My fiance died unexpectedly last year. Could communal grieving help me heal?
Anthony Nocera
Dark Mofo’s 36-hour rave: either the best bush doof or worst orgy ever
The ominous allure of the teddy bear in art: ‘We all just want to be babies’
A bloodbath, a boycott, a blindfolded kidnapping: after 10 chaotic years, has Dark Mofo lost its edge?
Marcus Teague
June 2022
‘I had to be taken out of the museum’: the artistic challenge that almost broke Dean Stevenson
The composer has been working underground at Mona since July, writing a new piece each day to be performed that afternoon. The experiment has been ‘traumatic’, he says – and it has changed him for good
A liberating high comes with group nudity at Dark Mofo – it can turn anyone into a giggling fool
Sian Cain
As the nude swim approaches, nerves won’t let up. Maybe my leg hairs will stop me having a heart attack from the cold?
Dark Mofo 2022: one year on from major controversy, has the festival learned from its mistakes?
‘Colours help my heart and mind to heal’: Hiromi Tango, the artist using rainbows to cheer up the world
Burnt books and blackened stumps: Dark Mofo brings Tasmania’s ‘forest genocide’ indoors
June 2021
‘You run in screaming’: nude swimmers brave cold to mark winter solstice at Dark Mofo
‘Have you been there with a lantern?’ How Australians embrace the winter solstice
‘A firework is a beautiful way to pay tribute’: Dark Mofo ceremony celebrates lives with a flash in the sky
Australian arts in focus
Change the conversation: why Australia’s arts advocates need a new approach
March 2021
The backlash to Dark Mofo's cancelled artwork was not about censorship but ethics
Paola Balla for the Conversation
Australian arts in focus
'We made a mistake': Dark Mofo pulls the plug on 'deeply harmful' Indigenous blood work
March 2020
Dark Mofo or no: a local's guide to thrilling winter breaks in Tasmania
Just because Tasmania’s biggest festival has been called off, doesn’t mean your trip should be – there’s still plenty of art, great food and spectacle
June 2018
Vagina visions and no breakfast: what happens when you spend 12 days at a festival
Dark Mofo v Hobart's mayor: 'We're all allowed to dream, Ron'
Night Massacre: Tasmania's first wrestling deathmatch – in pictures
'Exhilarating': 1,537 brave the cold in Dark Mofo nude winter solstice swim
