Title The Watermill Center : a laboratory for performance : Robert Wilson's legacy / edited and compiled by José Enrique Macián, Sue Jane Stoker, Jörn Weisbrodt ; [with contributions by Marina Abramović ... [et al.].]
Publication Info Stuttgart, Germany : DACO-VERLAG ; [New York] : The Watermill Center, c2011
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  PN2277.W382 W38 2011    REQUESTABLE
Edition Standard ed
Description 358 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Contents ch. 1 Prehistory -- The History of a Dream / Robert Wilson -- Designed with Visual Care The Path to Watermill / Frank Hentschker -- Everything is Possible & A Visit from Henry Geldzahler / Judith Haase -- The Birth of The Watermill Center Out of the Spirit of a 1960s Dilapidated SoHo Loft / Jorn Weisbrodt -- Memories of Work with Bob Wilson and the Byrds / Robyn Brentano -- On First Arriving at Watermill / Daniel Stern -- A Byrd's Eye View / John W. D'Arcangelo -- The Legacy of Robert Wilson / Robert Brustein -- And He Runns and Runns / Georges Metanomski -- Robert Wilson: Listening with the Body / Chrissie Lies -- ch. 2 The Founding of Watermill -- Watermill and Elsinore The Beginnings of the Center / Richard Rutkowski -- Water Mill: A Laboratory for Telecommunications / Jose Enrique Macian -- A Devotion to the Arts and Humanities / Alain Coblence -- Original Concepts for The Watermill Center / Stanley T. Stairs -- The Vision for Foundation Watermill / Ellie Meyer -- What I Know About Watermill / Benedicte Pesle -- Consider Anything, Only Don't Cry: Through the Looking-Glass / Steven Bradley Beer -- Watermill: A Reference for Creation / Marie-Claude Beaud -- ch. 3 The Building and Grounds -- I Set Before You An Open Door / Robert Wilson -- Building with Bob: Remembrances of Things very much Present / Carsten Siebert -- "A Think Tank": The Building at Water Mill / Jose Enrique Macian -- Building Stages / Judith Haase -- The Architecture of Robert Wilson Within the Context of His "Aesthetic System" / Francois Burkhardt -- A Curious Balance: Watermill Thoughts / Laurie Lambrecht -- Tree Lines / Bonnie Marranca -- Watermill in Winter: Le Sphinx des glaces / Margery Arent Safir -- ch. 4 The Summer Program -- An Introduction to the Summer Program / Sue Jane Stoker -- Nineteen Years of Watermill / Marianna Kavallieratos -- In My Beginning: Summer 1997 / Linda Jackson -- The Grounds of Watermill / B. Dianne -- The Land of Our Desires / Felipe Fernandez del Paso -- Watermill: a poem / Marie-Eve Nadeau -- Artistic Direction(s) / Clemens Thornquist -- I Have Seen / A.J. Weissbard -- Burlap, Dancing, and Chainsaws / Matthew Shattuck -- Rehearsing, Building, and Peeling the Onion / Ann-Christin Rommen -- Everything's All Right / Carlos Soto -- Two Generations on The Watermill Center / Vladimir von Arx -- Watermill: a poetic description / Ellen Hammer -- Watermill in the Making / Nixon Beltran -- Watermill: Now as Then / Stefan Kurt -- Retelling a Vision: Watermill - Personal Histories / Tina Rosner -- A Very Special Forum / Elisabetta di Mambro -- A Place of Exchange / Urs Schonebaum -- The Listening Post / Darryl Pinckney -- Parallel Space and Time / Marina Abramovic -- Nothing and Yet Everything was Already There / Isabelle Huppert -- A Most Unusual Cultural Center / Lucinda Childs -- Watermill: A Class Act All By Itself / Philip Glass -- There is Nothing to Understand / Isabella Rossellini -- What Can One Say About Watermill? How Do You Describe Magic? / Paula A.I. Sabah -- True, Free, and Unshackled Expression / Rufus Wainwright -- Absolute Watermill / Katharina Otto-Bernstein -- E E E towards Empathy / Enric Ruiz-Geli -- Watermill: A Cultural Utopia / Jay McInerney -- Watermill: Now and Then / Keith McDermott -- When I First Came to The Watermill Center / Christopher Knowles -- ch. 5 The Watermill Collection -- The Watermill Collection: A History of Man / Robert Wilson -- The Unique Nature of the Watermill Collection / Noah Khoshbin -- A Batak Equestrian Figure in Stone / Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller -- Si Galegale / Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller -- A Column of Spirit: Linking Art and Science in Central Borneo / Ida Nicolaisen -- The Watermill Collection Bodhisattva / Gisele Croes -- On David Hockney's Portrait of Betty Freeman / Robert Storr -- Chairs / Andrzej Wirth -- Marlene Dietrich's Shoes / Robert Wilson -- "Our work goes together": Paul Thek's Legacy at the Watermill Center / Elisabeth Sussman -- Paul Thek and Ann Wilson: Voices from the Era / Ann Wilson -- Found Objects in the Watermill Collection / Dmitry Komis -- An Ongoing Vision / Barbara Goldsmith -- Memory Regained: Collecting Robert Wilson's Aesthetic / Jose Enrique Macian -- ch. 6 The Fall and Spring Residency Program -- A Perfect Artist Studio / Sherry Dobbin -- The Residency Program as a Laboratory / Stanley T. Stairs -- Watermill's Selection Committee / John Rockwell -- Paradoxical Playground: The Watermill Center as a Laboratory for Collaboration / Gideon Lester -- Establishing the Year-Round Residency Program / Elka Rifkin -- The South Wing Theatre Company / Kameron Steele -- ArtLand / Elke Luyten -- "A line of thought, a line of action, a line of ..." / Maria Jose Arjona -- The Constant Reality Theater / Ragnar Kjartansson -- The Making of The Dorothy K.: Implied Violence at The Watermill Center / Ryan Mitchell -- A World far away from this World / Floris Schonfeld -- STAAT/Random I-XI / Jorinde Voigt -- Let's Rock Around a New Folk, a New Freedom, and a New Woman / Les Vraoums -- Wilson's Island / Andrzej Wirth -- Watermill in the Community / Sherry Dobbin -- A Center for the Community of Today and Tomorrow / Maria Pessino -- ch. 7 The Non-Wilson Aesthetic at Watermill -- No School of Wilson / Sue Jane Stoker -- Notes from a Conversation / Andre Gingras -- Performance: The Ladder of Red / Andrey Bartenev -- Marlene Dietrich in Dr. No's Ludovico Clinic (Dr. Baby's Erzland) / Jonathan Meese -- Domestic Habits / David Levine -- ch. 8 Outlooks -- The Paul Thek Archives: The New Watermill Center Underground Space / Roger Ferris -- A Future for Watermill / Jorn Weisbrodt -- Final Thought / Robert Wilson
Notes "This book is published in celebration of Robert Wilson's 70th birthday and the 20th anniversary of The Watermill Center"--Colophon
"First edition 3,000 copies ... 2,895 copies are printed as a standard edition"--Colophon
Subjects Wilson, Robert, 1941-
Watermill Center.
Experimental theater -- New York (State) -- Water Mill
Performance art -- New York (State) -- Water Mill
Arts, American -- New York (State) -- Water Mill
Additional Authors Macián, José Enrique.
Stoker, Sue Jane
Weisbrodt, Jörn.
Abramović, Marina.
Other Title Laboratory for performance
Robert Wilson's legacy
ISBN 9783871350542 (standard ed.)
3871350540 (standard ed.)
OCLC 773929482