PEM Presents | Shayok Misha Chowdhury: RHEOLOGY

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In-person event
Location: Morse Auditorium

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Preregistration is required for this event.

Award-winning playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury will spend a week as an artist in residence at PEM, developing his new play RHEOLOGY. This work is a performance memoir created with Chowdhury’s mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. Her specialty is rheology, the laws governing the malleability and movement of matter under force.

Hear excerpts from the play, then participate in a short Q&A hosted by David Snider, PEM’s Director of Learning and Community Engagement. A light reception will follow.

RHEOLOGY will have its world premiere at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn in May 2025.

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.

PEM Presents is made possible by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation and the Lowell Institute.