Credit: Laura du Ve

Queer PowerPoint

Unfunded Empathy

Event details

Event dates

  • Sat 10 May

    7:00pm – 9:30pm

Solbar, Ocean Street, Maroochydore, Kabi Kabi Country

Ticket Prices

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Price
From $35 + booking fee

Queer PowerPoint is a new experimental performance series, which invites queer artists from across the world to explore and share an idea, current obsession, or ongoing fascination using that most staid and ubiquitous of programming tools: PowerPoint.

Get ready for a night of corporate presentations and personal optimisation, where a bunch of queers deep-dive into highly niche content in a very gay way. It’s the funnest, cutest, cheeky subversive, sexy uni lecture you’ll ever go to.

Reclaiming and queering the corporate presentation from our straight capitalist overlords, creators Xanthe Dobbie and Harriet Gillies host this night of surprising stories, secret passions and starwipes.

Commissioning artists to create a new 10-minute performance lecture about absolutely anything, the only rules are they have to be queer af, and they have to use Microsoft PowerPoint.

Please note, this is a show for all regardless of sexual preferences.

“Queer PowerPoint is smart, raucous and hugely inventive. Who knew the exploding text transitions embedded in this dowdy graphic interface could be so profoundly and creatively employed?”
— The Conversation

Creative Team

  • Performance Maker – Harriet Gillies
  • Digital Artist – Xanthe Dobbie
  • Creative Producer – Thom Smyth

Acknowledgements

Queer Powerpoint is presented by Horizon 2025 in partnership with Solbar.


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