COCAWORLDS highlights artistic practices focused on the coca plant and co-creates encounters among artists, researchers, Indigenous thinkers, and the public to challenge its historical stigmatization.
lines of inquiry
COCA-WOR(L)DS
Engages with the symbolic, spiritual, and linguistic worlds woven around coca. This line recovers ancestral knowledge systems, cosmologies, and ceremonial practices that connect the plant to territory, language, and memory—recognizing coca as a co-creator of meaning and a guardian of possible worlds.
Engages with the symbolic, spiritual, and linguistic worlds woven around coca. This line recovers ancestral knowledge systems, cosmologies, and ceremonial practices that connect the plant to territory, language, and memory—recognizing coca as a co-creator of meaning and a guardian of possible worlds.
artworks
artists
COCAWORLDS brings together a powerful constellation of artists whose practices explore the biological, political, and cultural dimensions of the coca plant.
AIMEMA ÚAI
Edinson Quiñones
Tatiana Arocha
nomasmetaforas
ANYI Ballesteros
Laura Huertas Millán
WILSON DÍAZ
miguel ángel rojas
EVENTS
Coca Visión
An audiovisual night and conversation exploring the intersection of art, drug policy, and Indigenous worldviews. The screening featured Danza Macabra by Alejandra Delgado, the photographic...
PRESS
November 6, 2025 | Ministry of Cultures of Colombia
November 13, 2024 | El Molino Informativo | Mexico – USA
November 13, 2024 | La Tempestad | México
BLOG
Painting as a Way of Mambear the WorldBy Angélica Cuevas
This text was the first article I wrote after being selected as part of the 2025–2026 cohort of Journal Forging, the writing and editorial fellowship...