Award-winning video exhibit comes to Penn State Brandywine

MIDDLETOWN » Penn State Brandywine will host FaceAge, a video installation that explores intergenerational attitudes about aging, on Monday, Sept. 25 and Tuesday, Sept. 26. The exhibit will run continuously from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Main Building student lounge.

Professor Andrew Belser, producer and director of the exhibit, will give a presentation on the making of the FaceAge project on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at noon in Main Building room 101. The events are free and open to the public.

Belser is the Penn State Laureate in the Humanities for 2017-18. The award-winning FaceAge video program weaves together interconnected chapters in

which young adults (18-22) and aging individuals (65+) reflect on life while studying and describing one another’s faces. Participants explore issues of identity, gender, sexuality and ethnicity through the lens of aging. This series of intimate interactions challenges perceptions, fosters introspection and builds acceptance, awareness, and cross-generational connections.

Belser, a professor of movement, voice and acting and director of the Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, was named Penn State Laureate for the 2017-18 academic year. As laureate, he is touring his award-winning FaceAge exhibition — a multimedia video installation created from cross-generational conversations — throughout Pennsylvania.

“FaceAge proposes intergenerational connection as a binding force for communities divided by income, class and education, among other issues,” Belser said. “Because Pennsylvania demographics show growth in our aging population, a focus on cross-generational engagement is both timely and has potential to spawn meaningful interaction between Penn State and various communities.”