salal syndicate

Umulkhayr Mohamed and Kieran Cudlip formed salal syndicate in 2024, as a commitment to deepening their shared radical queer politic.  'Salal' is a Somali word meaning buoy, picked for the poetic inference of the intention for the work of the syndicate to be anchored in the present and act as an aid to navigate toward the more liberatory futures.

While salal syndicate is a collaborative multidisciplinary project, whose core members are Umulkhayr and Kieran, an honouring of non-hierarchical, multi-authorship of work is central to the way the syndicate functions, and as such the syndicate membership isn’t static, but rather responsive to each body of work.