Dislocating the catastrophe: art, limbos and pulses

Volume 20- Number 1 :january-june 2025

Guest Editors: Camila Duque-Jamaica and Santiago Lemus

 DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPERS DATE : January 15, 2025

This dossier calls out for voices that, behind the image of disaster and the imminence of death, reverse the catastrophic paradigm. Voices which confront the fatalistic panoramas that do not let space be perceived as a niche of possibilities and that describe time as static and rigid, presenting death as the end. Is the life-death relationship a binary concept?

Therefore, this issue calls for stories that embody a fungal thinking and a viral attitude that, like art, survives, transforms, contaminates and thrives. Artistic practices (music, plastic and visual arts, performing arts and possible disciplinary mutations) that cross diverse knowledge and disciplines, those that seek to transduce with the other, to pass between bodies the vibration capable of inherently producing movement.

We invoke bodies that witness the pulsations of the world: latent lives or corpse forms, entities in persistent decomposition or germination, presences on the edge or at the crossroads of the lethal and the vital, struggles between life and death. Bodies which achieve creative processes due to the sighting, capable of assuming a thousand and one ways of reflecting, highlighting, listening, surrounding, replicating. observing or making visible these gestures in texts meant for reflection or research. Is it not there where it is possible to find horizons to reincorporate images of the past, to accompany births and burials and to imagine future times?