Boston is about to witness something truly special. On Sunday, November 8 at 7:00 PM, two of the city’s most beloved cultural institutions — the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston — join forces to present Sudan Archives in “Any Shape I Want,” a one-night-only performance staged at the ICA/Boston on the waterfront. The show is part of the BSO’s Creation Festival, whose themes of origin and transformation could not fit the artist better.
Hailed by The New York Times as “an artist in a league of her own” and praised by Pitchfork for her “thrillingly original” fusion of sound and storytelling, Sudan Archives crafts a universe all her own on stage. “Any Shape I Want” unfolds as a 24-hour journey in real time: the artist moves between six stations, each representing a four-hour block of a single day, reimagining songs from her catalog with her signature violin loops and voice while projected video shifts with the hour.
Audience members first watch her build a private universe before the stage — and then are invited to step inside it. A meditation on the freedom to move between instruments, identities, and imagined selves, this boundary-blurring evening promises Boston audiences an intimate, immersive experience unlike anything else in the city’s fall calendar. Tickets are available through the ICA and the BSO.
Photo: Yanran Xiong / ICA/Boston
