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And what do we feel
with our normal bodies and confused minds as we experience this
hermaphrodite-performer at play? Michel Serres writes of encountering
bodies of “such singular nature, that they do not let convention have
their face.” (1995a, p. 28) Here, in performance, the performer looks
back at the spectator: the gazer is gazed upon by the gazed-upon's gaze.
From this emerges a third person, who is neither subject nor
object, a new (kind of) person, who cannot possibly take a human form.
In this mutual gaze, one feels the hermaphroditic materialize: one feels
a community of the multiple in one and the one in multiple: an hermaphroditic collective, in which subjectivity disintegrates into part-objects and plays as a pack, in which actions and responses happen supra-subjectively.
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[The pack-multiplicity is] created precisely in order to
escape the abstract opposition between the multiple and the one, to
escape dialectics, to succeed in conceiving the multiple in the pure
state.
Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix (1988) A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi, London: Athlone, p32.
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This hydra-headed,
multi-faced entity becomes an energizer, hyper-sensitive to conditions,
feeling the primeval fury. In being projected upon, they are passive;
but in attending, active. From this inter-projection of
perceptual-sensual fields, discursive and somatic, comes the third
person-hermaphrodite: the mixed body chaos-machine of the audience—performer. Fleetingly-momentarily, in this chaos-noise of the performance-collective, all is both abandoned and engulfed. The
performer-hermaphrodite mixes totally with all bodies, touches all
flesh. Integrity left behind in innumerable sexes. We glimpse the
appearances of the potentialities of the Human, its superhuman futures.
its hermaphrodism
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EPISODE 4:
During the ending of DeliverUs, a video projection plays
upon the performers' bodies. The bodies of the lovers disappear and
dissolve AND the flesh will not appear in their place, but remains
itselves inbetween bodies/ texts/ media as itself a medium, between video and performance, apparition and incarnation.
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