Launceston residents have been flocking to the Gorge to see Amanda Parer’s installation Man lighting up the First Basin.
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The work is part of Mona Foma, and will be visible until January 20.
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“It brings something different – and it makes the Gorge look really big,” said Ella Baker-Condon, one of those who caught the first glimpse of the work on Sunday night.
This month, after a mini-launch last year in Tasmania’s second-biggest city, Mona Foma is moving its full-scale operation to Launceston.
The music and arts festival has been run by the iconoclastic Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart since 2008, with about a third of attendees coming from interstate.
Its first Launceston iteration will take place on the weekend of January 18 – 20, and will be “fraught with a sense of adventure,” said festival curator (and Violent Femmes bassist) Brian Ritchie.
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