☝️ Power Point (2022) is an Installation by the BOOreaucrats at the North Fitzroy Library (Bargoonga Nganjin) in North Fitzroy, Melbourne until 24 April 2022.
☝️ Power Point marries screen-based graphic culture with a performative gesture from the BOOreaucrats. The mural depicts two administrators (the BOOreaucrats) in full business suits walking into water surrounded by pointing emoji hands. The scene evokes feelings of being ‘at sea’, of being confused and unable to take firm footing. The swarming symbols come from a long history of signs which draw attention and give direction dating back to the fifteenth century. So what is it that these hands are pointing at in 2022? Are the BOOreaucrats following directions clicked from the ether of the internet or are they being clicked at? Either way, they seem to be tentatively negotiating an endless shifting body of water and these dedicated officials seem slightly off balance. It's calm now, but the potential coming of great waves and powerful forces seems perpetually present. Be careful BOOreaucrats!
North Fitzroy Library (Bargoonga Nganjin) Link
Photography: J. Forsyth