Return to the dark side: Dark Mofo is back for 2025
Dark Mofo | 📷 Jesse Hunniford
Mona's midwinter festival - Dark Mofo - celebrating the dark through film, music, noise, light public art, and food, returns for 2025.
The festival’s return will include an ambitious art and music program, alongside cornerstone events including Winter Feast, the Ogoh-Ogoh, Night Mass and the Nude Solstice Swim. Dark Mofo 2025 will run from 5-15 June, with the Swim wrapping up the festivities on 21 June.
Highlights include:
‘Crash Body’ by Paula Garcia, Dark Mofo 2025. 📷 Marcos Cimardi.
Crash Body.
Two cars engage in an exchange of near misses, building to a visceral head-on collision between the artist and a stunt driver. Unfolding over two hours, a soundscape of engine growls and shearing metal will rip through the body as the impact nears. The latest chapter in the artist's two-decade-long dive into forces seen and unseen, and the raw experience of violent action on the body.
The aftermath will be viewable at Dark Park until Sunday, 15 June.
‘Quasi’ by Ronnie Van Hout, Dark Mofo 2025 | 📷 John Collie
Quasi, Ronnie Van Hout.
A gargantuan appendage towers overhead, fusing the artist's face and hand in a monstrous likeness. The divisive sculpture has drawn the ire of our friends across the ditch. Now it’s our turn to love or hate it.
‘SORA’ by NONOTAK studio | 📷 Dark Mofo
SORA.
Inside a dark warehouse, kinetic light beams undulate at the whim of an invisible wind, summoning the hypnotic landscape of the Japanese night sky.
View the full Dark Mofo program at darkmofo.net.au