BINT is a musician and interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She is interested in the antiseptic role of the provocative artist and mystic. Working across visual, performance and sound art, BINT applies modern methods to the traditional cultural technologies of her ancestries. In a uniquely interdisciplinary practice–often employing ritual and trance states–her body is the central medium used to provoke personal and collective boundaries around shame, identity, diaspora and the desecrated feminine. 

Sonically, she turns to a palette of dissonance, distortion, long-form drones and noise to access corresponding emotional states in herself and listeners–primarily using processed harmonium, vocals, cassette tapes and synthesizers. In 2019, BINT released Katabasis: Act I, an EP applying dark ambient power electronics and Arabic mother tongue to her classical Indian vocal training. 

In 2020, she founded the Barzakh, a collective, podcast and educational platform focused on the rich heritage of mysticism and magic in Islam. The platform is currently on a brief break, though BINT still occasionally guest lectures and writes on the aforementioned topics—especially as it relates to communal and individual liberation work in the diasporic experience. Recent appearances, lectures and links could be found on the NEWS page.

Her visual and performance art has been featured internationally, most notably for Black Sabbath, Copro Gallery, Coachella Music & Arts Festival and the Manly P Hall Institute of Philosophical Research. BINT will be a 2023 Artist-in- Residence with leaders in NY experimental performance programming, ISSUE PROJECT ROOM.