ਬੰਦੇ  ਚਸਮ  ਦੀਦੰ  ਫਨਾਇ ॥ Bande chasm deedn fanaai 

Description

In this work, the pieces all draw inspiration from passages in Gurbani that discuss the spiritual emptiness, material wealth, and the transience of the physical body. These passages help illuminate the tensions between the messages of the Gurus and how those ideas have been misinterpreted, ignored, or forgotten in contemporary Sikh material practice.  Conner Singh VanderBeek is a multiethnic Punjabi-American Sikh ethnomusicologist and media artist exploring narratives of trauma, belonging, Sikh identity, and mundanity through styles ranging from jazz and classical to performance art and noise.     Simranpreet Kaur Anand is an artist, curator, and cultural worker who has an interest in the relationships between culture, familial history, and subjective experience. She considers it urgent to confront systemic racism and parallel settler colonial structures in her work.  

Image Credit: Courtesy of the Artist.