In Process, the Watermill Center's ongoing series of studio visits and open rehearsals with its resident artists, returns Friday at 5:30 p.m. with Aziza Kadyri, Billy Martin, and ariel rosé.
Kadyri is a London-based Uzbek interdisciplinary artist working with textiles, installation, performance, and creative technology. Her practice examines themes of migration, displacement, decolonization, industry, and identity formation, particularly for women in Central Asia and its diaspora. Her experience of growing up between Taipei, Tashkent, Moscow, and Beijing informs much of her work.
She represented Uzbekistan at the 60th Venice Biennale of Art in 2024 with the project "Don't Miss the Cue." She is a medalist of Art Basel Awards 2026, finalist of CIRCA Prize 2025, and a Gold medalist at the 18th International Triennial of Textile. She is also the co-founder of Qizlar, a collective from Uzbekistan and its diaspora.
Martin is a percussionist, composer, and visual artist who dedicated himself to music full time at the age of 17, immersing himself in Manhattan's eclectic musical landscape. He has performed everywhere from chamber orchestra stages to Brazilian nightclubs to New York's downtown improv community. He teaches improvisation and composition at the New School.
On Monday at 7, Martin will preview "The Start of Wind," a wordless ballet for a 25-piece bamboo orchestra he designed and built himself. Open to Watermill Center members only, the event will offer a first look at the work as it develops during his monthlong residency. (Membership starts at $100, free for ages 18 and under.)
Rosé is a transgender queer poet, essayist, and illustrator originally from Poland but now a resident of Norway. A member of PEN Berlin and Circolo Scandinavo in Rome, they invite poets from underrepresented countries to Oslo for readings that lead to an anthology.
They are the author of "The Sea at Night Is a Muscle of the Heart" (2022) and "North: Parables" (2019) and co-edited "Both Sides Face East/Durable Words" (2025) and "Fronteras From All Directions" (2026). Forthcoming works include "Ukraine -- A Polyphony and Ways of Swimming."
Their writing has appeared in leading European and American publications, including Arrowsmith Journal, Asymptote Journal, Revue Esprit, and Eurozine. They were nominated for the Most Beautiful Book award for illustrations for Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's "Cat Book" and received the Warsaw Literary Award for illustrations for Magdalena Tulli's book "This and the Other Forest."
In Process is free, but registration on the website has been recommended.
