{"id":10480,"date":"2019-02-04T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/?p=10480"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:19","slug":"the-institute-of-memory-cooper-series-theater-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2019\/02\/04\/the-institute-of-memory-cooper-series-theater-event\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY: Cooper Series Theater Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Department of Theater and the William J. Cooper Foundation are proud to host a week-long residency focused around performances of THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY (TIMe), an original work created by director\/designer\/visual artist Lars Jan ’00 and his Los Angeles-based performance company Early Morning Opera.\u00a0 A combination of autobiography, investigative journalism, and detective story, THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY confronts the audience with urgent questions about the larger spiritual consequences of political terror, trauma, and privacy in the digital age–and the temptation of simply ignoring them.\u00a0 THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY has toured the country and internationally to critical acclaim since 2016.<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE has called it “trademark Jan, art of the kind of beautiful originality for which he has come to be known.”<\/p>\n

THE NEW YORK TIMES described TIMe as: \u201cPresented with dazzling stagecraft.\u00a0 As a broader exploration of whether a human being can be altered all the way down to his cells and synapses by the nature of the times he has lived through, the piece is startling and disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jan’s\u00a0 adaptation of Joan Didion\u2019s THE WHITE ALBUM was recently
\npremiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the first person to get permission from the author to adapt the piece for performance.<\/p>\n

Lars Jan majored in Theater and English Literature at Swarthmore, and is currently on the theater faculty of the California School of the
\nArts (CalArts) outside Los Angeles.\u00a0 He has been active as a director and integrated media designer in Philadelphia since he graduated from the College in 2000.<\/p>\n

Performances of THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY will take place in the Pearson-Hall Theatre in the Lang Performing Arts Center on Friday, Feb. 1, @ 5 pm, and Saturday, Feb. 2, @ 7 pm.\u00a0 The performance lasts about 80 minutes, and the opening show on Friday will be followed by a reception in the LPAC lobby.\u00a0 The Saturday performance will be followed by a post-show discussion with Lars Jan moderated by Prof. Allen Kuharski of the Theater Department.<\/p>\n

Both performances are free and open to the public without advance reservation.<\/p>\n

Funding support for the residency is also provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).\u00a0 TIMe was originally commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute\/CULTURE.PL<\/a>\u00a0in Warsaw.\u00a0 Campus co-sponsors for the residency include the Departments of English Literature, Film & Media Studies, Music & Dance, Modern Languages & Literatures (Russian Section), History, Peace & Conflict Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Department of Theater and the William J. Cooper Foundation are proud to host a week-long residency focused around performances of THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY (TIMe), an original work created by director\/designer\/visual artist Lars Jan ’00 and his Los Angeles-based performance company Early Morning Opera.\u00a0 A combination of autobiography, investigative journalism, and detective story, … Continue reading THE INSTITUTE OF MEMORY: Cooper Series Theater Event<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions\/175424753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}