The Tasmanian festival renowned for pushing artistic boundaries has admitted that this time it may have gone too far
Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival has cancelled one of the key works planned for the June event and apologised, after a social media backlash led by Indigenous artists around Australia.
On Tuesday afternoon organisers of the winter festival, which is run by the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), announced that the work by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra – in which he planned to immerse a Union Flag into the donated blood of Indigenous people, as a statement “against colonialism” – would no longer go ahead.
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