“In Process @ the Watermill Center,” an ongoing series of studio visits and open rehearsals featuring its artists in residence, will return Friday at 5:30 p.m. with Dario Felli & Flavio Pezzotti, Hiba Baddou, Kofi Konadu Berko, Paola Fiterre, MIZU, and Christiana Kosiari.
Felli and Pezzotti (Italy) first met in 2018 at the center’s International Summer Program and began a close collaboration with Robert Wilson, the center’s founder. Felli had worked as a sound designer and Pezzotti as a production designer. ln 2023 they transitioned from the stage to outdoor environments, where natural and architectural elements could interact with their set and audio creations.
Baddou (Morocco, France) is a filmmaker, photographer, painter, performer, and art director whose practice merges her Moroccan heritage with global perspectives. She explores themes of identity, ritual, and language to question the role of imagery and tradition in the modern world, according to the center. She graduated in filmmaking from the International Film School in Paris, where she received the school’s awards for best direction and best cinematography. She subsequently pursued a master’s degree in art direction at Penninghen, also in Paris.
Berko (Ghana) won his country’s Adinkra Poetry Prize in 2024. His work engages with family, identity, relationships, and cultural heritage, drawing on the Akan language, which is widely spoken in Ghana, as well as Akan art, music, traditions, dance, proverbs, and riddles. At the center, he will develop “Section B: Compulsory Questions,” a poetry collection investigating Ghanian identity through the Akan Twi language. Using riddles and proverbs, the collection examines contemporary issues facing his country.
Based in New York, Fiterre is a Cuban artist whose work explores the female body with respect to migration, identity, and displacement. She studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and graduated from the International Center of Photography in Manhattan in 2019. Fiterre uses her body as both subject and medium, according to the center. Her work reflects the tension between personal and cultural identity, exploring the female figure in a globalized society and the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
MIZU (U.S.) is a musician, composer, and performer based in New York whose work blends classical training with experimental techniques. Trained as a cellist at the Juilliard School, she transforms self-recorded acoustic samples into sound works through layering, analog effects, and digital deconstruction. Of her score for “4 | 2 | 3,” which premiered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan, Pitchfork noted its “shadowy reverb, industrial throb, and spartan bowing.”
Kosiari is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in Athens. A graduate of the Greek State School of Dance, she has developed work ranging from performance to choreography to video dance. “Runway,” her solo, premiered at Onassis Dance Days in 2024 and toured internationally, and “Chained” received the second jury prize at Masdanza Dance Festival 28 in the Canary Islands. As a resident artist at the center last year, she initiated “UnPhobia,” which she later developed into “Echo Chamber” as an Onassis AiR Fellow.
