Shervin Lainez pic of Amanda Palmer, who will perform with the TSO …
MOFO 2015 LINEUP ANNOUNCED
Hobart’s MONA FOMA (Museum of Old and New Art Festival of Music and Art) in Tasmania, Australia, is sailing back in for the New Year with a lineup more eclectic than ever.
Curated by Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes, The Break), MOFO 2015 (January 15-18) is in its seventh year and is leaping back across the port to Princes Wharf 1 (PW1 festival hub, on the Salamanca side) and surrounding venues including The Odeon, Theatre Royal, Federation Concert Hall, Hobart Town Hall, Salamanca Arts Centre, Rosny Barn, Spring Bay Mill, Baha’i Centre, GASP!, Mawson Place, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Constance ARI, and MONA, plus a few surprises too.
The four-day festival ticket and satellite events offer a superabundance of music and art – including New York post-punk rockers Swans, seminal J-pop riot grrrls Shonen Knife, Architects of Air’s giant inflatable Exxopolis, a floating performance on the Derwent River from Alvin Curran, Brechtian cabaret punk Amanda Palmer with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, experimental Jogjakartans Senyawa with Lucas Abela creating a gamelan pinball machine, Dan Deacon with his Baltimore dance beats, Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions featuring Dan Sultan, Clairy Browne, Kira Puru & Vika and Linda Bull, Chinese performance artist Li Binyuan smashing 250 hammers, indie pop outfit Zammuto (with guest Gotye), Australian-Icelandic post-classical composer Ben Frost, Swedish black metal-heads Marduk, an electric guitar orchestra with Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil), a participatory smartphone orchestra with Atticus J. Bastow, Young Wagilak Group with the Australian Art Orchestra, New Zealand post-punks The Clean, a new breed of Faux Mo (lineup online now) and more.
But first, there’s a MOFO Sideshow on New Year’s Day at MONA on the outdoor stage, with Violent Femmes, Augie March and Ben Salter, to start the year blistering in the Tassie sun.
Last summer, MOFO attracted more than 28,000 people to events over five days, with thousands traveling to Tasmania specifically for the festival. Almost 45 per cent of ticket sales overall were to folks from interstate and overseas.
MOFO Curator Brian Ritchie said: “We are thrilled that the audience for MOFO has developed to the point where we can present this dazzling array of creativity and know the people are ready, willing and able to come along for the ride. It’s a party with brains, heart and soul.”
Tasmanian Premier and Minister for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Will Hodgman said: “MONA FOMA creates a soundtrack to the Tasmanian summer. Every year the festival transforms Hobart’s waterfront into the perfect stage for an eclectic blend of artists that draws an audience from across the globe and creates a cultural centrepiece for our island state’s summer events calendar.
“There’s no doubt word is getting out that our island is an emerging and thriving cultural destination and events like MONA FOMA are drawing the curious to our shores. The Tasmanian Government is proud to once again team with MONA to deliver this major summer event for locals and our visitors to enjoy.”
Events Tasmania Director Adam Sproule said: “As we enter the seventh year of MONA FOMA, I think we can comfortably say that it has established itself as a part of Tasmania’s exciting summer of events. MONA FOMA gives locals and visitors a reason come together to celebrate food, art and culture and we look forward to even more of this excitement in 2015.”
Each year, MOFO aims to present an eclectic collection of artists that will astound, confuse and mesmerise. If you haven’t heard of them yet, you will, because curator Brian Ritchie has a knack for gathering artists on the cusp of buzz.
While you’re in Hobart for MOFO, take the MR-1 Fast Ferry of fun to MONA to see American artist Matthew Barney’s epic exhibition River of Fundament, happening alongside MOFO and brought to us by MONA owna David Walsh and MONA senior curators Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne. Also opening alongside MOFO 2015 and featured at MONA will be the Biennale of Moving Images (BIM2014), fresh from Switzerland’s Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. It’s basically the Olympics of video-art, featuring 22 new works representing the world’s best video artists.
MONA FOMA is an initiative of the Museum of Old & New Art (MONA), supported by the State Government, through Events Tasmania.
