Text signage held in the performance
Performance at New Blood Xll Performance Festival @ Links Hall, Chicago, IL
November 17, 2018
Performers: Ava Wanbli (she/her), sair goetz (they/them), and CTRL+SHFT Collective
I was in Oakland, CA, performing as a cotton-candy-bearded Master of Ceremonies for my collaborator, while she made herself “readily identifiable” as trans. I performed for a webcam with a group of trans people and allies behind me, acting as my backup/moral support, while I acted as the backup of my collaborator via two large screen TVs in Chicago, for her audience. The performance asked the value of remote communities, of the possibility of witnesses as preventers of violence, of the assumed threat of transfemmine people embodied, of the assumed ineffectualness of transmasculine people, and of the solidarity trans people must have for each other.
