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Watermill - A Laboratory for Performance
The Watermill Center
Photo by Leslie Lesley-Spinks
Join us for an evening highlighting the work and mission of Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, a unique and vital space for emerging multi-genre artists of the stage. The event will feature performance excerpts by artists supported by the Center: Reuben Butchart; The H*E*R*D Group, featuring Declan Rooney and Eunhye Hwang; Hsaio Chen and Ama Saru. The evening will also include introduction and discussion by celebrated performance artist Marina Abramović and Watermill’s creative director Jörn Weisbrodt.
The Watermill Center was founded in 1992 by theatre and visual artist Robert Wilson on the site of a former Western Union communication research facility near Southampton, Long Island, about two hours from New York City. Watermill fosters research into the arts of the stage to provide young and emerging artists with a unique environment for creation and exploration in theatre and all its related art forms, and to develop a strong global network transcending age, experience, social, religious and cultural backgrounds.
H*E*R*D Group is based in Berlin where they create their pieces primarily in alternative sites, apartments, studios, project rooms, working in mediums, such as live performance, video, music CD-R production and self-published zines.
Hsaio Chen from Taipei and Ama Saru from Bucharest are now based in New York City working in various mediums, including video, photography, sculpture and live performance.
Reuben Butchart is a singer-songwriter and composer who joined forces with acclaimed poet John Carroll and an eclectic chamber orchestra to develop and record a cycle of “sung poems” at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in March of 2008.
Marina Abramović (b. Yugoslavia) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. Abramović has presented her work with performances, sound,
photography, video, sculpture and Transitory Objects for Human and Non Human Use in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe. She is currently establishing a center for durational performance art in Hudson, N.Y. Abramović sits on the Watermill Center Residency Selection Committee.
Watermill Center is accepting new Residency applications for emerging artists working in all arts of the stage. Please visit: www.watermillcenter.org/programs/residencies.php
6:30 p.m., Monday, May 18th, 2009
Elebash Recital Hall. Free!