Fragments II (1991)
Fragments II is a video dance work by Katrina McPherson, made in 1991 whilst she was
Fragments II was made with Randomoptic Pick Up Company which Katrina co-founded with Vanessa Smith and Karen Grant, fellow graduates of the Laban Centre, London.
In Fragments II, Katrina deepens her exploration of the artistic possibilities of video tape editing using the high-end post-production available to her whilst a student a student on the post-graduate Electronic Imaging course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts in Dundee, Scotland.
In the hi-band u-matic online edit suite, Katrina responded in realtime to images created for her earlier video dance Fragments, working within the self-imposed limitations of the split-screen, inspired by the canon structures that she enjoyed in Bach’s music.
Fragments II is held in the LUX Archive.
