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We're Giving Away Double Passes to Mofo in Hobart Next Week

Spontaneous trips to Tasmania are the best kind.
Mofo is coming to Hobart, January 18-22

Mofo is a short way of saying Mona Foma, which is a short way of saying Mona Festival of Music and Art. Mona being short for Museum of Old and New Art. Look—however far you choose to go with your abbreviations, it’s a guaranteed good time.

The five day party is next week, and its lineup includes more more than 200 artists from more than a dozen countries, including Azerbaijan, Korea, and Nigeria. There’s Peaches covering the songs from 1970s musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Regurgitator re-interpreting The Velvet Underground’s debut album, and Mike Patton collaborating with Australian experimental composer Anthony Pateras. It’s the only music festival you’ll attend this summer where the headliners don’t just play a greatest hits set.

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The artistic side of Mofo delivers, too—a multidisciplinary mix of performances and interactive installations spread throughout the Mona grounds. We’re particularly excited about Ruth West’s ATLAS in silico, which invites viewers to don a pair of interactive 3D virtual reality goggles and trigger deep global ocean survey sounds, a musical installation made from vintage synths from Melbourne’s MESS, and an “interactive endurance walk” inside a shipping container from Mick Douglas. Not to mention new exhibition On the Origin of Art, an ambitious four-part show that seeks to answer that nagging universal question: why do we make art?

The Creators Project is partnering with Mofo once more in 2017, and we’re so excited about the festival that we’re giving away three double passes. To enter, send an email to aucomps@vice.com with the subject line “Mofo 2017” before Monday January 16. You can find out more about Mofo and view the full lineup here.

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