2. 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.
3. 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
LARA GIDDINGS MP BRIAN RITCHIE bet is to get a festival pass for $50, which gives you access to a
PREMIER CURATOR smorgasbord of happenings at PW1. If they sell out (numbers are
The Tasmanian Government is Apart from that very serious and Greetings MOFOs! We are overjoyed limited) or if you’d rather a smaller bite, get a day pass for $25.
delighted to partner with MONA important side, MONA FOMA is also to embark upon MONA FOMA 2012.
again to deliver the fourth MONA about having fun, in the magnificent The world is catching on. Research
FOMA. setting of Tasmania’s waterfront. It’s indicates that so-called mainlanders MOFO FESTIVAL PASS BUY TICKETS
MONA FOMA has become such about great music, fine food, and and other foreigners flock to JAN 14, 15, 19 & 20
PW1 To buy tickets for MONA FOMA
a vital part of Tasmania’s cultural having a good time. Tasmania in increasing numbers to go to
landscape that it’s hard to believe it Tasmania is well known as a experience this thing. Those who still $50
WWW.MOFO.NET.AU
started only four years ago. It offers destination offering superb natural call Tasmania home are starting to
Or you could buy: You can also buy paper tickets at
locals and visitors alike a chance to scenery. MONA FOMA ensures view MOFO as a summer tradition
experience internationally renowned that Tasmania is also well known for (even if the contents of the festival DAY PASS 1 DAY PASS 2 MONA FERRY TERMINAL
performers – and upcoming local acts creativity, innovation and ingenuity. are far from traditional). Once again SATURDAY JAN 14 SUNDAY JAN 15 BROOKE ST PIER
– in our own backyard. When MONA FOMA started, we have things that are, aren’t, PW1 PW1 HOBART
MONA FOMA, together with curator Brian Ritchie said that the shouldn’t be, resemble, dismantle, $25 $25 8.30AM-6.30PM, 7 DAYS
David Walsh’s magnificent Museum festival was about turning Hobart deconstruct and celebrate music.
of Old and New Art, are cultural into ‘a musical and visual dreamland In abundance. MONA art curators And at
DAY PASS 3 DAY PASS 4 PW1 BOX OFFICE
icons for our island. They contribute where anything can happen’. I am Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne
THURSDAY JAN 19 FRIDAY JAN 20 PRINCES WHARF 1 SHED
to the diverse arts and cultural looking forward to experiencing toss some visuals and performances
PW1 PW1 CASTRAY ESPLANADE, HOBART
experiences that help make Tasmania that dreamland again in 2012 and I into the stew. This will make you
$25 $25 JAN 13-21, 9AM-5PM
such a great place to visit, and a great encourage locals and visitors alike to question the nature of art. Let’s not
place to live. get involved. forget our chefs, brew-meisters and JAN 14-15 & 19-21, 9AM-LATE
MONA and MONA FOMA — Lara Giddings MP winemakers. As well as your pass, you can buy tickets to our special events.
To buy entry tickets to the
are also important because they Premier of Tasmania MONA doesn’t care about Not that they’re not all special. You’re special. We’re all special.
museum, go to
challenge and extend our ideas about awards, but after only three
PJ HARVEY PW1 $85 WWW.MONA.NET.AU
art and art practice. They have helped years MOFO was nominated for
PHILLIP ADAMS BALLETLAB THEATRE ROYAL $25 Or
change the conversations of artistic the Helpmann Award for Best
IHOS CITY HALL $25 MONA FERRY TERMINAL
leaders nationally and internationally. Contemporary Music Festival. This
BROOKE ST PIER
The MONA FOMA event is reflects nicely upon you, the punters. GIRL TALK PW1 $35 HOBART
not only a cultural driver, it also We have our largest commission WEST HEAD PROJECT AND OUT HEAR MT. WELLINGTON $40 8.30AM-6.30PM, 7 DAYS
contributes significantly to Tasmania’s to date with The Barbarians from
OVERBOARD II BOAT CRUISE $50
economy and tourism sector. It is an IHOS. Sure there’s PW1 again in new Entry to the museum is $20 for
internationally recognised festival and dress, but we’re also developing new Then there’s the festival art you can see at MONA. adults, $10 concession, or free
a great drawcard for Tasmania. Events MOFO venues ranging from oldie but The museum’s usually closed on Tuesdays – but not to Tasmanians and under 18s.
