The masochist says to the sadist, »hit me«. And the sadist says, »no«. This little joke sums up the philosopher, Gilles Deleuze’s theory of masochism. He argues that masochists and sadists don’t actually relate to one another. Sadists just enjoy hurting people, so the kind of pleasure through pain that the masochist is after isn’t of interest to them. When a masochist asks someone to inflict pain on them the inflictor enters a masochistic relationship in which submission and domination are relative to the level at which you understand the interaction. There is an ethical power exchange going on that is never fully settled, which allows everyone to explore.
Death and Masochism
Efterskrift enjoy the discomfort of pleasure postponed or expressed through the pain of the feeling of something missing. At the new festival MINU, the Aarhus-based ensemble will perform a concert with a simple message: everything good is allowed to die.