The Reason Why I Become a Hamster is from Japanese performance artist Sako Kojima. The live art piece entailed her dressing up and living like a hamster. I mean really living like a hamster, in a human-sized hamster cage eating gigantic sunflower seeds and chewing on paper, wood and cardboard for a whole week. The aim was to “show us how our souls suffer from the incarceration of our civilized modern society.