Mike Presdee writes in ‘Cultural criminology and the carnival of crime’ :

“…The performance of carnival uses the body as the stage, claiming it back from those who wish to control it, who wish to appropriate that which it produces, to civilize it, or even imprison it. Carnival –places the body in a trance-like state where, like the carnival of rave, one can play with one’s body and carry out a state of enthusiasm … near to the happy state of mind’ (Jeanmaire 1951:58) Now Artaud’s ‘festival of the street’ takes the people not only out of their bodies but in so doing out of society into a state of ecstasy.”