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      PEM Presents: Unnamed Leagues

      PEM Presents: Unnamed Leagues

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      Location: East India Marine Hall

      Preregister and receive free general admission for the day of the event.

      This program includes live music.

      Boston-born theater artist and musician Ian Andrew Askew presents Unnamed Leagues, a short performance that responds to PEM’s collections while considering contrasting histories of land and the sonic legacy of maritime trade. Askew will be in residence at PEM for a week in September, developing the performance alongside their ongoing project SLAMDANCE garage, an exploration of race and performance in punk subculture. Stay after the performance for a Q&A led by David Snider, our Director of Learning and Community Engagement.

      PEM Presents seeks to surprise and delight audiences with world-class artistry in music, theater, dance, film and more. This series allows audiences to learn about the artistic process and supports the development of artists with local, regional, national and global perspectives. PEM Presents further activates the museum as a global center for art, culture and creativity with artist residencies, live performances, lecture series, symposia and conferences. PEM Presents is a collaboration between Learning and Community Engagement and the Present Tense initiative.

      This program is generously supported by the Lowell Institute.

      Lowell Institute

      About our collaborators

      Ian Andrew Askew
      Ian Andrew Askew

      Ian Andrew Askew is a Maryland-raised artist working in music, theater and performance. Their research is concerned with historical absurdities, manufactured scarcities and contrary negritudes. Recent projects include SLAMDANCE (Performing Garage, The Kitchen), Until Other Times (JACK), and Sorry John Henry the song has no end (developed in residency at Hubbard Hall, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Wake Forest University). As a sound artist, Askew has created scores for live performance and sculpture works by Christopher Myers, Kaneza Schaal, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Joie Lee, James Gibbel and Kamal Nassif. They were a co-sound designer and performer in KLII (Walker Art Center, REDCAT, Chelsea Factory). As an associate stage director for opera, they have presented work with Lincoln Center, American Repertory Theater, the Metropolitan Museum, Detroit Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera and Carolina Performing Arts.

      David Snider
      David Snider

      David Snider oversees all of PEM’s learning and community engagement efforts, including public programming, internships and fellowships, community partnerships and educational programming from preschool to postgraduate studies. His focus is to develop an array of inclusive offerings that engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds and to cultivate partnerships with schools, universities, museum volunteers and community organizations at the local, national and international levels. He holds an M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned his bachelor’s in English Literature and Russian Language from Dickinson College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

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