Brandon Gercara: Sync the Queer Thought 同步酷兒思想

Sync the Queer Thought is a program bringing together a performance, a video screening, and a discussion by Brandon Gercara .

Sync the Queer Thought is a program bringing together a performance, a video screening, and a discussion by Brandon Gercara .

The performance transforms lip-syncing into a space for embodying queer thought, where speeches become gesture, voice, and presence.

The film Destin Vogoya follows Umbra’s return to La Réunion and the emergence of “Vogoya,” a fusion of voguing and maloya, as an act of resistance against social norms and homophobic violence.

The session concludes with a discussion with the audience.

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Peformance Title: Sync the Queer Thought

Duration: 10 minutes

Blurb:

In Sync the Queer Thought, Brandon Gercara transposes a practice drawn from the drag scene—lip-sync—into a critical and poetic tool through which body and thought enter into dialogue. They perform excerpts from speeches by queer scholars such as Holok Chen and Alok Vaid-Menon, miming their words in a performance that articulates voice, body, and identity.

Originally from Réunion Island, non-binary and an activist, Gercara has explored, since 2016, the dynamics of domination and the intersections of gender, race, and coloniality. Sync the Queer Thought is not a simple reading but an embodiment of ideas: voice, gesture, facial expression, hairstyle, and intonation are absorbed in order to become one with the reactivated theories.

Through this transformative gesture, the artist amplifies discourses often marginalized within institutional spheres, creating a shared community of thought and an embodied space of reflection. The performance becomes a site of reappropriation and transmission, where the language of critical theory is brought to life through play and performance, resonating with contemporary queer concerns.

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Screening: Destin Vogoya

Duration: 15 mins

Blurb :

Destin Vogoya tells the story of Umbra’s return to Réunion Island after a period spent in mainland France. Torn between a deep attachment to their island, the weight of family traditions, and experiences of homophobic violence, they face an environment where their kwir identity unsettles others and is constantly put to the test.

Guided by Bloom’s voice and the strength of maloya, Umbra undergoes an intimate and political journey in which pain transforms into creative power. By merging voguing and maloya, they invent “Vogoya,” an artistic act of resistance and self-affirmation.

Blending realism with a fantastical dimension, the film celebrates kwir Creole identities and envisions a space where they can exist fully—free and radiant.

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《同步酷兒思想》是一個由 Brandon Gercara 策劃的節目，包含一場行為表演、一部影像放映及一場討論。

該行為表演將對嘴演出轉化為體現酷兒思想的空間，在其中，言辭成為姿態、聲音與臨在。

電影《Destin Vogoya》講述 Umbra 返回留尼旺島，以及「Vogoya」的誕生——這是一種將 voguing 與 maloya 融合的舞蹈，作為對抗社會規範與恐同暴力的抵抗行動。

節目最後以與觀眾的討論作結。

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行為表演名稱：《同步酷兒思想》

長度：10分鐘

簡介：

在《同步酷兒思想》中，Brandon Gercara 將源自變裝場景的對嘴演出轉化為一種批判性與詩意的工具，讓身體與思想從中展開對話。他們演出酷兒學者如 Holok Chen 與 Alok Vaid-Menon 的演說片段，模仿其言語，呈現出一場結合聲音、身體與身份的表演。

Gercara 來自留尼旺島，為非二元性別者及活動分子，自 2016 年起探索支配動態以及性別、種族與殖民性之間的交織。《同步酷兒思想》並非單純的朗讀，而是思想的體現：聲音、手勢、面部表情、髮型與語調皆被吸納，與被重新激活的理論融為一體。

透過這轉化的過程，藝術家放大了那些常在體制場域中被邊緣化的論述，創造出一個共享的思想社群與具體化的反思空間。該表演成為一個重新挪用與傳遞的場所，批判理論的語言在此透過遊戲與表演被賦予生命，與當代酷兒關懷產生共鳴。

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放映：《Destin Vogoya》

長度：15分鐘

簡介：

《Destin Vogoya》講述 Umbra 在法國本土待了一段時間後，返回留尼旺島的故事。在對家島的深厚情感、家庭傳統的壓力，以及恐同暴力之間掙扎，他面對一個局面——在其中，他們的酷兒身份令他人不安，並不斷受到考驗。

在 Bloom 的聲音與 maloya 的力量引導下，Umbra 經歷了一段親密而政治性的旅程，痛苦在其中轉化為創造力。透過將 voguing 與 maloya 融合，他們創造出「Vogoya」，一種抵抗與自我肯定的藝術行動。

影片揉合了寫實與奇幻的維度，頌揚kwir Creole身份，並設想一個讓這些身份得以全然存在——自由而燦爛——的空間。