The Institute of Memory (TIMe) is a multimedia performance about how the future of remembering is changing right now. TIMe traces the transformation of archives from physical to digital structures and the corresponding evolution of national and personal remembering and privacy through the story of director Lars Jan’s father — an enigmatic Cold War operative and privacy-obsessed misanthrope.
Large portions of text within the performance have been assembled from archival records concerning Henryk Ryniewicz from The Institute of National Memory (Warsaw), Mass General Hospital, and Youville Hospital. The video design is composed of medical scans , X-rays, etc. of Ryniewicz’s body courtesy of Mass General Hospital, and lidar scans of several environments Jan spent time with his father as a child.
Presentations:
- REDCAT (Los Angeles) — May 28 – 31st, 2015
- Portland Institute of Contemporary Art TBA Festival — September 2015
- Under the Radar Festival (NYC) — January 8 – 17th, 2016
- Divine Comedy Festival (Krakow, Poland) — December 9, 10th, 2016
- On the Boards (Seattle) — April 20 – 23, 2017
- ICA Boston — November 17 + 18, 2017
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — May 19 + 20, 2018
Credits:
- Created by Early Morning Opera
- Directed, Written, and Stage Designed by Lars Jan
- Produced with Los Angeles Performance Practice and CalArts Center for New Performance
- Performance: Andrew Schneider and Sonny Valicenti
- Composition and Vocal Performance: Mariana Sadovska
- Dramaturgy and Translation: Anna Burzynska
- Video Design, Interactive Software: Pablo N. Molina
- Lighting Design: Christopher Kuhl
- Sound Design: Nathan Ruyle and Mikaal Sulaiman
- Interactive Typewriter: Andrew Schneider
- Costume Design: Kate Fry and Stephanie Petagno
- Technical Direction: Joshua Friedensohn and Aron Deyo
- Additional Video content: Ting Zhang
- Associate Lighting Designer: Chu-Hsuan Chang
- Video Engineer: Matt Broach
- Audio Engineer: Duncan Woodbury
- Research Assistance: Riley O’Neill and Szymon Wroblewski
- Additional Translation: Nathaniel Espino
- Stage Manager: Laura Stern
- Production Manager: Sarah Peterson
- Producer: Miranda Wright
Dedicated to Razia Jan
Funding / Commissioning / Residency:
- TIMe was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the
Arts National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, and is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund/Forth Fund Project co-commissioned by REDCAT/ CalArts Center for New Performance in partnership with The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and NPN. Crucial residency support was granted by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, with technology support from FARO. - TIMe is organized by Culture.pl as part of a program celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Tadeusz Kantor.
