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pvi collective

pvi collective, resist (October 2006) Video diptych, life-size dual video projection, commissioned and exhibited

by the South Project’s Transversa exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, 2006

Venue: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, de la Facultad de Artes, de la Universidad de Chile  (MAC)
Live and work in Perth, Australia.

Founded 1998, pvi are an independent arts collective with backgrounds in performance, visual art, new media, psychology and live art. Each contribute their skills towards creating artworks for performance venues, galleries and public spaces. Works are generated from a group process of site-specific research and experimentation. Artworks question various forms of social control that we live under in an increasingly anxious cultural climate. As a result, the company have produced an eclectic body of work ranging from performances, bus tours, radio broadcasts, privacy services, video and sculptural installations. pvi often engage the public within their artworks - offering up darkly humorous survival tactics for living in the 21st century and activating viewers through eccentric acts of intervention, on the streets, on-screen and in any other spaces they can get away with. Recent activities pvi collective’s recent work includes: reform perth institute of contemporary arts 2006, national tour of tactical media artwork tts: australia 2005, panopticon: sydney as part of primavera 2004 mca sydney, panopticon: taipei asialink taiwan artists in residence 2003 and true crime as part of the do it exhibition, perth international arts festival 2002.