The monstrous can not only be thought of as a normalizing device but also as a space of resistance that, due to its untamed, liminal, and unstable quality, allows the questioning of the binaries of the hetero-cis-capitalist-colonial system. A system that has organized bodies (human, non-human, cosmic, scriptural, disciplinary, etc.) as atomized entities, always equal to themselves and always in the service of the expansion of capital. In this context, we are interested in asking how artistic practices can function from a monstrous doing/knowing that overflows, disorganizes, and problematizes corporality, not from the usual dichotomies, but from an inasible "in between," a dispersion and movement (Ulm, 2021 ), a mestizo and ch'ixi thinking (Anzaldúa, 201 6 and Rivera Cusicanqui, 201 5). We invite you to reflect on art as a practice of thought that can enhance the monstrous and promote questions that challenge us to keep thinking: How can we open up readings of culture(s) from the monstrous artistic practices that they engender? What is the fate of artistic creation that escapes the canon, that opens political horizons, that poses resistance, mutations, dislocations, overflows, that is not domesticated, that resignifies fictions, that disrupts, that is a threshold, that vacillates and/or breaks the law? What knowledge and understanding do artistic practices (literary, visual, audiovisual, performative, etc.) contribute to the reinterpretation of the monstrous? What is the power of overflowing bodies; individual bodies, collective bodies, bodies of work, texts, territories?

Published: 2023-12-01