Nazanin Zarepour
Nazanin Zarepour is a writer, publishing artist, and researcher based in the Great Lakes region. Nazanin’s editorial and writing practice experiments with text and print as an agile and mobile medium. They are the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Vermin, a Toronto-based critical experimental publication centred on the subversive and peripheral.
Currently, Nazanin is in the process of completing a PhD in Comparative Literature, with a minor specialization in Media Studies at Cornell University. Their research focuses on Marxism and culture, questions of media technology and armament — including nuclearity and the political economy of oil, anthropology and debates on the secular, print and visual cultures, and West Asia and its diasporas (with a particular focus on Iran).
The contents of this website are mostly writing & arts work. Email me for a full academic CV.
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My Body/Not Body
My Body/Not Body
Large-form poem (4x7 ft.) by Nazanin Zarepour
Multi-channel video installation by Kristine White
– Developed through Mayworks’ Labour Arts Catalyst in collaboration with the United Steelworkers Toronto Area Council Injured Workers Program.
DESCRIPTION
My Body/Not Body explores what happens to the mind when the body is reduced to a tool for alienated labour. Since the inner mechanisms of the mind cannot be fully captured, is this where freedom lies? This piece appeared alongside Kristine White’s multi-channel video installation “What is a Body Worth?”, made in collabopration with the United Steelworkers Toronto Area Council Injured Workers Program for the Mayworks’ Festival of Working People and the Arts in 2024. The exhibition explores what our bodies are worth in the context of market capitalism, how injury is valued, and how workers are often left abandoned by systems that are supposed to protect them.