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Dark Mofo

Celebrating the dark through large-scale public art, food, film, music, light and noise.

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‘I found myself within a forest dark.’
—Dante

Dark Mofo returns with strange dreams and restless nights, including major new art and music precincts, Dark + Dangerous Thoughts, Night Mass, the Winter Feast, the Nude Solstice Swim and more.

See the full program on the Dark Mofo website.

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Julie Gough: Tense Past
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Julie Gough: Tense Past

Exhibitions

7 Jun - 3 Nov 2019

Dunn Place, Hobart

A major exhibition by renowned Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough
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mine-2048x1536
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Simon Denny, Mine

Exhibitions

8 Jun 2019 - 13 Apr 2020

655 Main Rd, Berriedale

A journey underground, into a theme park of mining, data collection and augmented reality. The artist’s biggest exhibition yet.
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Past events

Liminal Soundbath
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Liminal Soundbath

Exhibitions

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18 Hunter Street, Hobart TAS

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Candlemass Dark Mofo
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Candlemass

Live music + concerts

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167 Liverpool Street, Hobart TAS

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FKA Twigs
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FKA Twigs

Live music + concerts

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18 Hunter Street, Hobart TAS

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#5b-Patrick-Hall-The-Eye-of-The-Needle,-2019,--detail-2-WEB, Patrick Hall, 2019. Photographer: Despard Gallery
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Patrick Hall at Dark Mofo 2019

Exhibitions, Heritage

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103 Hampden Road, Battery Point

at Narryna with his installation If They Should Accidentally Fall
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big rainbow cat is part of Troy Emery's exhibition, Wildlife
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Wildlife: Troy Emery

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LOT 2 Rosny Hill Road, Rosny Park

A technicolour menagerie of imagined creatures
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The Upright Star of the Great Name,
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TohuVBohu – An Invisible House event

Live music + concerts

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77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point TAS

Light, music, sculpture, ritual, sound and performance by Brendan Walls
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William Mortensen. The Old Hag With Skull (1926).
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William Mortensen | INVISIBLE HOUSE

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77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point TAS

Grotesque and visionary photographic creations from William Mortensen.
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Image courtesy of Carnegie Gallery and Dark Mofo.
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Island Shrine

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16 Argyle St, Hobart TAS 7000

Keith Deverell with Fiona Hamilton in partnership with Aunty Netty Shaw and Uncle Rob Anders.
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Image: James Newitt, I Go Further Under (film still), 2018
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Delay

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27 Tasma Street, North Hobart

Negotiate a dense, and at times claustrophobic, exhibition environment.
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Landing Tanya Lee
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Landing

Exhibitions

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1b Aberdeen St, Glebe TAS 7000

Swim the distance between Australia and Manus Island in a cumulative 24-hour marathon relay at the Hobart Aquatic Centre.
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Image courtesy of Constance ARI and Dark Mofo
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The Pink Palace

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39 Bathurst Street, Hobart TAS

Constance ARI + Risdon Prison
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Photo Credit: Dark Mofo/Lusy Productions, 2017 Image Courtesy Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Dark Park

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8a Evans St, Hobart TAS 7000

An after-dark industrial art playground.
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spectra [tasmania], 2013, Ryoji Ikeda
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Spectra (Tasmania)

Exhibitions

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655 Main Rd, Berriedale

The towering pillar of light reaching into the night sky returns.
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Photo Credit: Dark Mofo/Lusy Productions, 2017
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Winter Feast

Live music + concerts

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Castray Esplanade, Hobart TAS 7000

Gather by the river for seven nights.
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Photo: Maclay Heriot. Image courtesy of the artist, Red Bull Music, and Dark Mofo 2018.
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Jagwar Ma

Live music + concerts

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+ Tornado Wallace, No Zu, Lauren Hansom, Jim Warrior.
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Lament
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Lament

Live music + concerts

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167 Liverpool Street, Hobart TAS

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Photo: Shelagh Howard 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and Dark Mofo 2018
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Retribution

Live music + concerts

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167 Liverpool Street, Hobart TAS 7000

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Dark Mofo
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Dark and Dangerous Thoughts

Workshops + seminars

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167 Liverpool Street, Hobart TAS

Talk is cheap. Opinions proliferate.
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Photo by Nedda Afsari. Picture courtesy of the artist and Dark Mofo 2018
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St Vincent

Live music + concerts

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18 Hunter Street, Hobart TAS 7000

The rock star of reinvention returns with warped and wild pop music of power and sorrow.
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From James Newitt's exhibition Delay, Contemporary Art Tasmania, James Newitt, 2018
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Delay

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27 Tasma Street, North Hobart

