HEAVY METAL MoMa MARKET – NOT TOO HEAVY AND MORE MELODIC – Jan 18 to April 19, 2014
HOBART: The Heavy Metal Project rules. The third MoMa/Mona Summer Market launched today (Sat, Jan 18) on
the Mona Lawns.
MoMa is another Kirsha Kaechele enterprise with her band of creative misfits. As the project of our
century, the Heavy Metal challenge and our need to work together to cleanse the Derwent will be our
MoMa focus from now on.
Rubbish free as possible: Awareness of our need to re-use, repurpose, recycle and remember inspires
all market offerings. We have the tools but it will be up to the diners: using hand-made plates with handmade
spoons; drinking out of elegantly re-shaped Moo Brew beer and Moorilla wine bottles; indulging in
Heavy Metal food and drink (and we use this term loosely).
There’s art projects and designer stalls discovered by Kirsha and Natalie Holtsbaum; food offerings
sourced by Jo Cook; MoMa Minors projects organised by Jen Murnaghan, intellectual wit and wisdom
with Dr Natasha Chica and others, along with some medical research, tree playing, subtle energy
shifting and lots of relaxing on the lawns listening to Brian Ritchie’s favourite sounds.
MoMa MINORS BY JEN MURNAGHAN (every Saturday from 12 noon to 5pm) is back after
intensive lobbying by underage former attendees and happily diverted parents, grandparents, aunts,
uncles, godmothers and godfathers. This year, on special days, we welcome artists and elders from the
Aboriginal community to share their River culture and knowledge. Understanding our history and how to
look after the land and the River will be memories we hope children will take away with them each Saturday.
MoMa ART PROJECTS BY NATALIE HOLTSBAUM AND FRIENDS
Inner Course (Jan 18 to March 29; 12 noon to 5pm) The return after a three-year absence of Inner
Course – Tora Lopez and Rya Kleinpeter flirting (medically) with Dr Molly Backhouse in a pilot study
supported by Hobart Pathology and the Menzies Research Institute. Called Total Body Burden the
project’s goal: to assist in the emotional cleansing of latent personal concerns around heavy metal
toxicity. Enter the clinic and subject yourself to a selection of scientific and performance-based scenarios.
Assess your own mercury levels, if you really must. Waivers mandatory.
Daphane Park (Jan 18 to April 19; 12 noon to 5pm) is also back (remember her Minnie Mouse
Gangster Feathered Serpent meets Quetzalcuatl tent in 2012?). This time she opens an energy field –
Exquisite Corpse Café Superconductor It’s inspired by the notorious (in a certain arena) Austrian
psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957) and his ‘orgone accumulators’ – special devices designed to
capture and store ‘orgone’, a term Reich coined to describe what he believed to be a universal cosmic
energy. What the bleep do we know? Some say he was correct and there is a spiritual connection between
quantum physics and consciousness. It’s subtle. Each week practitioners in various traditional (in the
traditional not Western sense) healing techniques will be there to assist you in Daphane’s new tent
creation made with recycled fabrics waxed and taut.
Emiliano Maggi (Jan 18 to Jan 25). The Nymph Song: How to Possess a Dead Tree A MoMa (and
probably Australian) first: the cry of the Nymph is the wound of nature awakened by anger and rage.
The madness that comes from the Nymph is the most ancient phenomenon in Greek mythology:
Possession; in thought, in poetry, in music and divination. The Nymph breathes inside the tree and
becomes an electric guitar emitting hypnotic distorted sounds in order to protect the oracle.
Biatta Kelly (Jan 18 to April 19) Material Proposition and Sculptural Event, Biatta has created a
mercurial work for the Heavy Metal Retaining Wall
John Vella and Lucy Bleach (Jan 18 to April 19) CRYMEARIVER – MONA storeroom
John and Lucy teach at the Tasmanian College of the Arts, UTAS, and have worked with estuarine and
freshwater scientists examining the human relationships and behaviours impacting the River, and how to
start the healing process.
Natasha Cica (Jan 18, Feb 1, March 1) THINKtent (the return of a Ten Days on the Island
phenomenon) – a travelling structure (aesthetically inspired by the Tasmanian lost wilderness of Lake
Pedder) that provides an intimate and safe space for people to come together for conversation, reflection
and more (on its last Tassie tour, people even burst into song, in Bulgarian, Cantonese and French). The
tent holds up to 10 people at a time. Each Saturday that intellectual energy force and gentle provocateur,
Natasha Cica, will bring together thinkers who like to be talking – inside as well as outside the tent….
MoMa FOOD BY JO COOK AND HER HEAVY METAL BAND OF FORAGERS –
Kirsha’s heavy metal challenge to Jo Cook was a challenge, so she went for black and chefs who are Heavy
Metal devotees. The following suppliers will attend various markets:
Tasmanian Whisky Tours and if whisky isn’t your thing try Sloe Gin, triple distilled vodka or Classic English
Gin with Bill from McHenry & Sons Distillery. Adam Turner from Mona’s Void cocktail bar will be
bringing ‘The Void Unplugged’ to MoMa. He’s running with The Mad Hatters Theme – an Iced Black Tea
with rum, red vermouth, honey, lime and black walnut bitters, as well as Black Vodka oyster shooters.
