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Robert Farid Karimi
ROBERT FARID KARIMI
Intermedia Arts Artist-in-Residence // 2011-12
Robert Farid Karimi is an interdisciplinary playwright/poet originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His interactive performances feed audiences a mixed bowl of humor, pop culture & personal history across the Americas – in theatres, grocery stores, backyards, and even off-Broadway. He is the creator of the critically acclaimed works: self (the remix), Farid Mercury, and the episodic theatrical cooking experience: The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades.
In 2009 he represented the city of Los Angeles at la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, the largest Spanish language book fair in the world. He has been published and recorded internationally in Callaloo, Latino Literature Today, and Raza Spoken Here 2, and most recently featured in Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop, edited by Jeff Chang.
Karimi also creates, develops and directs ensemble-based interdisciplinary performances. Recent projects include: Hmoob-land, a cross-cultural multimedia exploration of Hmong stereotypes in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Playing With Our Food, a youth response to Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma at Out North in Anchorage, AK; Shaving Time, a multimedia experience in Chicago on the masks Middle Eastern men wore after 9/11; and McMuertos, an exhibit satirizing the commercialization of Day of the Dead in San Francisco.
A National Poetry Slam Champion, Def Poetry Jam poet, and UCLA graduate, Karimi was the first performance artist to be invited to be a resident at the Kohler Factory Visual Arts Residency, and has received awards for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Humanities Council, Zellerbach Family Fund, Minnesota State Arts Board and the National Performance Network. Karimi is an Intermedia Arts VERVE Grant recipient, and was honored as a 2009 Creative Capital & 2010 MAP Fund recipient to create The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy. He is currently serving as Artist-in-Residence at Intermedia Arts.
Intermedia Arts' Artist-in-Residence program is made possible in part thanks to the generous support of the Rosemary and David Good Family Foundation.
Intermedia Arts Artist-in-Residence // 2011-12
Robert Farid Karimi is an interdisciplinary playwright/poet originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His interactive performances feed audiences a mixed bowl of humor, pop culture & personal history across the Americas – in theatres, grocery stores, backyards, and even off-Broadway. He is the creator of the critically acclaimed works: self (the remix), Farid Mercury, and the episodic theatrical cooking experience: The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades.
In 2009 he represented the city of Los Angeles at la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, the largest Spanish language book fair in the world. He has been published and recorded internationally in Callaloo, Latino Literature Today, and Raza Spoken Here 2, and most recently featured in Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop, edited by Jeff Chang.
Karimi also creates, develops and directs ensemble-based interdisciplinary performances. Recent projects include: Hmoob-land, a cross-cultural multimedia exploration of Hmong stereotypes in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Playing With Our Food, a youth response to Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma at Out North in Anchorage, AK; Shaving Time, a multimedia experience in Chicago on the masks Middle Eastern men wore after 9/11; and McMuertos, an exhibit satirizing the commercialization of Day of the Dead in San Francisco.
A National Poetry Slam Champion, Def Poetry Jam poet, and UCLA graduate, Karimi was the first performance artist to be invited to be a resident at the Kohler Factory Visual Arts Residency, and has received awards for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Humanities Council, Zellerbach Family Fund, Minnesota State Arts Board and the National Performance Network. Karimi is an Intermedia Arts VERVE Grant recipient, and was honored as a 2009 Creative Capital & 2010 MAP Fund recipient to create The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy. He is currently serving as Artist-in-Residence at Intermedia Arts.
Intermedia Arts' Artist-in-Residence program is made possible in part thanks to the generous support of the Rosemary and David Good Family Foundation.