Emergency Dollhouse
An immersive labyrinth in a four level Georgian building where one thing is clear – you can't just be a voyeur, you must participate.
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Interfacial Intimacies
A series of portraits and anti-portraits confront the tensions of our networked personalities—our shadows, our masks, our shame at Plimsoll Gallery.
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Winter Feast
Stallholders, warm drinks, bright lights, good food, music and roaming performers
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Dark Park
Spectra moved from Mona to Dark Park, Western Flag burned black, a collective of Sudanese artists engaged in ritual practices, a live streaming teddy took over Blue Velvet Lounge, and fire and smoke engulfed the site.
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Ogoh-Ogoh
A platypus sculpture derived from a balinese Hindu purification ritual went up in flames in an annual ritual of renewal at the end of the festival.
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Silent Symphony
United Visual Artists returned to Dark Mofo with a series of kinetic light and sound instruments mimicking planetary orbit.
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Without Us You would Have Never Learnt About Love
A robotic shrine formed from repurposed toys by Jason Phu
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A Divine Comedy
Florentina Holzinger brought an all female identifying to Dark Mofo to perform A Divine Comedy, a journey through hell, purgatory and paradise involving dance, stunts, motorcross, live taxidermy, sex, violence, hypnosis, wood chopping, nudity and so much more.
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Stories After Dark
The Tasmanian State Library and Archives Building opened after dark for one night only, with performances, storytelling, hidden collections and artefacts on display.
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Night Mass: Extasia
Back to its former self, Night Mass turned it on for its tenth anniversary festival, with a sprawling metropolis of performances, art, cocktail lounges, cinema cabarets, music, a giant teddy transmitting live footage and raves until the early hours.
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Hello Dankness
An experimental sample-based film chronicling the spectacle of American politics from 2016-2021 by artist duo Soda Jerk
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My Journey
A banned short film exploring the issue of aboriginal identity in Tasmania made its debut at the festival, by newly founded Indigenous Tasmanian production company Kutikina.
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