Surgemony II: Segue
A durational performance installation or "install/action”, utilizing butoh-inspired movement and surgical video footage to explore the rediscovery of intimate touch after a physical and hormonal change.

There is a huge lack of writings, research, and discussion around intimacy and sexuality within people in transition – and even less on the partners of trans/intergender people. This performance will create a tableau that illustrates the fragility of relearning how to express love through touch after an intense surgical procedure.

A re-edited version of the surgery video is shown projected on the live bodies, to give viewers a context and history for the actions of the performers.


Ever so slowly, the performers move towards each other, making slight, yet powerful contacts with each other, elbows, thighs, fingertips – discovering one another from an ‘empty slate’, where every experience is pristine and new. The performance ends just as the two turn to make eye contact for the first time.