robert wilson

“I collaborated with director and visual artist Robert Wilson on video design for a theater production, as part of one of the first generations of participants at The Watermill Center in New York. I also wrote a PhD dissertation on his creative process, which later became a book series. Most recently, I delivered an artist talk at the National Theater School, and had the honor of being selected for a tribute at the National Theater of Spain.” — PV

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“I saw Broadway theater and I didn’t like it. I hated it. And I hate it. I saw works by Balanchine, Cunningham, and John Cage, and I liked them. And I still like them. This was my first important influence. The second was when I adopted a deaf-mute child. He thought in terms of images. With him, I made ‘Deafman Glance,’ a silent opera. And the third major influence was meeting Christopher Knowles. He was concerned with mathematics, and I was interested in his way of thinking about words, the structures of sound.”

— Robert Wilson I “Non-verbal”, The New Yorker, 1971

ROBERT WILSON

"[America's] or even the world's foremost vanguard theater artist." — The New York Times

"Since the late 1960s, Robert Wilson's productions have decisively shaped the look of theater and opera. Through his signature use of light, his investigations into the structure of a simple movement, and the classical rigor of his scenic and furniture design, Wilson has continuously articulated the force and originality of his vision. Wilson's close ties and collaborations with leading artists, writers, and musicians continue to fascinate audiences worldwide." — The Watermill Center

ROBERT WILSON

THEATER

"I had the privilege of working for three years as a video design collaborator of The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson. Each summer, we developed the project at The Watermill Center in The Hamptons, New York, and spent a week at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and a month at Teatro Comunale di Modena in Italy. Along with Christopher Kondek, video designer, I decided to search, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., early cinema footage from 1895 to 1907, which contributed to create an audiovisual narrative." — Pedro Valiente