“What are the scales of time that I inhabit in a day? And how do I shift in and out of different scales of time? And how does that speak to ways in which I’m embodied and disembodied in a day?”
Artists and Rights, Episode 3: Weaving Tight Enough: Forming Solidarities and “Fixing” the Situation
Cog•nate Collective (Misael Diaz + Amy Sanchez Arteaga) develops research projects, public interventions, and experimental pedagogical programs in collaboration with communities across the US/Mexico border region. Founded in 2010, their work has interrogated the evolution of the border as it is simultaneously erased by neoliberal economic policies and bolstered through increased militarization, tracing the fallout of this incongruence for migrant communities on either side of the border. As a result, their interdisciplinary projects often address issues of citizenship, migration, informal economies, and popular culture, arguing for understanding the border not as a bifurcating line, but as a region that expands and contracts with the movement of people and objects. They currently work between Tijuana, MX, Santa Ana, CA, and Los Angeles, CA.
Selected Works
Cog•nate Collective, “Regresa a Mí / Come Back to Me,” 2018. Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Photo: Pablo Mason.
Cog•nate Collective, Es Mejor Encender Una Luz que Maldecir la Oscuridad, 2012. Embroidered Canvas produced with the Tijuana collective Mujeres Mixtecas.
Cog•nate Collective, Mobile Agora Project (MAP: LA), Protest Balloon-making Workshop with Resilience Orange County, Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet, 2016.