Artistic project to take nonviolent action to protect the land from extractive capitalist development practices, creating consciousness around the hegemonic concept of property. 
Within this capitalist worldview, land can be owned, sold and exploited. This objectifying conceptualization justifies overexploitation, deterioration of natural habitats, loss of species, and often denies access to the commons to the local inhabitants.

Communal Performance
Saturday 19th 2024
Peninsula of La Paz, Mexico

In most ancient cultures, land is not an object, but is perceived as sacred and sentient. She has thoughts, feelings and personality. It is not uncommon to say “What does the river feel?”, “What does the land need to be happy?”. Under this unity worldview, a person can choose to become a guardian of a space, offering their time and energy to keep that space safe. This is the worldview we want to reconnect with Guardians of the Land.

The territory chosen for this intervention lies in the vicinity of La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. In recent years this area has been under a lot of pressure from real estate development groups, with more than 63 megaprojects registered by 2020, each comprising 100 to 4000 hectares of land. One of these projects was recently halted by public demonstrations. However development efforts continue for this and many other megaprojects, so the need for resistance is stronger than ever which inspired the artists for this art/activism piece.

More: sustrato.mx/guardianes