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Chu Niikwän Artist Residency
Asad Chishti 01. Asad Chishti + archival aerial images, Then and Now : Water and a Name (2020). Photo diptych.
Asad Chishti is the @adjacent.furniture librarian @bul-bul.press printer+publisher, and the @chairstablesorg media inventor. A first-generation Muslim immigrant, he has bicycled across Canada twice. For the past eight years, he has been tinkering on research projects local and global around what it means to live a full life.
02. Asad’s raft, displayed near the fire pit at the opening of Meeting by the currents 03. Three still frames from Charrettes in and around the Water (2020). Video, 6:26. 04. Portrait of Asad at work by Erik Pinkerton
Asad’s work lives in private homes on bookshelves, and has been featured in various print, digital, and real-world spaces.
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Themes of interest include but are not limited to: happiness, home, health, hiatus, histories, harvest, habits, _____, and H2O i.e. water. Formally trained as an engineering chemist and photojournalist, he has been taking a photo a day for over ten years, and is currently investigating how to better put ink to paper (in the shape of books).
