Woody Allen once said, ‘We should all be careful · 2017-09-18 · Woody Allen once said, ‘We should all be careful to confine our opinions to matters of which we are completely

Woody Allen once said, ‘We should all be careful to confine our opinions to matters of which we are completely ignorant.’ Well he didn’t actually. I made that up. I’m thinking to myself, who am I to not follow Woody’s advice, even if he didn’t give it?

Had Woody said what I said he said, he would have been following his own advice. He is, after all, ignorant of ignorance. I am, however, a Zen master of not knowing. That’s why I built a museum. I didn’t know it was hard. Actually it wasn’t. I didn’t know anything about art either. But I learned a bit. Now I know what I don’t know. Ignorance comes in many guises. Of these, the unknown unknowns remain mostly unknown to me.

I don’t know much about music either. I don’t know what I don’t know. But Brian and his musical mates know what they don’t know and they want to know it. Hopefully, while they learn it, they’ll teach it to me. And you.

— David Walsh

Welcome to MONA FOMA (MOFO) 2012 – the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) Festival of Music and Art, proudly supported by MONA ROMA, MoMa, Faux MO (FOMO), and the Tasmanian Government.

BUY TICKETS

To buy tickets for MONA FOMA go toWWW.MOFO.NET.AU

You can also buy paper tickets atMONA FERRY TERMINALBROOKE ST PIERHOBART8.30AM-6.30PM, 7 DAYS

And at PW1 BOX OFFICEPRINCES WHARF 1 SHEDCASTRAY ESPLANADE, HOBARTJAN 13-21, 9AM-5PMJAN 14-15 & 19-21, 9AM-LATE

To buy entry tickets to the museum, go to WWW.MONA.NET.AUOrMONA FERRY TERMINALBROOKE ST PIERHOBART8.30AM-6.30PM, 7 DAYS

Entry to the museum is $20 for adults, $10 concession, or free to Tasmanians and under 18s.

Download the MOFO2012 app from mid December 2011

The Tasmanian Government is delighted to partner with MONA again to deliver the fourth MONA FOMA.

MONA FOMA has become such a vital part of Tasmania’s cultural landscape that it’s hard to believe it started only four years ago. It offers locals and visitors alike a chance to experience internationally renowned performers – and upcoming local acts – in our own backyard.

MONA FOMA, together with David Walsh’s magnificent Museum of Old and New Art, are cultural icons for our island. They contribute to the diverse arts and cultural experiences that help make Tasmania such a great place to visit, and a great place to live.

MONA and MONA FOMA are also important because they challenge and extend our ideas about art and art practice. They have helped change the conversations of artistic leaders nationally and internationally.

The MONA FOMA event is not only a cultural driver, it also contributes significantly to Tasmania’s economy and tourism sector. It is an internationally recognised festival and a great drawcard for Tasmania. Events like this are especially important right now when Tasmania is facing tough economic times.

Apart from that very serious and important side, MONA FOMA is also about having fun, in the magnificent setting of Tasmania’s waterfront. It’s about great music, fine food, and having a good time.

Tasmania is well known as a destination offering superb natural scenery. MONA FOMA ensures that Tasmania is also well known for creativity, innovation and ingenuity.

When MONA FOMA started, curator Brian Ritchie said that the festival was about turning Hobart into ‘a musical and visual dreamland where anything can happen’. I am looking forward to experiencing that dreamland again in 2012 and I encourage locals and visitors alike to get involved.

— Lara Giddings MP Premier of Tasmania

Greetings MOFOs! We are overjoyed to embark upon MONA FOMA 2012. The world is catching on. Research indicates that so-called mainlanders and other foreigners flock to Tasmania in increasing numbers to experience this thing. Those who still call Tasmania home are starting to view MOFO as a summer tradition (even if the contents of the festival are far from traditional). Once again we have things that are, aren’t, shouldn’t be, resemble, dismantle, deconstruct and celebrate music. In abundance. MONA art curators Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne toss some visuals and performances into the stew. This will make you question the nature of art. Let’s not forget our chefs, brew-meisters and winemakers.

MONA doesn’t care about awards, but after only three years MOFO was nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Music Festival. This reflects nicely upon you, the punters. We have our largest commission to date with The Barbarians from IHOS. Sure there’s PW1 again in new dress, but we’re also developing new MOFO venues ranging from oldie but goodie City Hall to brand new and radical St. Mary’s Cathedral Centre, a tiny gem of acoustic architecture... And there’s still heaps of free stuff! Plus bagpipes.

