Images Credit: HKW
Lower Lobby, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Sept. 14-18th, 2022
During #Commonings, each member of Field Narratives presented an element of their artistic research: Lene Markusen shows the video, The Farm after the Feminist Ecological Revolution, which – performed in an intermediate world between reality, dream, and utopia – recounts a women’s relation to soil marked by bodily work and inherited roles. hn. lyonga’s poem, “Memories of Trees - Tree roots and Other Universes” addresses gendered labor, belonging and human- and non-human lives and their losses. Andreas Doepke shares archival material, tracing colonial dreams and the normalization of fascism amongst farmers in the 19th and 20th century. Sascia Bailer presents excerpts from her research on the origins of the nuclear family in relation to land ownership and gendered labor, and how artistic practices challenge these societal norms. Members of the collective will be present for conversations in the installation on Friday, Sept. 16 from 5 pm. Read more