![]() At Nitsch’s 150.Action, naked, blindfolded bodies are bound to crucifixes and litres of cow blood is poured into their mouths. ![]() Dark Mofo’s red cross logo is slathered across the city and Scandinavian metal bands roam the streets. In part, you can understand the dismay of Hobart’s conservative Christians. He surmised this of the theremin show: “Up in the pulpit he played his no-touch thingymabob… I half expected good old Beelzebub to make a guest appearance.” Were “followers of Dark Mofo unaware that they might be praying and worshipping and selling their souls to the devil and his darkness?” Gerry went to the Uniting Church to “have a squizz” at a performance there. This year, a local named Wayne described the closing ceremonial burning as “a diabolical heathen display”. Heading to The Hope & Anchor pub with the paper for beer and oysters is a good way to spend a few non-nocturnal hours. Living in Hobart has changed.ĭuring the festival, the local rag runs letters from outraged residents that make it sound absolutely fucking glorious to precisely its target audience. Fancy hotels, 'locavore' restaurants and wine bars are opening apace. Dark Mofo alone claims to inject $50 million into the Tasmanian economy and employ 1000 people. The flow-on effect of Mona and its festivals has been compared to that in Bilbao after the Guggenheim was built. There is a Summer festival, too, curated by Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes. ![]() ![]() A tubular glass elevator sinks you deep underground where the black - not white! – gallery walls eschew explanatory text for a headset on which a cock-and-balls icon can be pressed to consume ‘art wank’.ĭark Mofo lights up Australia’s coldest capital city with culture during what was previously hibernation season. You realise that at the core of its depraved intellectualism is something far more approachable and very Australian: irreverence. Its permanent collection includes The Great Wall of Vagina, The Cloaca Professional “poo machine” and - for one year - the human sculpture of Tattoo Tim.īut Mona is more than the sum of its art. The festival’s mothership is the subterranean Museum of New and Old (Mona). ![]()
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