— Brian Ritchie MOFO Curator

LARA GIDDINGS MP PREMIER

BRIAN RITCHIECURATOR

TICKETS

This year, there’s the usual array of events to try for free.

We’re also putting on, at Princes Wharf 1, a variety of events that are covered by (astonishingly inexpensive!!) passes. Your best bet is to get a festival pass for $50, which gives you access to a smorgasbord of happenings at PW1. If they sell out (numbers are limited) or if you’d rather a smaller bite, get a day pass for $25.

MOFO FESTIVAL PASS JAN 14, 15, 19 & 20 PW1 $50

DAY PASS 1 SATURDAY JAN 14 PW1 $25

DAY PASS 2 SUNDAY JAN 15 PW1 $25

DAY PASS 3 THURSDAY JAN 19 PW1 $25

DAY PASS 4 FRIDAY JAN 20 PW1 $25

Or you could buy:

As well as your pass, you can buy tickets to our special events. Not that they’re not all special. You’re special. We’re all special.

Then there’s the festival art you can see at MONA. The museum’s usually closed on Tuesdays – but not during MOFO.

MOFO DAY PASSES & FESTIVAL PASSPersons under 12 years are admitted free to these events when accompanied by a paying adult. Proof of age may be requested at the door. Does not apply to special events.

PJ HARVEY PW1 $85

PHILLIP ADAMS BALLETLAB THEATRE ROYAL $25

IHOS CITY HALL $25

GIRL TALK PW1 $35

WEST HEAD PROJECT AND OUT HEAR MT. WELLINGTON $40

OVERBOARD II BOAT CRUISE $50

OPENING NIGHTSTREET PARTYFRI JAN 13

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HANGGAI CHINAThey rock hard in China. Hanggai throw in throat singing and traditional instruments, and dress like Genghis Khan.

FRIDAY JAN 13, 9PMCNR ELIZABETH ST & MELVILLE ST, HOBARTFREE

ROBIN FOX AUSLasers, smoke, electronic noise.

FRIDAY JAN 13, 10.30PMCNR ELIZABETH ST & MELVILLE ST, HOBART,WAREHOUSE FREE

eMDeeAUSMaster buskers turned high-tech musicians. Trance-like drum and didgeridoo. They sold a ridiculous number of CDs on the streets – see busking workshop Saturday January 14.


LUCAS ABELA AUSLucas kisses and sings to sheets of amplified crystal. Come and see what happens.

FRIDAY JAN 13, 6.30PMCNR ELIZABETH ST & MELVILLE ST, HOBARTFREE

TUBA SKINNY USAOld-school New Orleans street musicians. They come bearing tubas, of course.


Tuba Skinny is supported by the United States Consulate

THE DAD HORSE EXPERIENCE GERMANYEx-cabbie God-hollerer plucks banjo in demented fashion and wildly pumps the foot pedals. Anti-drug propaganda also likely.


GABRIELLA SMART AUS Gabriella will be playing prepared piano works by John Cage. This means sticking erasers, screws and other paraphernalia into the strings of her beast. The show’s by candlelight, and late at night, ‘in the round’, as they say.

She will also show us, in an open demo, how the piano is prepared for the performance.

FRIDAY JAN 13, MIDNIGHT SATURDAY JAN 14, MIDNIGHT BAHA’I CENTRE FREE

OPEN DEMO THURSDAY JAN 12, 2-6.30PM BAHA’I CENTRE FREE

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Download the MOFO2012 app to find outabout location(s), dates, times and artists.

App available from mid December 2011.

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JAN 13 - FEB 13, CLOSED TUESDAYS (EXCEPT JAN 17)10AM - 6PMMUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ARTADULTS $20CONCESSION $10TASMANIANS & UNDER 18 FREE

MONA FOMAART

DANIEL MUDIE CUNNINGHAMAUSFUNERAL SONGSWhat song do you want played at your funeral? Daniel has been asking people for a number of years. He has compiled a musical anthology of anticipatory grieving for the loss of yourself from the world, or celebration for having been here in the first place.

SUSAN PHILIPSZ UKSusan Philipsz won the Turner Prize in 2010 for her work Lowlands, which involved recording herself singing a melancholic song, and impregnating a public space with the recording. The sound of her singing has a strange effect. It makes you somehow feel more keenly the weight of the place you are in. In the MONA galleries you will hear Susan’s new work The Two Sisters, which is comprised of her singing a seventeenth-century Scottish song, seemingly to herself, about sororicide – the murder of one’s sister.

