Dark Mofo

Dark Mofo 2023 returns to Nipaluna/Hobart this June with a rundown of this year's highlights, bringing new programs and crowd favourites.

This year’s festival also presents the outcomes of a new partnership between First Nations festival Yirramboi and Dark Mofo. ‘The 10th edition will include the return of Dark Park, a large-scale art program, eight nights of Winter Feast and a massive music program. Nipaluna/Hobart’s Dark Mofo winter festival celebrates its 10th anniversary from 8-22 June 2023.

A celebration of public art, live music, performance, and nocturnal revelry, Dark Mofo 2023 aims to deliver a sense of exaltation in the coldest, darkest time ...

Also on the lineup is CORIN (AUS), a Filipina-Australian electronic producer delivering eerie and grimy ambient trance club beats. Florentina Holzinger (AUT) presents the Australian exclusive performance of A Divine Comedy, a large-scale theatrical performance consisting of a cast of 17 female performers, over 2 hours. Singer-songwriter Keeley Forsyth’s (GBR) emotionally raw and magnetic vocals tell stories of hard-won triumphs and the darker corners of domestic life. The City of Hobart Dark Mofo Winter Feast continues into the festival’s second week, warming and brightening our darkest nights. Dark Mofo art partners around Hobart will be presenting an ambitious array of exhibitions, with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery opening TWIST, a major exhibition exploring Dickensian themes that are relevant to Tasmania’s history. The annual Ogoh-Ogoh ritual returns, with The Purging at Mac Point, in which people can write down their fears on paper, and banish them into the belly of our massive sacrificial sculptural totem. Sleaford Mods (GBR) will deliver their immaculately enraged punk-hop and ferociously poetic convulsions. “The tenth edition will include the return of Dark Park, a large-scale art program, eight nights of Winter Feast and a massive music program. Fulu Miziki (COD) are hosting an experimental workshop on crafting musical instruments from garbage. Punk-rock icons Black Flag (USA) will perform a one-off exclusive Australian show—their first time here since 2013. Bass-playing extraordinaire Thundercat (USA) drives his virtuosic astral acid jazz into a psychedelic funk fusion. This year will be the final for visionary founder and Creative Director Leigh Carmichael at the helm.

Dark Mofo has announced the lineup for its 10 edition, featuring Black Flag, Deafheaven, Ethel Cain, and more.

- RVG - DENNI - dameeeela - BARKAA - GLVES - Deafheaven - Bitumen - Witch - Thundercat Many of the festival’s flagship events will be returning, including the Night Mass, Dark Park, and the Masquerade Ball. [BARKAA](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/barkaa/), T [asman Keith](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/tasman-keith/), [dameeeela](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/dameeeela/), [DENNI](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/denni/), [MARLON X RULLA](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/marlon-x-rulla/), and more. Now in its tenth year, the infamous festival will take over Hobart from Thursday, 8th June to Thursday, 22nd June.

Max Richter, Squarepusher and David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley among the musical acts programmed into Hobart's Dark Mofo festival.

Sierra’s proposal was swiftly put down and Dark Mofo committed to the establishment of a First Nations cultural advisory group and $60,000 in seed funding for the development works by Tasmanian Aboriginal artists. Dark Mofo has commissioned a new work from the UK’s United Visual Artists in Silent Symphony, a large-scale art installation of kinetic light and sound instruments mimicking planetary orbit. “The tenth edition will include the return of Dark Park, a large-scale art program, eight nights of Winter Feast and a massive music program. Richter will also present his iconic eight-and-a-half hour work SLEEP during the final week of the festival. Nearly 72,000 tickets were sold at the 2022 festival. The edgy midwinter festival’s program is on display from today.

Dark Mofo organisers have revealed the line-up for the Tasmanian festival's 2023 edition, featuring Ethel Cain, Deafheaven and more.

The festival’s opening night event, The Gathering, will feature a line-up of First Nations artists that features – in addition to Keith – [BARKAA](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/barkaa), [dameeeela](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/dameeeela), [DENNI](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/denni), [MARLON X RULLA](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/marlon-x-rulla) and more. General tickets will go on sale next Wednesday (April 5) at 2pm AEST. “The tenth edition will include the return of Dark Park, a large-scale art program, eight nights of Winter Feast and a massive music program. We can’t wait to light the fires again this June.” Night Mass will be expanded to five nights and will be Dark Mofo’s wildest party in our ten year history. [Black Flag](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/black-flag) – which currently includes founding guitarist Greg Ginn along with musician and skateboarder Mike Vallely on vocals – will also perform as part of the festival, as will American metal band [Deafheaven](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/deafheaven). “The last few years have been challenging, and heavily impacted by Covid, so to finally be in a position to again release a full two-week festival program feels overwhelming. The latter will exclusively perform second album ‘Sunbather’ in full, to commemorate a decade since it was released. [RVG](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/rvg), [Zheani](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/zheani), [Tasman Keith](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/tasman-keith), [CORIN](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/corin), GLVES, Bitumen, Drowning Horse, Extortion and more. [marks his final year at the festival’s helm](https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/dark-mofo-announces-2023-dates-and-departure-of-festival-director-3326343) – said in a statement. [Thundercat](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/thundercat), [Ethel Cain](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/ethel-cain), [Sleaford Mods](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/sleaford-mods), [Trentemøller](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/trentemoller), [HEALTH](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/health), [Sonic Youth](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/sonic-youth)‘s [Lee Ranaldo](https://www.nme.com/en_au/artists/lee-ranaldo), Laurel Halo, King Woman, Drab Majesty, Eartheater, Witch and Molchat Doma. [forced to cancel after a member of their team tested positive to COVID-19](https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/deafheaven-and-lingua-ignota-cancel-dark-mofo-2022-appearances-3248792) prior to boarding their flight.

An Indigenous opening celebration, a teddy bear with laser eyes and a two-hour all-female performance featuring woodchopping and...

A "giant" Korean pop culture-inspired teddy bear with lasers for eyes and a camera will feed live surveillance to a separate space in Hobart. "The last few years have been challenging ... "(The) festival will be a reflection of the past decade and while much has changed, our desire to celebrate the longest nights and embrace winter in Tasmania hasn't wavered."

From a gothic popstar to a giant Korean teddy bear with laser eyes, it's deliciously dark and we can't wait to get a taste of it this June in Hobart.

Back and bigger than ever, Night Mass: Exstasia will be Dark Mofo’s late-night event taking over three city blocks to create a sprawling metropolis of artworks, performances, cocktail lounges, punk theatre and cinema cabarets. It wouldn’t be Dark Mofo without a baptism of fire (and water) to herald in the winter. [Dark Mofo](https://darkmofo.net.au/), which returns to Nipaulina/Hobart from June 8-22 for a fortnight of eerie nocturnal revelry.