2017 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

In residence: September 6 - October 11, 2017 To Embrace the World performance, film, photography During Lilian Colosso’s residency, the visual artist will continue to explore her performance piece To Embrace the World (2016), wherein she embraces trees, rocks, and bushes for extended periods of time (5 to 8 [...]

Fan Letters, an audiovisual duo collaboration between composer Dylan Neely and video artist Alex Nathanson – will utilize their residency at The Watermill Center to develop their opera Autocomplete. In preparation for a festival premiere, Nathanson will delve into the at-scale realization of the scenic design's video element, which involves [...]

TALK TO ME by returning resident artist Brian O’Mahoney, is a performance that explores anxieties around communication by establishing new languages based on image and gesture. Nonsensically but seriously investigating interpersonal relations, TALK TO ME is a romp through new and absurd physical dialects. Constantly finding more elaborate and obtuse ways [...]

While in residence at The Watermill Center choreographer/performer Marianna Kavallieratos and composer/sound-artist Dom Bouffard will develop the intermedia performance work titled DEATH. Incorporating movement, sound, color and real-time digital media, the piece seeks to be a celebration of life, which without death would be meaningless. It is a study [...]

In residence: September 6 - October 11, 2017 Natura Nurtura installation, visual art For Lua Rivera’s Natura Nurtura the artist continues to investigate the nesting processes of birds through the construction of different habitable “Nests.” Her installations will be made with photographs of the hummingbird anatomy and naked human [...]

Inga Maren Otto Fellow In residence: September 6 - October 11, 2017 visual art During his five-week residency, 2017 Inga Maren Otto Fellow, Royce Weatherly will work on the final layers of several paintings at once, as each work nears completion in slow, almost invisible increments. The artist looks [...]

In residence: September 6 - 18, 2017 A Bibliography of Romance installation, performance, film, visual art Yao Zhang and collaborator Liang Guo work together under the collective name NoodleRice. While in residence at The Watermill Center, the writing, directing, and designer duo will continue to develop a their image-based performance piece [...]

In residence: June 5 - 16, 2017 On This Site visual art, research Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a visual artist and member of The Shinnecock Indian Nation who will use the web as one of three platforms to preserve and establish an authentic indigenous identity of his tribe which is based [...]

In residence: June 5 - 16, 2017 installation, performance, visual art Serafita Grigoriadou and her male collaborators Stathis Anthanasiou (film & theatre director) and Stavros Gasparatos (Composer) collectively titled BAKIS, will use the highly creative environment at Watermill to develop a performance inspired by J.Berger's phrase "Men act and women [...]

In residence: May 3 - 31, 2017 Alchemy of Punk (working title) installation, performance, film During her residency at The Watermill Center Aneta Panek is staging  Alchemy of Punk (working title), a punk opera she has been developing over three years within the framework of her artistic PhD at the University [...]

In residence: May 3 - 23, 2017 Dreams, Light & Liberation installation, performance, film, visual art Multi-disciplinary artist Stacey Goodman will focus on connecting the performative and ephemeral aspects of his work Dreams, Light & Liberation, to the video and sculptural components. He will create sculptural objects, video and [...]

In residence: May 3 - 31, 2017 Extinct Rite installation, performance, visual art Sebastián Escalona (visual artist and art director) and Josefina Dagorret (director and performer) will continue the development of  Extinct Rite – a research project that combines different languages of artistic expressions involving landscape, the body, the site-specific [...]

In residence: April 5 - May 1, 2017 KOOKERVILLE performance, design, visual art, costume Costume designer Lexy Ho-Tai will continue to develop her multi-disciplinary and interactive thesis collection KOOKERVILLE for which she was recently named finalist for "Designer of the Year" upon graduating from Parsons School of Design. Exploring ‘clothing as experience,’ [...]

In residence: April 5 - May 1, 2017 YAOI visual art Lotte Nielsen will continue her video project YAOI, using film footage captured of LGBT Youth in Copenhagen as well as interfacing with the local LGBT community in Water Mill. She will collage together pieces of atmospheric footage with sound [...]

Inga Maren Otto Fellow In residence: April 5 - May 1, 2017 Grace Notes: Reflections for Now visual art Renowned visual artist and 2017 Inga Maren Otto Fellow, Carrie Mae Weems will be refining her song cycle/performance titled Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, which examines the the role of grace [...]

In residence: March 15 - March 31, 2017 ALARM (Working Title) performance, visual art, sound, theater During their Watermill residency PHYSICAL PLASTIC – a recently formed LA-based theater project between Kestrel Leah (UK) and Yiannis Christofides (Cyprus) – will collaborate with visual artist Dasha Sur (RU) and choreographer [...]

In residence: February 22 - March 10, 2017 Black Box performance P.L.U.T.O. – an ensemble of stage directors, actors and writers formed in 2015 at Lincoln Center Director's Lab – will produce a live performance piece titled Black Box that creates and communicates a dialogue between their various [...]

In residence: February 1 - 17, 2017 choreography Gillian Walsh is an artist and performer from Brooklyn, NY. Working with and against an NYC experimental dance lineage, she produces formalist postdance choreographies. Her recent works include xgzdiiiiiicdiirrwjfffffffff (New York Live Arts), Dance studio life✌️These girls were amazing today! [...]

In residence: February 1 - 17, 2017 Fiddle + Electronics composition Fiddler and composer Cleek Schrey experiments for a new work using electronics and his own unique instrument: the Hardanger d’amore, a custom-built violin with 10 strings, 5 of which ring sympathetically beneath the fingerboard. Schrey will futher engage the performance [...]