simon jones: mixing it: towards the hermaphroditic in performance

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Theatre's differential with the everyday is a distortion that emerges from the relative speeds of mixing of the hermaphroditic body and the normalized body.
The hermaphroditic shift
All performances invoke and exploit this differential. In this way, the performer stands in for the audience by leaping into the void on their behalf. S/he mixes him/her-selves up faster than the everyday-participants, who tend to normalize their own genderizations and sexualities in order to get on with that everyday. They store up the potential energy of their bodies' continuous and irresolvable mixings, precisely to discharge it during specialized, out-of-the-everyday events, such as theatre.

The performer, mixing relatively faster, goes ahead more easily, accelerated by the energy, the dare of the audience. At his/her greater distance from home, the attraction of the everyday is relatively weaker: they project out into the void of potential, yet unrealized bodies and sexes. Here theatre most expresses its difference from the everyday: in accelerating the rate of disorganization of those stabilized genders or sexualities. The hermaphrodite-performer';s mixed bodies pour through performance; and micropolitically, genitals and subjects disintegrate, become anonymous and mobile, the (impossible) hermaphrodite tangible, fleetingly visible. Refusing critique, it is a non-critique, which sets paradoxical 'views' in motion, refusing theory its stabilization, its fixing of pragmatics. It easily seduces all into its vortex, its dance, its transitoriness, its transitiveness, by harnessing the force, riding the breaking crest of the sexual fold, male-female, to which we are all embodied by Nature and inscribed through Lacan's toilet doors by Culture. At the same time, it most expresses its contiguity with the everyday, by harnessing that energy invested by its audiences in their genderizations, and then at the end, sending these disorganized part-objects back into that everyday, to re-organize.
but having been perturbed, never quite in the same way as before
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