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THE WATERMILL CENTER 2021

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THE WATERMILL CENTER Founded in 1992 by avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities situated on ten acres of Shinnecock ancestral territory on Long Island’s East End, offering year-round artist residencies and education programs.

With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, Watermill integrates contemporary artistic practice with resources from the humanities and research from the sciences to provide a global community with the time, space and freedom to create and inspire.

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WITH NAUFUS RAMÍREZ-FIGUEROA, CANDACE HILL, LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ

April 24, 2021 @ 3:00 PM Join our Artists-in-Residence as they open their studios for a behindthe-scenes look at their creative process!

WORKSHOP WITH TAMAR ETTUN May 01, 2021 @ 3:00 PM Join Watermill Alum Tamar Ettun as she leads “How to Trap a Demon” exploring the use of home-supplies to identify and trap your personal demons!

WORKSHOP WITH LUA RIVERA June 05, 2021 @ 3:00 PM Join Watermill Alum, Lua Rivera for a workshop in three-dimensional weaving and textiles, presented in both English and Spanish.

photo © Lindsay Morris

THE ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program began in 2006, when The Center officially opened as a year-round facility. Each year collectives and individuals take up residence at The Center to live and develop works that critically investigate, challenge and extend the existing norms of artistic practice.

The Artist Residency Program is process-based, without the expectation or promise of a final exhibition of the work. Watermill provides artists with time and space to focus on developing their practice in a communal environment that encourages experimentation. Artists-in-Residence share their creative process with the community through open rehearsals, workshops and artist talks.

Artists-in-Residence receive access to an extensive collection of resources central to the Watermill experience: 20,000 square feet of rehearsal/design spaces and outdoor stages; a theater production archive (housed in New York City); The Watermill Center Study Library; The Watermill Collection; and The Center’s ten acre landscaped grounds and gardens.

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FEBRUARY 3 - FEBRUARY 26, 2021

BRIAN BELOTT AND MATTHEW THURBER are artists and performers based in New York City. Merging their interest in poetry, speech, glossolalia, improvisation, pranks, nonsense, and the gestalt of eternity, they have performed at the Serpentine gallery in London in 2016, as hosts of Belott’s People Pie Pool theater assemblage for Performa 2018, and have deployed their disruptive and chaotic tradition of verbal babble beauty to dozens of galleries and music shows, parties and parlors over the last decade.

KYOKO HAMAGUCHI

born in 1989 and raised in Tokyo, Japan, is a conceptual mixedmedia artist who lives and works in New York City. Her practice takes form in many different media including photography, sculpture, and installation. In 2020, she had her first solo exhibition at KOKI ARTS, Tokyo. She has received many awards including the Heisei Art Award, Art Plaza Prize, Ikuo Hirayama Award, and Ataka Award. Her work has been reviewed in Christie’s Education Magazine, Musée Magazine, Tokyo Art Beat, and Bijutsutecho.

NICOLE PASULKA is a writer from Chicago, Illinois, who now lives in Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Harper’s, New York, Mother Jones, The Believer, and Oxford American. Pasulka has been a Google Journalism Fellow and received the I.F. Stone Award from the Nation Institute, now Type Media Center, and has a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. She is currently writing a narrative nonfiction book on the Brooklyn drag performance scene, to be published by Simon and Schuster.

photos © Lindsay Morris, Maria Baranova-Suzuki, Paul Jackson

MARCH 3 – APRIL 2, 2021

YUSHA-MARIE SORZANO

has been a member of Ailey II, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Morphoses, TU Dance, and BODYTRAFFIC. Sorzano has created works for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, New Century Dance Project, The Ailey School. She was a part of the creative team for NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the recipient of The Alvin Ailey Foundations New Directions Choreography Fellowship and a National YoungArts Foundation Artist In Residence.

This residency is part the YoungArts and The Watermill Center Mentorship Residency.

