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Creative Connections: Session 21

Making, Collaborating And Rehearsing Work For Digital

Guest panelists:

Steve Bull – co-founder and co-director with pvi collective: Over the past 20 years, Steve has toured and presented work internationally with the company including residencies in Taiwan, Ssingapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, Chile, India and South Africa. as a tactical media think-tank, pvi provides a platform for Steve to release his inner rebel, take artistic risks, collaborate and pay it forward by supporting peers.

Kelli McCluskey – co-founder of tactical media art group, pvi collectiveformed in 1998 pvi create playfully subversive and participatory artworks that creatively disrupt everyday life in public spaces. their work invites direct participation from audiences, not as art consumers, but as creative comrades, cultivating an underground army of critical citizens who are up for the challenge of saving the world through creative play and revolutionary fun. Kelli is a passionate advocate for live art and experimental practice and it’s continued growth in this country and is always on the look out for ways to champion experimental art forms in Australia.

 

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About This Episode

How can we experiment, collaborate and continue to make live artworks that require a physical presence? If we can re-imagine ways of interacting digitally together, how does our audience come along with us and what will they get out of it? As we adapt to isolation, a radical social paradigm shift has been underway. direct human contact between people no longer exists. our response to date has been to lean heavily on pre-existing digital platforms (if we are lucky enough to have access). but is this the only way forward? And do we treat it all as a temporary measure until ‘things return to normal’ or are we developing new normals to help us come out the other side? This current crisis may provide opportunity to ask the impossible of digital technology, exploring its human potential, stretching its purpose and generating new modes of liveness. Join Kelli Mccluskey and Kelli McCluskey from pvi collective  to explore and unpack some of these questions.


About The Series

Creative Connections is an online webinar series for the cultural and arts sectors and will offer practical, accessible and useful content delivered by industry experts on key topics and emerging themes.

The series is focused around the theme of adaptation, and sessions will explore digital adaptation, leadership adaptation and arts practice adaptation. Sessions will be facilitated by experts in specific topic areas, with over thirty sessions available.

Steve Bull

Steve is an experimental artist, deviser, curator, writer, co-founder and co-director with pvi collective. his experience spans visual arts, live art, intervention, new media and performance. Over the past 20 years, he has toured and presented work internationally with the company including residencies in Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, Chile, India and South Africa. 

As a tactical media think-tank, pvi provides a platform for Steve to release his inner rebel, take artistic risks, collaborate and pay it forward by supporting peers. As an educator and provocateur, he has mentored, taught and lectured across Australia and the UK including through national initiatives such as spark, jump and situate. Steve was co-founder and ‘head boy’ at cia studios, where pvi were principle company in residence (2008-2017).

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Kelli McCluskey

Kelli McCluskey is an artist and co-founder of tactical media art group, pvi collective. formed in 1998 pvi create playfully subversive and participatory artworks that creatively disrupt everyday life in public spaces. Their work invites direct participation from audiences, not as art consumers, but as creative comrades, cultivating an underground army of critical citizens who are up for the challenge of saving the world through creative play and revolutionary fun. Kelli is a passionate advocate for live art and experimental practice and it’s continued growth in this country and is always on the look out for ways to champion experimental art forms in Australia. 

Kelli regularly speaks on panels, symposia and forums and facilitates playfully participatory discussions on the critical role of arts in society. she is currently on the board of NAVA(national association for the visual arts), Australias’ peak lobby organisation advocating for the rights of artists and securing policy and legislative change. Kelli has mentored a host of emerging practitioners through her work with pvi as well as through state and federal initiatives. She co-founded CIA Studios (centre for interdisciplinary arts) a perth based incubator space for experimental practice 2008 – 2016 and also co-founded Australia’s first one-on-one performance festival, proximity festival which she has been co-curating since 2012. in 2016 Kelli received the prestigious ‘outstanding achievement in emerging and experimental arts’ award from the Australia council for the arts for her work within the sector. In 2017 she conducted a Tedx talk on audience participation and was invited to talk at the world arts summit in Malta. she is based on planet Perth at pvi’s studios. Specialties: art, exhibitions, critical research, iPhone development, public interventions, performance, arts advocacy and curating.

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