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Initial Social History and Bimil 비밀Alice McCool
FUTUREJUICE, Tarntanya/Adelaide
2026

Before K-Pop, K-Beauty and K-Dramas, one of Korea’s most popular exports to the West was K-Babies. In the decades following the Korean War over 200,000 children were sent abroad through fraudulent orphan registrations, identity tampering and the fabrication of records, including false reports of abandonment and illegal separation.

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Other togetherAlice McCool and Ena Grozdanic 
Sawtooth Ari, Kanamaluka/Launceston 
2025

“To love a friend is to recognise the difference and estrangement of the other. Friendly love, which is based on asymmetrical reciprocity, demands the recognition of the foreignness at the core of intimacy.” — Svetlana Boym

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A little with the head of Maradona

Alice McCool and Yusuf Ali Hayat
‘Prosopon’, curated by Eleen Deprez 
The Little Machine, Tarntanya/Adelaide
2025

Palestinian writer and poet Mohammed el-Kurd reminds us “To be irreverent at the podium is to possess a powerful weapon against dehumanization… Contrary to popular belief, irreverence can shatter taboos and help others raise their ceiling. It expands the boundaries of what is permissible.“

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debutAlice McCool and Chelsea Farquar 
‘memory halo’ curated by jemi gale 
Suite7a, Gadigal/Sydney 
2025

Following a two and a half year investigation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Korea confirmed that for decades following the Korean War the government had continually violated the fundamental human rights of children sent overseas for adoption through fraudulent orphan registrations, identity tampering and the fabrication of records, including false reports of abandonment.

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on-site at No.9 Karaoke
No.9 Karaoke, Tarntanya/Adelaide
2026

No.9 卡拉OK karaoke Bar
Shop 5/36-48 Wright St, Adelaide SA 
5000

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Friend/free (to love) 

Bus Projects, Naarm/Melbourne 
2025

In English, ‘friend’ and ‘free’ share the same root: frēon, meaning ‘to love.’ This shared etymology is expressed in friendship as an open and ongoing encounter that is inherently anarchic and exists outside of property relations: friendship is an affinity not tethered to bloodlines or sexual affiliations. It is a way of being free from the logics of possession, a framework for sharing, extending, co-constituting.

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Loose ends

Post Office Projects, Tarntanya/Adelaide 
2023

Loose ends trails the complexities of self-representation, personal history and cultural hybridity. The multidisciplinary practices of the artists follow threads that tie us to notions of identity and belonging, creating new moments of contestation and alignment that intertwine a shared cultural heritage.

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Body work

FELTspace, Tarntanya/Adelaide
2021

At a time when there are so many social restrictions placed on our bodies, how does the labour we undertake intrinsically cross our own physical borders?


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