Viewpoints is The Watermill Center’s year-round conversation series, granting artists and art enthusiasts the opportunity to gather and discuss creative themes vital to the contemporary moment. Hosted at both its East End campus and in NYC, Viewpoints engages with the community through intriguing dialogue, artist talks, and lectures that span across disciplines.
This event is open by invitation only. To join our waitlist, please contact events@watermillcenter.org
Oliver Beer (British, born 1985) studied musical composition at the Academy of Contemporary Music, London, and visual art at the University of Oxford; and theory of cinema at the Sorbonne, Paris. His background in both music and fine art led to an early interest in investigating our experience of the world through sound. He translates his research into sculptures, installations, videos, and fascinating immersive live performances that transform objects and architectural site. Beer’s own family relationships often become the blueprint for multidisciplinary works that draw on shared emotions and perceptions through an engagement with universal, intimate, concerns such as the inheritance of music from mother to child across generations and cultures. Beer’s work has been the subject of many screenings as well as solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palace of Versailles; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Musée d’Art Contemporain (MAC), Lyon, France; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Modern Art Oxford; WIELS, Brussels; and MoMA PS1, New York. Beer has also held residencies at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The Watermill Center, New York; the Fondation Hermès, Paris; and the Sydney Opera House. In 2018 he was one of the headline artists in the twenty-first Biennale of Sydney.
Andy Battaglia is the Deputy Editor of ARTnews in New York. His writing has featured in other publications including The Wall Street Journal, Frieze, The Guardian, New York, Rolling Stone, The Paris Review, and more. He has also organized talks and presentations for Unsound, an experimental music and sound-art festival based in Krakow, Poland.
Members of The Watermill Center receive free admission for one throughout our 2019 Viewpoints lecture series and an invitation to a members only summer cocktail party in August. If you have not yet received the lecture series discount code, please email membership@watermillcenter.org. Click here for more information about membership at The Watermill Center and to join today!
The Summer Lecture Series is curated by Robert Wilson and administered & co-curated by Kelly Dennis and Brian O’Mahoney.
The Watermill Center is committed to providing accessible programs and services for all patrons and artists with disabilities. For further information about any accessibility issues or needs, please contact us at +1 631 726 4525 or email us at info@watermillcenter.org
Image courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and the artist. © Benjamin Westoby
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