Neocolonialismo

On the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (México), capital has transformed wind into goods and a way of land use and expropriation. The construction of a wind power’s megaproject has created -in exchange for both the lands and the wind- a restricted amount of temporary employment in the area, as well as the accelerated transformation of the communities’ way of living and coexistence, a strong social and communal polarization, and a series of negative environmental impacts related to the construction of the wind farm. Down on that south spot of Oaxaca, the bini’zaa and ikoots community life’s spoils and radical transformation is justified by the green energy speech (carried out by transnational companies such as Iberdrola, Gas Natural Fenosa, Acciona, Gamesa or EDF Energies Nouvelles). The project Neocolonialism has lied in an sculptural-luminous intervention inside of one of the Unión Hidalgo’s wind farms, besides an audiovisual system which reflects this megaproject’s reality: the colonial order we coexist with and its impacts on the native people who fight off the spoils and continuous human rights violations.