CALL FOR PAPERS | Experimentation in art: resistances, expansions, dissolutions, and spillovers in Latin American artistic practices
Experimentation in art: resistances, expansions, dissolutions, and spillovers in Latin American artistic practices
Volume 21- Number 1 : January-July 2026
Guest Editor: Ana María Romano Gómez
DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPERS DATE : July 12, 2025
This dossier intends to provoke and invites to share reflections, experiences, and processes around the complex and alchemical relationships that emerge in the encounter between the artistic creative purpose and the need to experiment in/from/with the limits of ideas, techniques, tools, resources, references, ways of doing and the relational dynamics in the surroundings and the context in which artistic creations are developed.
By placing ourselves in Latin America, we are interested in the framework that is articulated by the multiple perspectives that feed the bonds with this territory, that is to say, we do not limit ourselves only to what happens within what we know geographically as Latin America, but we keep in mind the complexities that arise when connecting the territorial notion with historical, cultural, social, political, symbolic, economic, spiritual factors, and thus open the proposal from a lens that expands the gaze regarding to Latin America.
From artistic experimentation, we want to problematize the colonial configurations that survive in different spheres and that override the critical spirit, ignore the particular processes, and end up homogenizing creation, whose manifestations we can observe in areas such as training processes that ignore the contexts in which they develop, the imposition of concepts, the installation of rules for creation or practices that harm creative autonomy, the standardization in the media and modes of circulation, or extractive forms of relations between people and all ways of life.
We are not looking for totalizing visions or neutral approaches to Latin America, we are trying to trigger crossroads between heritages and their mixed origins, renewed traditions, and ways of imagining, doing, and sharing. We aim to destabilize the "authoritative voices" that emerged within these colonial practices under the defense of expertise, to, on the contrary, invite processes in which configurations are attempted from experiences in and with Latin America. In this call, we invoke dissimilar perspectives on the political implications of experimentation. We are interested in weaving stories that feed that great prism that is experimentation in visual arts to resist linear, unidirectional, and univocal narratives.