K. BRADFORD
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, FALL 2026
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11
@ FCCW: 3053 ROSSLYN ST., LA CA 90065
Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW) is thrilled to announce our Fall 2026 Artist in Residence project Wild Glitch presented by K. Bradford.
Set in a tale of trans time, Wild Glitch is a one-person performance work in progress featuring original song cycle, poetic narratives, speculative reality, and post-drag. Through a mythic journey led by Glitch, a futuristic transcestor, and an autobiographical post-dysphoric travelogue, this time-spirit-machine of a world is filled with flying fish, living ampersands, and breathing mobius strips as blueprints for survival an liberation in apocalyptic times.
SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMS
Wild Glitch – a creative, community praxis series
As part of K. Bradford’s Artist in Residency with FCCW, they are offering a series of workshops and interactive, creative laboratory experiments drawing upon some of the storytelling, sculptural, and mythic elements of their performance work, Wild Glitch. Join us for a collective making space inspired by the worlds of futuristic trancestor, Glitch.
- Saturday, October 17, 2–5PM @ FCCW — Hybrid Figures in Paper Mache
With sculptural headpieces in progress for Wild Glitch as an example, we will dive into a scrappy, playful creation process to sketch out hybrid creatures and create paper mache headpiece and mask experiments. Drawing upon biodiversity, technology, and cultural iconography, participants will be invited to map out a hybrid creature or character with capacities to offer mutual aid, survival, and expansive possibility.
- Saturday, November 7, 2–5PM @ FCCW — *Trans Nonlinearity: A Graphic Panel Storytelling Lab
This lab will focus on storytelling through multi-panel sequences using visuals, symbolic language, and poetic narrative. We will explore nonlinear patterns of trans time as a device for amplifying trans/formation inside of our stories. We’ll also look at strategies and examples of small and large-scale panels as different ways to create intimate exchange and larger public interventions. We will sketch out panels, share our experiments, and consider what form of graphic panel would be the best channel for our story arc.
- Wednesday, November 18, 6:30–9:30PM @ FCCW — *Trans Organism: An Oral History Storytelling Lab
This storytelling lab will focus on storytelling through oral history as a community process to generate stories that live in a call and response. Leaning into trans/qenderqueer collectivity, we will share stories from pivotal moments of gender expansion, dysphoria, and emergence. Rotating through different pairings and groupings, participants will practice a range of approaches to oral history as both creative generation and as a community praxis. Our stories are a trans organism, each story is a ripple effect that shapes how we tell our trans tales.
Note: No previous experience or skills necessary for all workshops. Workshops with an asterisk are open only to those who identify as trans/nonbinary/genderqueer.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
K. Bradford (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performer, writer, and curator whose art + social practice invites radical presence, play, and pathways toward collective alchemy. K.’s gender theater, performance art, and public art works explore queer and trans ecologies, interspecies kinship, liberation strategies, and mythic transformation in times of reckoning. As a performer and curator, K. activates inventive cross-pollination, inviting audiences into a call and response with ritual, camp, and poetic experimentation, stewarding futures of resilience and joy.
K. has toured across the U.S. with their writing and performance, and they have been awarded scholarships and residencies for their work, including the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Theatrical Jazz Institute, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Their writing has been published in anthologies and journals such as the LA Review of Books, Gulf Coast, Soap Ear, Viralnet.net, & more. Through trainings, mentorship, and collaboration, K.’s work sits in the lineage of Sharon Bridgforth, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Peggy Shaw, and Leslie Feinberg. In 2025, K. launched Qosmos, a post-drag spectacle, and they are at work on a full-length performance, Wild Glitch. Currently, K.’s curatorial practice also includes leadership roles at the Performance Art Museum and nina, a new queer arts space in LA. K. is beaming with excitement to have their creative work nested in FCCW’s community and Artist in Residency program to bring this new work to life!