Sunday October 20, 2024
1pm - 5pm ET
at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114)
Sliding scale $50 - $80
All materials + snacks provided
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Darian Razdar is a writer, artist, and independent scholar who performs creative field research to experiment with unconventional and embodied methods of learning with place. His work ties together poetics, landscape, and abstraction through the methods of fibre-arts, poetry, photography, publication, art-writing, and collaboration. Darian’s field work for Locating Belleville (2018) inspired his Community Power Mapping workshop series (2017-2022), which he facilitated for over 300 participants in four countries. Critically re-thinking the project, Darian created Poetics of Place (2022-present), a workshop-research-publishing project that challenges conventional notions of what maps are and how they do.
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Join us in a hands-on collaborative workshop to learn textile dyeing techniques while experimenting with unconventional and embodied methods of learning with place. Darian will lead us through a poetic textile dyeing (and reverse-dyeing) process, while weaving in urban foraging, and conversations about place and mapping.
🪴Explore urban & ecological contexts
🪣Learn shibori resist techniques, reverse-dyeing, and dyeing
🤝Co-create narratives through collaboration
- Explore Shibori, a traditional Japanese technique, and apply it to our contemporary urban context
- Consider ecological and personal safety while using industrial materials like bleach and synthetic pigments
- Foraging and urban ecological considerations
- Critical peer discussions about stories of landscape and urban context
- Leave with a unique piece of bleached then dyed textile made + the skills to expand the process at home
Limited capacity
Photos courtesy of Darian