RHIZO / MATIC

November 07, 2026 - November 28, 2026

From Co-Lab Projects:
“A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles. A semiotic chain is like a tuber agglomerating very diverse acts, not only linguistic, but also perceptive, mimetic, gestural, and cognitive: there is no language in itself, nor are there any linguistic universals, only a throng of dialects, patois, slangs, and specialized languages.”
“How could movements of deterritorialization and processes of reterritorialization not be relative, always connected, caught up in one another? The orchid deterritorializes by forming an image, a tracing of a wasp; but the wasp reterritorializes on that image. The wasp is nevertheless deterritorialized, becoming a piece in the orchid’s reproductive apparatus. But it reterritorializes the orchid by transporting its pollen. Wasp and orchid, as heterogeneous elements, form a rhizome.”
“The industrial age defined as the age of insects... It's even worse nowadays: you can't tell in advance which stratum is going to communicate with which other, or in what direction... a semiotic fragment rubs shoulders with a chemical interaction, an electron crashes into a language, a black hole captures a genetic message, a crystallization produces a passion, the wasp and the orchid cross a letter…”
Excerpts gathered from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
This exhibition is supported in part by H-E-B, Texas Commission on the Arts, Individual Donors, and Members like You!"

Reception November 07, 2026 | 7:00 - 11:00 pm

Co-Lab Projects @ Glissman Road
5419 Glissman Road
Austin, Texas 78702