of African-Brazilian traditions, such as carnival and capoeira. Through spinning, dancers can break the linearity of their movement and, more importantly, of time itself. Clockwise movements refer to the future, while counter-clockwise movements honor ancestors and the past. This is Cardozo’s attempt to transcend time, subjecting her body to repetitive movements drawn from capoeira and classical ballet practices.
Katherine Profeta
Dramaturgy/Writing
Katherine Profeta (dramaturg/writer), Ralph Lemon (choreographer/visual artist), and Darrell Jones (performer/choreographer) have collaborated on Ralph Lemon’s performance projects since 2002, when working on 2004’s Come home Charley Patton. Katherine is currently a Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and has served as founding member/choreographer of Elevator Repair Service, as well as dramaturg to many choreographers. Ralph Lemon is a choreographer and visual/conceptual artist with a long and storied career in multiple disciplines, and recipient of multiple awards including a MacArthur and a National Medal of Arts. Darrell Jones is a two-time Bessie Award winner (for his work with Bebe Miller and his own work) and an Associate Professor of Dance at Columbia College.
Project Description:
Ways of Writing about Low and Rant
Katherine Profeta , Ralph Lemon, and Darrell Jones have collaborated on Ralph Lemon’s performance projects since 2002, when working on 2004’s Come home Charley Patton. They are gathering at Watermill to work out a way to capture Jones’ and Lemon’s ongoing collaboration — in improvisatory and shifting performance modes entitled “Low” and “Rant” — in writing. By interweaving interviews, scores, essays, meditations — and other formats for writing not yet discovered — they hope to evoke a mode of movement exploration that has resisted easy description.
Lindsay Morris
Visual Art/Journalism
Lindsay Morris is a photographer known for documenting events in her personal life and surrounding community. Morris studied at the University of Michigan School of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The School for International Training, Nairobi, Kenya. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. Her works are held in the collections of The Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, and The Newport Art Museum, RI. Morris is a producer of the 2016 BBC documentary, My Transgender Summer Camp, and the upcoming documentary, ‘Mom, I’ve Got Something to Tell You.’ Morris’ first TED talk will be published March 2024.
Project Description:
The Kids of Camp I Am
The Kids of Camp I Am documents participants at a pioneering annual retreat for gender-expansive children and their families. Here the viewer experiences a place that served as the backdrop for an important moment in history, where a gender-creative childhood was freely expressed for the first time. Morris is making updated portraits and conducting interviews that will contribute to a discourse about the crucial role that support plays in the lives of these children and how this affirming place played a role in shaping their identities.
Sara Stern
Interdisciplinary
Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Her recent projects prod histories of urban development with speculative fiction.
Project Description: GO WEST (Out East)
At Watermill, Stern will begin developing a new multimedia performance and moving image installation that circles around a queer Western fantasy set on the West Side of Manhattan. While in residence, Stern will conduct research and do a series of scene studies for the project, in conversation with the Center’s art collection and library.
Image Credits: 1. Courtesy of the Artist Joana P. Cordozo 2. Katherine Profeta Courtesy of Ralph Lemon 3. Courtesy of the Artist Lindsay Morris 4. Sarah Stern Courtesy of the artist
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