Daily Sikh life is permeated with the sounds of the mool mantar (foundational verse of the faith) and reflective chants of the naam, or sacred essence of the divine encapsulated in name. In this performance, Conner Singh VanderBeek works through these sonic practices and the sounds of daily life that they, in turn, encounter. The result is a performance that asks: when we invoke the divine, what does the divine, in turn, hear?

Performance starts at 1:00pm and will take place in Simranpreet Anand's exhibition Living with the Eternal.

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About the Artist
Conner Singh VanderBeek is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Davidson College. VanderBeek’s research engages Punjabi diasporic art and culture in the United States and Canada, and cultural memory, music, and identity politics in the Sikh diaspora. Their first book project, titled Talking Over Each Other: Diasporic Punjabi Artists and the Ideologies of Public Arts in Multicultural Canada, interrogates diversity policy in Canadian arts and its relationship to the commodification and tokenization of Punjabi-Canadian artists. VanderBeek also works as a collaborative sound, media, and textile artist and has shown throughout the Greater Toronto Area and Metro Vancouver.

Banner image: Conner Singh VanderBeek