As part of a statewide arts event Iteration: Again, Mona is offering a new, snarly, down and dirty, moving artwork. For the
next four Saturdays from September 17, visitors are invited to see the MONA City Raceway on the Museum roof plaza.
The work entitled, MCR, by Sydney-based artists Marley Dawson and Christopher Hanrahan is one of 13 art projects,
presented by CAST, Hobart, happening across the State from September 18 to October 15.
Materials: 40 tonnes of local soil, 50 international orange and yellow plastic, water-filled, safety barriers, four 70 cc mini
dirt bikes, safety helmets, overalls, gardening gloves, along with artists, curators and creatively selected general public
winners from our MONA Facebook competition.
The creative challenge: “In our work we try to bring together groups of people who may not normally get together. We
also like to get people to try things they don’t normally get a chance to try. Like racing mini dirt bikes at a Museum,” said
Chris Hanrahan. Local mini motorcross owner, Brad Smith, of braaap, provided the bikes.
Races each Saturday between 4pm and 6pm. To enter the the Mona Facebook competition go to MONA City
Raceway.
Iteration: Again is directed by New Zealand-based curator, David Cross, who has worked to bring together a number of
Tasmanian curators from across the State. In what we are naturally claiming as an Australian first, curators from the
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, artist-run initiative
Arts Alive, CAST-associated curators and a lot of artists have come together to engage in a new and cooperative way.
Curatorial Team:
David Cross, Curatorial Director. Artist, writer and curator based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Working with: Fernando do Campo (Director, Sawtooth, Launceston); Nicole Durling (Museum of Old and New
Art);Sarah Jones, Fiona Lee, Damien Quilliam (Queen Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Launceston), Paula Silva, and Jane
Stewart (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
Delia Nichols, MONA
