Watermill Center Will Host Open Studio and Rehearsal Saturday

The Watermill Center will open its doors to the public Saturday afternoon with a tour of the building and grounds at 1, an open studio featuring the work of Zach Eugene Salinger-Simonson at 2, and an open rehearsal at 3 by the performance group Undisciplined Body. All events are free but require advance reservations.

Mr. Salinger-Simonson is a product designer whose primary focus is lighting but whose practice extends to furniture and jewelry. During his residence at the center he will explore the inherent meaning found in rings, collars, necklaces, and bracelets. By fracturing, shattering, and repairing these pieces he aims to give new life to their traditional forms.

Ebana Garin and Camila Karl founded Undisciplined Body in 2012, with a focus on the conditioning imposed by theatrical discipline on the scene and the performers’ bodies. At the center, the group is working on a new project, “The Factory,” guided by Foucault’s biopolitical theory and concentrating primarily on corporal discipline. 

The guided tour at 1 p.m. will include the building, grounds, gardens, study library, and art collection, which has over 8,000 objects and artworks dating from the Stone Age to the present.

An off-site program, Viewpoints @ 29th Street, will present a talk by Jonah Bokaer on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. at the New York City studio of Robert Wilson, the center’s founder and artistic director. Mr. Bokaer, whose Platform project is on view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill through Jan. 16, has developed a new form of choreography whose structure relies on visual art and design. Reservations are required.