Dark Mofo - Night Mass
A midnight intervention, performance, and pyrotechnic reclamation of the city.
Presented at Night Mass for Dark Mofo, The Writing on the Wall was a rooftop performance and pyrotechnic intervention created in response to the festival’s hyper-local curatorial frame. At midnight, archival speeches, protest noise, racist language, and the repeated force of “bang bang bang” cut through the street before DENNI appeared above the crowd—backlit in flare-red, unrestrained, and commanding the city below. Performing Out Here from the rooftop, she addressed the audience, the street, and the nation with fearless clarity. As smoke, light, and pyro erupted behind her, the work transformed the built environment into a site of resistance, truth-telling, and refusal. The final ignition of OUT HERE RESISTING held both lyric and declaration—an uncompromising statement of Tasmanian Aboriginal survival, presence, and ongoing resistance.
The Writing on The Wall was created by DENNI, Alex Podger, Caleb Nichols-Mansell and Callum Ball featuring Out Here by DENNI.
Client: Dark Mofo
Project Type: Collaboration, Festival Commission, Public Art
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
Year: 2026
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