Dark Mofo is back for another huge year and today the much-loved Tasmanian festival has launched the full program for its 2019 event.
Going down over three weeks in June, organisers of the seventh iteration have presented "a bold program of art, music, feasting and annual contemporary rituals" with "everything from virtual reality, radioactive art and deafening noise to experimental pop, electro-ballads [and] cult black metal".
International highlights of the music program include FKA twigs, Empress Of, Nicolás Jaar, Dirty Three and Jónsi (Sigur Rós) + Alex, with stacked art and talks & ideas programs to match.
"It seems we have put together the most unlikely program we could have dreamt up—it just evolved that way," shared Associate Creative Director, Hannah Fox.
"Intentionally or otherwise, the artists in our seventh festival have become connected through emerging themes of simulated, mediated and real violence, extinction and the supernatural.
"The music program is huge and layered, reaching from subversive electronic protest music from Sao Paulo, to intricate future-gospel out of Alabama, and Blixa Bargeld returning on a standing invitation to visit the southern isle every year until he dies."
The event takes place from 6-23 June in Hobart and tickets go on sale from Tuesday 16 April. To see the full program head to the Dark Mofo website or check out the music program below.
DARK MOFO 2019 MUSIC PROGRAM
FKA TWIGS (GBR)
AGAINST ALL LOGIC | NICOLÁS JAAR (CHL/USA)
NICOLÁS JAAR & GROUP (USA)
COSTUME
SERPENTWITHFEET (USA) & KELSEY LU (USA)
JÓNSI (SIGUR RÓS) + ALEX (ISL/USA) + TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ANNA CALVI (GBR)
LONNIE HOLLEY (USA)
JOHN GRANT (USA)
DIRTY THREE
LIMINAL SOUNDBATH (ISL)
ROGER ENO (GBR)
SHARON VAN ETTEN (USA)
PHURPA (RUS)
NIGHT MASS - EMPRESS OF (HND/USA), GABBER MODUS OPERANDI (IDN/DEU), FAKA (ZAF), IC3PEAK (RUS), SAMPA THE GREAT, MALLRAT, JUNGLEPUSSY (USA) & more.
HYMNS TO THE DEAD - MYSTIFIER (BRA), DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT (GBR), FUNEBRARUM (USA), ZHRINE (ISL), HERESIARCH (NZL)
LUCRECIA DALT: THE GOLEM (COL)
AUTHOR & PUNISHER (USA)
LATERNE BY BERLIN ATONAL
TEHO TEARDO (ITA) + BLIXA BARGELD
AUGIE MARCH
BORDERLANDS - SHEER FROST ORCHESTRA (USA), JOE TALIA & EIKO ISHIBASHI (USA/JPN), RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI (USA), LUCY RAILTON (UK), KUSUM NORMOYLE, STEPHEN O'MALLEY (USA)
VAN DIEMEN’S BAND
KIKU FEATURING BLIXA BARGELD + BLACK CRACKER
MARY LATTIMORE (USA) + JULIANNA BARWICK (USA)
NATTY WAVES
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