ad: Nihilum

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ad:Nihilum is a micropress founded by Raven Jiang and Ada Zejun Shen based in NYC.

ad:Nihilum produces self-publishing zines and prints.

Our ideas and practices

Indeed, anyone comes from somewhere, nobody exists as an island. But how liberating it is to think beyond it? We hope that our works playfully reside in a timeless realm free from past or present. From nowhere is an imaginary game of impossibility. From nowhere, hence ad-nihilum.

Initially active in the indie-publishing and book fair realm under our own names, we quickly came together as we find similarities in our work and ethos. Our work focuses on experiences and sensations that are human and non-anthropocentric. We draw elements from nature and archaic memories. Books and zines are messengers that have been a significant channeling media by which ambiguous messages and non-linear narratives find a possibility to assemble themselves. Independent publishing allows these experimental works to find an audience.

We have been independently producing and publishing zines using digital, Risograph and traditional printmaking methods, while illustrating interesting topics for us and others!