CURATORIAL WORK
DIPPING IN THE KOOL AID
March 4 - April 21, 2018
Dipping in the Kool Aid was an Apexart New York Franchise Exhibition at Tony Raka Gallery Bali curated by Mary Lou Pavlovic. Pavlovic was awarded this exhibition from an Apexart international callout, ranking 3rd out of 386 anonymous proposals from 61 countries, jurored by 200 international art experts. Dipping in the Kool Aid featured collaborations between Australian and Indonesian artists and people incarcerated in Indonesian jails. The exhibition stemmed from artist workshops in Indonesian prisons also organised by Pavlovic. Some of the artist participants included Mangu Putra, Angki Purbandono, Rodney Glick, Elizabeth Gower and Mary Lou Pavlovic.
To view images and all exhibition materials, including a downloadable brochure, please visit
https://apexart.org/exhibitions/pavlovic.php
FALLOUT, A QUICK RESPONSE EXHIBITION
December 14-20, 2001
The weekend after September 11, 2001, ABC television Australia was due to broadcast a segment on Mary Lou Pavlovic' s artwork which included a life size model of an execution chair, based on Unibomber Timothy's McVeigh's much publicized death bed. The segment showed footage of burning buildings, the results of McVeigh's bombings, and because of the destruction on September 11 of the World Trade Centre, in which burning buildings were broadcast around the world continuously, the ABC promptly cut Pavlovic's segment from being aired as viewers may have found it offensive. (See this article in Realtime Arts.) Additionally, Pavlovic was lecturing in visual art at the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne and observed an outpouring of images related to the events of September 11 in the days immediately afterwards.
Fallout became a quick response exhibition staged in order to capture the moment and to anticipate how dominant themes of interest might change in the art world, almost overnight issues of globalisation, displacement, refugees, human rights and marginalised people began to characterise many large institutional exhibitions. Fallout featured the works of 37 artists ranging from established to students; it was an exhibition of solidarity and a plea for an alternative narrative to the Howard government and official narratives coming from the American government. Artists, writers and musicians effected by S11 participated and included Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Janenne Eaton, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, DAMP, Arlo Mountford, Fergus Binns, Ronnie Van Hout, Area 7, Nikos Papastergiadis, Elizabeth Gower, Sanya Pohoki Simon Barney and Mary Lou Pavlovic. The exhibition was voted RRR radio Melbourne exhibition of the year by visual arts journalist Richard Watts and the March 2003 edition of Artlink visual arts magazine was titled Fallout in honour of the show, featuring many of the artists works and an article by Pavlovic. Fallout has been referred to in books and articles including
Fallout by Samantha Semmens in Eyeline Magazine issue 48.,
Art in the Age of Siege by Nikos Papastergiadis
Re Imagining Diasporas by Nikos Papastergiadis
Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility edited by Maria Margaroni, Effie Yiannopoulou
Maladjustment Exhibition Brochure
Maladjustment NEKA Art Museum, Bali, November 2019 for Ubud Writers Festival.
This exhibition features female artists' works from diverse cultures. All works are gender related interventions in the artist's locales.