Bint Al-Shalabiya is an interdisciplinary artist, experimental musician and dervish witch interested in the juxtaposition of the sacred and profane. Her work explores the intersections of technology, metaphysics and ritual through contemporary performance and visual art.

Bint is founder of the Barzakh Collective, an online blog and community with resources exploring the Islamic heritage of metaphysics and the occult. She occasionally writes, speaks and presents interactive workshops on subjects of her research and expertise – primarily on topics of Semitic scripts and Islamic mysticism as they relate to Western occultism. While her current focus weighs heavier on a revival of Islamic folk magic practices, particularly in the West, her background as an Initiate is deeply grounded in western ceremonial magick, sufism, hermetic qabalah and thelema. Select recent lectures and workshops are listed in CV below.

As a visual artist, Bint works across many mediums and is deeply influenced by her training since childhood in traditional Islamic art, which the artist still continues to study abroad (Turkey, Palestine, Spain, Israel, Egypt). It is common for many pieces to end up in the third dimension, inspired by her early work in Hollywood costuming and prop design.

As a performance artist, she is interested in work that involves, challenges and provokes the audience out of the passive emotional state default to viewership– as historically demonstrated by the Futurists, Actionists and various radical Sufi sects (e.g. Qalandaris). With an early background in fringe and street art circles, the artist still tends to prefer street-style performance and public rituals as a method of confronting and interacting with audiences. Her choices of movement and choreography are deeply rooted in over a decade as a trained dancer.

Her visual and performance art has been featured in galleries and stages around the US, most notably for Black Sabbath, Coachella, the Electric Daisy Carnival and at the Manly P Hall Institute of Philosophical Research.