Saturdays @ WMC

1:00 – 2:30pm | Tour of The Watermill Center

3:00 – 4:00pm | Exhibition Opening of CONSTELLATION IN RED, YELLOW AND BLUE
4:00 – 6:00pm | Open Rehearsal with BOTCH Ensemble

Walk through history with a guided tour of The Watermill Center building, grounds, gardens, art collection and study library. The Watermill Collection contains over 8,000 pieces representing all continents and many eras, from the stone age to the present. Housed in a place where performers, artists and scientists from different cultures and disciplines come to collaborate, the Watermill Collection serves as an inspiration for creative practice. Situated on eight-acres of land, The Watermill Center is surrounded by verdant lawns and outdoor sculpture, meditation and rooftop gardens.

Following the tour at 3:00pm, join us for the public exhibition opening of G.T. Pellizzi’s CONSTELLATION IN RED, YELLOW AND BLUE. CONSTELLATION IN RED YELLOW AND BLUE is a monumental installation of light sculptures created for The Watermill Center by G.T. Pellizzi. The sculptures are derived from invented cosmologies inspired by the mythological, calendrical, and astronomical symbols found on many textiles in The Watermill Collection.

G.T. Pellizzi was born in 1978 in Tlayacapan, Mexico. He studied philosophy at St. Johns College and graduated from The Channin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. From 2001-2011, Pellizzi co-founded and has been involved in various art collectives, including The Bruce High Quality Foundation, with whom he has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, PAC Murcia, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Bruno Bischofberger Gallery in Zurich. Recently, he has had solo exhibitions at Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Harmony Murphy Gallery in Los Angeles, and Revolver Galeria in Lima, as well as the Sala Siqueiros in Mexico City. He has participated in exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Museo del Barrio Biennial in New York, the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, and the Kunsthalle in Vienna. Pellizzi lives between New York and Mexico. G.T. Pellizzi is a 2016 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship recipient.

At 4:00pm, BOTCH Ensemble will present their work oyster to the public in an open rehearsal. oyster is an installation performance with indeterminate duration.

BOTCH Ensemble was formed in 2010 by Joe Diebes to rigorously explore spoken language as a basis for a new kind of opera. Over the course of a three-year artist residency at HERE Arts Center, Joe Diebes and the ensemble (Christina Campanella, John Rose, and Saori Tsukada) developed a unique method and vocabulary for parsing and processing speech sounds in surprising and virtuosic ways. In May 2015, the group began an eight-year lease at their new rehearsal and performance space at 226 Green Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Joe Diebes creates performance work that fuses sound, visual media, and the human voice into a unique form of contemporary opera. From 1996-2003, he was a core member as well as the musical force behind the hybrid arts group GAle GAtes et al. described by The New York Times as “an adventurous troupe with one foot in the world of postmodern art and the other in downtown performance.” His opera environment, Strange Birds, received its U.K. premiere at Tramway (Glasgow 2005) and his sound-theater collaboration with Phil Soltanoff, I/O, was presented at Fusebox (Austin 2007) and Theatre Garonne (Toulouse 2008). Other recent projects include a new opera WOW (BRIC Media Arts 2014) with director David Levine and poet Christian Hawkey. His 2013 “broken-word opera” BOTCH (developed during a HARP residency at HERE Art Center, NYC) was the seed for the new performance group BOTCH Ensemble. In addition to his own works, he is currently collaborating with the dance/performance group LEIMAY and will premiere a new score for BORDERS in February 2016 at The Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has received support from NYSCA, NYFA, LMCC, Franklin Furnace, The Jerome Foundation, and the Netherland-America Foundation. Residencies/fellowships include, The Watermill Center, Yaddo, Djerassi, HERE, LMCC, BRIC Media Arts, STEIM (Amsterdam), and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also exhibited internationally his sound installations, video, and works on paper for art galleries, museums, and public spaces including Paul Rodgers/9W (New York), The ’06 Olympics (Torino, Italy), Yuanfen Gallery (Beijing), Prix Ars Electronica (Honorary Mention 2009, Linz Austria) and the Liverpool Biennial.

Date: Saturday, June 11, 2016

Price: FREE - reservations required

Hours: 1:00pm - 6:00pm

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