High. Two or three chapters about ecstatic masculinity.

Abstract

High. Two or three words about ecstatic masculinity is a body-based performance created during the spring of 2022, inside of the master's program in Directing of Devised and Object Theater. This text is the documentation of its process of research about masculinity and performance, the performance of masculinity, and theater as a territory of self-production. In it, masculinity is presented as a composition of molar and molecular lines, terms formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and used here to conceive performance as a territory for the implementation of experiments with the masculine expression. Ecstasy, on the other hand, is presented as a theatrical texture that has been present in artistic and nonartistic performativity from ancient times, which represents a space for biopolitical subversion. The theory emanated from rave culture is a tool that helps us to understand what are the cultural consequences of the group intensification of bodies on stage. The descriptions included in the documentation are formulated from a radically subjective point of view, as much as the learnings that were formulated during the discussions of the creative process.