Dark Mofo 2018

Winter in Hobart goes red and comes alive for Dark Mofo

June 18, 2018 - 4:18PM

Chrisanthi Demos, left, Rachel Burke, Alexandra Atanasov, Siobhan Kranz, all from Brisbane, in jackets designed especially for Dark Mofo by Rachel. Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

1/29Chrisanthi Demos, left, Rachel Burke, Alexandra Atanasov, Siobhan Kranz, all from Brisbane, in jackets designed especially for Dark Mofo by Rachel. Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

2/29Annie Hancock, 20, of Hobart, with Dean Cook, 21, of Hobart, enjoy Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

3/29Dark Mofo’s Dark Park. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

4/29Crosses on the waterfront. Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Scarlett Quamby, 25, left, Elspeth Hope 26, Sarah Maree, 25, all of Hobart, enjoying the Winter Feast during Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

5/29Scarlett Quamby, 25, left, Elspeth Hope 26, Sarah Maree, 25, all of Hobart, enjoying the Winter Feast during Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

6/29Performer Betty Grumble at the first night of the Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

24-hour coal cooked Big River Highland Beef by chefs Vince Trim and Paula Labaki at the first night of the Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

7/2924-hour coal cooked Big River Highland Beef by chefs Vince Trim and Paula Labaki at the first night of the Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

8/29First night of the Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Nala Mansell holds the Indigenous flag at the Mike Parr performance art just before he enters the chamber under Macquarie Street, Hobart. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

9/29Nala Mansell holds the Indigenous flag at the Mike Parr performance art just before he enters the chamber under Macquarie Street, Hobart. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

10/29Lid goes on the chamber with Mike Parr inside. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

11/29Mike Parr is helped in the chamber by Jarrod Rawlins performance curator. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

12/29Performance artist Mike Parr just before entering the chamber under Macquarie Street Hobart. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Final touches are applied to the chamber for performance artist Mike Parr just before he enters the chambe under Macquarie Street Hobart. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

13/29Final touches are applied to the chamber for performance artist Mike Parr just before he enters the chambe under Macquarie Street Hobart. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

14/29Musical Universalis by United Visual Artists exhibited at Dark Mofo’s Dark Park. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

15/29Leviathan, by Matthew Schreiber, at Dark Mofo’s Dark Park. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

16/29Jo Cook, Dark Mofo food curator. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Friends Vira Koshkina and Kirill Kliavin, from Melbourne, visiting Hobart for Dark Mofo at the first night of the Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

17/29Friends Vira Koshkina and Kirill Kliavin, from Melbourne, visiting Hobart for Dark Mofo at the first night of the Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Crowds watching the excavator at work, preparing for Mike Parr's emergence from beneath Macquarie Street, Hobart, where he stayed for 72 hours as part of the Dark Mofo festival. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

18/29Crowds watching the excavator at work, preparing for Mike Parr's emergence from beneath Macquarie Street, Hobart, where he stayed for 72 hours as part of the Dark Mofo festival. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

19/29People enjoying the Dark Mofo Winter Feast. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

20/29People enjoying the Dark Mofo Winter Feast. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

21/29Invisible House curator Brendan Walls gets a Sak Yant tattoo from Ajarn Ohr at the Salamanca Arts Centre. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

22/29Artist and filmmaker James Newitt at his Dark Mofo installation Delay. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

23/29One of the red crosses on the Hobart waterfront for Dark Mofo. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

24/29Second Echo Ensemble producer Kelly Cawthorn and director Luke Campbell will showcase the performance "By My Hand" during Dark Mofo Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

Mike Parr’s emerges from beneath Macquarie Street, Hobart, where he stayed for 72 hours as part of the Dark Mofo festival. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

25/29Mike Parr’s emerges from beneath Macquarie Street, Hobart, where he stayed for 72 hours as part of the Dark Mofo festival. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

26/29Mike Parr’s emerges from beneath Macquarie Street, Hobart, where he stayed for 72 hours as part of the Dark Mofo festival. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

27/29People enjoying the Dark Mofo Winter Feast. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

28/29Chef Asher Gilding cooking wallaby backstraps at the Winter Feast. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

Elena Goldberg, 29, of Melbourne, with Isabelle Harrison, 28, of Melbourne, at the Winter Feast during Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

29/29Elena Goldberg, 29, of Melbourne, with Isabelle Harrison, 28, of Melbourne, at the Winter Feast during Dark Mofo in the city. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Original URL: https://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/dark-mofo-2018/image-gallery/bf279f3d9467d0bd457aa975a13510ca

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