like this are especially important right goodie City Hall to brand new and during MOFO.
now when Tasmania is facing tough radical St. Mary’s Cathedral Centre, Download the
economic times. a tiny gem of acoustic architecture... MOFO DAY PASSES & FESTIVAL PASS MOFO2012 app from
And there’s still heaps of free stuff! Persons under 12 years are admitted free to these events mid December 2011
Plus bagpipes. when accompanied by a paying adult. Proof of age may be
— Brian Ritchie requested at the door. Does not apply to special events.
MOFO Curator
5. OPENING NIGHT
STREET PARTY
FRI 13 JAN
JAN 13
ROBIN FOX eMDee LUCAS ABELA
AUS AUS AUS
Lasers, smoke, electronic noise. Master buskers turned high-tech Lucas kisses and sings to sheets of
musicians. Trance-like drum and amplified crystal. Come and see
FRIDAY JAN 13, 10.30PM didgeridoo. They sold a ridiculous what happens.
CNR ELIZABETH ST &
MELVILLE ST, HOBART, number of CDs on the streets –
WAREHOUSE see busking workshop Saturday FRIDAY JAN 13, 6.30PM
FREE January 14. CNR ELIZABETH ST &
MELVILLE ST, HOBART
FREE
FRIDAY JAN 13, 7PM
CNR ELIZABETH ST &
MELVILLE ST, HOBART
FREE
THE DAD HORSE TUBA SKINNY GABRIELLA SMART
EXPERIENCE USA AUS
GERMANY Old-school New Orleans street Gabriella will be playing prepared
musicians. They come bearing piano works by John Cage. This
Ex-cabbie God-hollerer plucks
tubas, of course. means sticking erasers, screws
banjo in demented fashion and
and other paraphernalia into the
wildly pumps the foot pedals. strings of her beast. The show’s by
Anti-drug propaganda also likely. FRIDAY JAN 13, 8PM
CNR ELIZABETH ST & candlelight, and late at night, ‘in
MELVILLE ST, HOBART the round’, as they say.
HANGGAI FRIDAY JAN 13, 6PM
CNR ELIZABETH ST &
FREE
CHINA She will also show us, in an open
MELVILLE ST, HOBART
FREE Tuba Skinny is supported by the United demo, how the piano is prepared
They rock hard in China. for the performance.
States Consulate
Hanggai throw in throat singing
and traditional instruments, FRIDAY JAN 13, MIDNIGHT
SATURDAY JAN 14, MIDNIGHT
and dress like Genghis Khan. BAHA’I CENTRE
FREE
FRIDAY JAN 13, 9PM OPEN DEMO
CNR ELIZABETH ST & THURSDAY JAN 12, 2-6.30PM
MELVILLE ST, HOBART BAHA’I CENTRE
FREE FREE
6. OPENING NIGHT
FRI JAN 13
Street Party Baha’i Centre
Detached
CAST
MONA
FAUX MO
10AM
MOFO art at the Museum of Old and New Art
11 AM
12PM
Oceanography/Peron Station
David Chesworth Faux Mo
1PM
2PM
(FoMo)
3PM
4PM
Mofo Festival Club
5PM
11pm–
Space-Shifter opening
6PM The Dad Horse Experience
Lucas Abela
7PM eMDee
8PM Tuba Skinny
9PM Hanggai Almost as good as the original.
10PM Download the MOFO2012 app to find out
about location(s), dates, times and artists.
Robin Fox
App available from mid December 2011.
11PM
Until late >
12AM Gabriella Smart
1AM
7. MONA FOMA
ART
JAN 13 - FEB 13, CLOSED TUESDAYS
NELL
(EXCEPT JAN 17) AUS
10AM - 6PM LET THERE BE ROBE
MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART
ADULTS $20
CONCESSION $10
‘Let there be sound,’ and there was sound
TASMANIANS & UNDER 18 FREE ‘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.
