Noir_fix
Taipei rigger who first explored rope in Berlin, co-founded the rope salon Cats Downstairs in 2018 and The Suspended Canvas in 2023, and teaches and performs in Taiwan and elsewhere in East and Southeast Asia.
Noir_fix is a rigger, rope teacher and organizer in Taipei. Her profile on the website of Cats Downstairs (貓樓上), the rope salon she co-founded, says her first steps in rope were taken in Berlin, where she encountered Japanese-style rope bondage outside the traditional schools along with the city’s erotic subculture. Neither the profile nor the salon’s team page gives a year for her start in rope or names a teacher.
Cats Downstairs and The Suspended Canvas
According to the salon’s team page, Cats Downstairs began in 2018, moved from Ximen to Wanhua in 2021 and opened a new studio near MRT Yuanshan Station in 2024, which it shares with The Suspended Canvas. The page lists Noir_fix as a co-founder alongside ArTong. Her profile says she is still a host of the salon and its in-house rigger, and lists the formats she runs there: an all-women rope salon, figure drawing with rope models, a late-night rope salon, private sessions and classes, performances and small introductory workshops.
In 2023 she and the self-suspension artist Yisi founded The Suspended Canvas, which organizes life-drawing sessions and workshops to promote rope and other aerial arts; her profile says she also assists in Yisi’s self-suspension workshops.
Teaching
Her profile describes private lessons for one or two students that focus on technique, structural understanding and practical application, including a self-suspension class, with English tuition available. Her group workshops include an introduction to self-tying, which she has taught in Shanghai, Taichung, Tainan and Hong Kong, and a class on the basics of one-rope improvisation, given in Taichung, Tainan and Shanghai.
Performances
The profile lists a selection of performances from 2023 onward. In Taipei they include a rope and drag performance in May 2023, the opening shows of the women’s rope and drawing salon in July 2023, a rope performance with Yisi at a kink market fair in July 2024 and the showcase Eyes On Six with the studio Shushi in October 2024. In 2025 she performed with Yisi at OKKULT VII in Taipei and at a venue in Tainan, staged the rope piece THE TANGLED and organized a Pride edition of the event MEN in ROPES. Abroad, the list includes Shibari Witness in Shanghai in September 2024, an after-party show in Bangkok in November 2024, the Bangkok Shibari Showcase in February 2026 and a guest rope jam in Hong Kong in July 2026.
Approach
In her profile she describes rope as both a means of communication and an art form that adapts to each partner’s preferences and needs. She writes that rope can be intense, erotic and fun when both people talk openly and trust each other enough to face emotions together, and that for her it is also a way of accepting herself and growing.