Australian Traveller

SEE THE LIGHT

I RECENTLY SUBMITTED myself to a hallucinatory light installation by acclaimed American artist James Turrell; his Unseen Seen orb is the centrepiece of Mona’s Faro restaurant. Elsewhere onsite at the Hobart gallery, Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda’s beacon spectra shoots 15 kilometres into the sky to a mesmerised crowd and down by the city’s waterfront, thousands of festivalgoers flock to the ambient red glow of Dark Mofo’s Winter Feast and its flickering fires. What gives?

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