6th Global Science Film Festival 2024
Queering Gender, Work, and the Family Farm
Reflections on the EcoArtLab Residency
7th Science Filmmaking Marathon
Final Presentation: «Dialogue as a means to understanding and empathy»
Book Launch - Vom Baden Lernen
Panel: The Future of Art and Science Collaborations
Gendered Spaces – Art and Science in Dialogue about the Production of Space
La Frontera: (Intimate) Borders in Latin America
Residency: Healthy Grounds – But for whom?
5th Global Science Film Festival 2023: Bern Edition
Spatial Narratives – Installation
Exhibition: Care-Arbeit erzählbar machen
Lunch Cinema: Weaving Threads Across Borders
Residency: GEOGRAPHY OF GHOSTS
Workshop: Creative Methods in Health Geographies
Workshop Call: Transitional Justice
Film & Geography: Work/Health/Care
Short Film Program: Reproductive Justice
Exhibition: Making Babies in Bern
5th Global Science Film Festival 2023: Zurich Edition
Exhibition: Making Babies in Berlin
Elusive Exposures Event Series
Research Studio: Mapping the Global Intimate
Video Installations around the Baths
mLAB Symposium - Other Cartographies
Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges
EcoArtLab: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Theatre of Transformation Workshop: Transforming Margins
Master's Thesis: Co-production of Knowledge through Filmmaking
Health Care Unbound
Animating the Commons
Reproductive Geopolitics
Call for Research-Art Collaboration: ON UN/HEALTHY GROUNDS
4th Global Science Film Festival 2021 Bern-Zurich
Mapping Possible Worlds
“Critical Sustainability Research” with the Social Learning Video Method
Conversing Alps in Times of Climate Crisis
Toxic Textures
Digital Geographies of the Global Intimate
mLAB Symposium - The Inspired Discipline
Call for Research-Art Collaboration: UN/CERTAIN CALIBRATIONS
Explorations into the World of Radical Cartographies
Producing and Reflecting Maps
Climatology & Climatography of Care
Call for Research-Art Collaboration - GLOBAL IN/JUSTICE
Homelessness in Bern
More-Than-Human Geographies
Queering Gender, Work, and the Family Farm
Social Sustainability and Agriculture
Agri-culture – as a cultural practice – comes with rules on who produces when where and how. This articulates itself in the gendered division of work with men becoming the head of the farm, and women the person farming next to him. Although the gendered division of work and thus the subordinate position of women have been questioned, the idea of binary gender and the archetype of traditional family farm as unquestioned good has mostly been taken as a given. This, in turn, contributes to the (re)production of binary gender, heteronormative definitions of family, and the inequalities they often entail.
This project shifts our attention away from the production of traditional gender-sex-sexual roles and centers queer experiences in farmwork. Based on explorative research that considered the mechanisms through which queer farmers are discouraged from farmwork on the basis of their sex gender and/or sexuality, this project explores how queer farmworkers contest gender-sex-sexual and farming identities, and what follows for more sustainable agriculture. In doing so it inverts previous perspectives by pointing out how gender roles are (re)produced not only on the farm, but also in and through research projects that prompt binary imaginations, exclude, and further marginalize queer performances and identities.
Next to ethnographic methodologies, the project builds on dance to explore queer farming practices and perspectives. Both gender and farmwork are deeply embodied practices—gender is expressed and understood through the body, while farmwork is rooted in physical movement and knowledge of the flesh. Working with and building on dance and movement practices the project seeks to take account of these embodied experiences.
For more information on the project listen to this episode of the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture podcast (in German): FiBL – Podcast: Queer, sichtbar und zukunftsweisend
Photocredits: Workshop von Livia Kern, Bilder von Remo Schluep