HOBART, Australia : Visitors to Hobart 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
HOBART, Australia : Visitors to Hobart 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.
The city of a quarter million swells to accommodate visitors with more than 100,000 tickets sold. Dark Mofo culminated on Thursday as two thousand swimmers stripped off and waded nude into the icy river Derwent on the winter solstice and shortest day of the year. Now in its 10th year, the festival has a long history of controversy. Police initially banned the first winter solstice swim for public indecency. A 2017 show by Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch featuring an animal carcass and rivers of blood outraged animal rights groups.
This year was no different. In an Australian exclusive, famed Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger retold Dante’s “Divine Comedy” in a two-hour all-female performance of sex and blood.
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