Jacklyn Brickman

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