This conversation was recorded on 22nd October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Jennifer Tipton and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York.
Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her lighting for theater, opera and dance. Her recent work in theater includes TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD for Broadway and Beckett’s FIRST LOVE for ZOOM . Her recent work in opera includes Ricky Ian Gordon’s INTIMATE APPAREL with libretto by Lynne Nottage based on her play by the same name at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater which will open when the pandemic allows and her recent work in dance includes Twyla Tharp’s A GATHERING OF GHOSTS for American Ballet Theater. Among many awards she has received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003 and in 2008 she was awarded the USA “Gracie” Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. She has lit the Rhinebeck plays since their beginnings.
Jennifer Tipton Selected Reading: My Life and the Art of Lighting
To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/
To know more about Conflictorium visit - https://www.conflictorium.org/
