Open Studio | Carlos Soto @ The Watermill Center

Watermill resident artist Carlos Soto presents his body of work Everything Alright to the public in an open studio on Saturday, December 19 at 7:00pm. Everything Alright will be a musical theater work for five performers, with music by composer William Basinski and singer/songwriter DM Stith. It follows the dissolution of a community faced with the intrusion of a visitor. The piece revolves around the seemingly infinite variations of views and values centered on a traumatic event as perceived by a group of people, overlaying multiple narrative fragments echoing the various experiences of our protagonists so that we perceive events as a plurality of moments prolonged and collapsed into each other. The piece aims to develop a vocabulary of multivalence and indefinite subjectivity. In the seeming formlessness of the ensemble, characters or allusions to characters rotate among a group of performers so that certain discernible details emerge and come into focus. No single person plays one role throughout, blurring chronology and place.

Carlos Soto (b. 1980) is a director and designer based in New York City, where he studied Art History and Literature at the Pratt Institute. His Girlmachine, created in collaboration with Charles Chemin and developed in residency at The Watermill Center, premiered at Performa 09 and toured to Paris, presented by the American University of Paris; Pig Pig Pig (2010), developed in residency at Point Éphémère, was performed at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2011, he created a short dance-theater work featured in an evening of performances curated by Robert Wilson at the Guggenheim Museum. Soto was artist-in-residence at Kampnagel, Hamburg, in 2008; in summer 2012, he was artist-in-residence at Willem de Kooning’s studio in Springs, NY, the resulting video work exhibited at Pace Gallery, NY in 2013. In 2014, Soto collaborated with artist Davide Balula on a site-specific performance at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, exploring connections between architecture, camouflage and dress. Soto performs in Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Andrew Ondrejcak’s opera You Us We All, currently touring worldwide.

Carlos has worked with Robert Wilson since 1997 as a performer, designer, and assistant on numerous productions in the U.S. and Europe, most recently performing in The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, alongside Abramovic and Willem Dafoe. He recently designed the costumes for the revival of Wilson’s and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach and Zinnias by Wilson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Toshi Reagon. In May 2015, Soto designed costumes for Adam’s Passion, a collaboration with Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson. Upcoming works with Wilson include a musical-theater work about tragic Brazilian soccer star Garrincha, and a new opera creation with composer Paola Prestini.

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Date: Saturday, December 19, 2015

Price: Free. Reservations Required

Hours: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location: The Watermill Center

Address: 39 Watermill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976

Phone/Email: 631.726.4628 / events@watermillcenter.org

Website URL: watermillcenter.org