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Sattar Stas Shärifulla is a Basel-based artist, composer, and researcher studying how listening shapes identity and memory. Born and raised in Eastern Siberia, with Yılan Bashqort ancestry (the “Bashkirs” of the Elan tribe), he explores the auditory nature of Northern and Central Asian autochthonous cultures, where listening and sounding have historically been more important than writing. Drawing on his own dis–re–connection to this heritage, Stas is primarily focused on how settler colonialism subjugates and distorts Indigenous knowledge, reducing its sociopolitical purpose to the production of exotic museum artifacts — and how to undo these dynamics.