Cog•nate Collective

Cog•nate Collective develops research projects, public interventions, and experimental pedagogical programs in collaboration with communities across the US/Mexico border region.
Since being 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 inter-disciplinary 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 are based in National City, CA and work between Tijuana, MX and Los Angeles, CA. (https://www.cognatecollective.com)

 

Submissions

Sketches Relating to a Line

Remember that your body will be perceived as a potential threat before it will be perceived as the home where you reside. That is to say, you will be thought of as hard and machine-like and capable of violence before you will be thought of as irreverent, kind, funny or complicated—the things your body is capable of will be overdetermined by the fear of your Otherness.