Collaboration with Kelsey Paschich and Kevin Abbott
Trailer
Frozen Fields: Unexpected Growth
Cryo Speculation Lab
The Department of Planetary Futures
Frozen Fields: Unexpected Growth is a multimedia live performance and report from the Cryo Speculation Laboratory at The Department of Planetary Futures. FF:UG meditates on time, space, and the preservation of life through live physical and digital visuals that approach the overarching topic of absurdity in eco-art through sound, experimental animation, bodily movement, and realtime performance. Agents traverse the laboratory amongst layers of time, former, and future selves to process and preserve grass via methods of dissection, archivation, and cryopreservation. Projected ghostly figures echo the motions of live dancers to present alternate existences through layered dimensions. A rumination on fragility, metamorphosis, and humankind in the face of a shifting world, the layered choreography, visuals, and sound design explore liquified, frozen, and compressed possibilities for the future - livable or not. FF:UG ponders humanity’s place in time and space, bodies in motion, and the evolving dimensions of future selves, in a cryptic celebration of the unexpected resilience of living things.
Special Thanks:
Nathan Byrne + Soft Projects, Western Michigan University Office of Research and Innovation, VITAL (Virtual Imaging Technology Laboratory), Gwen Frostic Scool of Art, Department of Dance, Joshua Kosker and Brett Taylor
Credits:
Kevin Abbott:
Motion Capture with Optitrack
Digital Design and 3D Animation with Unity
Interactive Playback via StreamDeck
Kelsey Paschich:
Choreography
Performance
Sound Design
Jacklyn Brickman:
Animation with EBSynth and Adobe After Effects
Installation and Props
Costume Design and Fabrication
Sound Design
Documentation and Editing