The Watermill Center
39 Water Mill Towd Road
Water Mill, NY 11976
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The Watermill Center’s annual gala is one of the most spectacular evenings on the New York social calendar… – artnet news

Robert Wilson’s artistic base and incubator for his work, The Watermill Center, opened in 2006. Wilson envisioned it as a laboratory for experimentation – a space accommodating artists-in-residence, students, and collaborators, housing an extensive collection of art and artifacts and providing a “think tank” in which artists could conceive, develop, and rehearse new work.

The Watermill Center once again will bring together the worlds of theater, art, fashion, design, and society for The 23rd Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction. Watermill’s International Summer Program participants come from over 25 countries to create installations and performances throughout eight-and-a-half acre grounds for the event. The funds raised support the Center’s year-round Artist Residency and Education Programs, providing a unique environment for young and emerging artists to explore and develop new work. The evening will begin with cocktails, a silent auction and guests touring installations and performances throughout The Center’s grounds. It continues with a seated dinner, live auction and performances, and concludes with a post-event party and dancing.

Monika Weiss is a Polish-born artist based in New York who creates public projects, film projections, drawings, and performances that evoke ancient rituals of lamentation and investigate relationships between body and history. Her current work focuses on memory and amnesia as reflected in the physical and political space of the City. The drawing Nirbhaya VIII-1 belongs to Two Laments (19 Cantos) (2015-ongoing) a series of 19 films projections inspired by events in India, juxtaposing two forms of global violence: the rape of women and the colonial subjugation of cities. Weiss' exquisite drawings are featured in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, one of the world's largest and most important print and drawing collections.