NELLAUSLET THERE BE ROBE

‘Let there be sound,’ and there was sound ‘Let there be lights,’ and there was lights‘Let there be drums’, there was drums‘Let there be guitar’, there was guitar, ah‘Let there be rock’And it came to pass That rock ‘n’ roll was born.

AC/DC were clearly correlating the birth of rock with that of JC. Nell spins things a little bit Buddha. Come and see.

DAY 2SAT JAN 14

Ikeda experiments with sound in its raw state, at the edge of human hearing. This project makes visible the transmission of the multi-substance data that saturates our world. How… Don’t know yet. But we do know Ikeda is ace.

SATURDAY JAN 14, 10PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 1 $25

RYOJI IKEDA JAPAN

DATAMATICS

Image: datamatics [prototype-ver.2.0], 2006 © Ryoji Ikedaphoto by Ryuichi Maruo, courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)

Quaternaire represents Ryoji Ikeda for his performing arts throughout the world except Japan

This is BalletLab’s latest work, a spectacular interrogation of the nature of spectacle itself. It’s paradoxical, perhaps, to have performance written into you, by nature: it reaches into the realms of theatre, art and dance; as well as those of preening, nest-building, and the rituals of selecting a mate.

Aviary takes as its starting point the music of Olivier Messiaen: his Catalogue d’oiseaux (1958) is a musical catalogue of birdsong, and of the composer’s own wonderment.

JAN 14-17, 7.30PMTHEATRE ROYALTICKETS $25

PHILLIP ADAMS BALLETLAB AUS

AVIARYA SUITE FOR THE BIRD

Image: 3 Deep Design with Jeff Busby

Phillip Adams BalletLab would like to acknowledge the generous support of The Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, Besen Family Foundation, The Oliver-Affleck Fund and the Norman H Johns Trust managed by Perpetual Trustees and our private donors. Aviary is presented in association with The Australian Ballet.

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DAVID CHESWORTH ENSEMBLE AUSVANISHING TEKOPIAVanishing Tekopia indirectly refers to a tiny island being slowly subsumed by the South Pacific Ocean, and more rapidly by globalisation. Are we (we, the globe) losing our cultural diversity, and does it matter?

In this eleven-piece ensemble performance the two singers have mastered a phonetic language invented by Chesworth.

SATURDAY JAN 14, 8.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 1 $25

WEST HEAD PROJECT AND OUT HEAR AUSKUNANYIWe pick up you from PW1 and drive you up the mountain. Then your sound guides – Jim Denley, Monika Brooks and Dale Gorfinkel – lure you through the bush with their trumpets, tree roots and bamboo flutes. You come back to camp, eat yummy food, and get driven back to PW1.

SATURDAY JAN 14, 12PMSUNDAY JAN 15, 12PMDEPARTS PW1, FORECOURTTICKETS $40

ELANEE ENSEMBLE AUSThis Tasmanian double bass/viola duo will premier some new and unusual material.

SATURDAY JAN 14, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTREFREE

eMDeeThey have sold 50,000 CDs while busking. How?

SATURDAY JAN 14, 6.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 1 $25

TUBA SKINNY Learn how to busk, New Orleans style.

SATURDAY JAN 14, 11AM PW1, FORECOURT FREE SATURDAY JAN 14, 7.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 1 $25

Tuba Skinny is supported by the United States Consulate

Image: © Melissa Webb

BUSKING WORKSHOP

BUSKING PERFORMANCE

PIERRE HENRY FRANCE

PAROXYSMS

Henry was born in 1927 in Paris. Seven years later he started studying music, and in 1944 – guided by Olivier Messiaen – he composed and conceived the music of the future.

Michel Chion, Pierre Henry, 2003

Pierre is the father of musique concrete, and pioneered most of the recording techniques musicians use today.

Now Papa Henry is cooking for us a special musical creation. He’s streaming it live from his home in Paris, which hosts the sounds and pictorial creations of his life and career. He’ll show us all the stages of creation – from insemination of idea and gestation of sound, to phonetic improvisation with his own voice. World premiere.

SUNDAY JAN 15, 10PMPW1LIVE VIRTUAL PERFORMANCEINCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 2 $25

DAY 3SUN JAN 15

Image: Anne Selders

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DAY 3SUN JAN 15

ROD THOMSON AUSTasmanian organist playing Olivier Messiaen compositions.

