Swarm

Having experience in both endless funding applications and digital infrastructures, Distributed Cognition Cooperative developed a platform that creates a supportive peer-review environment. Mutual aid informs the principles of feedback provided and support someone can get if their application is unsuccessful. Starting this project as practical work, the cooperative seeks to expand it during the residency with reflections on the process-oriented nature and practices of mutual aid. »We would love to enrich our perspective, which combined theoretical inquiry with fostering solidarity infrastructures, through discussions with para institutions.«

Distributed Cognition Cooperative is a practice-based research unit consisting of Sasha Shestakova and Anna Engelhardt. Concerned with infrastructure as a form of politics, DCC grounds its practice in writing, manufacturing, and maintaining digital architectures in post-Soviet space, which they presented at, among others, Biennale Architettura and Moscow International Biennale.