RHIZO / MATIC
Featuring Adeola Olagunju, Britt Moseley, Hilary Rochow, Joshua Duttweiler, Maya Gauvin, Pat Wolf, Rebeccah Polk, and Will Hatch Crosby
Public Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7th, 2026 7-11pm RSVP
On view Saturdays 12-6pm
5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702
Austin Studio Tour Open Hours: November 14th, 15th, 21st, & 22nd, 12-6pm
“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
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