SUNDAY JAN 15, 4PMST MARY’S CATHEDRALFREE

NICK TSIAVOS AUSLIMINALNick plays stand-up jazz bass, improvised and combined with Byzantine chants. He’s accompanied by some of Melbourne’s top improvisers: Deborah Kayser, Adam Simmons, Peter Neville and Eugene Ughetti.

SUNDAY JAN 15, 2.30PMST MARY’S CATHEDRALFREE

ADAM SIMMONSAUSMelbourne multi-muso on the sax, clarinet and flute (and possibly the toy versions thereof). He’s usually in about a million different bands at once but for this performance, he’s all alone. SUNDAY JAN 15, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTREFREE

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Badlands re-imagines Carl Orff’s Schulwerk, a collection of deceptively simple melodies designed to teach music to children. Chesworth encountered Schulwerk as the score to Terrence Malick’s 1973 film, also called Badlands. It tells the story of two teenagers on a killing spree.

SUNDAY JAN 15, 8.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 2 $25 Image: © Adam Pretty

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DAVID CHESWORTHAUSDavid Chesworth is our Artist in Residence. He co-founded post-punkers Essendon Airport, and is now one of Australia’s most distinctive composers and sound artists.

Chesworth draws on a wide range of musical genres and natural sound sources, layering them in unusual ways.

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SONIA LEBER & DAVID CHESWORTHAUSSPACE-SHIFTER Since 1996 Leber and Chesworth have worked with sound, video and installation, using the human voice as their principal medium.

At Detached, you will find a host of human voices – a ‘psychogeography’, they call it – that stalks you as you move about the space.

OPENING FRIDAY JAN 13, 5.30PMJAN 13- FEB 3, 12-5PMUNTIL MARCH 31 BY APPOINTMENT (03 6234 4111)DETACHEDFREE

The artists gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

DAVID CHESWORTH & ADRIAN SHERRIFFAUSNOMONIDChesworth, on the laptop, builds a complex structure of ‘found’ sounds and real-world recordings. He is joined by Adrian Sherriff on trombone, shakuhachi, percussion and electronics.

MONDAY JAN 16, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTREFREE

MARIA LURIGHI AND FRIENDSAUSMaria is doing nine performances for us, drawing on an impressive range of sources and musical styles, including opera, jazz, classical and gospel. Her voice is earthy, raw and loud. You can also hear it as part of the Chesworth and Leber installation at Detached.

JAN 14-15 & 21-22, 4.30PMJAN 16-20, 1.15PM DETACHEDFREE

Audience limited to 50 people

Detached > piano resurrection > UTAS Conservatorium of Music

Image: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Space-Shifter, 2009. Courtesy the artists and Fehily Contemporary

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DANNY HEALYAUSLocal virtuoso on the sax, clarinets and flutes – playing several new pieces, just for us.

TUESDAY JAN 17, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTREFREE

STUART RINGHOLT AUSPreceded by a tour of the show by artist Stuart Ringholt. (The artist will be naked. Those who wish to join the tour must also be naked. Adults Only) (2012)

That’s the title of his work. And the content of it. But for the sake of clarity:

Stuart will take you on a naked tour of MONA. Changing facilities provided. Like he says, it’s for grown-ups. Isn’t it ironic.

TUESDAY JAN 17, 6-8PMWEDNESDAY JAN 18, 6-8PMMUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ARTFREEREGISTER AT WWW.MOFO.NET.AU Image: Stuart Ringholt

OVERBOARD IIMESSING ABOUT ON BOATS

Ticket includes sunset cruise on the MV Cartela (Hobart icon in manner of Mykonos dim sim); campy shenanigans, teetering on the homoerotic; performance by bohemian operatic jazz collective The Lovebirds; cherished memories; and tapas.

TUESDAY JAN 17, 8PMDEPARTS MONA FERRY TERMINALTICKETS $50

Recommended 18+

Image: Stephanie Bailly

GIRL TALK USA

There is a remote chance that something you do now will be good. The chances of it being original, however, are pretty much zero.

Which is why you’d be a fool to miss Girl Talk – the original Grandmaster Flash!!

WEDNESDAY JAN 18, 9PMPW1SUPPORTED BY 22SQTICKETS $35

DAY 6WED JAN 18

This, our biggest commission, is an immersive and remarkable new opera by Constantine Koukias, performed in modern Greek with bilingual narration, the product of a large collaboration of designers, singers and musicians.

