ABOUT

Karima Walker is an interdisciplinary artist working as a musician, visual artist and educator in Arizona. In her visual arts practice, she uses multiple mediums: performance, installation, sound, sculpture, and craft. She is 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.

Her interest in meaning making processes is also deeply personal. In Translation: The Blanket, she is recreating a weaving that was gifted to her by her grandmother, and which subsequently disappeared.

At the core of these 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
The Vinyl Factory: Ambient and field recordings meet gossamer vocals on Karima Walker’s new album
GoldFlakePaint video premier for Reconstellated
James Acaster’s “Perfect Albums of 2016”
Pitchfork, album review
Bandcamp Daily
Song Premier, Lullaby, Le Sigh
Video Premier of Indigo on Wake the Deaf
GoldFlakePaint
Triste Sunset
Wake the Deaf
Yab Yum
Phoenix New Times, Ten Bands You Should Be Listening To
Tucson Weekly