Artist Bio
kelli mccluskey is a passionate advocate for live art and experimental practice in Australia. She regularly contributes to panels, symposia and forums facilitating participatory discussions on art’s critical societal role, artists’ rights and policy change. kelli is co-founder of pvi collective and has mentored emerging practitioners through pvi collective and government initiatives, co-founded CIA Studios (2008-2016) and co-created Australia’s first one-on-one performance festival, Proximity Festival (since 2012). In 2016, she received the Australia Council’s Outstanding Achievement in Emerging and Experimental Arts Award, delivered a 2017 TEDx talk on audience participation and was invited to the World Arts Summit in Malta.
Selected Previous Works
Perth Institue of Contemporary Arts — PICA — runs a year round program of art, exhibitions, contemporary performance, dance, theatre, music and events. We’re home to one of the largest art exhibition and gallery spaces in Australia and are known for the leading role we play in supporting artists to present challenging ideas and boundary-defining new work.
