Tag: Dark MoFo

Along the Dark Path

Along the Dark Path – Hobart’s Domain takes on a new, nocturnal life during Dark Mofo

My 2019 calendar photos

Each year I select photos I’ve taken and produce a calendar to give as gifts to family and close friends. Here is this year’s selection.

Dark Mofo 2018 – Spectra Returns

A highlight of this year’s Dark Mofo was the return of Ryoji Ikeda’s 15km tall beam of light and sound installation Spectra to town, on a permanent basis, having been purchased by David Walsh. Spectra won the affection of Hobart’s residents during the first Dark Mofo back in 2013, when it graced the Cenotaph.

Dark Mofo 2017

Dark Mofo has been and gone for another year. The festival expanded to encompass two full weekends of the Midwinter Feast as well as a progressive nighttime journey from Launceston to Hobart stopping off at churches along the Midlands Highway for a series of artistic happenings. My own participation focussed on the activities in and…

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Tempest at TMAG

Tempest is probably the biggest single exhibition that TMAG (the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) has ever staged. Far from being confined to the usual temporary exhibition galleries on the ground floor, the show has taken over almost every space within the institution and staff from pretty much every corner and discipline – from decorative…

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Dark Mofo Part 3 – Burning the Ogoh Ogoh

…the festival culminated in a firey spectacle based on a traditional Indonesian ogoh ogoh ceremony designed to purge people’s fears by consigning them to the flames.

Dark Mofo Part 2 – Painting the Town Red

It’s not just large public buildings and infrastructure that are lit up to celebrate Dark Mofo in Hobart … Hotels and homes are also glowing crimson through the long winter nights