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“Sometimes only when its dark enough can you see the stars.”
Martin Luther King Jnr
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Pope Alice’s exploits and journeys traverse the millennia. Below is a reduced and selected outline of her more recent achievements and participations beginning in the 1970s
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1979
Guest of Honour, HDH Pope Alice at the SWISH Ball, Baroona, Brisbane
1980
Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts, Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Pope Alice Vulvic Kitsch Iced Vo-Vo performance, King George Square
Pope Alice appearance on Channel O’s Sargeant Report and various news channels.
1982
Rope/Pope/Dancer/Danger assemblage artwotk by Luke Roberts now in the collection of the University Art Museum, St Lucia, Brisbane
1983
Pope Alice Plastik, film document and performance at La Boite Theatre, Brisbane
1984
Pope Alice and the PaliceAIDES, performance at La Boite Theatre with Gerry Connelly. Pope Alice and the Paliceaides sang and performed to The Festival of Light by Judy Small.
Pope Alice film ….
Pope Alice in Tokyo, various independent performances in Tokyo and Kyoto
1987
International Women’s Day, Amsterdam
Vatican Rag with Fifi L’Amour and David DeMost, Amsterdam
1996
HEAL THE WORLD tour
Travel to New York via Tokyo and later Boston, San Antonio, Loredo and Alice, TX, and Mexico
1997
Consciousness Raising Exercises and Pope Alice Sightings within the Alamo Triangle. San Antonio, Texas and surroundings.
Another town Like Alice, Pope Alice visits the town of Alice, Texas
NASA/PAX – PAX/NASA, the Pope Alice Xorporation makes contact with NASA seeking technical assistance to return HDH Pope Alice to her Home Planet Metalluna. The letter remains unanswered.
Pope Alice HOME (fizzer), Failed attempt to return to Metalluna from Times Square
MU Embassy, installation and conceptual performance and Wunderkamera installation, MOMA PS1 and PS1 Clocktower, NYC
Pope Alice performance at the opening night of the National and International Artist Studios, PS1 Clocktower, Tribeca, NYC
Living Treasures, DIA Foundation for the Arts, Chelsea, NYC. HDH Pope Alice attended with Living Treasure Mr Quentin Crisp, the opening night of Tracey Moffatt’s exhibition
Pope Ascending and Desccnding the Staircase, at DIA Foundation Chelsea, bathed in the flourescent light of Dan Flavin’s permanent installation, “Untitled,” that lights up the building’s staircase. Installed in 1996, it was the artist’s last light sculpture before his death in 1996.
1999
Pope Alice Alien, HDH Pope Alice Livid Festival, Brisbane. Pope Alice tours the showgrounds in a Pope mobile with Nurse Nancy handing out inflatable alien dolls to the crowd as Pope Alice Alien was being written in sky writing above the Brisbane Exhibition grounds and a film of her helicopter landing played on the Main Stage.
Vanitas Veritas Gravitas, Pope Alice launches Luke Roberts Institute of Modern Art publication Vanitas at the Queensland Art Gallery
2002
MU Pavilion: Greetings from Amnesia: The Palace at 4am installation celebrating Pope Alice’s connection with the Lost COntinent of Lemuria (MU), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney as part of the 13th Biennale of Sydney
Pope Alice and Delegation from the People’s Republic of MU, performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2008
KISS-IN, Pope Alice performances as part of NoToPope Coalition activities Taylor Square, Sydney
2009
Floating World, Papal Tour, Central Queensland
2010
POPEPEOPLE independent performance, Asia Pacific Triennial and opening of GOMA, QAGOMA, Brisbane
2012
Pope Alice’s ROMA, Pope Alice events in Rome, Italy as part of an Australia Council Grant at the British School at Rome
Mu Embassy, three month conceptual performance installed in artist studio 5 at the British School at Rome
The Visitation, Pope Alice performance and performance document of her visit to Vatican City.
2013
POPEPEOPLE independent performance, 7th Asia Pacific Triennial opening, QAGOMA, Brisbane
2014
Walking to the New Jerusalem, commissioned performance, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Assumption, performance Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Pope Alice canonizes Alice Jitterbug, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015
Walking to the New Jerusalem, commissioned performance as part of Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2016
POPEPEOPLE independent performance, 8th Asia Pacific Triennial opening, QAGOMA, Brisbane
2018
Pope Alice Re-Imagined, Australia Council project grant
Pope Alice Atlantarctica, POPEPEOPLE independent performance, 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA,
Brisbane
2019
Pope Alice / Pythia / Oracle, commissioned performances for The National 2019.
Opening Night Event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Pope Alice Visitation, Carriageworks, Sydney
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“We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
