From 2020–21, Nipper collaborated with graphic designer Geoff Kaplan to develop
Costumes, Space Stages, Tanks
a series of screenprints that function as plans for constructing
adaptable full-scale objects.
Initially conceived for Terre Mécanique,
a mechanical landscape composed of hard and soft technologies,
the works are designed to shift in response to environmental conditions,
structural dynamics, and expressive and organ based movement.
The titles are a compilation of object notes using a numbering system,
and each print is housed in an archival folder
with exhibition instructions printed on the reverse.
One work,
space stage [bell],
proposes a suspended bell structure
and serves as a transitional piece leading to subsequent plans
for gantries and floor systems.
![1 space stage [intimate space] 2 clockhouse 3 18 ft. x 12 ft. x 16 ft. 4 0 to 18 inches is intimate space, empty the room of numbers 5 plywood, acrylic mirrored to expand space, trisha browns equipment dances 6 count the space between pairs](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1780693249149-66MBGA127ESKH4JS1JON/KN+space+stage+intimate+space.jpg)
![1 space stage [public space] 2 25 ft. under the ocean floor 3 large-scale flexible construction 4 200,000 tons of water pressure 5 firmly fixed in the surrounding landscape a shimmering hemisphere for advanced research in design and engineer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1780693249829-AGCFH6WBJYPOX3K89MFY/KN+space+stage+public+space.jpg)
![1 space stage [social space] 2 high density rigid polyurethane foam, the body adapts to disequilibrium, industrial thermal construction application 3 lilac, red-violet, magenta 4 researchers lay across the raised sides to pull prints from the](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1780700178525-FSSMRBIJXRJJ2ZDVC6MG/KN+space+stage+social+space.jpg)
![1 space stage [personal space] 2 20 x 23 ft., drag the camera across the ocean floor 3 commercially rated indoor/outdoor carpet, loop construction, custom dyed natural fibers 4 spatial data and physical state of 4 layered structure, plates](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1775002799004-4VFSDDP0RF2VCE8OR8L6/KNTMSPSSPERSPACE.jpg)
![1 space stage [bell] 2 11 ft. diameter 3 wood, metallic powder, paint 4 the lab designs suspension system different from the printer 5 ring tied tightly with rope 6 speakers, direct drive turntable, mixer, headphones 7 11 minute intervals](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1738801480285-8KPBGLM1VUAJFE9820D7/KNTMSPBELL.jpg)
![1 costume [mask 2] 2 wood, stain, left eye 9 graphite lines for lashes, right eye 9 graphite lines for lashes](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1738108240736-9U0YJ4GRGOM1O02MHVZ1/15KN.jpg)
![1 space stage [burn tool] 2 20 ft. custom cargo canopy 3 wool felt, double the surface density, nylon 4 arranged in a pile 5 holding the edges and pulling the line](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1775002431216-KCIA5D9RTI85BJMMCPBE/KNTMSPSSBURNTOOL.jpg)
![1 costume [mask 1] 2 wood, stain, left eye 7 graphite lines for lashes, right eye 7 graphite lines for lashes](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1776828780270-6H72DDW5BIJVFWV8BPGD/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-0X9A3063.jpg)
![1 costume [mask 3] &nb](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1775002263826-4MTU7BGSAPDSTXZWDB81/KNTMSPMASK3.jpg)
![1 space stage [pool] &](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1775002511044-PX9LAT8CHW5A7ZZKLDAO/KNTMSPSSPOOL.jpg)
![1 space stage [cylinder] 2 8 x 8 ft. are the outside dimensions 3 circular solid pushed by a dancer on a curve 4 1-2 gallons acrylic paint, plywood, 1 gallon base, 12 oz. canvas, wool felt 5 parallel sides, hollow body, 2 bases at a fixed di](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2d2794fe1ab358cd108c6e/1776828681023-KHI44F83GCW5U8NI7084/KNTMSPSSCYLNDR.jpg)
