Cage Match Project, Round XXV Opening Reception: A Body Without Organs
| Date | 11.15.25 |
| Time | 5pm–8pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | Cage Match Project |
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From Managua, Nicaragua, Javier Robelo uses sculpture and performance to explore queer feeling through play and touch. Working with paper-mâché, fabric, and tape, he builds strange, familiar forms that invite participation and blur the line between object and body. His work finds beauty in what’s overlooked and freedom in not belonging.
Round 25: A Body Without Organs reimagines the cage as a living body animated by wind, sun, and movement. Bedsheets become flesh, knotted fabrics form guts, and plastic turns to bone. The cartoon body—stretching, bending, and melting—mirrors queer existence: fluid, elastic, and always becoming.
Through acts of tying, touching, and unmaking, A Body Without Organs celebrates the life of materials and our entanglement with them. It’s an ode to collaboration, play, and the transformative potential of being in touch—with ourselves, others, and the world around us. A dance performance by the artist will commence at 5:30pm.
