Stas Shärifulla, also known as HMOT, is an artist-researcher based in Basel, working with sound and decoloniality.

Born and raised in East Siberia, Russia, with Başqort (Bashqort) roots, Stas takes this dual heritage as a starting point to study the politics of indigeneity, reflecting on both personal and global perspectives. Exploring a variety of sonic and listening practices, both indigenous and non-indigenous, Stas is focused on how their interactions enable the transformation of political imagination into direct action, and vice versa, examining the process that turns these practices into tools for community-building and the preservation of collective memory. As a self-taught computer musician and quraysı, Stas designs live performances around the idea of how musical traditions mutate and evolve when approached by someone with a remote, secondhand perspective.

Stas’ works have been showcased at numerous international venues and events, including Manifesta 10, Volksbühne (Berlin), Jan Van Eyck Academie, Fondation Beyeler, CTM Festival, Transmediale, Kaserne Basel, Rhythmic Music Conservatory (Copenhagen), Palazzo delle Zattere (Venice), Rote Fabrik (Zürich), Berghain (Berlin), MaerzMusik Festival, Biennale for Sound and Listening (Struer), Unsound Festival (Kazan), Copernicus Science Centre (Warsaw), Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall (Yerevan), Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel), LOM Space (Bratislava), and many others. This body of work includes mixed-media installations, lectures, and interventions, often addressing themes such as identity-based oppression, forced migration and resource extractivism. Stas is currently an Associate Researcher at Critical Media Lab in Basel, a Gastdozent at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW (Basel) and Sound Studies and Sonic Arts UdK (Berlin), and is pursuing a doctoral degree at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel.