Naturotica: Ecofetish Narrations is a creative writing workshop that explores ecofetishism—an erotic, kink-based relationship with nature that blends BDSM dynamics with non-human agency and ecological themes—with a specific focus on humidity.

Participants will be introduced to conceptual frameworks ranging from hydrofeminism to ecosexuality, as well as examples of ecoerotic literature. The session opens with a guided meditation incorporating lymphatic self-massage, designed to attune us to our liquid, sensual selves. A warm-up reading of theoretical, fictional, and poetic texts then gives way to collaborative roleplay and writing exercises, using breakout rooms and shared documents. All exercises are informed by humid environments, porosity, fluidity, and wetness; participants will write short fictional responses to each prompt, with optional sharing and brief discussion following each excerpt. The workshop ends with a closing circle for discussion of emerging themes, impressions, and feedback.

Naturotica is grounded in the premise that desire, care, identity, and relation with the rest of the ecosystems we’re part of are deeply rooted in embodied knowledge, minor theologies, and transfeminist philosophies. Drawing upon liquid, porous and non-human imaginaries, the workshop utilises the concept of embodied writing to reimagine knowledge production. The process of generating ecoerotic matter encourages participants to become co-producers of wet knowledge and to reclaim sensual, more-than-human narratives.

Explore:
• Focusing on your liquid self to tune in with your senses
• Impersonating a body of water to embody wetness and fluidity
• Writing ecoerotic fiction while role playing

Participants will gain insights into:
• Deploying imagination and storytelling to deepen ecological awareness
• Experimenting with creative writing through meditation and somatic exercises
• Writing from the perspective of wet, porous, non-human bodies
• Engaging hydrofeminist, ecosexual and ecofetishism theories through creative practice
• Rethinking ecology through relational, erotic, and humid perspectives
• Exploring porosity as a formal and narrative device
• Building narratives that blur the line between self and environment

Experiencing transspecies resonance with romantic or erotic undertones enables us to exercise greater empathy, and serves as a reminder that pleasure can unite us because we are all inherently connected. This approach challenges an anthropocentric and separatist mindset, fostered by centuries of urbanisation, consumerism and dualistic thinking. It underscores that the biosphere is a self-regulating, complex system supporting human, nonhuman, and other forms of kinship.

Zoë De Luca Legge

Curator and Researcher