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Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE, Performance Action on the Boston Common, 2025
October 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – October 5, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Sue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there.
Murad created a series of prompts inviting people into an embodied experience of the Common, creating a temporal micro-culture for each tour group in celebration of the right to peacefully assemble. The guided, interactive experience unfolds across the landscape, inviting participants into ephemeral arrangements shaped by memory, proximity, and shared attention.
Based in the Boston Common, Murad’s part of the Hidden Histories walking tour is inspired by the archival photos of people spending time together in the park from the nineteenth century to the present. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies, labor and loitering, play and protest. As such, Murad presents a contemplative investigation of the often overlooked First Amendment right to peacefully assemble.
ARTIST LED TOUR: Friday, October 3, 12-1:30pm.
ARTIST LED TOUR: Saturday, October 4, 12-1:30pm.
ARTIST LED TOUR: Sunday, October 5, 12-1:30pm.
Self-guided tours are available with the Hoverlay Augmented Reality application at channel: Un-monument: 1:30-4:00pm or anytime that works for you
