Cog•nate Collective
[Image description: A black and white photograph of Amy Sánchez Arteaga and Misael Díaz. Amy, with long hair, dark lipstick, and a stripped blouse sits and gazes at the camera. Also sitting and looking at the camera with a slight smile, Misael is wearing a button-up gingham collared shirt.]
Since being founded in 2010, Cog•nate Collective’s 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 cultural, 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; San Diego, CA; and Los Angeles, CA.
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