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Tonight from 6-6:30 at Tucson Museum of Art's Momentos Program and in conjunction with the Arizona Biennial, I'll be performing a sound piece.

Part travelogue and sound collage essay, I am pulling from my research trip last summer to multiple dams and data centers in the western US. I see these sites as inverse monuments of each other and storytelling machines through tours, museums, propaganda, public access and lack thereof. My recordings are didactic, intimate and bodily, industrial, and come from: the Colorado River, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, Data Centers in Oregon and Arizona, Hetch Hetchi Reservoir, Pulgas Temple, the site of the failed St. Francis Dam, the former Gline's Dam site on the Elwha River, Google Campus, The Computer History Museum, Meta Park, and the flagship Apple Store.

For me, citing and collaging these places together have been a helpful strategy for reaffirming my own capacity to tell stories, on a different scale, about these places. But also in seeing my own role in the chaos of water and technology in this region. Hope to see you there! by @karimawalker

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3 months ago

Karima Walker
Resident artist at Millville Studios

Working across sound, performance, craft and installation. Walker examines the systems that shape how meaning is produced.

Her work engages land mythologies, infrastructural systems and personal narratives-positioning perception as something constructed and shifting.

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@karimawalker by @karimawalker

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4 months ago

Woohoo!
We are thrilled to support two ASU MFAs with the 2026 Cafiso Somers Fellowship!
Rachel and Karima both presented exceptional thesis exhibitions and we are very proud to welcome them to the Rocking S Art ranch for 2026. Please welcome them to the ranch and we will soon be sharing more about their individual practices. by @karimawalker

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The embodied landscape.
Artist talks by Dionne Lee and Kristine Potter.
Sound performance by Karima Walker.

05.14.2026
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.
17:00 – 19:30 MST/PDT @cntrforcreativephoto

Live stream registration https://bit.ly/embodiedlandlive 🔗
17:00 – 18:30 MST/PDT
20:00 – 21:30 ET
00:00 – 01:30 BST

The event is supported by the Commission on the Status of Women @unwomen #csw

The embodied landscape foregrounds artists Dionne Lee, Kristine Potter, and Karima Walker, whose interdisciplinary field work proposes new methodologies for critical landscape practice. Charged and vital, their artistic propositions assimilate new strategies for survival, understanding, and change within our evolving social landscape.

Dionne Lee @p.bibeau
Kristine Potter @kristine_potter
Karima Walker @karimawalker
Curated by Faye Dowling. @fayedowling__
Learning and Education Manager, Denisse Brito, CCP. @benissedrito

RSVP/Contact art@embodiedland.org ▫️

Center for Creative Photography auditorium and forecourt. 1030 N. Olive Road, Tucson, AZ 85719 @cntrforcreativephoto

Artwork:

1. Dionne Lee. Breaking Wave, 2018. Pigmented inkjet print.

2. Poster featuring Kristine Potter, Dark Water, 2019.

3. Kristine Potter. Spring Landscape (Crawling Paths) 2015. From the series, Manifest.

4. Kristine Potter. Summer Landscape (The Oasis), 2013. From the series, Manifest.

5. Dionne Lee. Untitled (Wound), 2020. Pigmented inkjet print.

6. Dionne Lee. Ready, 2019. Gelatin silver print of video still from Pulling in or crawling to its edge.

7. Karima Walker. Family Archive, 2021. Video. Artwork comprises slides of photographs taken in Yosemite National Park in the 1970’s by the artist’s grandfather Caroll Walker.

8. Karima Walker. Graves for the Rain, 2024-2025. Durational performance, river soils, 4 channel sound, MAX software. Installation view at MOCA Tucson. Photo by Julius Schlosburg. @mocatucson

All artworks © the artists.

#dionnelee #kristinepotter #karimawalker #fayedowling

@uarizonaarts @uazschoolofart by @karimawalker

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5 months ago

See you in August for SOUNDQUEST 🖤🌊🖤 by @karimawalker

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Save the date ♾️ The embodied landscape.

