In Process @ the Watermill Center, an ongoing series of studio visits and open rehearsals featuring its artists in residence, will return tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. with presentations by Egle Budvytyte, Ana Mazzei, Wei Xiong, and Emma Ofosua Donkor.
The representative of Lithuania at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Budvytyte works across visual and performing arts. Through songs, poetry, video, and performance, she approaches movement and gesture as means to subvert normativity, gender and social roles, and the relationships among human bodies, audiences, and environments.
Budvytyte has also exhibited at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Canal Projects in New York City, the 19th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, and the De Appel Arts Centre and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Based in Amsterdam and Vilnius, Lithuania, she is the recipient of the Watermill Center’s 2026 Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts.
Based in Cotia, Brazil, Mazzei is a visual artist, professor, and founder of Teatro Facada, an artistic collective. She develops an experimental visual language that expands the possibilities of sculpture, installation, and performance, according to the center, her work featuring an exploration of form, materials, and movement.
Her resumé includes the 32nd Sao Paulo International Biennial, the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, the 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art in Sao Paulo, the Americas Society in New York City, the Saludarte Foundation in Miami, and Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. She has had residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and Sculpture Studios in Glasgow, Scotland.
Xiong, a Chinese artist based in Brooklyn, has worked as a sculptor, performer, and visual artist since 2013. Drawing on his cross-cultural background, he focuses on reinterpreting classic aesthetic images and symbols from history to explore identity, culture, nationality, and ideology with respect to the challenges of globalization.
Combining his foundation in social realism sculpture training with postmodernist conceptual art, Xiong has shown at Stroll Garden in Los Angeles, the Blanc Gallery and the Latitude Gallery in New York City, and the 2nd Future Arts Festival in Shanghai. Closer to home, he had a residency at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Reservation.
Donkor is a West African writer, freestyle poet, and cultural curator whose work is based in African literature, cultural memory, identity, and the experiences of women, according to the center. She explores love, loss, motherhood, generational trauma, and the search for autonomy within complex cultural and social environments.
Her work has appeared in “The Perfect Place Anthology,” “Literary Sisters: An Anthology,” and Decolonial Passage, a literary journal. She received the most promising writer award from the Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Ghana, and she directs that country’s All African Women Poetry Festival.
In Process is free, but registration has been suggested via eventbrite.com.
