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In Process with The Watermill Center's Artists-in-Residence

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Lea Bertucci_is an experimental musician from New York. COURTESY THE WATERMILL CENTER

Lea Bertucci_is an experimental musician from New York. COURTESY THE WATERMILL CENTER

Tuçe Yasak creates site-specific light installations for performances. © MARIA BARANOVA-SUZUKI

Tuçe Yasak creates site-specific light installations for performances. © MARIA BARANOVA-SUZUKI

Vinson Fraley's company is comprised of multidimensional artists across many disciplines. COURTESY THE WATERMILL CENTER

Vinson Fraley's company is comprised of multidimensional artists across many disciplines. COURTESY THE WATERMILL CENTER

authorStaff Writer on Feb 6, 2023

On Friday, February 17, at 6 p.m., The Watermill Center continues its year-round open studio series with In Process, which allows unique insight into the work of the center’s rotating roster of international artists-in-residence. The upcoming event will provide East End community members with unique insight into the creative practices of musician Lea Bertucci, performance collective Vinson Fraley and Company, and visual artist Tuce Yasak.

In Process invites the community to gain insight into the creative process of international artists-in-residence, cultivating an understanding of how artists from across the globe develop new work.

Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician from New York. She has performed extensively across the U.S. and Europe. In 2018, she was awarded a Jfund for New Music grant from the American Composers’ Forum and a commission for a brass octet from the Levy Gorvy Gallery in New York. She has recently been commissioned by the INA GRM in Paris, Quartetto Maurice in Turin and by ARS Nova Workshop in Philadelphia for new compositions that are forthcoming in 2021/22.

Vinson Fraley and Company is comprised of multidimensional artists who practice across various spectrums and forms including dance, choreography, music, voice, writing and filmmaking. Their goal is to create a microcosm where all of their offerings can coexist in communication with each other. Through research and performance, Fraley and Company hope to find intersections where experiences overlap to create a collective performance.

Tuçe Yasak has been “following light” in New York City since her move from Istanbul in 2009, creating over 100 site-specific light installations for performance in the U.S. and abroad. Yasak received the 2018 BESSIE for Outstanding Visual Design with her lighting design. She has been collaborating with Raja Feather Kelly and the feath3r theory since 2015. Light, movement and architecture intertwine in Yasak’s work to support space-making and story-telling. Her “Light Journals” were presented in March 2021 by Ars Nova, and her first solo installation “light is generous” was presented by Five Myles Gallery in July 2022.

During her residency, Tuce Yasak will create a working model of “WALL/Light Is Generous,” a new installation of light and shadow that reckons with traumatic memory and what a person risks to move forward. While at The Center, Yasak will explore an emotional archive, journaling her process in creating an early iteration of the installation.

The Watermill Center is at 39 Watermill Towd Road in Water Mill. Visit watermillcenter.org. for details.

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