Kamra (b. 1992, Minneapolis) is a recording artist and cultural worker of Igbo Nigerian descent based in Yellowknife, NT. Their audio recordings are made up of electroacoustic material across an ongoing mapping of spatial whimsy and transnatural bonds between cosmology, culture, and craft. Kamra’s durational works are audible and vibrational systems used to transport, not from here to there but through a spectrum of both shared and coveted dialects. Kamra makes music that rearranges the energy of space such that the colonial underpinnings of this reality become compost.
In late 2018, they founded Activation Residency, an artist residency that builds a culture out of the social choreography of its artists-in-residence. In addition to facilitating residencies and coordinating workshops around revolutionary love and relational ecologies, Kamra owns and operates Forest Fringe Farm, a diversified vegetable farm specializing in land access, the use of an off-grid system, and social arts practice located in Bethel, New York, where cultural workers gather to field the individual desires of young creatives of color and stay with the trouble of making those wants a collective endeavor.
