Kelly Nipper
Statement about the Artist:
“Nipper no doubt inherited the vocabulary of ‘environment’ from Kaprow and his ilk, along with the term ‘score’ for the directions that record her works. Yet ‘score’ has a far more explicit nature for Nipper than for her mentor. Both ‘Sapphire’ and ‘Circle Circle’ include a transcription of the choreography into Labanotation, another one of the theoretician’s contributions to the history of dance. One of the three systems currently used to record choreography in dance companies worldwide, Labanotation resembles a schematic whose markings describe both where and when the dancer’s body moves, their characteristics corresponding to different movement qualities (for instance, a sign shaded black means the movement is done low to the ground, whereas a hatched sign means it is danced high or on relevé ).
Evocative of a strip of tapestry, Labanotation recalls one of Nipper’s influences, Anni Albers. In Nipper’s sketchbook is an image of Albers’ 1969 ‘Red Meander’, whose mazelike red design adds a second layer of choreographed line to the thread’s back-and-forth movement, woven into the fabric’s particular ‘stop-time’. Given this property of weaving and Nipper’s highly associative intelligence, it is little surprise that images of looms and weaving instruments are gradually appearing in her work.” Joanna Fiduccia
Taken from Wikipedia,
Linguistics:
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.[1] It involves the analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.[2] Linguists traditionally analyse human language by observing an interplay between sound and meaning.[3] Linguistics also deals with the social, cultural, historical, and political factors that influence language, through which linguistic and language-based context is often determined.[4] Research on language through the sub-branches of historical and evolutionary linguistics also focuses on how languages change and grow, particularly over an extended period of time.
The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the 6th- century-BC Indian grammarian Pāṇini[5][6] who wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his Aṣṭādhyāyī.[7]
Related areas of study include the disciplines of semiotics (the study of direct and indirect language through signs and symbols), literary criticism (the historical and ideological analysis of literature, cinema, art, or published material), translation (the conversion and documentation of meaning in written/spoken text from one language or dialect onto another), and speech-language pathology (a corrective method to cure phonetic disabilities and dis-functions at the cognitive level).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
Tessa Pattern, 2014
Performance documentation
Lead Dancer and Rehearsal Director: Marissa Ruazol
Laban Movement Analysis Instructor: Ed Groff
Actress: Małgorzata Białek
Composition, Electronics: Phillip Curtis
Sound Technicians: Piotr Żelazko (Warsaw) and Paul Richardson (London)
Costume Assistant: Jill Spector
Videographer: Ollie Hammick
Installation view, South London Gallery, UK
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture was first presented
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA)
in January 2013. This adaptation is a co-production between
the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and the South London Gallery.
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture, 2014
Photo credit: Ollie Hammick
Installation view, South London Gallery, UK
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture was first presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) in January 2013. This adaptation is a co-production between the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and the South London Gallery.
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture, 2014
Photo credit: Ollie Hammick
Installation view, South London Gallery, UK
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture was first presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) in January 2013. This adaptation is a co-production between the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and the South London Gallery.
Field of Vision U’s Left I, Field of Vision U’s Right I, 2013
Framed collage
Paper, glue, pencil, tape, grease pencil
12 x 9 3/4 inches and 16 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
U, 2013
Framed collage
Pigment print on cotton rag, grease pencil
16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Tulip Pattern’s Petals for U’s I + I, 2013
Framed collage
Paper, pencil, acrylic paint, oil pastel
13 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Pleat Study (box pleat), 2013
Duvetyn, thread
Photo credit: Heather Rasmussen
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture was first presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) in January 2013. This adaptation is a co-production between the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and the South London Gallery.
Accordion Pleat Screens Sketch, 2013
Marker on paper
Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture was first presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) in January 2013. This adaptation is a co-production between the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and the South London Gallery.
Terre Mécanique, 2017
Collaboration with the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT
Lead dancer and rehearsal director: Marissa Ruazol
Laban/Bartenieff Movement Instructor: Teresa Heiland
Dancers: Brooklynn Reeves and Jonathan Gonzalez
Researcher: Bjorn Sparrman
Composition, Electronics: Phillip Curtis
Costumes: Karen Boyer and Jill Spector
Production Assistants: Sophie Schwarz, Sophia Washburn, Marley Kirton, Colin Kent-Daggett, Manuela Nebuloni
Videographer: Chris Orr and Joseph Davenport
Video Editor: Sean C. Flaherty
A Performa Commission with Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University
Terre Mécanique, 2017
Video still
A Performa Commission with Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University
Terre Mécanique, 2017
Video still
A Performa Commission with Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University
Smoke, 2019
Video still
Single channel video projection (color, sound)
5:54 min. loop, dimensions variable
Dancer: Marissa Ruazol
Laban Movement Analyst: Ed Groff
Electronics, Composition: Phillip Curtis
Video Editor: Sean C. Flaherty
Animation: Sara Drake
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Smoke, 2019
Video still
Single channel video projection (color, sound)
5:54 min. loop, dimensions variable
Dancer: Marissa Ruazol
Laban Movement Analyst: Ed Groff
Electronics, Composition: Phillip Curtis
Video Editor: Sean C. Flaherty
Animation: Sara Drake
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Smoke, 2019
Video still
Single channel video projection (color, sound)
5:54 min. loop, dimensions variable
Dancer: Marissa Ruazol
Laban Movement Analyst: Ed Groff
Electronics, Composition: Phillip Curtis
Video Editor: Sean C. Flaherty
Animation: Sara Drake
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Smoke, 2019
Video still
Single channel video projection (color, sound)
5:54 min. loop, dimensions variable
Dancer: Marissa Ruazol
Laban Movement Analyst: Ed Groff
Electronics, Composition: Phillip Curtis
Video Editor: Sean C. Flaherty
Animation: Sara Drake
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Direction Symbols Stacked, 2017 (C)
Framed chromogenic print
63 x 49 inches
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Direction Symbols Stacked, 2017 (A)
Framed chromogenic print
63 x 49 inches
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Direction Symbols Stacked, 2017 (D)
Framed chromogenic print
63 x 49 inches
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Mouvement du Mouvements du Centre Gravité, 2013
Performance documentation filmed on site at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Dancer: Marissa Ruazol
Laban Movement Analysis Instructor: Ed Groff
Videographers: Sadie Strangio and Lili Soto
Assistant video editor: Sean C. Flaherty
Performance part of Kelly Nipper: Black Forest at Hammer Museum, December 21, 2013 -
February 23, 2014. Black Forest is co-commissioned by TRAMWAY,
Glasgow, Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Weaving Shuttles, 2013
Solid wood
16 ft x 16 inches x 2 1/2 inches, 15 ft x 10 3/4 inches x 4 inches, 14 ft x 18 ft x 1 1/4 inches
Commissioned by Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, Tramway, Glasgow, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brian Forrest
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
The Darkest Part, Slight Detail Recorded, 2013
Ceramic
18 x 18 x 18 inches
Commissioned by Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, Tramway, Glasgow, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Photo credit: Heather Rasmussen
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Figure Underlay, Felt Overlay U, X, Y, 2013
Plaster, cardboard, wire, wool felt
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, Tramway, Glasgow, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Installation view Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Photo credit: Sean C. Flaherty
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Figure Underlay, Felt Overlay U, X, Y, 2013
Plaster, cardboard, wire, wool felt
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, Tramway, Glasgow, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Installation view Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Photo credit: Sean C. Flaherty
Courtesy Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