SUSAN PHILIPSZ
UK
Susan 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 DANIEL MUDIE
singing has a strange effect. It
makes you somehow feel more
CUNNINGHAM
AUS
keenly the weight of the place
you are in. FUNERAL SONGS
What song do you want played
In the MONA galleries you will at your funeral? Daniel has been
hear Susan’s new work The Two asking people for a number of
Sisters, which is comprised of her years. He has compiled a musical
singing a seventeenth-century anthology of anticipatory grieving
Scottish song, seemingly to for the loss of yourself from the
herself, about sororicide – world, or celebration for having
the murder of one’s sister. been here in the first place.
9. PHILLIP ADAMS
BALLETLAB AUS
AVIARY
A SUITE FOR THE BIRD
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, 7.30PM
THEATRE ROYAL
TICKETS $25
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.
Image: 3 Deep Design
with Jeff Busby
11. DAY 3
SUN JAN 15
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, 10PM
PW1
LIVE VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
OR DAY PASS 2 $25
Image: Anne Selders
13. DAY 4 DAVID CHESWORTH
MON JAN 16 AUS
David Chesworth is our Artist
Theatre Royal St Mary’s
Detached
CAST
MONA
in Residence. He co-founded
Cathedral post-punkers Essendon Airport,
Centre and is now one of Australia’s most
10AM distinctive composers and sound
MOFO art at the Museum of Old and New Art
artists.
11 AM Chesworth draws on a wide range
of musical genres and natural
sound sources, layering them in
Oceanography/Peron Station
David Chesworth
12PM
unusual ways.
1PM SONIA LEBER &
DAVID CHESWORTH
AUS
Space-Shifter
Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
2PM
SPACE-SHIFTER
Since 1996 Leber and Chesworth
3PM have worked with sound, video and
installation, using the human voice
as their principal medium. MARIA LURIGHI DAVID CHESWORTH
4PM AND FRIENDS & ADRIAN SHERRIFF
At Detached, you will find AUS AUS
a host of human voices – a NOMONID
5PM Maria is doing nine performances
‘psychogeography’, they call it – Chesworth, on the laptop, builds
for us, drawing on an impressive
that stalks you as you move about a complex structure of ‘found’
range of sources and musical styles,
David Chesworth the space. sounds and real-world recordings.
6PM including opera, jazz, classical and
& Adrian Sherriff gospel. Her voice is earthy, raw He is joined by Adrian Sherriff on
Nomonid OPENING FRIDAY JAN 13, 5.30PM
JAN 13- FEB 3, 12-5PM and loud. You can also hear it as trombone, shakuhachi, percussion
7PM UNTIL MARCH 31 BY and electronics.
part of the Chesworth and Leber
Phillip Adams APPOINTMENT (03 6234 4111) installation at Detached.
BalletLab DETACHED MONDAY JAN 16, 6PM
8PM Aviary FREE ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTRE
JAN 14-15 & 21-22, 4.30PM
JAN 16-20, 1.15PM FREE
The artists gratefully acknowledge the DETACHED
9PM support of the Australian Government FREE
through the Australia Council for the Arts,
its arts funding and advisory body.
Audience limited to 50 people
10PM
Image: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth,
11PM Space-Shifter, 2009. Courtesy the artists
and Fehily Contemporary
12AM
Detached > piano resurrection > UTAS
Conservatorium of Music
1AM
14. DAY 5 OVERBOARD II
TUES JAN 17 MESSING ABOUT ON BOATS
MONA Ferry Terminal Theatre Royal St Mary’s MONA
Detached
CAST
Cathedral
Centre
10AM MOFO art at
the Museum
of Old and
New Art
11 AM
12PM
Oceanography/Peron Station
David Chesworth
1PM
Space-Shifter
Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
2PM
3PM Ticket includes sunset cruise on
the MV Cartela (Hobart icon in
4PM
manner of Mykonos dim sim);
campy shenanigans, teetering on
the homoerotic; performance by
5PM bohemian operatic jazz collective
The Lovebirds; cherished
memories; and tapas.
6PM Danny Healy Stuart Ringholt
STUART RINGHOLT DANNY HEALY
TUESDAY JAN 17, 8PM AUS AUS
DEPARTS MONA FERRY Preceded by a tour of the show by Local virtuoso on the sax, clarinets
TERMINAL
7PM
TICKETS $50 artist Stuart Ringholt. (The artist and flutes – playing several new
Phillip Adams will be naked. Those who wish to pieces, just for us.
