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Cage Match Project
November 7 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us for the opening reception of Round 25 A Body Without Organs, featuring Austin-based artist Javier Robelo. A trilogy of performances will also take place on November 7th, November 15th, and January 10th.
Round 25: A Body Without Organs reimagines the cage as a living organism, animated through playful interactions between people, objects, and landscape. Acts of touching, ripping, tying, making, and unmaking transform everyday materials: bedsheets become flesh, ropes turn into guts, and plastic and wooden bones weave in and out of the rigid gridded metal form. Robelo investigates the porous boundaries between self and other, how our surroundings impress upon us, and how we, in turn, ooze back into them.
The cartoon body, with its ability to stretch, contort, pull apart, and come back together, serves as a metaphor for queer being. It imagines a self that bends, breaks, melts into others, and extends into the world through continual transformation. Performers will activate the installation as a labyrinthine playground, collaboratively reflecting on the fluid nature of being, within and beyond the limits of the body.
Performances organized in collaboration with Leo Briggs, featuring Venese Alcantar, Angel Blanco, and Katherine Vaughn.
