Dark Park
Art, fire, and light, expanding onto new terrain.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
Please note: on Sunday 15 June, Dark Park will close from 5-8pm to make way for the Ogoh-ogoh's procession and burning.
Warning
Open fires—please take care
Food + Drink
Food and libations aplenty at Dark Park. Bruny Island Cheese Co. are doing double duty: cheese and wine from Haddow + Dineen inside Dark Bar, smoked beef and local booze out by the fire. Orlando Plenty will be dishing out falafel pitas and winter warmers, and there’ll be blood-red ice cream (on a black cone, of course) courtesy of Zen Gelato.
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.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sat 14 June
4–10pm
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.
Sun 15 June
6–7pm
Warming tipples, nibbles, purging (fears), and trips to the afterlife. There’ll be live music nightly, and red ice cream for the little devils.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
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.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
Inside a dark warehouse, kinetic light beams undulate at the whim of an invisible wind, summoning the hypnotic landscape of the Japanese night sky.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
A space for mourning, protest, and catharsis. Take a knee.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sat 14 June
4–10pm
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.
Thu 5–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
Coffin Rides
Simon Zoric
AUS
For the dead travel fast.
―Bram Stoker, Dracula
Take a ride to the afterlife. Souvenir included.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
Crash Body: Aftermath
Paula Garcia
BRA
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.
Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
Channelling (between here and then, a wall)
Hannah Foley
AUS
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.
Thu 5–Sun 8 June
4–10pm
Thu 12–Sun 15 June
4–10pm
Light, Sound/Silence, Shadow
UTAS Creative Arts and Media Students
AUS
A play of light and dark, sound and silence: windows become portals to shifting student visions.
Thu 5–Sat 7 June
6–8pm
Fri 13–Sat 14 June
6–8pm