Cog.nate Collective Regionalia

Regionalia, a bilingual catalog, documents the research, projects, and culminating exhibition generated during Cog.nate Collective's artist residency at Grand Central Arts Center. The 128-page catalog includes an additional 32-page insert drawn from public conversations that took place throughout the exhibition. The publication contains texts by Cog.nate Collective, Christian Zuniga, and a dialogue between the artists and Karen Stocker. Cog.nate Collective 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 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 work between Tijuana, MX, Santa Ana, CA, and Los Angeles, CA.