James Newitt
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Ella_Condon_1 - lowres, Ella Condon, 2016. Photographer: Photo courtesy of the artist
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Dark [Other] Times

Exhibitions

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Centre for The Arts, Hunter Street

A group exhibition organised around the polarised moods that characterise living in our “interesting times”
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The Last Bastion
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The Last Bastion

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77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point

A Dark Mofo Event
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Outposts
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Outposts

Exhibitions

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77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point

A Dark Mofo Event
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Beattie Studios, Beattie’s Port Arthur Museum
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Death Mask

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103 Hampden Road, Battery Point

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Tree 5&6
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Milan Milojevic: Wunderkammerama

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LOT 2 Rosny Hill Road, Rosny Park

Dark Mofo presents this collection by acclaimed artist Milan Milojevic
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Ceremonial hat worn for eating finger cheese, still from HD video
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Big Cheese

Exhibitions

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27 Tasma Street, North Hobart

Why is there always cheese at exhibition openings?
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Neither Here Nor There
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Neither Here Nor There

Exhibitions

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4 Liverpool St, Hobart TAS 7000

artistic minds merge in confined spaces.
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Maggie James
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Hal’cyon

Theatre + dance

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Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street

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Event for a Stage, location photograph, live performance, film and radio work
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Event for a Stage

Theatre + dance

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275 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart

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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
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Opening night at the museum

Exhibitions

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Dunn Place, Hobart

Celebrate the opening of the Tempest exhibition at TMAG
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Divination
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Divination

Exhibitions

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8a Evans Street, Hobart

A romantic mutiny in a maelstrom of data.
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weather #4 C Type photograph
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Tempest

Exhibitions

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Dunn Place, Hobart

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Savages group photo
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Savages (UK)

Live music + concerts

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167 Liverpool Street, West Hobart

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Chelsea Wolfe Photo: Kristin Cofer Image courtesy of the artist and Dark Mofo
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Chelsea Wolfe

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167 Liverpool Street, West Hobart

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Woven cable ties and irrigation tubing
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Lucy Irvine: Made of Holes

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LOT 2 Rosny Hill Road, Rosny Park

Obelisk-esque sculptural work for Dark Mofo 2016.
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Lovers
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envelop(e)

Exhibitions

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27 Tasma Street, North Hobart

envelop(e) is a group exhibition of sound and light works
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Orlando
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Orlando

Theatre + dance

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29 Campbell Street, Hobart

Theatrical mavericks THE RABBLE bring us a hallucinatory reworking of Virginia Woolf ’s classic gender-bending parable
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Ashes to Ashes
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Ashes to Ashes

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103 Hampden Road, Battery Point

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Funeral
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Funeral

Theatre + dance

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Salamanca Arts Centre, Salamanca Place

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The Discovery 6Tent
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The Discovery 6Tet

Live music + concerts

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655 Main Rd, Berriedale

Classical strings with a Sidney Nolan backdrop on the MONA rooftop
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John Kelly
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Beyond Woop Woop

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Dunn Place, Hobart

An exhibition of works by John Kelly
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The Kettering Incident
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The Kettering Incident

Theatre + dance

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167 Liverpool Street, Hobart

Directed by Rowan Woods & Tony Krawitz
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Dark Mofo Films
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Dark Mofo Films

Theatre + dance

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375 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart

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Angry Electrons
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Angry Electrons

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37 Hunter Street, Hobart

Jason James
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Radiant Heat
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Radiant Heat

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37 Hunter Street, Hobart

Lucy Bleach
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Blind Boy Dreaming Aloud
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Giidanyba by Tyrone Sheather

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Lower Domain Road, Queens Domain

Presented by Salamanca Arts Centre and Dark Mofo.
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Helen Gillet
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The Witching Hour – Helen Gillet

Live music + concerts

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23 Murray Street, Hobart

improvisational cello performance to celebrate the winter solstice.
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The Witches
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The Witches

Theatre + dance

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Salamanca Arts Centre, Salamanca Place

By Roald Dahl
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Hot House
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The Hot House

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Battery Point, Tasmania

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Bass Bath
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Dark Park – Bass Bath

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8a Evans Street, Hobart

Byron J Scullin + Supple Fox
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Black List
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Blacklist

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Dark Mofo Nude Solstice Swim City of Hobart Dark Mofo Winter Feast City of Hobart Dark Mofo Winter Feast Ogoh-ogoh Photo Credit: Dark Mofo/Lusy Productions, 2017 Image Courtesy Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Matthew Schreiber, Crossbow Image courtesy Matthew Schreiber and Dark Mofo 2018 Photo Credit: Dark Mofo/Lusy Productions, 2017 Image Courtesy Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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