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This work was was developed as an oblique and experimental alternative to the other forms of documTHE CABARET ANTI-ARCHIVE // QUEER E-TRASH COMPENDIUM // GOOGLE-DOC-A-RAMAentation that were embedded into the month of the QSI. During the Cabaret, audience members over Zoom and QSI participants were invited to visit a google doc link provided by the resident anti-archivist, in order to contribute to an ongoing messy networked queer e-trash heap of gifs, notes, feelings, distractions, emojis, images, and other fragments, in response to the varied performances of the cabaret.

The project was guided by the following questions, amongst others:

How does performance documentation perform?

How do we define documentation? Can that definition be expanded?

What does performance documentation lack? What does it contribute?

Can we document performance in ways that make space for opacity, refusal, and messiness?

Or, as Jas Rault puts it, “What can we feel, say, show and know when we focus on TFQ [trans/feminist/queer] refusals to give it all away?”