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Reconnect your body
| category | Performance |
| subject | Political / Social, Human figure |
| tags | |
| minutes | 30 |
| seconds | 0 |
| year | 2024 |
Reconnect your body - 2024
performance
'Reconnect your body' tries to analyse the complexity of a late and rapid sociocultural shift in which the cis-hetero man, shocked, feels dethroned from his position of power. In a reversal of the predator-prey relationship, elements such as lubricating oil, leather clothing, and club music are used as transitional objects in a sincere ritual of liberation from the toxic concept of masculinity.
«Let's start from the beginning. Let's tell the story of the anus. Let us swallow the tapestry of civilisation and weave with the threads that sprout between our legs the tent of a new circus. This is what Guy [Hocquenghem] did: analysing himself instead of psychoanalysing himself. Actually, Guy had read Freud while sucking cocks in French Communist Party meetings and, as one thing led to another, one day he ended up wondering whether Oedipus had an anus. “Once upon a time there was an anus” he said, and invented a myth to explain how we had become hetero-humans and homo-humans. The myth, I tell it from memory, goes like this: we are not born men or women, and we are not born boys or girls either. At birth we are a mixture of liquids, solids and gels covered in turn by a strange organ whose extension and weight exceed those of any other: the skin. It is this membrane that is responsible for containing everything, showing an appearance of a single unit that we call the body. Wrapped around the digestive tube, the skin opens at its ends, leaving visible two muscular orifices: the mouth and the anus. So, there are no differences, we are all a shred of skin that, responding to the laws of gravity, begins in the mouth and ends in the anus. However, there was too much symmetry between these two orifices, and bodies, simple dermal tubes, frightened by their indefinite potential to enjoy everything (the earth, the rocks, the water, the animals, other dermal tubes) sought ways to control themselves and others. The fear that all skin was a genderless sexual organ led them to redesign the body, designing outside and inside, marking zones of privilege and zones of abjection. To sublimate pansexual desire, it was necessary to close the anus, turning it into a constraint of sociality, just as it was necessary to enclose common lands to signal private property. To close the anus so that the sexual energy that could flow through it would be converted into honoured and healthy virile camaraderie, into linguistic exchange, communication, press, advertising, capital.»
P.B Preciado, Terrore anale (Anal terror), Fandango 2018, pag. 19-20
THE REVOLUTION STARTS FROM THE BODY
performance
'Reconnect your body' tries to analyse the complexity of a late and rapid sociocultural shift in which the cis-hetero man, shocked, feels dethroned from his position of power. In a reversal of the predator-prey relationship, elements such as lubricating oil, leather clothing, and club music are used as transitional objects in a sincere ritual of liberation from the toxic concept of masculinity.
«Let's start from the beginning. Let's tell the story of the anus. Let us swallow the tapestry of civilisation and weave with the threads that sprout between our legs the tent of a new circus. This is what Guy [Hocquenghem] did: analysing himself instead of psychoanalysing himself. Actually, Guy had read Freud while sucking cocks in French Communist Party meetings and, as one thing led to another, one day he ended up wondering whether Oedipus had an anus. “Once upon a time there was an anus” he said, and invented a myth to explain how we had become hetero-humans and homo-humans. The myth, I tell it from memory, goes like this: we are not born men or women, and we are not born boys or girls either. At birth we are a mixture of liquids, solids and gels covered in turn by a strange organ whose extension and weight exceed those of any other: the skin. It is this membrane that is responsible for containing everything, showing an appearance of a single unit that we call the body. Wrapped around the digestive tube, the skin opens at its ends, leaving visible two muscular orifices: the mouth and the anus. So, there are no differences, we are all a shred of skin that, responding to the laws of gravity, begins in the mouth and ends in the anus. However, there was too much symmetry between these two orifices, and bodies, simple dermal tubes, frightened by their indefinite potential to enjoy everything (the earth, the rocks, the water, the animals, other dermal tubes) sought ways to control themselves and others. The fear that all skin was a genderless sexual organ led them to redesign the body, designing outside and inside, marking zones of privilege and zones of abjection. To sublimate pansexual desire, it was necessary to close the anus, turning it into a constraint of sociality, just as it was necessary to enclose common lands to signal private property. To close the anus so that the sexual energy that could flow through it would be converted into honoured and healthy virile camaraderie, into linguistic exchange, communication, press, advertising, capital.»
P.B Preciado, Terrore anale (Anal terror), Fandango 2018, pag. 19-20
THE REVOLUTION STARTS FROM THE BODY
