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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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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‘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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‘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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2026
No.9 卡拉OK karaoke Bar
Shop 5/36-48 Wright St, Adelaide SA
5000
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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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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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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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