An artist and researcher working with sound, based in Basel. Born and raised in East Siberia, Russia, with Yılan Bashqort (the Bashkirs of the Elan clan) roots, Stas draws from this dual identity to explore how sound shapes memory and identity within the Indigenous cultures of Central and Northern Asia — regions where storytelling and listening have historically played a more vital role than the written word. His practice unfolds on two levels: on one hand, he studies how instrumental music, spoken literature, improvisation, and other communal traditions have survived colonization and genocide; on the other, he investigates how to re-synthesize these practices while escaping exoticizing, essentialist, or nationalist frameworks.

Stas works across a broad range of media, including computer music, improvisation on the quray (a traditional Bashqort flute), freeform composition, mixed-media installations, performative lectures, interventions, and other formats. He currently serves as a guest lecturer and mentor at the Institute Art Gender Nature (HGK FHNW, Basel) and as a lecturer and a PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel.