Dark Mofo Has Cancelled the Controversial First Artwork Announced for Its 2021 Festival – Concrete Playground

When the pandemic started impacting events in 2020, Dark Mofo was one of the first to scrap its plans for the year. So, when festival organisers revealed that they’d be forging ahead in 2021, it was welcome news for fans of its weird, wonderful, distinctive and attention-grabbing programs. There’s a difference between pushing boundaries and completely misjudging them, though, as the Tasmanian fest has discovered in the past few days. Accordingly, after revealing its first artwork for the 2021 festival, Dark Mofo has now announced that the piece will no longer go ahead.

The backlash to the event’s first program reveal for this year hasn’t been surprising. In a piece called Union Flag, Spanish artist Santiago Sierra was planning to…