ZOË HITZIG

APRIL 7 - MAY 7, 2021

is a researcher and poet. She is the author of Mezzanine (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, New Yorker, Lana Turner, London Review of Books, Harper’s and elsewhere. She has also written prose for magazines like BOMB, WIRED, New York Review of Books and Prac Crit. Born in New York, she currently lives in Massachusetts.

LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ

is a composer, improviser and performer. During her PhD. studies of composition at Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (CZ), she has been a visiting scholar at Universität der Künste in Berlin (D), Columbia University in New York (USA) and lately at the New York University. In her recent work, she is interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing trash to build sonic costumes. She has been nominated on 2017 Herb Alpert Awards in Arts in category of Music, was commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium in 2017 and has become a Roulette resident artist in 2018.

photos © Lindsay Morris, Nikolas Louka, Yume Katsumi

APRIL 7 - MAY 7, 2021

CANDACE HILL is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, CAPS Fellowship, NEA grants, Beards Grant for Sculpture, and has published works with Printed Matter and Heresies. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, Madre, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, The World Trade Center, Hills & Valleys, and with the Parrish Art Museum.

RAMÍREZ-FIGUEROA works in drawing, performance, sculpture, and video. Ramírez-Figueroa reframes recent and historical events, to find new ways at looking at social, political and ecological conditions. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mies Van Der Rohe prize, the Franklin Furnace award, the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship (selected by Dan Graham), and the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence fellowship.

Ramírez-Figueroa is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.

MAY 12 - JUNE 11, 2021

NAUFUS

RIPE

TIME is an Obie-winning theatre company founded in 2000 and led by director and deviser Rachel Dickstein. Their collective of affiliated artists develops and presents ensemble-based theatre with rich language, visual power, and physical rigor. Since 2000, Ripe Time has created eight large-scale ensemble works that have received three Obie Awards and nominations from the Drama Desk, the Drama League and the Joe A. Calloway Award for outstanding direction. Their work has been presented at BAM, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Rep, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, and LaMaMa.

MAY 12 - JUNE 11, 2021 SEPTEMBER 15 - OCTOBER 8, 2021

TOMASHI JACKSON

is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses the formal properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy to investigate the value of human life in public space. Jackson’s investigation of the shared language around color, whether in reference to race or formalism, offers a narrative framework from which she constructs her own language of abstraction. Jackson is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center. This residency is presented in partnership with The Parrish Art Museum as part of their annual Platform exhibition.

MATTHEW CRAVEN

is a Los Angelesbased artist whose work centers around found imagery combined with hand-drawn geometric patterns. He has shown in galleries all over the world including, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Switzerland. His work has been reviewed in notable outlets including The Huffington Post, Art Critical, and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2017, he was the artist-in-residence for the Marfa Myths Festival. Anthology Editions just released PRIMER, the first monograph of Craven’s work.

MARTHA HINCAPIÉ CHARRY studied dance in her home country of Colombia and finished her studies at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, Germany, under the guidance of Pina Bausch. She has danced for Wuppertal Dance Theatre, Münster State Theatre, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Aachen Theatre and performed in various independent productions. Her own creations shown in France, Croatia, Italy, Holland, Germany, Ecuador, Brasil, México, Hong Kong and Colombia. Charry has worked with Robert Wilson and the Rundfunkchor for the production “LUTHER - dancing with the gods-” in the Pierre Boulez Saal of Berlin.

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DUKE RILEY

addresses the tension between individual and collective behavior, independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, and the conflict with institutional power. Riley has had solo exhibitions at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; and the Havana Biennial, among others. He has received a Percent for Art commission, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and the MTA Arts For Transit commission for the Beach 98th Street Station renovation.

Riley is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.

ROBERT W. FIESELER is a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association “Journalist of the Year” and the acclaimed nonfiction author of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, winner of the Edgar Award and the Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Queer literary icon Andrew Holleran reviewed Tinderbox as “far more than just a history of gay rights,” and Michael Cunningham praised it as “essential reading at any time.” Fieseler is currently working on American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State (Dutton, 2022), which received a Robert B. Silvers Foundation Grant for Work in Progress.