Inspired by the poem Waiting for the Barbarians by Constantine Cavafy.

IHOS (it’s Greek for sound).

JAN 18-20, 7.30PMJAN 21 & 22, 2PM & 7.30PMCITY HALLTICKETS $25

Performance contains nudity & adult themes. Recommended 15+

The Barbarians is commissioned by the Museum of Old and New Art

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GILMOUR ENSEMBLEAUS WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCEThey will talk about and perform the work of Russell Gilmour.

WEDNESDAY JAN 18, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTREFREE

DAVID CHESWORTHAUSOCEANOGRAPHY/PERON STATIONAn intimate listening environment created on site at CAST. Oceanography is an almost completely synthesised underwater soundscape. Peron Station, by contrast, is strictly field-recorded, but strikes you as disconcertingly artificial...

OPENING THURSDAY JAN 12, 6PMJAN 13-29, 12-5PMCASTFREE

This project is a partnership between MONA and CAST

Image: David Chesworth, Oceanography/Peron Station, 2011. 4-channel sound installation. Image courtesy the artist and Fehily Contemporary. Digital imaging: Melissa Webb.

22SQAUS Super talented Tassie sax quartet comprised of Benjamin Price, Georgina Smith, Mitchell Ellis and Nicholas Nugent.

WEDNESDAY JAN 18, 7.30PMPW1SUPPORTING GIRL TALKTICKETS $35

Cabaret punks Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione reform for a rare Australian tour. THURSDAY JAN 19, 9.30PMPW1, STAGE 1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 3 $25

DAY 7THURS JAN 19

THE DRESDEN DOLLS USA

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PRINCE RAMAUSAA weird combination of Brooklyn noise rock and Hare Krishna psychedelia.

THURSDAY JAN 19, 7.30PMPW1, STAGE 1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 3 $25

SENYAWA INDONESIA

Naked vocals and an invented bamboo instrument that sounds sometimes like a harp, and sometimes like cello, sitar or percussion. The music is mixed with stories and dance.


FRIDAY JAN 20, 9PMPW1, STAGE 2INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

DAY 7THURS JAN 19

KELLIE O’DEMPSEY AUSMUTABLE+LUMINOUSKellie draws on a huge scroll of paper alongside bassist/animator Mick Dick, and the Tasmanian Improvised Orchestra.


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TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA JAPANHe is a ‘no-input sound mixer’, which means he has a sound desk, and manipulates controls without mics, instruments, or any other input. So technology doesn’t enhance the instrument, technology is the instrument. Whoa. Very Marshall McLuhan.


JULIANNA BARWICK USAJulianna sounds like a choir when she sings, layering her vocals using digital technology.


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TANK AUSTANK is for Ted (Vining, drums), Alistair (Dobson, sax), Nick (Haywood, bass) and Kelly (Ottaway, piano and vibraphone). Australian jazz.

THURSDAY JAN 19, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTREFREE

COOKING DEMOREALLY BIG PAELLAThat’s a really big paella.

THURSDAY JAN 19, 12.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 3 $25

GILMOUR ENSEMBLE AUSTasmanian group teaming strange instrumentation with dogged devotion to the music of Russell Gilmour.


ANDREA CENTAZZO ITALY/USAMANDALAAndrea, percussion master, travelled the world for many years, collecting images. These he will set to live music: improvisation and original compositions. The show revolves around Mandala, the circle centre-piece of Buddhist sacred art forms. There will be a great many gongs.


Presented by the Alcorso Foundation

NELLAUSIT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP (IF YOU WANNA ROCK AND ROLL) - HOBART

THE SHOW

Acca Dacca redux! You’ll know it when you hear it, on the streets of Hobart, and at PW1. Performance includes Les, bagpiper from the original 1976 AC/DC film clip.

THURSDAY JAN 19, 2PMPW1FREE

THE MEMORIAL

When the tail-lights have dimmed, the amps been put away... Come and pay your respects at the flatbed truck memorial. Climb in and graffiti your homage to Bon Scott. Leave him an empty bottle of scotch, or a plastic rose. Weep.

THURSDAY JAN 19PW1FREE

FRIDAY JAN 20PW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

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AMIINA ICELANDThis six-piece grew from Sigur Ros, for whom they played as a backing band, a string quartet. They’re doing their own thing now. They’ve brought in drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and electronic musician Kippi Kaninus, and some super-impressive instrument-switching shenanigans.


