‘Playback of Kwir Thought’ is an opportunity to treat the militant discourse as a pop star performance and to turn it into a plastic and visual proposition.

Kwir¹ discourses or struggles are here embodied by the creation of a drag character and its set.

The set suggests a dreamlike universe, close to the erupting volcano of Reunion Island, where we find rhinestone shoes and a glittery stage hybridized with dried lava, a pre-recorded voice that mixes with the sounds of the elements on the Piton de La Fournaise. The volcano, symbol of creation - where the earth is produced - becomes the metaphor of a thought that emerges from the territory of Reunion Island.

With strass and glitters, wig and lipstick, it is in the light of a drag show that Brandon Gercara reactivates their own speech delivered on the stage of the first LGBTQIA+ visibility march in Reunion Island : a speech denouncing the dynamics of domination that LGBTQIA+ people in Reunion Island are subjected to. The sound of helicopters blurs and/or censors the discourse to remind us of the constant surveillance of our world. An authoritarian sound intervention reminds us of the absurd need for control over the living.

Conceived as a fiction with chimerical and hybrid elements, this work questions a traumatized collective imaginary world, the world of LGBTQIA+ people in a postcolonial world.

This production is the possibility to re-imagine the traces we keep of a speech, to rethink the video documents of conferences, and to propose a less conventional plastic form of it.

Also see the photography series Majik Kwir, from which Bloom stems.