Dark Park
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Channelling (between here and then, a wall)
Hannah Foley
AUS
Light, Sound/Silence, Shadow
UTAS Creative Arts and Media Students
AUS
