In his "Rhizomatic Stroll," Julien Paccard (born 1988) describes less a physical tour through different sequences of spaces in a cellar located underground in Spandau; rather, the title serves as a metaphor for a model of worldview.
Music theory, skateboarding, and the conceptual art of the 1970s form the points of reference, the starting point of the walk through an open network of ruptures, transitions—and through the urban space of Berlin. Drawing on the concept of the rhizome, coined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, a system unfolds in which meaning is not revealed linearly, but rather in a disjointed, contradictory, and polyphonic manner.
Temporary constellations emerge in the historic cellar: paintings, videos, objects, and musical scores form independent groups, each following its own inherent rules—while simultaneously subverting them. What comes together here is not unity, but friction. From the collision of heterogeneous elements arises a new, unstable network that defies any definitive interpretation.
The “Rhizomatic Stroll” is conceived as a process, not a finished work. Through regularly occurring musical interventions, the exhibition is continuously altered, expanded, and activated. Perception is not confirmed here, but rather shifted—reality appears as something that only comes together in the experience.
