Dark Mofo: Embrace festival’s final days with these 10 offerings

IT’S the final flutter for Dark Mofo, but there’s still plenty on to entice even the most hardened homebody out into the dark outdoors. Here’s our Top 10 of what catch. VIDEO | GALLERY

THE final days of Dark Mofo are upon us, but don’t despair, there’s still plenty to see and do before the city bids farewell to the winter festival for another year.

If you haven’t already ventured out, it’s time to embrace the night with these memorable offerings.

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Ryoji Ikeda’s Spectra lights up the sky from Mona. Picture: Mona/Jesse Hunniford

1 LIGHT IT UP (from dusk to dawn, nightly)

Artist Ryoji Ikeda’s Spectra is once again illuminating the night sky Gotham City-style. You may have seen the powerful beams switch on at dusk Wednesday night from its new, permanent home at Mona in Berriedale. And you may remember the last time its arcs pierced the night during Dark Mofo 2013. It’s not-to-be-missed – and let’s face it – hard to miss.

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Carolina and Andrea Comini, of Lenah Valley, and son Dante marvelled at Leviathan at Dark Park. Picture: Alastair Bett

2 LASER FOCUS (5–10pm, nightly)

Over at Dark Park, Matthew Schreiber’s Leviathan is creating a fuss with its psychedelic net of lasers piercing the cold night air in a massive interactive sculpture.

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3 STORY TIME (2-10pm, nightly, Domain House)

For VR lovers, don’t miss Chalkroom, a visual feast of stories by New York artist and musician Laurie Anderson told in collaboration with new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang.

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4 PARTY ON (tonight and tomorrow, 10pm till late, cnr Murray and Liverpool streets)

Atthe adults-only Night Mass, partake in more than 100 artists pinging from five locations across a single city block.Think late-night party spilling into laneways from sequestered taverns. While some events for the Mass have sold out, it’s never over until it’s over. Try tickets.darkmofo.net.au, to both on-sell and buy resale tickets.

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5 TATTOO YOU (various times, Salamanca Arts Centre)

Momentary spiritual counsel followed by a very permanant body ink take-home is on the cards at Invisible House by monk Ajarn Ohr. Ohr creates talismanic tatoos to guide you through life.

6 SCREEN TIME (daily screenings at 1pm, 2.30pm, 4pm and 5pm)

For a free flick, head to Cinema One on Murray St for Terra Nulius by Soda-Jerk, a dissection of the national mythologies that dictate Australian culture.

Brunswick-based artist Troy Emery with some of the pieces from his Wildlife exhibtion at Rosny Barn. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

7 SHAGGY TALE (11am–5pm, daily)

Another freebie that’s starting street corner conversations is Troy Emery’s Wildlife. You’ll need to cross the river to get there, but this colourful menagerie of imagined creatures at Rosny Barn is worth the detour.

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The Dark Mofo Winter Feast attracts thousands to the Hobart waterfront each night. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

8 FOOD AND FIRE (4pm-11pm today and Saturday. Sunday, free entry, 4pm-10pm)

And in what is possibly the culinary highlight of our antipodean year, Winter Feast is a blaze of pagan-inspired cooking with whole beasts roasting over eyebrow-scorching fires. Try the gin-glazed pork by The Chef and the Gardener. Pick up a barbecued skewer loaded with produce from Coal River Valley, then return with it to skewer a marshmallow chaser to toast over the fires.

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The Tasmanian cave spider from the documentary Sixteen Legs. Picture: JOE SHEMESH

9 INTO THE CAVE (Saturday, 2pm–3.40pm Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay)

Sixteen Legs is a must for fans of Kate Miller-Heidke and the TSO, who perform the score for this screen insight into the secret life of the Tasmanian cave spider.

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Work on the Ogoh-Ogoh at Dark Park. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

10 CREEPY CREATION (5pm–10pm nightly)

Then follow up with the embodiment of Sixteen Legs: the Tasmanian cave spider-shaped Ogoh-Ogoh. Make your pilgrimage to Dark Park daily to offer your fears to it at The Purging, then return on the final night of Dark Mofo for The Burning, leaving from Parliament Lawns on Sunday at 5pm.