Conspiracy of Geniuses

Conspiracy of Geniuses (CoG) seeks out artists with intersecting identities; creating spaces to create work/voice/history. Rad (Radical, Accessible, Decolonizing) Care, a healing arts project of CoG, is creating mutual aid/liberation through community care centering intersectional voices. Art is community care. We are artists who do community care work.

CoG’s first official event was in 2004 in Seattle. Since then (and tbh before then) CoG has been a project based consortium that creates opportunities for and center intersectional politicized identities that include Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Artists of Color, Artists with Disabilities, Artists living with HIV, Survivors, Refugees, Immigrants and anyone else who has intersectional identities. In 2014, Rad(ical) Care became a concept and we had our first workshop at the Allied Media Conference.

CoG was to be the creative house that brought in income to fund the mutual aid and community care work. In truth, even though we started as an arts organization, we have always also centralized community, creating space for community and existing in the world in ways that folks now commonly know as mutual aid and community care. The difference being in that we have always been led by those most negatively impacted by disparities and positively by our work.

Nothing about us without us!

We started calling our way of being in the world – Rad Care, something more than just a back n forth exchange within an affinity group but a large framework with which to create mutual liberation utilizing systems of care.