An evening of corporate presentations and personal optimisation. But queer. And with Jack Halberstam.
Queer PowerPoint is back and making our Seymour Centre debut with an all-star lineup featuring ABC Good Games' Angharad 'Rad' Yeo, the incomparable Demon Derriere (Big Thick Energy) and extra special international academic superstar guest Jack Halberstam (The Queer Art of Failure, Female Masculinity).
Never been to a Qppt show? We invite queer artists to explore and share an idea, current obsession, or ongoing fascination using that most staid and ubiquitous of programming tools – PowerPoint.
It’s a bunch of queers deep diving into highly niche content in a very gay way. The only rules are it has to be queer af, and they have to use Microsoft PowerPoint. Reclaiming and queering the corporate presentation from our straight capitalist overlords, co-creators Xanthe Dobbie, Harriet Gillies and Thom Smyth initiated this night of surprising stories, secret passions and starwipes to bring us back together and revel in the new strangeness with a digital tool from a simpler time.
This event is presented by Unfunded Empathy, in association with The Power Institute, and with support from the office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the discipline of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.
Image: Photo by Laura Du Ve
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Queer PowerPoint
Queer PowerPoint is a collaboration between an all-queer Sydney-based team of creatives: performance maker Harriet Gillies, interdisciplinary artist Xanthe Dobbie, creative producer Thom Smyth and AV manager Charlie Kember.
Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton which played at MoMA NYC until January 30, 2022.