Keioui Keijaun Thomas 
Come Hell or High Femmes, 2021, new work in three acts 
24 Hour video premiere of Act 3. &  Act 2. 
One Night Only / July 17, 11:59 pm EST – July 18, 11:59 pm EST 
on participantafterdark.art 

 
Come Hell or High Femmes: 
Act 3. I Looked Up at the Sky and I, Imagined All of the Stars Were My Sisters, 2021 
Act 2. The Last Trans Femmes on Earth: Dripping Doll Energy!, 2021 
Act 1. She From Flurda, but some Call Ha Florida, (forthcoming)

 
Keioui Keijaun Thomas new series of video poems/performances were filmed during, around and throughout the current global pandemic. In this series, Thomas reimagines how we can hold each other; care for ourselves; and honor our time and energy, while moving through uncharted territories with a plethora of possibilities. Each act was filmed and edited by/with one friend, creating portals to new worlds where black and brown trans people are able to thrive, heal, and transcend. Taking up space. This is a love letter; a gentle reminder; a kiss up into the sky; a guiding light for black and brown femmes to know that we are here. We have always been here. Everything the light and shadow touches is ours, too. 

 
Come Hell or High Femmes, the dolls will survive. The sibling–hood is strong. Every movement we make, and every breath we take is radical, divine energy. The structure cannot be pure(ly) viewed as linear, horizontal, nor vertical, because we are building a world inside, outside, and around us. If you see the haze rising on an idle Sunday in the Lower East Side, know that I see it too. If only from a distance. The Poetics of Trespassing. Painted like sky blue tulle touching the clouds. We are powerful, together, no matter where we are in the world–may we look up to the heavens and know that all of the stars, planets and moons smile upon us. This is for us. 
 
With light, 
Kei 
 
Keioui Keijaun Thomas 
Hands Up, Ass Out 
Final weekend, on view through Sunday, July 18 
Curated by: Isis Awad as Executive Care*

 
Press for Hands Up, Ass Out 
New York Times 
Musée

 
*Executive Care is an all–encompassing agency at the service of artists founded by Isis Awad in 2020.

 
Video Credits: 
Come Hell or High Femmes 
Creative Direction, Performance & Sound by Keioui Keijaun Thomas  

 
Act 3. I Looked Up at the Sky and I, Imagined All of the Stars Were My Sisters 
Video Direction, Filmed & Edited by/with Christopher Sonny Martinez

 
Music: 
Act 3. 
Atmosphere, Charles L. Rice 
I Looked Up at the Sky, Keioui

 
Act 2. 
Ancestral Muscle Memory, Keioui 
Fresh Eyes (Prelude) , Keioui 
Immaculately Marbled, Keioui 
MAKE IT HOME, Tobe Nwigwe ft. David Michael Wyatt

 
PARTICIPANT AFTER DARK is a virtual performance, screening, and exhibition space launched by PARTICIPANT INC in 2020. PARTICIPANT invited artist Glen Fogel to design and develop AFTER DARK, working with artists to inhabit the site and modify it for their projects' specific needs.