Things just got weirder, thanks to our ass-kicking resident Yanks Kirsha Kaechele and Daphane Park.
You already know that Kirsha is running the Mona Market on the roof of the museum – every Saturday until April 14. There’s fresh, local produce to take home with you and yummy food to eat on site, as well as live music and weekly workshops. Store your produce in our fridge for free, while you shop and laze. And store your kids with us as well, at the MoMa Minors workshops.
What you don’t know is that Kirsha and Daphane, an artist from New York, were tragic victims of ‘tent fraud’. This basically involved handing over a significant amount of money to a non-existent tent-fabricating company. So the tent was delayed. Gaddamit!
Anyhow, it’s here now: a ‘Minnie Mouse Gangster Feathered Serpent’ inspired, says Daphane, by ‘the imminent return of Quetzalcoatl and the resultant end of the world’.
Remember: they’re Yanks.
Mercury’s Rebecca Fitzgibbon interviews Kirsha HERE:
MORE than the “first lady of MONA”, David Walsh’s partner Kirsha Kaechele aims to bridge cultural divides.
This weekend, Kaechele’s MoMa market project, which features local food curators Jo Cook and Michelle Crawford, market co-ordinator Shae Thomas and design stalls curator Natalie Holtsbaum, adds a new element, with visiting New York artist Daphane Park’s “Minnie Mouse Quezacotl rainbow serpent”.
Sounds unusual?
The 35-year-old American contemporary art curator, artist and sustainable architecture practitioner has had a decidedly unusual life from her upbringing in the Californian hippie mecca Topanga Canyon, to private school in Guam, to travelling overland through more than 50 countries in a seven-year-period.
Kaechele has worked and studied with Biosphere founder John Allen, LSD chemist Albert Hoffman, Peruvian Ayahuasca shamans, and various musicians, authors, avant-garde theatre companies, sustainable architects and builders through her Life is Art Foundation (formerly KK Projects).
Born to an aerospace engineer father and artist mother, she is a hands-on explorer of the idea that life designs itself.
Kaechele met MONA’s David Walsh at Switzerland’s international art show Art Basel five years ago and came to Tasmania a few months later for a brief visit, before returning to New Orleans, where her Life as Art project was under way.
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