The MONA winter festival returns with an expansive program spreading to new spaces around Hobart. The diverse collection of events that traverse art, performance, live music, a nude solstice swim and winter feasts will take place across Hobart’s waterfront; from Salamanca Place to Dark Park at Macquarie Point, to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, up river to Mona, and further to the historic Willow Court in New Norfolk.
Dark Mofo, Creative Director, Leigh Carmichael says, “There are a number of initiatives that we are very excited about this year, the central one being the collaboration with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). Deeply Tasmanian themes and ideas inspired directly by the exhibition, ‘Tempest’ are running right through the entire Dark Mofo experience.”
‘Tempest’ is TMAG’s major winter exhibition, a romantic shipwreck of piracy and wild weather, creating a wunderkammer in the gallery space. Curated by Juliana Engberg, it will feature historic works from TMAG as well as new pieces by Tacita Dean, Kit Wise, Rosemary Laing, Pat Brassington and others.
Other highlights include: Mike Parr’s ‘Asylum’, a one-off installation in response to the site’s past as a mental institution, Cameron Robbins’ ‘Field Lines’, which utilises mechanical instruments to create artworks, and Ryoji Ikeda’s ‘supersymmetry [experience]’, an immersive sensory installation.
Dark Mofo
10 to 21 June, 2016
Tasmania
Cameron Robbins, Lion’s Head, Anemographs
Courtesy the artist and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), (Moorilla Gallery), Tasmania
Cameron Robbins, Mt Jim Magnetic Anomaly, Loops II, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania
