Installation . Interactive . RealTime . DataDriven . WebArt

  • About my Art Practice
  • Contact
  • History
  • myInspirations
  • news
  • ArtWork
  • About my Art Practice
  • History
  • News
  • Contact

The artist is Live

Inspired by the iconic performance ‘The artist is present’ by MarinaAbramovic, the artist Faisal Anwar is presenting ‘The artist is Live’a silent performance to…

WORDMapMind

Text and art have been intertwined for centuries, from illuminated manuscripts to surrealism, cubism, and all the way to contemporary art, many artists increasingly…

Re (locate)

Re (locate) Site-Specific Sculpture metal, steel wires, cement Pioneer art residency_Volume III, Khushaab, Pakistan. A collaboration with Canvas gallery and Pioneer Cement Factory I…

Dis (Place)

In the series of video work (Stills), Dis (Place) I undertook a performative exercise to implant myself in different settings for long durations as…

TRACING CITIES 1 : KARACHI

Solo . 6th -15th March 2018 “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”…

Wish 150

A collaboration between TakingITGlobal and Artist Faisal Anwar  Explore150 is a Canada 150 Signature Initiative which will engage Canadians in discovering, sharing, and reflecting on…

En(light)

As an artist, working in the digital medium, I strive to develop artworks that respond to their surroundings– encourage interaction and curiosity. Playing with juxtapositions such as nature…

I see my streets

I See my Streets: Karachi’ is a new media installation project, driven by youth and community participation. With the population of over 24 million people,…

CharBagh

Faisal Anwar – Aga Khan Museum and Aga Khan Council Canada  The term ‘charbagh’ refers to the Persian/Islamic-style quadrilateral garden divided by walkways or flowing…

Up In The Sky High

Like restless clouds, our memories build up in the sky of our consciousness. They remain in silence, floating in the quiet mind. It is only…

Tweet Garden

Tweetgarden is a real-time, interactive installation that engages the spaces of human interaction in public and private environments. This project is a contemporary hybrid Wed/Social…

+city, 2012

+city takes the essential elements of how we experience the urban landscape of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche – in physical as well as virtual space –…

/titra

Celebrating 25 Years: Featuring /TITRA by Faisal Anwar A digital media performance entitled /Titra brings everything happening inside and outdoors together. From 7 p.m…
  • City,
  • Culture,
  • Performance

Oddspaces at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, 2010

Oddspaces at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, 2010 Zone A Exhibition -The Good Night Curator, Gerald McMaster October 2, 2010 For Nuit Blanche, oddspaces is attempting to…

Titra- Time Travel in Modern Age

After creating and exhibiting (from 08/10), Odd Spaces, Faisal Anwar continues to examine conventions of contemporary urban life and norms of human behavior modified by interactions, through…

The MENASA Studio Dispatches

Change our path 2011, 5′ ‘They’ took the wrong path in ‘globalization’. Instead of making things better and connected they forced to make it…

mycitystories

mycitystories is a multi-platform project, which explores space and location through the face of the people,  how is it that we are connected in…

repetition

repetition is conceived around IFFA awards in Toronto 2011. Location: Blue Jays Way, North / West corner of the Rogers Centre, area near gates…

Oddspaces 2010

CODE Live, a multi -disciplinary exhibition for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Oddspaces was Co presented by CODElive and the Canadian Film…

I can hold

…

Flash News

Data visualization on Killings and bombs happening in Pakistan…

I Miss Pakistan

A monolog of 8 Pakistanis now living in Toronto, Canada, talking about their neighborhoods in Pakistan. This video examines the nostalgia of immigrants when…
  • City,
  • Culture,
  • Lahore,
  • Miss,
  • Neighborhood,
  • Pakistan,
  • Storytelling,
  • Toronto,
  • Video | Films

A FEAST IN EXILE

“A FEAST IN EXILE” A Tableau Vivant Directed by Tazeen Qayyum & Faisal Anwar This project was presented by VASL artists’ collective in collaboration…
  • Performance,
  • Realtime,
  • Video | Films

Diplomatic Immunities

Diplomatic Immunities 2005 – 2008 An interactive performance directed by Darren O’Donnell, produced by Mammalian Diving Reflex. Performed at Buddies in Bad Times theater…

Into it!

Into it! Into It! is a networked set of kinetic animal sculptures that have been wired with video screens, sound, vibration, voice inputs and…

Double Date

Double Date An interdisciplinary sight, sound, performance experience, based on the tradition of tableaux vivant directed by Tazeen Qayyum. Performed at AKA Gallery Saskatoon,…

Safe Mapping AKA They Are Watching!

Safe Mapping AKA They Are Watching! A collaborative Real-time webcam stream and performance presented in partnership with Loading Open Lab in Bucharest, Romania. Collaborating…

XIBALBA

XIBALBA Interactive Installation at the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2008 Co-conceived and directed with artist Ulysses Castellanos XIBALBA is an interactive sculpture/installation consisting of…

STIR

STIR A Multimedia performance, presented at MIST theater, U of T Mississauga Campus with Blackwood gallery Collaboration with Castellanos brothers and Sampradaya Dance Company…

Mozart in Lahore

Mozart in Lahore – 2009 duration; 4:54 min Screened at: shortsnonstop.com 2009 Screened at: Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)- 2008…

ID-check

Re-Edit Gurriya– 2005, duration: 3min 8sec Screened at: ‘Bollywood Chat’ presented by SAVAC at Design Exchange, Toronto 2005…

Walking spirits

Walking Spirits – 3 channel video 2009 Duration;5 min pl Try to play all 3 videos at the same time We are living in…

re-place-1

re-place-1 Video Installation Duration: 4min. Looped Year:2010 8 Pakistanis now living in Toronto, Canada, talking about their neighborhoods in Pakistan. This video examines the…
  • City,
  • home,
  • Pakisatan,
  • Stories,
  • Toronto

Clifton to Sadder

June 2006 I returned to my home country Pakistan, after living in Canada for three and a half years. I was shocked to experience…

re-place

re-place intrigues the mind and emotion by juxtaposing contrasting visual elements; bodies, faces, personalities, buildings and neighborhoods. re-palce explore history of immigrants in Canada…

360EXtEndEd

ABOUT 360EXtEndEd 360EXtEndEd is a multi-platform project, which explores a city’s evolution. We live in a city where there are infinite stories at every…

Zero Cluster

Zero Cluster: Deportation is a collaborative, multi-arts installation using hybrid technologies, live music performance 
and real-time video/film with multi-layer projection experience. This project reflects on…

g.o.t.a.c.h.a

G.o.t.c.h.a Gathering Ordinary Telephotos and Capturing Hidden Attitudes site-specific newmedia installation What makes me a South Asian? What makes me a Muslim? What makes…

Oddspaces-2008

Odd Spaces – August 2008 Site- specific, real-time video installation based on locative media and public interventions. Presented at the exhibition ‘Six Degrees of…
  • Urban cultures

work

  • About my Art Practice
  • Contact
  • History
  • myInspirations
  • news