On Thursday, May 5, 2022, Andrea Oliver Roberts and Anju Singh perform ‘Liturgies for Chiron’ at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery. Featuring electronics and voice (Roberts), drones and strings (Singh), Liturgies for Chiron draws upon the artists’ shared experiences of coming from working-class backgrounds within religious traditions that valourize labour. Reflecting on repetition in both work and worship, Liturgies alludes to the condition of simultaneity: in Greek myth, Chiron is an uncharacteristically wise and well-mannered centaur associated with medicine and healing; in astronomy, it is also the name of a centaur – a small Solar System body with characteristics of both asteroids and comets.

LITURGIES FOR CHIRON
ANDREA OLIVER ROBERTS
ANJU SINGH

THURSDAY MAY 5TH 2022 
7:00PM
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY
WITHIN ROBERTS’ EXHIBITION SICKROOM
(180 DAFOE ROAD)

Presented by the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery
and send + receive: a festival of sound

In person event. No pre-registration required. Proof of vaccination required upon entry. 

Andrea Oliver Roberts is a Winnipeg-based, multidisciplinary artist and musician known for sculptural installations and sound works that contend with illness, technology, gender, and language within capitalism. Roberts has shown at galleries internationally and composes and performs the solo experimental sound project under the name VOR. Longlisted for the 2021 Sobey Award and a recent MacDowell fellow, Roberts holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from California College of the Arts, and an Honours B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Manitoba.

Anju Singh is a sound artist living and working in Vancouver, BC who uses instruments, objects, and equipment to create pieces and environments that intend to challenge, confuse, or revisit traditional sounds and music in new contexts. She draws inspiration for her sound work from classical music, industrial machines, field recordings, and harsh noise. Anju’s practice is currently focused on the process of creating sound art, with an emphasis on studying and understanding the current landscape of sound art and sound art practice in Canada and internationally. Her current projects include The Nausea (solo performance based work, noise), a number of extreme metal bands, working with string quartets coupled with harsh noise, and solo work consisting of sound sculpture/installation, sound art, and composition.