pvi collective

💥 with a sell out season, the booster protocol premiere at perth festival has wrapped! 💥

what an absolute joy and privilege it's been to put a brand new mixed reality work on in our home town.
🙏 thank you boorloo audiences for bringing it to life with us on the streets.
🙏 thank you local artists, performers and branding who wholeheartedly took this on and brought the magic.
🙏 and thank you also to the incredible collaborators from across the world, who generously shared knowledge, histories and their own stories of resilience and collective action with us - we hope we did you proud.

💥 to all collaborators representing the social and ecological movements featured in the booster protocol, we salute you! what a line up!
claire g coleman
claudia coca
dr gary foley
fred leone
guo jian
guy ritani
dr helen pankhurst cbe
jennifer keelan chaffins
shri chandi prasad bhatt
lani rotzler-purewa
sethembile msezane
shane james
te kīra whakamoe
uncle nigel wilkes

💥 our amazing performers
sarah nelson
storm helmore
ainslie allan
shuling wong
avani zheng
gabriel critti-schnaars
nathan watene
taamia watene

💥 the booster travel agency
the block branding crew including
mark braddock and natalie green

💥 creative collaborators
sound design — jason sweeney
app programmer — chris mccormick
app design & consultant — harry lee
app development support — steve berrick
voice over narrator — fred leone

💥 production
rhiannon petersen
mark haslam
artcom fabrication

💥 thank you to Perth Festival and for commissioning the work, and to Creative Australia, Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport and the major festivals initiative for supporting the project. this project was supported by PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts studio program.

💥 all photos: dan grant.

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1. the booster travel agency - audience members gather outside the booster tours storefront as the doors open and the “travel agency” opens for business.
2. 1990 adapt movement - audience members collaborate to build a large barrier structure together in the street outside the venue.
3. 1913 suffragettes movement - a participant operates a hand tool at a workbench, punching the words ‘women count’ onto the selected coin.
4. 2000 el colectivo sociedad civil - a participant stitches together a cutting from their clothing onto an emerging social flag of many people.
5. 1989 democracy movement - night time. street lighting. a participant paints across the pavement with a long broom handle with a paintbrush on the end of it. outlining a giant figure holding shopping bags as the water.
6. te urewera, tūhoe nation - a father and daughter from the tūhoe nation stand side by side in natural surrounds. they are looking at each other. the father wears traditional korowai adorned with feathers and the daughter wears an oversize t-shirt reading ‘there’s no place like hope’.
7. zapatistas - participants are joined by a booster travel agent, standing on an upper-level balcony looking down and tossing folded paper objects into the air. leaves from a nearby tree partially frame the image while the figures gesture playfully outward as their paper planes take flight with the words ‘another world is possible’ written on them.

📱 The future is calling – will you answer?

‘the booster protocol’ premieres in less than a week as part of Perth Festival

what happens when large pockets of society refuse to participate in a broken system? is another world still possible? join us on the streets of boorloo and find out.

the booster protocol is a choose your own adventure that honours the trailblazers that came before and imagines those that are still to come.

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Poster design by Block with photography contributed by dan grant

thanks to Perth Festival and The Substation for commissioning this work and to Creative Australia, Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport, the major festivals initiative for making this possible

✨ thank you, amazing indonesian rebels! ✨

we had an absolute blast taking tiny revolutions to yogyakarta and jakarta - with rebel crowds, sell out shows and a deeply rigorous cultural exchange process to boot. 

big love to our host venues and for your generous hospitality and fierce commitment to bringing tiny revolutions to indonesia!  

special thanks to:

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💥 - our fearless rebel host, who held our audiences with such care, grace and joy.

💥 (jogjakarta) and (jakarta) - our fabulous scribes  who visually captured the ideas and audience journey with such imagination.  

💥 - who composed an extraordinary soundscore especially for our yogyakarta season.

💥 our incredible embedded rebels .ab .maruf — for guiding the process from the inside out, bringing humour, insight + heart.

💥 to every member of the public who submitted concerns for consideration during the shows; and to the audience members who helped spark a tiny revolution in response.  we salute you! ✊🏻

🙏 this tour was made possible with support from .australia and .wa

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image 1 - artists and audience members raise their pinky finger in unity during the performance of “tiny revolutions”. in the background are  portraits of everyday indonesian revolutionaries like ruhanus kudus and munir said thalib. 

📷 photo by: sito adhi anom | 

image 2 - with a warm smile and two sculptural horse heads as her unlikely companions, the host leads an intimate session surrounded by engaged participants — some raising their pinky finger in a gesture of shared understanding and solidarity. the background features bold texts from indonesian art history.

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💚 in light of the recent protests across indonesia, we send love, strength + solidarity, and hope everyone is staying safe.