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✰ PROJECTS
  1. Edge Theory
  2. Like a Labyrinth
  3. a landscape hosts something
  4. Morning Poems
  5. Eye of Water 
  6. Associations
  7. Body Mass
  8. Poetics of Place
  9. Idle Nature
  10. rāz dār am
  11. enmeshed
  12. Community Power Mapping
  13. Locating Belleville

✰ WORKSHOPS
  1. a landscape hosts something
  2. Chromocore
  3. Poetics of Place
  4. Community Power Mapping

✰ REVIEWS & CRITICISM
  1. Sympoiesis
  2. The Image of All Matter
  3. Foggy
  4. Infrastructure, landscape and modernism
  5. Sitting in the Chair
  6. Vernacular Culture in the Social Economy
  7. Staging Death and Desire

✰ Photo
  1. Architecture
  2. Landscape
  3. Nokia 3310
  4. Etc.

✰ Miscellania
Mark

Photo by Jorian Charlton
Photo by Jorian Charlton

Darian Razdar is a writer, artist, and independent scholar. His interdisciplinary practice is embodied, ecological, collaborative, and research-intensive – most often working with poetry, image, textile, and print. With roots in the Great Lakes and Caspian Sea basins, his practice is currently based in Toronto and Paris.

Razdar is an active writer with an evolving publishing history in poetry and criticism. His chapbooks include Edge Theory (Toronto: silverfish, 2025); Morning Poems (Toronto San Press, 2023); and Counter-Map: A Poetics of Place (Toronto: Reflex Urbanism, 2022). His poetry was recently published in the collaborative artists' book Nightwalker alongside photography by Eric Francisco (Toronto: Reflex Editions, 2025). Razdar’s writing is also found in Commo Mag; Peripheral Review; C Mag; Vallum: Contemporary Poetry; The Blasted Tree; PM Press; Pleasure Dome; The Asian Canadian Living Archive; Upping the Anti; Hearth Garage; Toronto Star; Progressive City; and Metropolitics.

Crucial to Razdar’s practice is the performance of creative field research in which he experiments with collaborative and embodied methods of learning with place. His field work in Paris for Locating Belleville (2018) inspired his Community Power Mapping workshop series, which he facilitated for over 300 participants in 4 countries between 2018-2022. Critically re-thinking these projects, Razdar created the workshops Poetics of Place in 2022 and a landscape hosts something in 2024.

Razdar was a 2025 Venice Biennale Canada Pavilion fellow, 2025 artist in resident at ZK/U (Berlin), 2024 Center for Book Arts research fellow, and he is an active member of the Queer Ecologies Research Collective since 2023. 

Acknowledgements for Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support of his practice.

Darian Razdar provides writing, editing, design and R&D services in the fields of Arts & Culture, Education, Urbanism, Design, and Architecture. Check out his services page and get in contact to work together!

CV available here



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