Kamra

Kamra’s practice originates from drawing futures needed now closer through their music. Kamra played a live show in Philadelphia where an audience member told me they can tell I understand the channeling aspect of my practice and that they thought of American poet and musician Moor Mother watching me sing.

They work using raw and electroacoustic materials. Kamra tends to work in cycles of rot and rebirth including the spectrum of worlds in between. Their work is a collection of visions about what has been done, what is in process of being done and what still needs doing to maneuver beyond the cages of anthropocentric modernity. Their work relies on relationships, spiritual symbols and failure also known as Bayo Akomolafe's wisdom.

Kamra grew up around their father spinning vinyl. They talk about still hearing Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It" playing in their psyche. Familial sonic history reflects their roots as a Black American genderqueer neurodivergent Muslim spiritualist descendent of Igbo Nigerians born to the projects of Minneapolis, Minnesota. While the tenure of their identity positions their movement around this planet, they feel a pull toward more formless approaches to being.

While scary, futures needed now require the indeterminate. Kamra understands that the sacred is not exclusive to a specific archetype but rather a set of practices and values. Kamra rests on the ancient as the foundation of any and all creation with paradoxes as answers.