The Mutable Archive
By Patricia Olynyk
Thursday, February 12, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Reception
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Live Performance
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Panel Discussion & Q&A
UCI Arts Experimental Media Performance Lab
xMPL Contemporary Arts Center Rm. 1101
(located in the School of the Arts)
A cure for Immortality is an expanded cinema performance work, written by Patricia Olynyk, and produced and directed by Adam Hogan and Patricia Olynyk. with a live score performed by Adam Hogan.
A Cure for Immortality is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary multimedia installation that asks what an unstable narrative can reveal about truth. The project draws on photographs from anatomical museums—including the Narrenturm in Vienna and the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia—where skulls marked by post-mortem inscriptions are paired with archive cards containing only fragmentary details about the subject. Working from these partial records, Olynyk invites collaborators across fields to write and perform speculative narratives, foregrounding how assumption and subjectivity shape what we accept as knowledge.
Co-Sponsored by UC Irvine Illumination, UC Irvine Center for Medical Humanities