DEATH GRIPSUSADeath Grips scares the shit out of us.


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DAY 8FRI JAN 20

LAWRENCE ENGLISH & SCOTT MORRISON AUSOne 11 (refocused)We’ve got a John Cage theme this year, because it’s been twenty years since his death, and also because we love him. This film, by Lawrence English and Scott Morrison, pays homage to Cage’s only major film, which was also the last work he made before he died.


NELLAUSCHANTING TO AMPSNell is an artist from Sydney. She does all sorts of things. For us, she’s doing three projects that express her interest in contemporary manifestations of spiritual tradition. Can rock be transcendent? Can anything? Anyhow, come and chant to the amps.

FRIDAY JAN 20, 2PM & 11PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

SATURDAY JAN 21, 6PMTHEATRE ROYALFREE

MICHAELA DAVIES AUSWHILE ROME BURNSMichaela takes our planet’s seismic data and converts it into electricity, which prompts a puppet-like response from the performers’ bodies. How on earth someone thought of this, we don’t know. FRIDAY JAN 20, 4PMPW1, STAGE 2INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25ED KUEPPER &

MARK DAWSONAUSREARRANGEDEd Kuepper co-founded The Saints, and a few other bands, and is now a Bad Seed. Here he’s reunited with long-time collaborator Mark Dawson.


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BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCEAUSNine-piece Aussie-Ethiopian hip-hop-jazz ensemble.

FRIDAY JAN 20, 4.30PMPW1, STAGE 1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

DONNY BENÉTAUS Antonio Giacomelli Benét, the famous Italian accordionist, fell in love with the daughter of his accordion repairer. They made Donny. Donny plans to be the most famous disco accordionist/jazz bassist of the twenty-first century. Get behind him.

FRIDAY JAN 20, 2.30PMPW1, STAGE 2INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

DAVID WATSONNZWatson brings bagpipes into contemporary music. And he’s piped with the best. For us, he’ll be playing with Heath Richardson, along with the City of Hobart and Tasmania Police pipe bands.

FRIDAY JAN 20, 8.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

COOKING DEMOREALLY COLD FOODNitro cuisine. (This food is really cold).

FRIDAY JAN 20, 12.30PMPW1INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50OR DAY PASS 4 $25

SENYAWAInstrument-making workshop. See how Bambu Wukir from Indonesian band Senyawa made his bamboo-spear like contraption.

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PJ HARVEY UK

PJ will be playing songs from the Mercury Prize-winning album Let England Shake, as well as earlier stuff. She’s backed by Mick Harvey, John Parish and Jean-Marc Butty.

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PAINT YOUR GOLDEN FACE AUS A noisy Tassie duo doing some pretty cool things with bass drums and tape loops. ‘Pig Face’ to their fans. SATURDAY JAN 21, 6PMTHEATRE ROYALFREE

tUnE-yArDs USAHeadlining a wild ride at the Royal!! (See Paint Your Golden Face and Nell’s Chanting to Amps).

tUnE-yArDs makes drum loops on the spot, then adds ukulele and other instruments, building the music in the course of the performance. Raw and intense.

SATURDAY JAN 21, 6PMTHEATRE ROYALFREE

tUnE-yArDs is supported by the United States Consulate

ANDREA CENTAZZO & BRIAN RITCHIEITALY/USA/AUSGong master Andrea Centazzo joins Brian Ritchie on the shakuhachi for an improvisation concert at the St Mary’s Cathedral Centre. SATURDAY JAN 21, 6PMST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTRE FREE

Presented by the Alcorso Foundation

AMIINA ICELANDANIMAGICAAmiina play live to films by early twentieth-century animator Lotte Reiniger: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. It looks like shadow puppetry and sounds like magic. Bring children should you have them.

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CHRIS ABRAHAMS, SABINE VOGEL & DAVID WATSONAUS/GERMANY/NZChris, on the organ, is normally a pianist for The Necks, and Sabine’s a contemporary flautist. They’re joined by David Watson on the bagpipes. Surely a strange and compelling encounter.

SUNDAY JAN 22, 3PMST MARY’S CATHEDRALFREE

MoMaMONA market on the roof of the museum. Starts Jan 21, then ongoing.

There’s yummy food, fresh produce, live music, demos, workshops, and beanbags on which to slump in the sun.

MoMa – only slightly shitter than Salamanca market. Much, much shitter than the MoMA in New York.

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