Saturday November 15th, 2025
5pm - 8pm
3600 Lyons Road, Austin, Texas, 78702

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.

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Curated by:

Manik Raj Nakra, Head Curator of Cage Match Project at the Museum of Human Achievement. Nakra's curatorial work spans art, music, and performance with an emphasis on collaboration and storytelling.

Diar Enayatpour, Assistant Curator and Art History student at UT Austin, is also a Curatorial Research Associate at the Visual Arts Center.

Free and open to the public! Refreshments provided!

Follow @cagematchproject on instagram for updates. We'd love to see you there and celebrate this new chapter with us!

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Venue Details

This event will be outdoors, please dress according to the weather.

The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) has aging floors and a gravel parking lot. We recommend closed toe flat shoes, and an outfit that won't snag or get tripped on. We want you to have the best time while remaining safe and gorgeous.

Code of Conduct - https://moha.wiki/Code_of_Conduct

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Accessibility and Health

MoHA is wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to info@themuseumofhumanachievement.com if you have any other accessibility needs and we will do our best to accommodate.

To help keep our community safe and healthy, please do not attend if you feel ill or were recently exposed to illness, such as COVID and the flu.

Hand sanitizer and masks will be available. Masks are welcome!

Additional FAQs - https://moha.wiki/FAQ_%E2%86%92

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Travel & Parking Information

Austin Studio Tour is upon us! We highly recommend ride-sharing and using alternative modes of transportation, parking will be limited.

MoHA is located behind the Canopy Art Complex in a gravel parking lot. Guests can park for free in our lot and find free/paid street parking.

Riding bikes? We are accessible for bikes via several trails that connect to Springdale Road.

Riding the bus? The two closest bus stops to MoHA are at the 7th/Springdale stop and the Springdale/Govalle stop. We recommend using Google maps or Cap Metro Trip planner to confirm your route.

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Cage Match Project (CMP) gallery lives in an industrial caged-trailer. Measured at 20x8x7 feet, this weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, TX where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. By fully embracing the caged-trailer as both literal and conceptual context, Cage Match Project purposefully stages a narrative of the artist-at-odds, with either history, space, or a work of art itself.

Since 2017, through an open call process, with several exhibitions per year, CMP has hosted 21 Rounds of physical installations, 2 seasons of podcasts, 12 workshops all of which are created and led by the community and invited artists and collectives.

https://cagematchproject.com/

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The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) is a community-driven non-profit organization in Austin, TX grounded in affordability, inclusivity and access for artists. MoHA’s vision is for an empowered, resilient creative community where each member has the resources to foster well being, prosperity, and a self-determined future.

MoHA runs a variety of programs in Community Abundance, Digital Arts, Exhibition, and Professional Development for artists, organizers, and audiences. Learn more at their website https://moha.wiki.