Guardian of nature - Cosmic diplomacy

Ongoing since 2017

How do we reclaim earth knowledge that is within and around us?

Since 2017, a series of immersive and sensing scores have been developed as an ongoing practice to understand how do we reclaim earth jurisprudence: tending, protecting and caring for ecosystems and activate our presence as earth stewards.

This long duration process, started with a first ritual during the Summer Solstice 21st of June 2017 with a ceremony to ask consent to the earth to become a steward.

The start of this practice was developed in the context of the project voice of nature: the trial
and it was developed in dialogue with victims of environmental crimes, earth protectors, water stewards, activists, lawyers and spiritual leaders. Amongst them, Quechuan Sarayaku community (EQ), UDAPT(EQ) Lakota community, (Standing Rock), Starhawk and Reclaiming tradition.

This practice base research guardian of nature is a response to the many legal challenges we face to speak in behalf of a more than then human in a court room. Juridically, in court it is required a “guardian” to speak in behalf of earth beings. Yet are we able to honour the history and the body of a mountain? And if the mountain would speak, what would it say?
In this artistic research, I try to transform, surrender with all my senses to listen to rivers, mountains, trees, animals, polluted waters, damaged landscapes and broken human systems

Cosmic diplomacy, is an ongoing trajectory that can be experienced in the followings formats:
Lecture
Becoming exercises
Guardian of nature coaching
Workshop
for more info contact: mluciacruzcorreia@gmail.com

Research supported by Wpzimmer, WorkspaceBrussels and in collaboration with Mostnica Gorge, Voje Valley, Adriatic sea, Aegean sea, Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Atlantic Ocean, Lagoa do Congro and Borgoyen.

more info on the legal procedures to become a guardian in a european context:
on Legal procedures to become a guardian in a European context

"To reclaim means to struggle but also to heal and become able to confront what you struggle against without becoming like it. To win, then, would not mean that you have proved stronger than the other, by using the same kind of force. It would mean that you have connected with other forces, or cultivated the resurgence of forces we were separated from. Resurgence is a very interesting word, which connects a past marked by eradication and the event of the return of what should have been destroyed—not as the identical same but as gifted with the capacity to challenge the state of affairs that took for granted its disappearance."
Isabelle Stengers