PERFORMA Live
at the Watermill Center
PERFORMA recently inaugurated a collaboration with Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, an international, multi-disciplinary center for studies in the arts and humanities located in Southampton, Long Island, New York. Artists that receive PERFORMA Commissions will have the opportunity to be in residency at the Center, culminating in a special event open to the public.
DARIA MARTIN, Harpstrings and Lava
A PERFORMA Commission with S.M.A.K.
Open Rehearsal at the Watermill Center
Saturday, March 31 at 2:00 PM
Introduced by PERFORMA Director RoseLee Goldberg
Reception with the artists to follow
Artist Daria Martin, musician Zeena Parkins, and actor Nina Fog will present a work-in-progress of their performance Object Relations. While in residency at the Watermill Center, they will be pushing their collaboration in a new direction, adapting it for a film dealing with childhood anxieties, Harpstrings and Lava. This Open Rehearsal will catch the trio in transition, en route from live performance to celluloid. Harpstrings and Lava will be developed during a PERFORMA Residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in the Spring of 2007 and then make its US premiere during the PERFORMA07 Biennial of new visual art performance coming to New York November 1-20, 2007.
About the Artists
Daria Martin’s films act as expanded tableaux vivant, staging relationships between performers in particular situations borrowed from dance, sports and entertainment and in the process creating a refreshingly unfamiliar blend of the worlds of film, dance, sculpture, and performance. Her films use low-tech materials to create a world of exquisite artifice, and within this fantastical environment her performers negotiate a more human terrain that resonates both kinesthetically and emotionally. Martin’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Tate Modern, London, Kunstalle, Zurich, Kunstverein, Hamburg, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Martin and Nina Fog have been collaborating on fine art films and performances for the past two years; Fog has played leading roles in Martin’s films Wintergarden and Soft Materials (both 2005). Martin has also previously collaborated with Zeena Parkins, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp, who composed the soundtrack for Martin’s film Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon (2004-2005) and collaborated with her on Regeneration (2006), a live performance at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
About PERFORMA Live at the Watermill Center
PERFORMA is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004 dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. PERFORMA recently inaugurated ‘PERFORMA Live at the Watermill Center,’ a collaboration with Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, an international, multi-disciplinary center for studies in the arts and humanities located in Southampton, Long Island, New York. Daria Martin’s PERFORMA Residency at the Watermill Center is the first in a series of such residencies that will be available to artists who have received PERFORMA Commissions. Each residency will culminate in a special event open to the public.
If you would like to attend Daria Martin’s Open Rehearsal at the Watermill Center, please RSVP to elka.rifkin at robertwilson.com or (631) 726-4628
For more information, please contact:
PERFORMA
(212) 533-5720
info@performa-arts.org
www.performa-arts.org
The Watermill Center
39 Watermill Towd Road
Watermill, New York 11976
(631) 726-4628
www.watermillcenter.org
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Daria Martin’s PERFORMA Residency at the Watermill Center was made possible in part by support from the British Council.