Action 1. Posthuman Guerrilla: «I will return and I will be millions».

This project consists of an action in which different places in the city are “bombarded” with earth balls, homemade artifacts that symbolically play the role of bombs, hand grenades, or projectiles of destruction. But instead of being elements of destruction and death, they would be life-generating artifacts, literally, spheres, irregular shapes made of earth and clay well moistened for their preservation. Inside the balls or capsules of earth, seeds of different plant species would be placed (the more invasive and annoying the better: bramble, thorns, reeds, castor beans, hemp…) hoping that at some point life would germinate from these spheres of earth. In short, “capsules” in which soil, humidity and seeds are placed and can be thrown to pass to the other side of walls, fences and other elements that seal off spaces such as wastelands, vacant lots and other unused spaces.
This tactic «will only be effective when it is not integrated into networks of strategies as isolated, individual and largely unconscious actions, but is associated with a conscious and collective strategy». That is to say, this symbolic action invites collectivity, as if it were a terrorist or guerrilla action.
Following this line, the action will be carried out during future confinements, in a desert city with the possible appearance and invasion of animal species and the non-obstruction by humans in the streets.
In this first action, this ecological sabotage is framed as an exercise of vindication and memory of the events that took place during the night of September 26, 2014, in Iguala, state of Guerrero, Mexico: the 43 disappeared and murdered students of the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa by the political spheres of the country after a series of leftist political mobilizations, with indigenous slogans.
Therefore, 43 “seed bombs” in which each one contains a small ceramic plaque with the name of each of the disappeared and the date of the event as archaeological remains.
On the wall, wall or wall adjacent to the space where the action takes place, a graffiti is painted, which says: «Volveré y seré millones» («I will return and I will be millions») an indigenous proclamation that refers to myths of different pre-Columbian societies, which understand human existence as something intrinsic to the land we walk on, humans as “People of corn”, we come from the seed and from it we feed. In this case the seeds (in the myth and in the action) represent the indigenous ways of life, of the original societies and their identity, which, since the colonization of America, have been submerged in marginality, exclusion and, in short, alienation, in the so-called “night of the 500 years”. The original populations, “buried”, as the corn allegorically, since then, wait to be reborn, to germinate as seeds, being millions, as if they were forces of the earth or “Chthonic deities”. A symbolic exercise in which memory and insurgency are “sown”.

Text based on and extracted from Samuel Cases’ Conceptual Project for action.

It is an artistic project carried out by Paula Ramis Sempere and Samuel Cases Díaz, both of whom were in charge of the physical realization of the work, the action and recording of it; and Samuel Cases taking charge of the conceptual writing.