Carolina Caycedo is a 2020–2022 Borderlands Fellow, whose fellowship project, The Collapsing of a Model, is part of the Vera List Center’s As for Protocols cycle of programs.

The Collapsing of a Model expands on Caycedo’s ongoing examination of the construction and militarization of borders as an extractive infrastructure that serves different state and private businesses, ranging from the prison industrial complex to corporate oil, gas, and water industries, and the protocols that are waived, ignored, or violated during borders’ ideological consolidation and physical establishment. As an alternative, the artist proposes fair energy transition, focusing on local, popular, and self-sustaining energy alternatives. She will work with Indigenous and other communities impacted by extractivist and borderland infrastructures and with scholars to think through alternative energy models and energy models under environmental justice, Indigenous, and ecofeminist frameworks.

Carolina Caycedo is a London-born Colombian multidisciplinary artist known for her performances, video, artist’s books, sculptures, and installations that examine environmental and social issues. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory, as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and non-human entities. Among others, she held residencies at the DAAD in Berlin, and The Huntington Libraries, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California; received funding from Creative Capital, California Community Foundation, and Prince Claus Fund; participated in the Chicago Architecture, São Paulo, Istanbul, Berlin, Venice, and Whitney Biennials. Recent and upcoming solo shows include Care Report at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland; Wanaawna, Rio Hondo and Other Spirits at Orange County Museum of Art; Cosmoatarrayas at ICA Boston; and From the Bottom of the River at MCA Chicago. Caycedo is the 2020 Wanlass Artist in Residence at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and the Rios Vivos Colombia Social Movement.