MONA to host 24-hour Headphone Festival … and …

SAT 26 OCT – SUN 27 OCT 2013

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is hosting ‘Klapperstein’, a 24-hour rendition of Le Placard Headphone Festival, this weekend.

Klapperstein is a 24-hour-long experimental radio concert staged simultaneously around the planet. Streamed live, artists from France, Germany, Switzerland and Tasmania will take control of the airwaves for allotted times.

Prepare your minds and ears for a concert like no other: an event truly of the Digital Age, you’ll listen to this 24-hour long concert through headphones. Come along and let us plug you into the Klapperstein mainframe.

Running continuously over the whole weekend, Klapperstein kicks off at 9pm on Saturday. The Wine Bar will be open until midnight so you can soak up some pinot as you listen in (it’ll re-open at 9am on Sunday).

From 1pm-4pm on Sunday, all ears will turn to the Mona Electroacoustic Ensemble. They’ll perform live for us whilst beaming their rad music and wild sounds around the world. You can also listen in to the entire concert online at http://leplacard.org/2013/KLAPPERSTEIN/

Headphones will be available, but we’d encourage you to bring your own (earwax cross-contamination, gross).

WHAT KLAPPERSTEIN / LE PLACARD HEADPHONE FESTIVAL AT MONA
WHEN 9PM SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 – 9PM SUNDAY OCTOBER 27
FEATURING Mona Electroacoustic Ensemble, 1pm-4pm Sunday October 27
WHERE THE BARREL ROOM, WINE BAR, MONA, 655 MAIN RD, BERRIEDALE, HOBART, TASMANIA
The Mona Electroacoustic Ensemble includes: Nick Smithies, Matt Warren, Idiot Lust, Michal Mitro, Pip Stafford, Andrew Harper, Patana Beretta and Julia Drouhin.

International artists include: Ya-URT (France), CypherSucht (Germany), Claudio Capeo (France), London Nebel (Germany) and Tr3lux (Switzerland).

http://www.mona.net.au/what’s-on/music
L’history:

Le Placard Headphone Festival is a nomadic event that was created 16 years ago by Erik Minkkinen, activist member of the collective Büro, in his appartment in Belleville, central Paris, France. He set up a private bar with six headphones and invited friends to play weird music for 72 hours and work together without disturbing the neighbours. Nearly one hundred Le Placard Headphone Festivals have been held in more than 20 countries, including one with 100 headphones in London, and this weekend, it premieres in Hobart.

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It’s so much fun out here at MONA, we’ve come up with an event that lets you stick around for 24 hours.

You’re welcome! No, really. Come on over.

MONA – Museum of Old and New Art – 655 Main Rd, Berriedale, Tasmania. Opening hours: Wednesday to Monday, 10am – 6pm (last entry 4.30pm). Entry $20 (free for Tasmanian residents & under 18). Ph 61 3 6277 9900 www.mona.net.au

Upcoming music, art and Cinemona events as follows.
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MUSIC
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9pm Saturday October 26 – 9pm Sunday October 27
MONA PRESENTS KLAPPERSTEIN: A 24-HOUR RADIO CONCERT
Klapperstein is a 24-hour long experimental radio concert staged simultaneously around the planet. Streamed live, artists from France, Germany, Switzerland and Tasmania will take control of the airwaves for allotted times.

Running continuously over the weekend, Klapperstein kicks off at 9pm on Saturday. MONA’s Wine Bar will be open until midnight so you can soak up some pinot as you listen in (it’ll re-open at 9am on Sunday) – but the Barrel Room will be open throughout.
From 1pm-4pm on Sunday, all ears will turn to the Mona Electroacoustic Ensemble. They’ll perform live for us (and they’re totally brilliant) whilst beaming their rad music and wild sounds around the world. You can also listen in to the entire concert online at http://leplacard.org/2013/KLAPPERSTEIN/
Headphones will be available, but we’d encourage you to bring your own (earwax cross-contamination, gross). www.mona.net.au/what’s-on/music

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Saturday 26 October 1pm-3pm
MoFolk (Folk at MONA)
TEAHOUSE 2
Two versatile musicians and composers busting out interlocking harmonies, colourful textures, and shimmering overtones – all through music, in The Void at MONA. www.mona.net.au/what’s-on/music
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Sunday 24 Nov 2pm
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MONA
Free concert on the lawn