PAULA AROS GHO is a Chilean theater artist and theatre director. She is currently directing, writing and teaching for theater, in which she develops interdisciplinary projects based on the notion of performativity with emphasis on process as creative ideology. Her main focus is on the relationship and co-presence between artists and audiences. ​ She has presented recognized experimental and interdisciplinary theatre performances, which combine theoretical and field research processes, thus integrating experiences and recordings related to everyday life.

OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 20 - NOVEMBER 15 - OCTOBER 23, 2021 8, 2021

GÖZDE ILKIN

studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University and master’s degree at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her motifs and drawings on fabrics depict cultural information, political and social relationships and gender issues.

Selected solo exhibitions include MAC/VAL ValDe-Marne Contemporary Art Museum, Paris (2019), Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, Gözde Ilkin at Gypsum Gallery in Cairo (2016) Françoise Heitsch Gallery in Munich (2015) and artSümer Gallery in Istanbul (2010).

VILLE ANDERSSON

NOVEMBER SEPTEMBER4 15 - NOVEMBER - OCTOBER23, 8, 2021 2020

is a versatile artist, both in his use of different media and in his variety of styles and themes. He has exhibited actively, including at Espoo Museum of Modern Art; National Art Center, Tokyo; The Nordic Museum, Seattle; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Vitraria Glass + A Museum, Venice; Museum Weserburg, Bremen; The Centre for photography, Stockholm; Fotomuseum, Antwerp. He was named Young Artist of the Year in Finland 2015, which included two solo exhibitions and a published volume of his works.

Andersson is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.

NENE HUMPHREY has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries since coming to New York in 1979. Exhibitions include the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Mead Museum, Amherst, MA, Palmer Museum, PA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Sculpture Center, PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY. Humphrey has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Brown Foundation, and Anonymous was a Woman among others.

NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 15 NOVEMBER SEPTEMBER 30 15 - DECEMBER - OCTOBER17, 8, 2021

MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT have been performing as a duo for nearly 10 years.

Using the saxophone and drum duo as a starting point, their work seeks to probe and prod the history and limitations of the tradition of the free jazz duo by interjecting elements of performance, silence, space, and density. Their collaborative work serves as an aspirational outlet for their shared interests in Zen meditation, performance art, pranks, and as a critique of performative acts of catharsis. They have toured the US and Europe extensively, having performed at Roulette, Issue Project Room, Brötz, Oberlin, Bard, amongst others.

JAMES ULMER and his paintings pull from lively drawings, translated into play of positive and negative space in solid, minimal forms.

Bold shapes emerge out of Ulmer’s constructs through both the subject and the amorphous setting. Vibrating color combinations further upend the relationship between foreground and background. Ulmer’s simplicity belies the carefully calculated compositions, which oscillate between naiveté and minute attention to details of edge and placement. His paintings put forward the pure inspiration and enjoyment that painting can bring.

PAWEL ALTHAMER works predominantly in sculpture, collaborative action, installation and performance art. Interested in social and artistic transformation, Althamer reimagines reality in an attempt to shift conventional social perceptions. Althamer’s solo exhibitions include Lentos Museum in Linz (2020); Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (2019); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2014); Secession, Vienna (2009); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006), and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany (2002). Althamer is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.

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SUPPORT THE WATERMILL CENTER At The Watermill Center, artists live with an awareness of what happened in the past – drawing inspiration from and reflecting on it – while creating the new and challenging work for the future. Your continued support is vital to our mission.

Help us continue our momentum by making a fully tax-deductible contribution today!

The Watermill Center’s programs are made possible by awards from Cowles Charitable Trust, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act, JAF Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, The LLWW Foundation, mediaThe foundation Inc., The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, The Nightingale Code Foundation, The Red Butterfly Foundation, May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Suffolk County Office of Economic Development, The Suffolk County Office of Film and Cultural Affairs, Leila & Mickey Straus Family Charitable Fund, Town of Southampton, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

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