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pvi collective

momentum: A Mid-Career Lab for Experimentation

momentum: A Mid-Career Lab for Experimentation

momentum is a new artistic laboratory by pvi collective for Boorloo-based mid-career and established artists to come together and explore possibilities for their own projects and practice with the collective guidance, support and camaraderie of their peers. momentum encourages participants to become provocateurs; inspiring each other, seeking out meaningful connections and holding space for one another.

momentum is open to a broad range of artistic disciplines and research interests, including live performance artists and makers from the expanded field of experimental practice. The lab is designed to be adaptive, responsive and non-outcome driven, leaning into camaraderie, active listening and shared resilience. Workshop sessions will be bespoke and structured around a morning play task, creative group critique, quiet reflective time and occasional outings for fresh air and inspiration. momentum invites makers to share the load, reconnect and develop a creative pathway forward.

pvi collective is committed to ensuring we meet the diverse access and cultural safety needs of participating artists and will work with you to determine how we can best do this.

Participating artists will:

  • Join a cohort of five mid-career and established artists for a week-long artistic laboratory based at PICA, hosted by pvi collective.
  • Receive an honorarium of $2,500 including super in recognition of their time.
  • Be supported to identify and explore possibilities for their own projects and practices within a collaborative environment.  

Key details:

EOI’s close: 13 October 2025, 11:59pm AWST
Lab dates: 3–7 November 2025, 10am – 4pm
Lab location: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 51 James Street

For more information please email tom@pvicollective

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About the Artists

pvi collective is based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. pvi is renowned for developing innovative, high-calibre, socially engaged artworks that seek to empower audiences to step out of their comfort zones. Signature works such as deviator, blackmarket and tiny revolutions call on audiences to get involved and imagine progressive change together, through playful actions on the streets and creative interventions that pack a societal punch. pvi believe in staying with the trouble; scrutinising it, investing in it and pulling it into focus at times when it may be easier to leave it concealed.

Over the past two decades, pvi has produced an eclectic body of work, grounded in critical rigour, informed by collaborative research and always foregrounding the experience of the audience. Performances and public interventions have included: bus tours, training videos, radio broadcasts, sticker campaigns, pub quizzes, think and do tanks, privacy services, tug-of-war contests, live-action board games, mock awards, community policing initiatives, environmental watchdogs and locative mobile media games.

Supporters

pvi collective is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body. Momentum is presented in partnership with PICA and is supported by the WA Government through the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport.