The Watermill Center Presents 2014 Fall And Winter Resident Artists

The Watermill Center in Water Mill presents it’s 2014 Fall and Winter artists in residence as part of the Watermill Center Residency Program.

The program runs from January to June and September to December, gives artists the opportunity to utilize The Watermill Center as a home and a workshop to create and develop their own work. Each residency varies in length according to the artists’ and project needs and generally lasts from two to six weeks, when artists have a concentrated period to focus on their work.

The program is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by generous grants from the Asian Cultural Council, Cowles Charitable Trust, Elkins Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Entang Wiharso
September 11 - 24

Open Studio: Saturday, September 20,3:30 - 5:30pm

Entang Wiharso (Tegal, Java) graduated from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta and began his career as a painter before expanding into sculpture, installation and video. His work offers an incisive examination of predominant socio-political conditions imposed on a landscape of personal experiences, revealing a complex picture of the human condition through the lens of love, hate, fanaticism, religion and ideology. During his open studio, Entang Wiharso will share a new installation made of aluminum, wood, graphite and yarn. While in residence, Wiharso created drawings using thread as a medium in response to The Watermill Center art collection, especially the wood sculptures and textiles from Indonesia.

Click HERE to make a reservation for Entang Wiharso’s Open Studio on September 20

Annie Gosfield

September 17 - October 9

Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, October 1 at 7:00pm*

Annie Gosfield (Philadelphia, PA) combines notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds in her work, writing music for others and playing in her own group. Her music is often inspired by the inherent beauty of non-musical sounds, such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 rpm records and detuned radios. Hailed as “a star of the downtown scene” by the New Yorker magazine, her varied work methods have taken her on a path through international festivals, concert halls, universities, art spaces, and clubs.

While in residence at The Watermill Center, Annie Gosfield will compose and research “Signal Jamming and Random Interference” for a large acoustic ensemble with electronics, to be performed by Ensemble Signal at Roulette in New York City. The concert-length piece will be inspired by the sounds, processes, and perceptions of jammed radio signals. This work will be a continuation of research the artist did during a 2012 fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, where she obtained rare recordings of jammed radio signals from Italy, Germany, The Soviet Union, and the U.S.

Click HERE to make a reservation for Annie Gosfield’s Open Rehearsal on October 1

*Open rehearsal time subject to change.

Lydian Junction
October 15 - November 5

Lydian Junction is a cohort of five artist practitioners with different specializations, working at the intersection of performance, video art, installation, music and dance: director Sarah Cameron Sunde, dancer Dages Juvelier Keates, video artist Karla Carballar, composer Christopher Berg, and actor Oliver Burns. Each of the Lydian Junction have between 13-40 years experience working locally and internationally in their individual mediums. They came together in 2011 to experiment with forms and content creation. Since then, they have been making interdisciplinary experimental live art works that honor each individual while striving to find a collaborative practice that can sustain itself in the modern economy.

For more information on Lydian Junction, click HERE.

El Colegio del Cuerpo
Compañía del Cuerpo de Indias
November 9 - 17

El Colegio del Cuerpo (eCdC) was founded in 1997, in Cartagena de Indias by the dancers, choreographers and pedagogues Álvaro Restrepo (Colombia) and Marie France Delieuvin (France). eCdC is a space created for children, youngsters and the general public where they find the opportunity to approach the expressive and artistic dimension of the human body, through Contemporary Dance.

For more information on El Colegio del Cuerpo, click HERE.

Amber Hawk Swanson

December 8 - 19

Amber Hawk Swanson (Davenport, IA) is a video and performance artist living and working in Brooklyn. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Momenta Art (Brooklyn), and Locust Projects (solo, Miami). Recent residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Maine), MacDowell (New Hampshire), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida, curated by Coco Fusco), and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC). Hawk Swanson holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Studio Arts, 2006).

For more information on Amber Hawk Swanson, click HERE.