A Body Without Organs - December 21, 2025

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.