Long before the forty-fifth president of the United States rolled out his demonstrably preposterous plan to build a security wall stretching two-thousand-plus miles across the country’s border with Mexico, Postcommodity was investigating that boundary as a site of fantasy and folly. Comprising three collaborators—Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist—from the Southwestern US, the interdisciplinary collective spent years developing Repellent Fence (2015), a work

ArtNews Alex Greenberger May 4, 2017 Postcommodity, Coyotaje, 2017. CHARLES BENTON/COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND ART IN GENERAL In 2012, the three-person collective Postcommodity began having conversations with United States Border Patrol officials. The artists—Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist—were interested in various forms of deception along the U.S.-Mexico border, but they needed an insider’s perspective. They asked officers to talk about the techniques they

Hyperallergic May 3, 2017 Risa Puleo Postcommodity’s “Repellent Fence” (2015), as seen in Sam Wainwright Douglas’s Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film (2017) (photo by Michael Lundgren, courtesy of Postcommodity) From their base in the American Southwest, Postcommodity members Raven Chacon (in Albuquerque), Crístobal Martínez (in Phoenix), and Kade L. Twist(in Santa Fe) are well positioned to view the realities and projections of life along the US–Mexico border. In 2

The Brooklyn Rail May 1, 2017 Jared Quinton In part of Postcommodity’s takeover of Art in General’s new Dumbo space, a single photograph hangs at the end of a long gallery, spotlit and seemingly suspended in darkness. In the image, shot from a moving car on the U.S. side of the U.S. – Mexico border, two dogs preside over the bones of a dead horse. One stands protectively, meeting the camera’s gaze, while the other looks away uninterested, dwarfed by the skull nearby. The chai

Congratulations to Kade Twist, member of the artist collective Postcommodity, and fellow members Cristóbal Martínez and Raven Chacon for their inclusion in documenta 14 with presentations in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany Installation View: Postcommodity, Coyotaje, 2017. On view Art In General, New York, March 25-May 6, 2017 Works at documenta 14: The Ears between Worlds Are Always Speaking (2017) Two-channel hyperdirectional opera: two Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs)

See the artist collective Postcommodity at the 2017 Whitney Biennial Postcommodity includes: Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist and Raven Chacon See Kade Twist’s solo work at David Richard Gallery FEATURING BELOW: KADE L. TWIST Twist’s solo artistic practice focuses on the diaspora of the Cherokee nation, mapping their migration across the US from their origins in the Carolinas through the Southern US, to Oklahoma and on to California. These migrations, caused by economic expa