Notes from A Trans Performance Salon
27 February 2026

All notes here are indicative of conversation points, which were scribbled on scraps of paper during conversation between the 17 people in attendance:

REO
transmutation of language into energy
oro
- kaupapa
- Te Mauri o te Kupu
(G)ENDER
WERO WAHINE X TANE TOA
IRAWHITU-TANGA
TAKATAPUI-TANGA
Support networks
Listening
Amplifying relationship
Endurance
Bell curve
Love
Sustainability
Aftercare
Access (to the artist)
Rigorous collectivised processes
BODY as site of intervention
Movement and difference
Fascia
Gender
Fluidity
Communication
Connective tissue
What’s important to thrive in this day?
Containers AND contexts for practicing together
Aftercare / Preparation
How to: KINSHIP
Aftercare!
- collab
- solo
Burnout prevention!
Physical and decompression
Mental
Pre-show care!
- Risk analysis
- Harm analysis / reduction
-Burnout prevention
[ THE UNKNOWN ]
Being paid
- Exciting / Enjoyable
- BDSM
-Relational
-Elements
- Visual / aesthetic
Working holiday
Sound / music
Move impacted by others
“Noise” around us, not generating our own
- what I need to thrive as a QT performer?
Rigorous collaboration
Breakdown containment
Catalysing
Moving as an ecology - towards water
Shedding our constraints
Bring our individual strengths
Self-preservation
THORNS
Vulnerable
Important to accept failure i.e., trial and error
Improvise and see how it sounds/feels
Curious
How will it be in person?
What will happen in the moment x dialogue?
- Debrief
- Discussion
- Listening adaptation
- Non-verbal
Different expectations
Costuming - evolution
val’s style - the unknown
Kaupapa
Collaboration
Institutions
Basic hospitality
Power dynamics
Endurance
Thinking about space
Intensity
Power
Visual artist moving into performance
Excited to engage with installation work through performance
Bring different facets of my practice together
Experiment with body in a new way
Using performance to investigate my identity and push it through nerves/emotions
Tying back to music performance
Bringing body into sculpture
Separating myself through casting
How to take motion capture / feel more expressive
Maybe make motion capture
Does this feel more expressive than motion capture?
Safety
Self presentation
Collaboration
Housing the work vs compromise
Different roles
- Exchange
- Connections
- Help
Hospitality
- Needs
- Doing it for each other