© Hugh Venables, Wheat Field from Cooksaldick Lane, 2014, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beyond Monoculture:
Toward a Choir in the Fields
Summer Assembly 2025: Walking, Talking, Working – Queering Landscape & Liquid Ecology
M.1 Hohenlockstedt (Germany)
July 12, 2025, 10 am – 2 pm
Monocultures form the base of our everyday sustenance and of the food we can afford. At the same time, monocultures often degrade biodiversity and erode soils being planted in profitable yet unsustainable food systems. Yes, also organic farming works with monocultures. We live off monocultures killing our own future.
Field Narratives, in their mobile workshop, invites participants through walks, conversations and tastings, to understand better our intimate connection with not just agricultural monocultures but metaphorical monocultures as well: the nuclear family and heteronormativity, the gentrified neighborhood, the workplace and contemporary anti-D.E.I. campaigns. Like with pesticide use in farming, metaphorical monocultures manifest themself as nervous tension and uneasy restlessness when their rules are rebelled against. Culturally speaking, monocultures thrive at the core of today’s times of rupture.
Moving through Hohenlockstedt, our workshop will depart from the materiality of the surrounding fields, from structures and economies. Together we will reflect the closeness of monocultures to our own lives and biographies. Before lunch we will congregate to practice growing better together, starting with a basic question of future polycultures: How do we show up for each other - and who is able (or unable) to appear?
© Hugh Venables, Wheat Field, 2014, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beyond Monoculture:
Toward a Choir in the Fields
Summer Assembly 2025: Walking, Talking, Working – Queering Landscape & Liquid Ecology
M.1 Hohenlockstedt (Germany)
July 12, 2025, 10 am – 2 pm
Monocultures form the base of our everyday sustenance and of the food we can afford. At the same time, monocultures often degrade biodiversity and erode soils being planted in profitable yet unsustainable food systems. Yes, also organic farming works with monocultures. We live off monocultures killing our own future.
Field Narratives, in their mobile workshop, invites participants through walks, conversations and tastings, to understand better our intimate connection with not just agricultural monocultures but metaphorical monocultures as well: the nuclear family and heteronormativity, the gentrified neighborhood, the workplace and contemporary anti-D.E.I. campaigns. Like with pesticide use in farming, metaphorical monocultures manifest themself as nervous tension and uneasy restlessness when their rules are rebelled against. Culturally speaking, monocultures thrive at the core of today’s times of rupture.
Moving through Hohenlockstedt, our workshop will depart from the materiality of the surrounding fields, from structures and economies. Together we will reflect the closeness of monocultures to our own lives and biographies. Before lunch we will congregate to practice growing better together, starting with a basic question of future polycultures: How do we show up for each other - and who is able (or unable) to appear?
photos: Marie-Theres Boehmker