NO SLEEPING

Participatory Performance by Deb Todd Wheeler and Sue Murad

NO SLEEPING celebrates the photographic impulse to commemorate and preserve, while ruminating on futures lost.  The shapeshifting nature of grief guides this experiential, multi-sensory lecture and responsive performance, with an array of devices that use light in a photographic manner (historic, low tech, and the technology of now), to occupy rooms and bedrooms of historic homes where someone remembered may have dreamt and slept. While a designed template provides a consistent throughline, each performance yields unique imagery, with referential gastronomy at the conclusion.

After a season as artists in residence at the Meetinghouse in Harvard, MA, Deb Todd Wheeler and I developed a template for NO SLEEPING, with a goal of performing the work at historic homes across the country. We are currently actively seeking hosting partnerships with historic house museums and historic homes.

If you are interested in joining an audience at an historic site, please email sue.a.murad@gmail.com

Curated by Shana Dumont Garr
Conceived by DTW
Co-Created and performed with Sue Murad
Gastronomy by Maureen Coffey

Read more…. Cate McQuaid writes about NO SLEEPING in The Boston Globe, and Ocean in a Drop Curator Shana Dumont Garr write about NO SLEEPING in Medium.com

2025 No Sleeping