Brown Arts Initiative and Performa to launch new collaboration with co-commission of work by Kelly Nipper
(Artdaily.org)

The Brown Arts Initiative at Brown University and New York City-based Performa announced today a new three-year collaboration. The inaugural component is the co-commission of a new work by artist Kelly Nipper with MIT`s Self-Assembly Lab to be developed during an artists` residency at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University in summer 2017. The work will be presented as a highlight of Performa 17, November 1-19, 2017, the seventh edition of the celebrated international biennial of contemporary visual art performance that takes place in venues across New York City. For her Performa commission, Nipper is collaborating with the Self-Assembly Lab and a team of Brown students this summer to create a new body of work and a live performance for the Biennial. Developed with dancer Marissa Ruazol, a Laban Movement Analyst,