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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Feb 12

game-changer alert!
excited and honoured to be part of this brand new initiative thanks to @creative australia. cannot wait to get stuck-in with these incredible leaders @angharad wynne-jones, @catherine jones, @Green Music Australia, @reworlding.bsky.social , @a climate for art, @Matt Wicking
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Australian Arts Review @artsreviewau.bsky.social · Feb 11

Creative Australia will invest $800,000 over four years to support Creative Climate, a newly established consortium dedicated to driving impactful change and embedding sustainable practices for the creative industries.
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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Feb 9

love this ❤️

“Artivism is where art and activism unite to inspire and transform. This conference aims to be an immersive experience that nurtures the global Artivism movement.”

Global Artivism

www.globalartivism.org

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Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman.bsky.social · Jan 28

This is why there is no ethical use of generative AI.

"the second-largest fossil fuel company in the country is teaming up with an investment firm to build natural gas power plants designed specifically to power data centers"

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Chevron Is Ready to Burn Gas to Power AI

The fossil fuel giant is building natural gas power plants specifically for data centers.

gizmodo.com

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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Jan 17

thanks amazing esther! ❤️🙏✊@anatolitis.bsky.social

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Nov 26

If you paid any tax in 2022-23, you paid more than all of these multinational gas corporations did on $36 BILLION income, exporting Australian gas from QLD.

Really makes you think. #auspol

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · Nov 24

Huge day on the water today with @risingtideaus.bsky.social - we held the channel for a while, slowing down the coal trade, and exposing how the government and the police are protecting the corporations who are destroying nature and our life support systems

A huge and colourful crowd of activists in kayaks, with paddles raised in front of a massive coal tanker (photo from Rising tide)

A huge and colourful crowd of activists in kayaks, with paddles raised in front of a massive coal tanker - different angle (photo from Rising Tide)

A bunch of colourful activists in kayaks (me among them in red kayak on the left) in front of big black police boats. A confrontation with a cop on a jet ski is happening towards the back left

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Nov 24

Courts, politicians and police in the sea: the many battles for climate activists at NSW’s Rising Tide protest

Experts say moves to stop the protest come amid an escalating crackdown on activism across the country Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast As more than a hundred climate activists waded into the Port of Newcastle on Thursday afternoon with kayaks and rafts, with police boats drifting in the distance, it was unclear what would happen next. In a supreme court room, about two and half hours’ drive south in Sydney, sat 21-year-old Alexa Stuart who was challenging a maritime exclusion zone the New South Wales government had imposed around the port. The zone restricted anyone entering the water over a four-day period in a bid to stop the protest, which was attempting to stop coal ships from leaving the port. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 21

Southbank Centre as a Culture and Climate Hub: a provision of space twice a year, free-of-charge, to artists, activists and community organisations so that they can come together, organise and lead on climate action, devised and delivered in collaboration with Culture Declares

kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 21

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 21

how incredible would it be to have iterations of this in australia.

“we're uniting to support and mobilise a global movement of declarers in the cultural sector to take action and inspire other to harness the power of culture for a better world” @southbanklondon.bsky.social

Culture Declares Emergency on LinkedIn: Our vision is that the cultural sector is a leading contributor to the…

Our vision is that the cultural sector is a leading contributor to the transformation of social and economic systems to create a regenerative world in which…

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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 20

a 12yr old in australia now
www.risingtide.org.au
“How can I feel safe about my future when I don’t know what the world will look like in 10 years? Will our forests still be filled with life? Will our coral reefs be dead? Will our communities cope with more intense and frequent climate disasters?”

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · Nov 15

Fossil fuel bosses get ‘red carpet’ at Cop29 despite concerns over influence #Climate

Fossil fuel bosses get ‘red carpet’ at Cop29 despite concerns over influence

Revealed: more than 100 executives given special guest badges as activists challenge role of oil and gas firms at talks

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Nov 15

Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot

What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 10

participatory performance and think tank ‘tiny revolutions’
inviting audiences to develop a tiny response to epic issues relating to the poly crisis

a black and white stencil style graphic with a clenched fist with little finger poking upwards. text underneath reading tiny revolutions

an audience member sat at a table holds her hand outwards towards the camera. she is holding a playing card from tiny revolutions which has been pulled
from a shiny black card holder

daytime on the city streets and people are doing a dance for democracy in a public square. it is joyous and they are smiling and laughing

an interior of an old town hall surrounded by red flags and people sat at circular tables. they are mid conversation as rebels part of tiny revolutions

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kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 10

performance work ‘eaters’
a rowdy pub quiz about the future of food production amidst the climate crisis

four seated figures in a daggy australian pub. each are wearing giant papier-mâché bright yellow pac man heads

interior detail, warm orange lighting inside a pub of a hand holding the eaters app with a multiple choice question on screen about the future of food

kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social · Nov 10

hello! am new to this. sharing some of our recent artworks and interventions relating to the climate crisis from australian petrostate, planet perth.

‘the social licence watchdogs’
intervention
fictional corporate watchdog invoicing 5 biggest fossil fuel polluters for their social cost of carbon

a female figure is stood on the street surrounded by cameras, with a giant 10ft carbon emissions invoice, ready to hand deliver to BHP

exhibition detail of 5 x giant invoices hanging in an art gallery. a figure is stood with her back to camera, studying the invoices

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