Ibrahim Quraishi is one of the leading artists who belongs to a new  
generation of makers challenging our understanding of visual  
performativity and its relationship to the broader cultural  
perspective. As one of the five recipients of the first Ö1 Prix  
Jardin d’Europe Prize in 2008 for his Installation Islamic Violins at  
Kunsthalle, Wien, Quraishi consciously examines the dynamics of  
"migration", dispossession and cohabitation within the highly rigid  
socio-political spheres of imagined communities inside the contours  
of the visual arts context, while freely playing with the tensions  
between the complexity of the real and our longing for simplicity.  
Defined by a nomadic existence, Quraishi divides his time in multiple  
cities escaping the conventional rules of engagement in researching,  
teaching and sometimes creating works for spaces and institutions  
like MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), National  
Museum of Singapore, Japan Foundation Tokyo, Asia Society (New York),  
ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), BAM (Brooklyn  
Academy of Music Next Wave Festival New York), Springdance (Utrecht),  
iDANS Istanbul, Biennale Bonn among others. Ibrahim Quraishi`s most  
recent essays have been for the French newspaper Libèration and for  
Paul D. Millers aka DJ Spooky`s new book Sound Unbound (MIT Press  
2008). His first catalogue book was published by the National Museum  
of SIngapore (2007). Most recently Quraishi created an education  
model (block) called The Political Body for the Dutch post-graduate  
school DasArts (Amsterdam) while also regularly lecturing / teaching  
at SNDO (The Dutch School for New Dance Development / AHK in  
Amsterdam), Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz / Universität der  
Künste Berlin, The New School (New York), Montclair College (New  
Jersey), MQ-Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), SEAD Salzburg Experimental  
Academy of Dance, Brown University (Rhode Island), Beaconhouse  
University (Lahore), Université de Paris 8, Université de St. Denis,  
C.R.O.U.S. de Paris, National School of Drama (New Delhi),  
Williamstown College - Clark Arts Institute (Massachusetts), Kyoto  
Art University and International Center for Photography (New York).  
Quraishi was a former student of Edward W. Said at Columbia  
University, New York.   www.ibrahimquraishi.org  (new site coming)