CALL FOR PAPERS | Borderline writings: the word as artistic practice and the expanded body in writing
Borderline writings: the word as artistic practice and the expanded body in writing
Volume 21- Number 2
Guest Editor: Marcia Cabrera
DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPERS DATE : January 16, 2026
Artistic writing constitutes, essentially, an impossible and necessary act of translation. Impossible because art inhabits a pre-linguistic territory where meanings are gestated before words, because discursive language, with its linear syntax and sequential logic, never manages to fully capture the living experience of the creative process, that flow of intuitive decisions, bodily revelations and tacit knowledge that resist being fixed in conventional linguistic forms. Necessary, precisely because, by failing in its attempt to contain the ineffable, it generates an intermediate territory where creation thinks itself. In this interstice, writing becomes the imprint of gesture, vocabulary is the echo of perception and text is the map of a journey where the fundamental thing remains the unexplored territory that points without naming at all.
This act of translation functions as a bridge between two modes of knowledge that need each other, even if they never quite coincide. On one side, the academic, with its systematic rigor that orders, demonstrates and concludes. On the other, the artistic, with its organic truth that vibrates, doubts and reinvents itself. In that borderline space, where the academic and the artistic face each other without annulling each other, a vital tension emerges that keeps this writing in constant search for ways to express what may be unspeakable, but which is worth continuing to try to articulate.