Theydy Bedbug: Keepsake
Alexa GRÆ & Stephanie Acosta: COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration

Theydy Bedbug: KeepSake
KeepSake is a drag poetry journey by Kelindah bee featuring their drag persona Theydy Bedbug. Kelindah bee enters a clinical trial for an experimental new body scan technology, called KeepSake, intended to treat stored trauma. Together, we take a somatic journey and pause at key body parts for core memory excavations, surreal dream interpretations, forgotten fantasies, trauma distillations stored in the caverns of the body. What lives and dies in the brain, the lungs, the chest, the junk and how does that long-term storage impact what we can be? 

ALEXA GRÆ & Stephanie Acosta: COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration 
COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR- transfiguration is an electronic opera in the form of dazzling soliloquy - featuring soundscapes, movement, and poetry sparked, out of necessity, for self preservation. The source material assembled through snapshots from a quarantine and uprising that brought intelligences rooted in blackness, trans-queer identity, neurodiversity, and magic to the fore. Drawing from the traditions of operatic madness, solitude, body intellect, and the building of self, as artistic practice. Spoken confessionals ripple textual streams of consciousness as the protagonist attempts to unburden themselves by repeating ego deaths in the morning and seeking metaphysical magic under the eye of the moon.