Desiree Mwalimu-Banks artist
A Chance Operation. (Feb 24, 2024)
A Chance Operation participants. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
A Chance Operation participants. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
A Chance Operation particpants. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks introduces A Chance Operation. (Feb 24, 2024)
Hexagonal 1 at A Chance Operation. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
Hexagonal 4 at A Chance Operation. (Feb 24, 2024)
Hexagonal 5 at A Chance Operation. (Feb 24, 2024)
Hexagonal 7 at A Chance Operation. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
Incoming wave signatures by workshop participants. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
Mushroom station at A Chance Operation. Photographed by Bill Dietz. (Feb 24, 2024)
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks and Grant Cutler at Partridge Run Farm and Apiary (1). Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2022)
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks at Partridge Run Farm and Apiary (1). Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2022)
Grant Cutler and Desiree Mwalimu-Banks at Partridge Run Farm and Apiary (2). Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2022)
Grant Cutler and Desiree Mwalimu-Banks at Partridge Run Farm and Apiary (3). Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2022)
Grant Cutler and Desiree Mwalimu-Banks at Wave Farm. Photographed by Wave Farm. (Jun 08, 2022)
Grant Cutler and Desiree Mwalimu-Banks notes. Photographed by Grant Cutler. (Jun 08, 2022)
Grant Cutler and Desiree Mwalimu-Banks with beekeeper Robert Ronconi at Partridge Run Farm and Apiary. Photographed by Bryan Zimmerman. (Jun 08, 2022)
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks Portrait. Photographed by Nicole Combeau. (Mar 30, 2022)
A Chance Operation: Morphogenic Resonance and The Radio Spectrum Flyer. Designed by Desiree Mwalimu-Banks. John Cage image ©Ben Guthrie. Provided Courtesy of the John Cage Trust.
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks is a Zambian-born, East-Coast raised, artist, writer, curator, educator, diviner, and mother, whose work explores somatic relationships between indigenous identity, water ecologies, apiary culture, and the ecstatic, within the framework of the sacred feminine and the African diaspora. Mwalimu-Banks pursues the electrical synapses that link human cosmic origins to constellations of blackness, by excavating cultural memory as artifact. She creates sound and video installations which reimagine the frequencies and landscapes of the archetypal feminine and its relationship to self-actualization. Mwalimu-Banks has partnered with individuals and communities in re-visioning embodied collaborations with the natural world including Movement Research, Stanford University, Naropa University, CUNY, the Manhattanville Purchase College Interfaith Studies Department, and The Caribbean Cultural Center. Her works can be seen in digital and print-based publications, including Heart & Soul, Sensheant, and teenvogue.com. Her article: “Nectar of the Divine Feminine: The Ancient Bee Mothers of the Anahata Chakra” was included in Olivia Whiteman's recent anthology publication, "Harmony In Chakras."