Venue: The Watermill Center
Town: New York City, US

The Watermill Center is a center for the arts and humanities in Water Mill, New York, founded in 1992 by artist and theater director Robert Wilson. The Watermill Center is "a laboratory for performance" founded by Robert Wilson in 1992 on the site of a former Western Union research facility. The Watermill Center is located in Water Mill, New York, and was officially opened to the public in 2006. Its programming currently consists of year-round artist residencies and exhibitions, a public summer lecture series, and a collaborative summer program for young and emerging artists from a variety of disciplines. As a unique center for all the arts working in collaboration, The Watermill Center has been called "the academy of the 21st-Century" by anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, and described by the New York Times as a contemporary " Bayreuth minus the nationalism and the exclusive dedication to the founder's work," In the manner of The Pina Bausch Foundation in Wuppertal, Germany, The Watermill Center is both a study center for research on Wilson's theater and a workspace for creative development. Wilson himself has described Watermill as "a think tank, a contemplative arcade where all kinds of different things can happen." The Watermill Center is home to The Robert Wilson Archive, The Watermill Study Library, and The Watermill Collection, with notable works of art from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, indigenous peoples of the Arctic, pre-modern China, and Shaker furniture, as well as works of modern and contemporary artists and designers like Paul Thek, Robert Mapplethorpe, Christopher Knowles, Donald Judd, Gio Ponti, Josef Hoffmann, and Wilson. In 2013, The Louvre Museum in Paris staged "Living Rooms," a major exhibition incorporating works from The Watermill Collection throughout the museum's galleries. The Watermill Center has been the site of exhibitions of artists such as Mike Kelley, Jonathan Meese, and Dieter Meier. In 2015, the Inga Maren Otto Fellowship was establis