Join Watermill Artists, Brian Belott & Matthew Thurber, Kyoko Hamaguchi, and Nicole Pasulka as they share their work!
In Process @ The Watermill Center is our ongoing series of open rehearsals, workshops, artist talks and studio visits that invite the community to engage with the work of our international Artists-in-Residence. The Watermill Center invites audiences of all ages and backgrounds to gain unique insight into the creative process of artists, cultivating an understanding of how artists from across the globe develop new work.
In Process allows direct engagement between the community and our Artists-in-Residence in the midst of their residency, giving them the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their work, and continue the development process throughout the remainder of their stay.
Due to COVID-19, In Process will take place online. All registered attendees will receive an email with a Zoom link the morning of the event.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Brian Belott and Matthew Thurber are artists and performers based in New York City. They have worked together in various forms since 2010. Merging their interest in poetry, speech, glossolalia, improvisation, pranks, nonsense, and the gestalt of eternity, they have performed at the Serpentine gallery in London in 2016, as hosts of Belott’s People Pie Pool theater assemblage for Performa 2018, and have deployed their disruptive and chaotic tradition of verbal babble beauty to dozens of galleries and music shows, parties and parlors over the last decade. Newsstand, eyeglasses store, church and basement have all been sanctified by spectacles of performance by “Court Stenographer and Young Sherlock Holmes Jr.”
Kyoko Hamaguchi, born in 1989 and raised in Tokyo, Japan, is a conceptual mixed-media artist who lives and works in New York City. Her practice takes form in many different media including photography, sculpture, and installation. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York (2020) and a BFA from Tokyo University of the Arts (2015). She has shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York and Japan, including at WhiteBox, New York; SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, 2019, and 2020, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo. In 2020, she had her first solo exhibition at KOKI ARTS, Tokyo. She has received many awards including the Heisei Art Award, Art Plaza Prize, Ikuo Hirayama Award, and Ataka Award. Her work has been reviewed in Christie’s Education Magazine, Musée Magazine, Tokyo Art Beat, and Bijutsutecho. She has also curated multiple group shows in Tokyo and New York.
Nicole Pasulka is a writer from Chicago, Illinois, who now lives in Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Harper’s, New York, Mother Jones, The Believer, and Oxford American. Pasulka has been a Google Journalism Fellow and received the I.F. Stone Award from the Nation Institute, now Type Media Center, and has a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. She is currently writing a narrative nonfiction book on the Brooklyn drag performance scene, to be published by Simon and Schuster.
Please note: A recording of this event will be made available to the public at a later date. By registering for and joining the event, you consent to have your image and likeness used in any future screenings of this In Process, publicly or privately.
all images courtesy the artists, Brian Belott & Matthew Thurber copyright Paula Court
