Kelli McCluskey

Chief Executive Artist
pvi collective
Australia

With over 25 years of experience in contemporary experimental art, kelli is an award winning artist who co-founded pvicollective in 1998 and is chief executive artist with the group.

Based on boorloo, kelli is a passionate advocate for emergent artforms and social practice, regularly speaking on national and international panels and symposia kelli facilitates playfully participatory discussions on the critical role of arts in society.

In 2008 kelli co-initiated cia studios[centre for interdisciplinary arts]a perth based incubator space for experimental practice which ran for ten years in boorloo. In 2016 she co-founded australias first one-on-one live art festival, proximity festival. From 2012–2018 she served on the board of nava, australias’peak lobby organisation advocating for the rights of artists. In 2016 kelli received the prestigio us ‘outstanding achievement in emerging and experimental arts’award from the australia council for the arts for her work within the sector.

Kelli is an australia council peer, a special envoy to ibt festival [uk], a member of #feminist educators against sexism [feas], a member of pica artist advisory committee, a climate champion for better futures australia and a trouble maker at heart. Good trouble that is.

Speaker
Breakout: The Ethics of Arts Partnerships: Thursday, May 2, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

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