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Dark Park

Art, fire, and light, expanding onto new terrain.

THU 5–SUN 8 JUNE +
THU 12–SUN 15 JUNE
4PM–10PM
MACQUARIE POINT

Please note: on Sunday 15 June, Dark Park will close from 5-8pm to make way for the Ogoh-ogoh's procession and burning.

Ogoh-ogoh: The Purging

A person places a paper note into the belly of a giant platypus Ogoh-ogoh sculpture.

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

Ogoh-ogoh: The Burning

The Ogoh-ogoh sculpture engulfed in bright orange flames. The flame reach several meters into the dark night's sky.

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

Dark Bar

A moody room with large red satin curtains.

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

Australian Exclusive

La Danse Macabre

Claudia Comte
_CHE

The letters HA HA HA spelt out in burning flames.

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

Australian Exclusive

SORA

Nonotak
_FRA/JPN

Two people sit down in a hall full of moving lights.

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

Australian Exclusive

Neon Anthem

Nicholas Galanin
_USA

A red neon sign in front of a room of mats reads "I've composed a new American national anthem take a knee and scream until you can't breathe"

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

Thu 5–Sun 8 June

4–10pm

Thu 12–Sat 14 June

4–10pm

Australian Exclusive

Quasi

Ronnie Van Hout
_NZL

A sculpture hand with a face looms over the city.

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

A man in a black suit bends over a partially open coffin made of a dark wood and lined with white satin. The face of someone inside the coffin is partially visible. The room is white with a bright green floor.

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

The front of a yellow car that has crashed, it's bodywork is twisted and crunched, covered in oil and dirt.

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.

Sat 7 June

8–10pm

Regatta Grounds

Sun 8 June

4–10pm

Thu 12–Sun 15 June

4–10pm

Channelling (between here and then, a wall)

Hannah Foley
_AUS

A person holding a string instrument in a concrete room with metal parts sticking out of the walls.

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 green light shines through a geometric structure.

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