Spirit fingers ready. Last year we did a gospel concert on our lawns. It was a hoot, so we’ve gathered the musical gems again: Andrew Legg, Maria Lurighi, Michael Spiby, Brian Ritchie and The Southern Gospel Choir, as well as a new addition: international superstar Khristian Dentley (Take 6). Whatever the weather, come and play: take selfies in the sun, laze on the lawn, and sing along like you’re Aretha Franklin or Michael Jackson. It’s a one-day sing-a-long gospel choir free-for-all, at MONA. www.mona.net.au/what’s-on/events

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ART AT MONA
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Until November 25, 2013
A RAT’S NEST
Mona Library Gallery

The Mona Scholarship exhibition in the Mona Library Gallery, with 2012 recipient Pip Stafford’s ‘A Rat’s Nest’; an experiment in sound and form, chaos and control, warp and weft. Over the course of the exhibition, the installation will continue to unfold before us, illuminating the volatile ecology that we inhabit. It consists of radios, amplifiers, antennae and crystals grown in response to the gallery space. Mona Scholarship 2012 recipient Pip Stafford is a media artist based in Hobart, Tasmania. Her work explores the materiality of networks, systems, communication and ritual, and can be seen in the form of installation, sound, performance, video and more.
Mona Library Gallery, open 10am – 6pm, Wednesday – Monday with museum entry. www.mona.net.au/scholarship

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Until April 21, 2014
THE RED QUEEN
Museum of Old and New Art

MONA’s major exhibition for the year, ‘The Red Queen’ is an assemblage of major commissions, exciting art loans and yet-unseen works from David Walsh’s collection. The idea behind the exhibition is ‘‘art that explores why art is made’’. Is art necessary to human survival and evolution? Whatever you decide, it’s a lot of fun. Take the kids – there’s a jingly trampoline and a room with 40 TVs. Entry is $20 (free for Tasmanian residents and under-18’s). Wednesdays to Mondays, 10am – 6pm www.mona.net.au

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CINEMONA
MONA Cinema. Near the Void Bar; follow the smell of popcorn.
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VERMEER & MUSIC: The Art of Love and Leisure

The final installment of the series, ‘Great Art On Screen’. This made-for-cinema tour of the exhibition at the National Gallery London explores the mysterious life of the man who painted ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’and the influence of light, leisure and music on a golden era of Dutch painting.
Cinemona sessions: Fri Oct 25 at 11am; Sun Oct 27 at 3.30pm; Oct 28, 30 at 11am. Tickets: Adult $25, Concession $20, Child $15 from MONA Museum Reception (03) 6277 9971 or www.mona.net.au/cinemona
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EUGENE ONEGIN
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD
Cinemona launches the Met Opera Live in HD Season 2013-14 this weekend with ‘Eugene Onegin’ by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance.
Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale.

Cinemona sessions: Saturday Oct 26 at 2pm; Sunday Oct 27 at 11am; Monday Oct 28 at 1pm. Tickets adult $28 / conc $25 / child $15. More sessions online at www.mona.net.au/cinemona

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THE AUDIENCE
NT LIVE
Final days

Sadly, it’s final days for THE AUDIENCE starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. Don’t miss the British theatrical event of 2013!

Cinemona sessions: Fri Oct 25 at 1pm; Sat Oct 26 at 11am (Final)
Tickets: Adult $25, Concession $22, Child $15 from MONA Museum Reception (03) 6277 9971 or online www.mona.net.au/cinemona
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THE EARTH WINS
Final days

The Earth Wins was shot entirely from the air across four continents and blurs the line between an environmental and symphonic documentary that offers us a new perspective on our relationship with the planet.

Cinemona sessions: Mon Oct 28, Wed Oct 30, Thur Oct 31 at 5pm*
*Tickets for these final screenings available by phone or at MONA only. Adult $10 / conc $9.

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MONA – Museum of Old and New Art – 655 Main Rd, Berriedale, Tasmania. Opening hours: Wednesday to Monday, 10am – 6pm (last entry 4.30pm). Entry $20 (free for Tasmanian residents & under 18). Ph 61 3 6277 9900 www.mona.net.au
Rebecca Fitzgibbon Events Media Manager Museum of Old and New Art