Please join us on Sunday, November 11 at 12:30 pm for a tour of the building and collection followed at 3:00 pm by a showing of a new multimedia installation created by our current artists-in-residence mapping the brain of a war criminal. The tour of the installation will begin outside (briefly) so please dress appropriately.
Please note that The Watermill Center grounds will remain closed until further notice. The building will be open for these events.
ABOUT THE MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION
Rachel Libeskind & Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden present a multimedia installation dissecting the ultimate war criminal’s brain across the architecture of The Watermill Center. A guided tour will lead viewers through visual, architectural, and musical installations which metaphorically illuminate the psychological fantasies of the perpetrators of genocide. Inspired by Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the experience is meant to invert the barbed-wire and bunker aesthetic of the Holocaust, instead exposing the twisted aesthetic idealism of Nazi pageantry and the cult of Wagner.
Rachel Libeskind
A visual collagist and videographer, Rachel Libeskind was born in Milan. Educated in Berlin and New York, Libeskind completed her B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Her work is characterized by a unique combination of historicist appropriation and improvisational rendering. Often found objects are transformed into dystopian or surrealist landscapes. Often humans appear to live in different time zones, have odd relationships of scale, are overtaken by architectural interventions, or are literalized by darkly comedic philosophical text.
Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden
Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden is a contemporary art gallery in New York City. The venue specializes in work that is often viewed as extreme or degenerate. With a special focus on non-conceptual visual art, Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden aims to redefine contemporary art from 2012-2050 and to tame commercialized exhibitions in Chelsea. Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden has a unique focus on affecting the future direction of art, as opposed to reviewing Modernism, Pop, and Postmoderism from the 90′s and the early 2000′s. The gallery is the only commercial institution in New York that exclusively exhibits Post-postmodern work.
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