Celebration to mark the publication of Regionalia
Grand Central Art Center
125 North Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701
February 1st, 2020
6-7pm
Grand Central Art Center (GCAC), a unit of Cal State Fullerton College of the Arts, and X Artists’ Books are pleased to announce the publication of Regionalia, the first significant monograph on the work of Cog•nate Collective (Amy Sanchez Arteaga and Misael Diaz). The artists and publishers will be in attendance.
Regionalia, a bilingual catalogue, documents the research, projects, and culminating exhibition generated during Cog•nate Collective’s artist residency at GCAC. The 128-page catalogue includes an additional 32-page insert drawn from public conversations that took place throughout the exhibition. Designed by Stephen Serrato of ELLA, the publication contains texts by Cog•nate Collective, Christian Zúñiga, 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.