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Food and Games to Nourish People is Theme for April 14 Event

March 23, 2023
By Larry Isch
Posted in About
Robert Kamiri

University of the Ozarks will present cross-disciplinary performer, poet, educator, conceptual dramaturg, and social engagement artist Robert Farid Karimi to campus on Friday, April 14, as part of the University’s 2022-23 Walton Arts & Ideas Series.

The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Rogers Conference Center. There is no cost for admission and the public is invited.

In his show titled, “Food, Fun and Games to Nourish the People With,” Karimi said the interactive performance “explores how we nourish ourselves through playfulness and food.”

With his Iranian-Guatemalan heritage as a point of departure, Karimi plays a diverse group of characters in his solo and collaborative shows, from the mystical Disco Jesus to pop star Freddie Mercury to the idealist cook Mero Cocinero, who has cooked for luminaries MF Doom,Yuri Kochiyama and families and change-makers worldwide.

Karimi made healthy messaging delicious with the “Diabetes of Democracy,” a culinary engagement project which inspires audiences to exchange their cultural culinary histories, connect with one another over humor and food, and discover their own power towards personal balance.

A Creative Capital artist, Karimi has been featured on NPR, The Smithsonian, South X SouthWest, HBO’s DefPoetryJam, Los Angeles Times, Callaloo, Mizna, Total Chaos: An anthology of Hip Hop theory, Asian-American Literary Review, and A Good Time for The Truth: Race In Minnesota as well as various other platforms and spaces worldwide.

As a creative developer, comedic storyteller and cook, Karimi combines humor and food in his Peoples Cook Project, designed to bring people together through sharing their cultural histories and connecting across the table.

Karimi currently designs games and interactive performance experiences to spark audiences, in all manner of civic spaces, to imagine worlds of mutual community nourishment. Their research focuses on the power of play and playfulness in socially engaged art and the role of cultural collision in shaping the non-binary imaginary.

Karimi serves as assistant professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theater department at Arizona State University. More information can be found at RobertFaridKarimi.com

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