MONA FOMA wrangles over 500 artists and performers from TextaQueen to Queens of the Stone Age in seventeen days of confessed “summer mayhem” across Tasmania’s nipaluna/Hobart and Launceston, from 15 February to 2 March 2024.
Highlights include Nigerian multi-sensory artist Emeka Ogboh, who continues his global conversation on migration and belonging with Boats, an immersive work revolving around gin; Australian multi-disciplinary artist Justin Shoulder’s performance work Anito draws on the Philippine folk tale of the balete tree (Ficus Indica), the dwelling place for supernatural beings, and creates his own future space of storytelling with elaborately costumed performers transforming into “creatures”: hybrids between animal, plant, human and machine; and Taiwanese visual artist Yahon Chang uses a human-size brush on a vast floor canvas to create his work, a performance that combines calligraphy, art, meditation, kung fu and tai chi.
Yahon Chang at work. Photograph: Wei-Tsan Liu. Courtesy MONA FOMA, Tasmania
