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标题：When the Body Becomes Too Much: Writing on Becoming-locust and the Spectacle of Theory|
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作者：Paul Hurley
期刊名称：Platform : Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
印刷版ISSN：1751-0171
出版年度：2010
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：Royal Holloway University of London
摘要：This paper is a critical reflection upon my performance,Becoming-locust,a performance which took place at New Dance Horizons, Regina, Canada, as part of the Queer City Cinema Festival in June 2008. Becoming-locustwas the last of some fifteen becoming-animal performances I created between 2002 and 2007 and as such was presented as something of an epilogue, a finale to the series that I had decided was coming to an end. The piece began as a performance lecture, quoting from Gilles Deleuze and F¨¦lix Guattari and Rosi Bradiotti, and was followed by an intense -and to some provocative -physical action of smashing iceberg lettuces with my head, whilst dressed in a jockstrap, stiletto heels and ostrichplumes, to a loop of Shirley Bassey's 'Where Do I Begin (Love Story).'This paper contextualises the piece within a framework that zigzags between Deleuze and Guattari, Braidotti, Guy Debord, Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva. It argues that works such as Becoming-locustcan be productive of subjectivities that reference existing practices and modalities, but depart from them in a way that is critical, performative and ethical.