The Watermill Center invites you to the first Saturdays @ WMC of 2014, highlighting Watermill resident artists, the building, grounds and collection.The afternoon events, beginning at noon with a dance class for thoughtful movement through life taught by Brittany Bailey, encourage audiences of all ages to participate in different aspects of the Center.
From 1pm to 4pm, Jayoung Chung will open her Watermill studio to the community, inviting individuals to interact with her work combining traditional Korean instruments, sound, drawing and technology. Inside and outside, Brittany Bailey will present three dance solos accompanied by Bryce Hackford’s experimental music compositions. The audience is welcome to come and go during the duration of both artist open studios.
At 1pm, Riverhead artist Andrea Cote will lead a project for children 6 to 12 years old combining drawing and movement. Tours of The Watermill Center building and grounds are also scheduled during the afternoon.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
12pm to 1pm The Dance Warm-Up taught by Brittany Bailey accompanied by Bryce Hackford.
12:30pm Tour of The Watermill Center building, grounds and collection
1pm to 2:30pm Kids drawing and movement workshop with Andrea Cote
1pm to 4pm Open Studio with Jayoung Chung
1:30pm to 4pm Performance by Brittany Bailey and Bryce Hackford
2:30pm Tour of The Watermill Center grounds, building and collection.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Brittany Bailey born 1989 and raised in North Carolina. Lives and works as dancer/choreographer in NYC since 2008. Brittany makes dances that work to transcend and ground the physical body. Brittany has performed with Marina Abramovic (MoMA), the Michael Clark Company (Tate), and with the Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi Order of America. Bailey has performed her dances at Judson Church (NYC), Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique (Brussels), and Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg), among others.
Bryce Hackford makes sound recordings that range from pop and art music to the field and sound for industrial use, performing with bands Behavior (WHIP) and Pearl Necklace (Smalltown Supersound), producing sound and music for theatrical work, film, dance, and experimenting extensively with DJ formats (including Deep Trouble).
Jayoung Chung is a multi-media artist from South Korea: primarily a visual artist, but also a musician, animator, filmmaker and storyteller. She has had numerous exhibits and installations utilizing nearly every form of media, including performance, film, computer graphics, sound and movement. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in both solo and group shows. In New York, she has shown at such institutions as the IAC Building, the La Mama Gallery, Glasslands Gallery, The Red Room, Culturehub and Issue Project Room. She also participated in the globally renowned “River to River Festival” in 2012. She has exhibited at the New Media Festival, Seoul Arts Center, and HCI Design Conference in Korea, and the Dot Mov Festival in Sapporo, Japan, to name but a few. In addition, her work appears in the permanent collections of the Korean Film Archive. In 2013, she was the Moving Image Director at the Special Olympics Winter Games Opening Ceremony.
Although Jayoung majored in visual arts, she learned to play three Korean traditional instruments in her childhood, so her body has remembered those unique sounds as well as the physical motions involved in creating them. She incorporates the music she composes and performs with sounds of nature to create her visuals via the technology of sound processing programs she has personally developed. Throughout her work, there is harmony between traditional arts and contemporary technology.
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