Karima Walker is an interdisciplinary artist working as a musician, visual artist and educator in Arizona. In my visual arts practice, I use multiple mediums: performance, installation, sound, sculpture, and craft. I am deeply curious about how meaning and identity is produced through formal narrative tools and corporate and political mythology. This has manifested in research around technological infrastructures like personal devices, data centers, and dams: large yet intimate systems which readily exploit and abstract data, water, and human relations.

My interest in meaning making processes is also deeply personal. In another project, I am recreating a weaving that was gifted to me by my grandmother, and which subsequently disappeared. At the core of these seemingly disparate projects is a bodily and diasporic tension: the impulse to reconnect and heal what has been exploited and fragmented, and the capacity to build new worlds in response to contemporary atomization.

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SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY, Karima Walker’s “Grief Rituals” Seek the Non-Linear Wisdom of Walking in Circles

THE BORDER CHRONICLE, Death and New Life at the Santa Cruz River

Arizona Luminaria, Past and future of Santa Cruz river is captured in a haunting sonic performance at MOCA

Gorilla vs Bear: Favorite Albums of 2021

Vinyl Factory, Best Albums of 2021

GoldFlakePaint, Albums of the Year

For The Rabbits, Album of the Year

KEXP: In Our Headphones

NPR: New Music Friday, The Top 8 Albums out of Feb 26

Our Culture Mag, Artist Spotlight

Loud and Quiet, Interview