Advertisement

Performance: 'Self (The Remix)'

August 17, 2012 at 9:00PM
Robert Karimi
Robert Karimi (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Minneapolis-based poet/writer/actor/educator/hip-hopper Robert Karimi has made an artistic career out of exploring his mixed identity: "There's no Iranian/Guatemalan handbook," he said. Saturday, you can catch Karimi's acclaimed one-man performance at the Playwrights' Center. Karimi tells his story through a variety of spoken-word and acting pieces while his DJ, D Double, provides the soundtrack -- everything from classical Iranian and Guatemalan music to Tom Jones, the Clash, De La Soul, Prince and N.W.A. Karimi provides numerous examples of ways others have tried to attach identity to him. Take his experience as an 8-year-old in Catholic school during the 1979 U.S. hostage crisis in Iran. He remembers being taken out of a class photo that his teachers were planning to send to a hostage because "they felt it might be offensive to include me."

Advertisement
about the writer

about the writer

Tom Horgen

Assistant Managing Editor/Audience

Tom Horgen is the Assistant Managing Editor/Audience, leading the newsroom to build new, exciting ways to reach readers across all digital platforms.

See Moreicon

More from No Section (Assign Gallery and Videos here)

See More

Kyiv was targeted with waves of drone and missile attacks overnight into Friday in the largest aerial assault since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbor's land.

Advertisement
Advertisement

To leave a comment, .

Advertisement