Dionne Lee
Kristine Potter

05.14.2026

New methodologies in photographic land studies.

Performance by Karima Walker

Center for Creative Photography.
Artist practice talks and collage workshop.
5 - 7.30pm MST/PDT @cntrforcreativephoto

The embodied landscape foregrounds artists Dionne Lee and Kristine Potter, whose interdisciplinary field work proposes new methodologies for critical landscape practice. Engaging photography, land, and body work, their art investigates the ways in which we navigate as individuals and communities through the real and projected environments of the US South and Southwest. Charged and vital, their embodied practices disrupt and challenge the inherited moral narratives of colonial and gender-based violence as they operate within these historically complex territories. Positing new embodied critical practices, they assimilate new strategies for survival, understanding, and change within our evolving social landscape.

Dionne Lee @p.bibeau
Kristine Potter @kristine_potter
Karima Walker @karimawalker

Curated by Faye Dowling. @fayedowling__

Education and collage workshop in collaboration with Denisse Brito, CCP. @benissedrito

The seminar topic draws from my research and writing for my master’s thesis: “Embodied South: The embodiment of place in the new photographic imaginaries of the US South, post-1990.” which also discusses the work of Dawoud Bey @dawoudbey amongst others.

The event is supported by the University of Arizona Commission on the Status of Women.

RSVP art@embodiedland.org ▫️

Center for Creative Photography auditorium and forecourt. 1030 N. Olive Road, Tucson, AZ 85719 @cntrforcreativephoto

Digital registration https://bit.ly/embodiedlandlive Link in bio 🔗 @fayedowling__

Artwork:

1. Dionne Lee. Castings, 2022. © Dionne Lee.

2. Kristine Potter. Spring Landscape (Crawling Paths) 2015. From the series, Manifest. © Kristine Potter.

#dionnelee #kristinepotter #karimawalker #fayedowling #theembodiedlandscape

@uarizonaarts @uazschoolofart taken in Center for Creative Photography by @karimawalker

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6 months ago

Crossfade Lab returns with @mabefs and @karimawalker on April 16th, 2026 at @walterstudiosphx as part of @vivaphx

04.16.2026
7PM
Walter Studios
FREE

RSVP link in bio - See you soon ✌🏽 by @karimawalker

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7 months ago

Celebrating five years of 𝑾𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 by @karimawalker 🌙 by @karimawalker

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Next Show! 😺 03/31, 6:30. @advance_base with @moontypo and @karimawalker at @cibocarriagemusic . Ticket link in bio! taken in Cibo Pizzeria by @karimawalker

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8 months ago

Hi, I would like to invite you to my thesis exhibition!

SEERS
1.15.2026 - 1.26.2026
Reception: 1.16.26 6-9 PM

Step Gallery
605 E Grant Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

How do our bodies make sense of the ever-expanding technological infrastructures shaping the planet and human relations? Data centers, algorithms, and our personal devices employ opaque digital and material architectures to continue long histories of extraction and the enclosure of natural resources and human connection. SEERS explores these systems through processes of looping, circulation, physical navigation, and gesture in order to reassert the body as a messy, necessary fount of wisdom.

Karima Walker is an artist and musician from Arizona. Through performance, sound, and multimedia installation she investigates the mythologies, practices, and policies that shape perceptions and relationships to land. A touring musician for the past 10 years, her work has been featured in Pitchfork, NPR, MTV and The New Yorker Radio Hour. She holds certifications in Deep Listening and rainwater harvesting and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University. by @karimawalker

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10 months ago

We're thrilled to be announcing that Karima Walker will be joining Midwife and Amulets for the Tucson stop of their "Happy Wife, Happy Life" tour at Solar Culture on February 5th.

February 5th Solar Culture
7:00pm doors 8:00pm Music
$15 adv $17 dos
Tickets at bestlifepresents.com by @karimawalker

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See you on 12.03.2025 at 6:00pm for Redacted Bodies at ASU's MIX Center. I'll be live scoring work by the great @alejandrolupercamorales. by @karimawalker

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