Recommended 18+
BalletLab join the tour must also be naked.
8PM Overboard II Aviary Image: Stephanie Bailly Adults Only) (2012) TUESDAY JAN 17, 6PM
Messing About On Boats ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTRE
That’s the title of his work. And FREE
9PM the content of it. But for the sake
of clarity:
Stuart will take you on a naked
10PM
tour of MONA. Changing facilities
provided. Like he says, it’s for
11PM
grown-ups. Isn’t it ironic.
TUESDAY JAN 17, 6-8PM
WEDNESDAY JAN 18, 6-8PM
12AM MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART
FREE
REGISTER AT WWW.MOFO.NET.AU
1AM
Image: Stuart Ringholt
15. DAY 6
WED JAN 18
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, 9PM
PW1
SUPPORTED BY 22SQ
TICKETS $35
16. IHOS
AUS
This, our biggest commission,
is an immersive and remarkable
JAN 18-20, 7.30PM
JAN 21 & 22, 2PM & 7.30PM
CITY HALL
new opera by Constantine TICKETS $25
Koukias, performed in modern
Greek with bilingual narration, Performance contains nudity & adult
the product of a large themes. Recommended 15+
collaboration of designers,
singers and musicians. The Barbarians is commissioned by
the Museum of Old and New Art
Inspired by the poem
Waiting for the Barbarians
by Constantine Cavafy.
IHOS (it’s Greek for sound).
17. DAY 6
WED JAN 18
PW1 City Hall St Mary’s MONA
FAUX MO
Detached
CAST
Cathedral
Centre
10AM MOFO art at
the Museum
of Old and
New Art
11 AM
GILMOUR
12PM ENSEMBLE
Oceanography/Peron Station
David Chesworth
AUS
1PM
WORKSHOP &
PERFORMANCE
They will talk about and perform
Space-Shifter
Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
2PM the work of Russell Gilmour.
WEDNESDAY JAN 18, 6PM
3PM ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTRE
FREE
4PM
DAVID CHESWORTH Image: David Chesworth, Oceanography/
AUS Peron Station, 2011. 4-channel sound
installation.
5PM OCEANOGRAPHY/PERON
Image courtesy the artist and Fehily
STATION Contemporary. Digital imaging: Melissa
An intimate listening environment Webb.
6PM Gilmour Stuart Ringholt created on site at CAST.
Ensemble
SITE OPENS Oceanography is an almost
7PM
completely synthesised underwater 22SQ
soundscape. Peron Station, by
22SQ IHOS AUS
contrast, is strictly field-recorded,
The Barbarians Super talented Tassie sax quartet
8PM but strikes you as disconcertingly
comprised of Benjamin Price,
artificial...
Georgina Smith, Mitchell Ellis and
9PM Girl Talk OPENING THURSDAY JAN 12, 6PM Nicholas Nugent.
JAN 13-29, 12-5PM
CAST WEDNESDAY JAN 18, 7.30PM
FREE PW1
10PM SUPPORTING GIRL TALK
This project is a partnership between TICKETS $35
MONA and CAST
11PM
Until late >
12AM
1AM
18. DAY 7
THURS JAN 19
THE DRESDEN DOLLS USA
Cabaret punks Amanda Palmer
and Brian Viglione reform for a
rare Australian tour.
THURSDAY JAN 19, 9.30PM
PW1, STAGE 1
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
OR DAY PASS 3 $25
Image: Shervin Lainez
19. DAY 7
THURS JAN 19
PRINCE RAMA
USA
A weird combination of Brooklyn
noise rock and Hare Krishna
psychedelia.
THURSDAY JAN 19, 7.30PM
PW1, STAGE 1
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
OR 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. TOSHIMARU KELLIE O’DEMPSEY JULIANNA
NAKAMURA AUS BARWICK
THURSDAY JAN 19, 5.30PM JAPAN USA
PW1, STAGE 1 MUTABLE+LUMINOUS
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50 He is a ‘no-input sound mixer’, Kellie draws on a huge scroll of Julianna sounds like a choir when
OR DAY PASS 3 $25 which means he has a sound paper alongside bassist/animator she sings, layering her vocals using
desk, and manipulates controls Mick Dick, and the Tasmanian digital technology.
