2019, sound performance with Isha Ram Das and Indarami Simpson

Sancintya Mohini Simpson along with her brother Isha Ram Das and mother Indarami Simpson, perform a healing and cleansing ritual. Influenced by Hindu worship practices, they combine poetry, song, and ritual to create experimental sound and sensorial experience. This performance acknowledges their ancestors who were taken and worked as indentured labourers from India to South Africa from 1860s to the 1920s, and offers prayers for healing from the past, for the present and future generations.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, Botanica, Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, 2019.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.

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Performance: ‘sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara’, MCA ARTBAR Curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2019. Photo: Leslie Liu.