Dark Park

Commit your fears to a giant Maugean skate—a dwindling species found only in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, where salmon is farmed nearby. Crafted by Balinese artists, it’s this year’s ogoh-ogoh: a totem-like sculpture derived from a Balinese Hindu purification ritual.

Come together as we set aflame our Maugean skate-shaped ogoh-ogoh—and with it, our fears—in a communal ritual of smoke, fire, and noise.

Warming tipples, nibbles, purging (fears), and trips to the afterlife. There’ll be live music nightly, and black ice cream for the little devils.

In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.

―Bertolt Brecht

A blistering allegory of capitalist apathy: Comte’s video work depicts two pianists performing Saint-Saëns’ symphonic meditation on death, while a wooden sculpture is consumed by flames and a motocross rider jumps through the inferno.

Inside a dark warehouse, kinetic light beams undulate at the whim of an invisible wind, summoning the hypnotic landscape of the Japanese night sky.

A space for mourning, protest, and catharsis. Take a knee.

A gargantuan appendage towers overhead, fusing the artist's face and hand in a monstrous likeness. The divisive sculpture has drawn the ire of our friends across the ditch. Now it’s our turn to love or hate it.

For the dead travel fast.

―Bram Stoker, Dracula

Take a ride to the afterlife. Souvenir included.

Remnants of impact. The wreckage of Paula Garcia’s Crash Body, left behind and on display.

Catch the Crash Body performance at the Regatta Grounds on Saturday 7 June, 6pm–8pm.

A haunting tonal experience from deep under the Gordon Dam. Recorded industrial sounds from a site-specific waterphone channel the spirit of the river in their call.

A play of light and dark, sound and silence: windows become portals to shifting student visions.