Dark Mofo

Celebrating both ancient and contemporary mythologies, Mona’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo entices an annual pilgrimage south to Tasmania to embrace the dark through large-scale public art, food, film, music, light and noise.

Dark Mofo runs in and around Hobart, featuring several precincts including the subversive adult Disneyland of the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Mona’s industrial public art playground Dark Park, the Winter Feast precinct, and more.

The 2016 festival artistic highlights included Cameron Robbins, Mike Parr, United Visual Artists, Grupo EmpreZa, Ryoji Ikeda, Tim Hecker, and Michaela Gleave. Music highlights include ZHU, Savages, Chelsea Wolfe, Lubomyr Melnyk, Cult of Fire, Jarboe, Tribulation, Dead Congregation, Inverloch, and Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, among more.

For foodies, The City of Hobart Dark Mofo Winter Feast served a communal banquet, with a focus on flame-grilled street food and festivity across Princes Wharf Shed No.1 (PW1), Castray Esplanade and Salamanca Lawns.

Dark Mofo stand-alone events include dropping your dacks for the Nude Solstice Swim, the late-night bacchanal Blacklist, and more. www.darkmofo.net.au