Fragmented/Fused : Ready for the Stage

Freed the Puppet's newest work, Fragmented/Fused is ready for performance and installation opportunities! I have been editing the video material slowly and steadily for over a year, and Alex and I worked through March on the sound design and choreography. I finally developed a passable Chroma Keying workflow in studio and in the editing room last summer, and shoots from last September and this past March provided enough base material to work up the show.

Freed the Puppet necessarily maintains a spirit of spontaneity and improvisation, and I have struggled with how to accomplish this with exported video material. The video projection is the most static aspect of a Freed the Puppet performance, and although I know it is possible to 'improvise' with video clips, I have neither the equipment nor the experience to make that happen. With Fragmented/Fused I chose to explore Chroma Keying so it would be possible to drop new backgrounds behind the figure in the video before a showing. That's why, in the trailer above the figure moves in front of sheer blackness or the blueness of the studio setup. Hopefully, without too much difficulty we'll be able to make the video aspect a bit more mutable this time around. The first mounting of a Fragmented/Fused exhibition is as yet undetermined.