Heads in jars used to examine cultural theft, legacy Winter festival Dark Mofo has revealed its first piece for a reinvigorated 2025 event, a work using flesh in jars to examine cultural theft. AAP · Mar 11, 2025
Past the Shallows takes a skeleton crew into the deep water A uniquely Australian show stages top young actors in Newcastle. Newcastle Herald · Oct 18, 2024
Jónsi from Sigur Rós makes a volcano: ‘It goes straight up the arse to rattle your bones’ An immersive exhibition at Mona in Hobart merges music, sound and scent to evoke an eruption, from an artist who is always finding new ways to move his audience The Guardian - AU · Oct 2, 2023
It’s back to the Futuro in Australia, where seven of the ‘UFO houses’ have landed Mona’s David Walsh has restored one of the cult prefabs and says one day he’ll make it available to the public ‘at an exorbitant fee of course’ The Guardian - AU · Sep 2, 2023
A bloodbath, a boycott, a blindfolded kidnapping: after 10 chaotic years, has Dark Mofo lost its edge? Marcus Teague has experienced each extreme of Hobart’s winter festival. There may have been fewer controversies in recent years – but they weren’t always the best bits The Guardian - AU · Jun 5, 2023
Sexual exhibitionism, Riot Grrrl and climate change activism: 30 years of raging by Peaches, Bikini Kill and Björk, still going strong Kathleen Hanna yells like she did in the 1990s, pushing the toxic male patriarchy out of the moshpit at Melbourne’s The Forum on the eve of International Women’s Day. The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023
At Mona Foma, I encountered death rituals, underwater soundscapes, worship – and transcendence Mona Foma has returned to Launceston. As always, the festival offers a diverse program of contemporary art, design, music and performance, and works that sit somewhere between. There will be bands, there will be lasers, and there will be queer woodchopping. The Conversation · Feb 23, 2023
Burnt books and blackened stumps: Dark Mofo brings Tasmania’s ‘forest genocide’ indoors At Mona, Fiona Hall and AJ King have built an immersive lament to the destructive forces of colonialism and male ego – but hope grows amid the wreckage The Guardian - AU · Jun 12, 2022