FRIDAY JAN 20, 9PM without mics, instruments, or
PW1, STAGE 2 Improvised Orchestra.
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
any other input. So technology THURSDAY JAN 19, 2.30PM
doesn’t enhance the instrument, THURSDAY JAN 19, 8.30PM PW1, STAGE 2
OR DAY PASS 4 $25 INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
technology is the instrument. PW1, STAGE 2
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50 OR DAY PASS 3 $25
Whoa. Very Marshall McLuhan.
OR DAY PASS 3 $25
Image: Jody Rogac
THURSDAY JAN 19, 6.30PM
PW1, STAGE 2 Image: Alberto Sanchez
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
OR DAY PASS 3 $25
20. DAY 7
THURS JAN 19
PW1 City Hall St Mary’s
Detached
CAST
MONA
FAUX MO
Cathedral
Centre
10AM
MOFO art at the Museum of Old and New Art
NELL ANDREA CENTAZZO GILMOUR
11 AM
AUS ITALY/USA ENSEMBLE
IT’S A LONG W TO THE TOP
AY MANDALA AUS
(IF YOU W ANNA ROCK AND
Andrea, percussion master, Tasmanian group teaming strange
SITE OPENS
ROLL) - HOBART instrumentation with dogged
12PM travelled the world for many years,
Oceanography/Peron Station
David Chesworth
Cooking Demo THE SHOW collecting images. These he will devotion to the music of Russell
Acca Dacca redux! You’ll know it set to live music: improvisation Gilmour.
1PM
when you hear it, on the streets of and original compositions. The
show revolves around Mandala, THURSDAY JAN 19, 4.30PM
Hobart, and at PW1. Performance PW1, STAGE 2
Space-Shifter
Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
2PM Nell includes Les, bagpiper from the the circle centre-piece of Buddhist INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
original 1976 AC/DC film clip. sacred art forms. There will be a OR DAY PASS 3 $25
Julianna Barwick great many gongs.
3PM THURSDAY JAN 19, 2PM
PW1 THURSDAY JAN 19, 3.30PM
Andrea Centazzo PW1, STAGE 1
Mandala FREE
4PM
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
OR DAY PASS 3 $25
Gilmour Ensemble THE MEMORIAL
When the tail-lights have dimmed, Presented by the
5PM Alcorso Foundation
the amps been put away... Come
Senyawa and pay your respects at the flatbed
6PM TANK truck memorial. Climb in and
graffiti your homage to Bon Scott.
Toshimaru Nakamura
Leave him an empty bottle of
7PM scotch, or a plastic rose. Weep.
Prince Rama IHOS
The Barbarians THURSDAY JAN 19
8PM PW1
FREE
Kellie O’Dempsey
FRIDAY JAN 20
TANK COOKING DEMO
9PM REALLY BIG PAELLA
PW1 AUS
The Dresden Dolls INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50 TANK is for Ted (Vining, drums), That’s a really big paella.
OR DAY PASS 4 $25
10PM Alistair (Dobson, sax), Nick
THURSDAY JAN 19, 12.30PM
(Haywood, bass) and Kelly PW1
(Ottaway, piano and vibraphone). INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
11PM Australian jazz. OR DAY PASS 3 $25
THURSDAY JAN 19, 6PM
Until late >
12AM ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CENTRE
FREE
1AM
21. DAY 8
FRI 20 JAN
JAN 20
AMIINA DEATH GRIPS
ICELAND USA
This six-piece grew from Sigur Ros, for whom they played as a backing Death Grips scares the shit out
band, a string quartet. They’re doing their own thing now. They’ve brought of us.
in drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and electronic musician Kippi
Kaninus, and some super-impressive instrument-switching shenanigans. FRIDAY JAN 20, 10PM
PW1, STAGE 1
FRIDAY JAN 20, 7PM INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
PW1, STAGE 1 OR DAY PASS 4 $25
INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $50
OR DAY PASS 4 $25
Image: Nicholas Wray