Egill Sæbjörnsson and Marcia Moraes
The World Is Bigger Than You Think
Friday, May 6
7:30 p.m.
Performance
The Watermill Center
39 Watermill Towd Road
Water Mill, NY 11976
Reservations (required)
The World is Bigger Than You Think
On May 6, Egill Sæbjörnsson and Marcia Moraes will give a performance presentation of research for their new pop opera being developed as part of their residency at The Watermill Center. The World is Bigger Than You Think is a “walk through” experience where different places around The Center are brought to life with video projections, performance and music. The aim of the residency is to explore working “site specific” as a part of a research for a second phase of rehearsal and final presentation of the work. Lisa Lie, theater director, actor and writer from Norway together with Jeremy Woodruff, Berlin based American composer, join in for the developmental phase of this multi-stage work. During the residency the group will concentrate on adapting the material for the environment and interact with the spaces and collection of The Watermill Center. One aspect of the work is the relationship between a person and their environment, or how inner and outer worlds are connected. They will also present their work again at Clocktower Gallery in New York City on May 10. Click HERE for more details.
Moraes & Sæbjörnsson have collaborated on several projects such as The Mind that toured different institutions as Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde and Neuer Berliner Kunstberein. Their last production What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was a commissioned work by Freunde Guter Musik for their series Musicworks by Visual Artists and was presented at Hamburger Bahnhof – museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. This work is supported by The Icelandic Arts Center.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Egill Sæbjörnsson has a background both as a musician and visual artist and has dealt with performance for most of his career, alongside making installations with video projected onto objects. He has exhibited his works in numerous exhibitions around the world. Last year he was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award and this year he is a fellow at Villa Concordia in Germany. Marcia Moraes is a theater director, actress, dancer and a master physical theater professor. As well as doing her own productions she worked as a director and performer with Opera Composer Jocy de Oliveira in productions in Brazil and Germany. In New York she works with Richard Schechner teaching workshops for the performance department at the NYU. Lisa Lie works in the interface between performance art and text based theater. She has through her own work and the performance duo Sons of Liberty with Stina Kajaso, had a big influence on the Norwegian performance scene through a mixture of pop-culture, trash and misantrophic honesty. Lisa Lie has also published three books. Jeremy Woodruff's thoughtful actions with sound are informed by his comprehensive research of cultural/historical musicology. In the last few years several pieces were commissioned and premiered by Percusemble Berlin, and by the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, among others. In 2004 he moved to Berlin, Germany where he is currently Director of the Neue Musikschule Berlin. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh.
Image courtesy: i8 Gallery, Reykjavik and Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels. Photo by Phile Deprez
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