Performing Lines WA

After three Muffled Protests in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, the boat-people will be presenting photos and videos documenting the action as part of A.R.P (Artist Residency Program) on Cockatoo Island, Sydney next week.

Please join boat-people.org for their exhibition opening on Cockatoo Island next Thursday, Sept 9 from 6-8pm. The event will feature artists from two artist residency programs that have happened on the island in the past 12 months. There will be 2 free ferries leaving from the MCA at 5.30pm and 6.30pm. Please RSVP by September 3 to arp.rsvp@gmail.com

Images 1 – 4: boat-people, ‘Muffled Protest: Perth’, 2010 Facilitated by pvi collective, Photos by Lisa Businovski

Images 5 – 8:boat-people, ‘Muffled Protest: Sydney’, 2010, Photos by Dian McLeod

Image courtesy of boat-people.org

“The Boat People art gang are making a video work and we are inviting you to be involved.

Our borders remain the hot election issue, and we are becoming fools again, baying at strangers, terrified and stupid”.
Deborah Kelly, Aug 2010.

The day before the election, the boat-people.org and pvi collective are inviting you to wrap your head in the Australian national flag and have your image captured with us in Forest Place in Perth this Friday 20th August at 4.30pm.

The strategy – Arrive just before 4.30pm, with your flag* in a bag.

The action - Stand silently. At 4.30pm slowly wrap your head in the flag..
*flags available at all good $2 shops.

WHEN: this Friday 20th August at 4.30pm.
WHERE: Forest Place, Perth City Centre [meet outside main post office]
MORE INFO: Join the Boat-people.org Facebook group to hear about and participate in future actions across Australia.
FACILITATED BY: pvi collective on behalf of the boat-people.org

Congratulations to pvi collective for becoming a finalist in the Best Game Writing category for transumer at Freeplay Independent Games Festival.

transumer is a site specific intervention which encourages audiences to clandestinely take over their city in preparation for an anti-consumerist uprising. Armed with a customized Iphone programmed with cutting edge augmented reality software, participants are invited to roam their city, plot the end of their metroplois and create invisible tags revealing strategies for a modern day insurrection.

transumer was recently presented at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Sydney as part of the Syndey Biennale.

The Freeplay Independent Games Festival is on at the State Library of Victoria, on the 14th and 15th August 2010.
http://www.freeplay.net.au/about/

resist: the right to revolution
performance four

Target: The Right Honorable, The Lord Mayor, Lisa Scafiddi
Location: Council House, Level 11, 27 St Georges Tce, Perth

On Wednesday 25th of November at 11am, fourteen battle ready champions from Mosman Park Primary participated in a tug-of-war contest to decide whether citizens should have ‘the right to revolution’ in the first Australian Bill of Rights. If successful, the results were to be delivered toThe Right Honorable, The Lord Mayor, Lisa Scafiddi.

THE PEOPLE VOTED FOR THE RIGHT TO REVOLUTION and the declaration was delivered to Council House for Perth councils consideration.

Find out more about pvi collective’s resist: the right to revolution by clicking here

resist: the right to revolution
performance three

Target: Attorney General Christian Porter
Location: Governers House, 29th Floor, Allendale Square, 77 St Georges Terrace, Perth

On Tuesday 24th of November at 1pm, fourteen battle ready champions from Yokine Primary participated in a tug-of-war contest to decide whether citizens should have ‘the right to revolution’ in the first Australian Bill of Rights. If successful, the results were to be delivered to Attorney General Christian Porter.

THE PEOPLE VOTED AGAINST THE RIGHT TO REVOLUTION and the declaration was burned at the steps of Governers House.

Find out more about pvi collective’s resist: the right to revolution by clicking here