Fazle Shairmahomed (he/she/they/dem) creates performance rituals and altar installations with dance, plants, film and text. His work focuses on spiritual processes of decolonization and creolization, through which spaces are being created for interactions between different cosmologies and the sensorium. Community is a basis from where they create, which requires (interdisciplinary) collaboration. Inspiration for Fazle’s creations are rooted in interaction with Queer communities such as The Hang-Out 070, Queer Moslims, Hindostaans & Queer, and artistic communities such as CLOUD danslab and Masala Movement, en CTRL ALT+. More in particular, she is inspired by Muslim/Sufi traditions of Gnawa, Zar, the whirling Dervish; Japanese Butoh, Surinamese Winti culture, Hindu rituals, Caribbean dance traditions such as Soca, Chutney, and Bubbling, Palestinian Dabke, Muslim funeral practices, and the Club. Fazle graduated in Cultural & Social Anthropology (University of Amsterdam, 2012, MA) and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic (University of Leiden, 2010, BA).