Visitors to Hobart’s Dark Mofo festival will find fine food and wine, quaint architecture, and in winter, buckets of blood, bare bottoms and a two-storey teddy bear with lasers for eyes
For two wintry weeks in June, music and arts festival Dark Mofo turns the capital of Tasmania, an island state the size of Sri Lanka roughly 200km south of the Australian mainland, into a mecca of the odd and offbeat.
"We were pretty frozen when we got out but the fire warmed us up, it's lovely," said Helen Golding who travelled from Sydney with friends for her fifth year at the festival. "There's lots of comradeship, it's an electric sort of atmosphere." A year later, it was the turn of Christian groups, offended by glowing red inverted crosses dotting the skyline.
In one scene, 20 nude dancers wet with paint and human blood writhed slowly across a blank canvas, painting with their bodies.
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