THE LINEUP
ALVIN CURRAN [ITA]: MARITIME RITES
ALLAN HALYK AND ADAM WOJCINSKI [AUS]
AMANDA PALMER & THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA [USA/AUS]
AMIR FARID [AUS]: AMIR FARID PERFORMS WORKS OF JAVAD MA’ROUFI
ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF [SWE]
ARCHITECTS OF AIR [UK]: EXXOPOLIS
AVA MENDOZA [USA]
ATTICUS J. BASTOW [AUS]: SWARM AND MURMURATION
BEN FROST [AUS/ICL]
BRENDAN WALLS [AUS]: ELEMENTS OF REFUSAL
CHORDWAINERS [AUS]
DAN DEACON [USA]
DAVID FRANCEY TRIO [CAN]
DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA [IND]
EMMA DEAN AND THE HUNGRY TRUTH [AUS]
FAUX MO
FRANCESCA DE VALENCE [AUS]
GABRIELLA SMART [AUS]: INNER CITIES
GENEVIEVE LACEY [AUS]: FADE
JIM MOGINIE [AUS]: JIM MOGINIE’S ELECTRIC GUITAR ORCHESTRA PERFORM ‘THE COLOUR WHEEL’
JOHANNES S. SISTERMANNS [GER]: I N T U I T I O N ROOM
LI BINYUAN [CHN]: DEATHLESS LOVE, THE ENEMY
MARDUK [SWD]
MARTINE COROMPT AND PHILIP BROPHY [AUS]: TORRENT
MELISANDRE [ELECTROTRAD] [CAN]
MICHAEL KIERAN HARVEY [AUS]: PATANJALI
MOFO EASTERN SHO
MOMA (MONA MARKET)
NEIL GAIMAN [UK]
OMAR SOULEYMAN [SYR]
PAUL KELLY PRESENTS THE MERRI SOUL SESSIONS – FEATURING DAN SULTAN, CLAIRY BROWNE, KIRA PURU & VIKA AND LINDA BULL [AUS]
PHILLIP JOHNSTON [AUS]: THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED
REKTANGO
ROBYN HITCHCOCK [UK]: I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS
RUTH ROSHAN AND TANGO NOIR [AUS]
SENYAWA & LUCAS ABELA [IDN/AUS]: GAMELAN WIZARD
SHONEN KNIFE [JPN]
SPEAK PERCUSSION [AUS]: TRANSDUCER
SWANS [USA]
THE CLEAN [NZ]
TIM HECKER [CAN]
XYLOURIS WHITE [GRC/AUS]
YOUNG WAGILAK GROUP & AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA [AUS]: CROSSING ROPER BAR
ZAMMUTO [USA]
TICKETS
MOFO takes place in Hobart, Australia, from January 15-18, 2015. Tickets on sale now: www.mofo.net.au
+ Festival Ticket: $139 / $119 concession or parent with child
+ Faux Mo: from $25 (conditions apply). Festival Ticket holders can purchase discounted Faux Mo tickets before January 5, 2015. Lineup: www.mofo.net.au
+ Architects of Air Exxopolis: all tickets $12
+ Amanda Palmer & the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: $79/$59 +BF
+ Neil Gaiman at the Theatre Royal: $19 – $49 +BF
+ Debashish Bhattacharya at Spring Bay Mill: $30 / $20 +BF and Rosny Barn: $50 +BF
+ Young Wagilak Group & Australian Art Orchestra at Spring Bay Mill: $30 / $25 +BF
+ MOFO Eastern Sho: events ticketed individually, from $35-$50 +BF www.mofo.net.au
+ Day passes will be available from January 5, 2015 online and from the PW1 box office – but you get much more with a Festival Pass.
GETTING TO HOBART
MOFO happens in and around Hobart, but there is heaps to see and do around Tassie – a lot of which you can book through MONA. ‘Save your money, and your soul’ – Visitor review, TripAdvisor, 2013
+ Fly to Hobart from your nearest capital city.
+ Stay at MONA Pavilions, one of our recommended hotels, Airbnb, Couchsurf, or stay with mum and dad.
+ MOFO like there’s no tomorrow.
+ Tomorrow happens. Post-mofo, enjoy some other Tassie attractions.
SOCIAL
Facebook: @MONAFOMA
Twitter: @MONAFOMA
Instagram: @MONAFOMA
W: www.mofo.net.au
#MOFO2015
#discovertasmania
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