ABSTRACT
Klare Lanson interviews Kelli McCluskey and Steve Bull, who are co-artistic directors of pvi collective, founded in Perth, Australia in 1998. pvi is a tactical media art group who create agitational participatory artworks intent on the creative disruption of everyday life. They use gameplay alongside emerging, familiar and DIY technology to explore the social dynamics of the urban experience. Over the years they have created playfully subversive performances and interventions that invite genuine engagement, transforming perceptions of space, cities and environment. This interview discusses recent artworks including tiny revolutions (2019), disobedience rules (2018) and transformer (2016), which was performed in South Africa for the Vrystaat Art Festival in Bloemfontein. They contemplate their mobile methods used to embody how playful agitation and participative art can act as a tool for social change, and to creatively challenge how power continues to impact society.
