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is a conceptual artist, writer, choreographer, co-founder and artistic director of Compagnie Faim de Siècle, a multi-cultural, multimedia performance company. Over the past 10 years, Quraishi has collaborated with internationally diverse artists such as Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, Norscq, Aziz, Shahzia Sikander, Smaadar Yaron, Komar & Melamid, Valery Gergiev, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Hiam Abbass, among others, to consciously examine the dynamics of migration, dispossession, and cohabitation within the highly rigid socio-political spheres of imagined communities. He has presented his multimedia installation performances in Munich, Paris, New York, Sarajevo, Kyoto, New Delhi, and Tokyo. Quraishi has won a number of prestigious awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2005), a Rockefeller Fellowship (2000 & 2004), the Islamic World Arts Initiative (2004), and an Arts International grant for 2001 and 2003. Quraishi just completed his one year artist's residency in Vienna's prestigious Schauspielhaus, where he created a controversial new interpretation of W.A. Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio under the title Saray // Mozart alla turca celebrating Mozart's 250th anniversary for the International Mozartjahr 2006 in Vienna. The Performing Arts Journal says of Quraishi, "no other influential theatre director besides Wilson…has created a style that is sustained across continents in the work of younger artists."