Dark MoFo 2018
I am so looking forward to throwing myself into things I expect to love, and things that are perhaps outside of my comfort zone. I won’t be bored during my 3 days, that is certain
Everything revolves around Nobody’s only Australian gig.
Each night the winter feast is an obvious destination, where I can partake in some roast Highland Cow, a NZ hangi, fish nailed to planks and cooked over hot coals, rare Tasmanian gin, pork + mushroom and ginger wontons, Ethiopian spicy chicken, bulgogi wraps, tonkatsu with aged and koji-cured pork – you get the picture.
Dark Park – art, music, drink – free entry
Laurie Anderson virtual reality $10 / Lou Reed feedback $free
Soda Jerk movie $free / Liminals sci-fi pseudo-documentary $free
Rapture – Sermon, ceremony or concert? A camera tracks a crowd lost in silent worship… (no idea what this is, but $free)
Mona art gallery, of course, must do / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Invisible House – A frenzied celebration of arcane knowledge, magic, science, and the occult, carried out by maverick filmmakers, visionary photographers, installation artists, automatic painters and committed ritualists.
French and Mortershead $29 but sounds alluring – Take a boat ride up the icy river, and listen to the story of your body’s afterlife and process of decay in water—dissolving and disintegrating, as it is borne through a deepening estuary and out to the sea.
Panopticon II – $free – You are the watcher; they, the watched. On the hour, things begin to change…
The Pink Palace – $free, 4 artists / Dark [Other] Times – $free, 15 artists / The Return / Island Shrine / Wildlife – imagined creatures
Shame I am flying in too late for the nude swim… 1000+ people last year…
Please note: your face will not be shown without your permission, but your ass might be.*
Dark Mofo reserves the right to refuse participation if an individual is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or is hungover (particularly if carrying a cheeseburger).*
Somehow I’ll fit in the 2nd All Blacks v France test match!
Night Mass from 10pm Saturday, sounds like an all night immersive ramble, dodging those on substances, so that is locked in
Chrysta Bell on Sunday? I’ll listen to her at work a bit and then decide
Also Sunday, The Burning – Join the massive procession snaking its way around the waterfront to the ceremonial fires of Dark Park, where our ogoh-ogoh—and our fears with it—shall be commended to the flames.
Island Shrine – a Tasmanian Aboriginal warrior woman and tyrelore (island wife) who fought white colonists in our island’s genocidal Black War.