Some G-rated drinks by Alison from Tasman’s Harvest pink lady apples and native black pepperberry
cordial along with her tracklements (an old word for pickles and preserves), and Pulp Friction is blending
cleansing fruit juices with freshly made concoctions like Dark Matter : a green smoothie with Derwent
Valley blackcurrants and spirulina. Lizzie Drew at Ice Ice Baby will have shaved ice with natural fruit and
herb syrups. Slow Drop will serve iced cold brew single origin fair trade coffee infused with botanicals and
spice.
Honey Child & Sweet MacQueen will have Bellywashers – natural fruit iced teas, as well as fruit pies
made with cherries, nectarines, apricots, gooseberries, blueberries, rhubarb and plums, from their garden.
Plus a cake ‘tres leches’, a sponge soaked with three kinds of milk. They’ll be serving some Southern
classics like Po’ Boys, pulled pork and a vegan Black Power Plate. Remember Malcolm X.
From Bruny Island and into Southport to the Lune River where we find Hisao and Koomi from Empty
Cocoon who live a simple existence without power but are making the trip (by car) to MoMa to share
their onigiri, summer miso soup and pickled organic vegetables.
Another tracklement producer living off the grid is chef Jayne Maclean from Red Robin Jams who uses
only local fruit and veggies, sourced from the Coal River Valley, the backyards of Richmond, the eastern
shore, and her very own garden.
Dave Flukes the tattoos behind Imago Bakers by Hand likes a little death metal to bake by when creating
his delicate pastries, breads and desserts as well as the finest sourdough Hot X buns you may ever taste.
Imago Bakers by Hand will be at MoMa weekly with elderflower bomboloni, berry explosion melting
moments, sourdough picnic breads (epis and mini baguette) and chocolate sourdough buns.
Attention Vegans: we have tasty seaweed snacks from Sea Shanti and the return of tasty burritos from
Pacha Mama, a successful business hatched last year by MoMa.
Finally, the Godfather of Tassie cider Clive Crossley from Red Sails Cider who uses his own heritage cider
apples and wild yeasts, along with Lost Pippin in Richmond and Willie Smiths from the Huon Valley.
MoMa CREATIVE DESIGNS BY NATALIE HOLTSBAUM – The following stallholders will attend but
not every week:
Jackson Parker and Stu Dobell – creators and makers of handmade carnival equipment: analogue rubber
band and cog mechanised wooden items: pinball machine, moving heads and giant Jenga. Start spinning
or juggling.
Grandaliers. Stunning flat-packed shades made of future-friendly materials: locally sourced veneers from
accredited and sustainably grown timber. An occasional walk on the wild side sees products appearing in
supernatural acrylics…while waiting for plant-based plastics to become commercially available. MoMa
debut: leather jewellery and vessels.
Oyster & Pearl: It’s Lou Whiting, the designer with style and matching attitude, brings us her latest
creative temptations and designs. It’s a rare treat to have her with us on a Saturday market.
Arjan Kok, offers life drawing for everyone. He will take you through the finer points of drawing models
and still-life arrangements.
Ursula O’Neill, has a range of work created just for the market. Her MoMa series features the peculiar
and beautiful organisms from the Derwent estuary.
Lovejoy Design Co. is back because timber frames are so environmentally gorgeous right now and should
remain so – handmade as well. Of course, only sustainably harvested rare Tasmanian timbers – prescription
and sunnies.
Mabel Design’s Dave Boyer has an organic and nitty-gritty approach to design. The jewellery range,
using mostly salvaged materials, has been brightening the bodies of Hobart and beyond, historically, since
2010.
Paul & Virginie are offering jewellery with an avant-garde French twist. Ponder: banana earrings,
calculator necklaces and fluffy dogs.
Pony Black Co., an independent clothing studio. They’ve got a thing for personal adornments and Heavy
Metal has inspired some new vampish wearables.
Radical Jewellery presents a curated exhibition of internationally recognised and leading art jewellers.
This is way more than a market stall – Radical Jewellery is a boudoir of avant-garde elegance. This range is
for the doyens of style: think – Boudicca, Tutenkhamun, Nefertiti, Cleopatra, Lady GaGa, and yourself, of
course.
Ridgeline Pottery’s Ben Richardson is back. He’s also helped the team with the Heavy Metal plates and
he’s using sludge from the Derwent in his ceramic glaze; safely sealed.
Sabrina Evans, local fashion designer and visual artist combines Mexican folk traditional designs and our
island’s colonial story with gothic landscape undertones. At MoMa, Sabio Designs will offer one-off
designs using vintage and up-cycled fabrics – timeless style.
Somrak – from Thailand to Moonah, with cloud-inspired tee-shirts and painted rocks. Pet rocks are back?
Mae Finlayson and Ashley Bird all the way from Launceston. Textiles meet public participation in their
arts practice, so get ready to knit, stitch, weave, twist and knot.
Topology Design launches at MoMa with a collection of silk-screen tea towels celebrating Tasmania’s
landscape and rare endangered species. Soak it up.
MoMa MUSICAL MARKET MOMENTS BY BRIAN RITCHIE
Music is at the heart of MoMa, so MOFO overlord, Violent Femme and The Break bassist Brian Ritchie,
has programmed a calendar of sweet musical magic for your enjoyment. A chilled, hot mix of roaming
musicians and buskers, acoustic folk performers, jazz ensembles, indie bands, orchestras, cultural music
and dance, Chinese New Year performances, DJs and MOFO mystery artists. Prepare your ears.
Check the MoMa market website for updates: www.momahobart.net.au/
Rebecca Fitzgibbon, Events Media Manager. Delia Nicholls, research curator and Mona Media Manager
