I wanted to move to Hobart because had
this kind of a cutting edge arts
reputation you have Mona and you have
dark mofo and you have all these things
that are really exciting in terms of
performance and installation art I
wanted to kind of be around that and
then the university seemed to have a
really interesting fine arts course dark
mofo is such a unique opportunity to
show your work to a lot of people and I
don't know why you wouldn't do it you've
got this amazing audience walking past
which you just can't get anywhere else
you've got to come up with something
which is going to work in front of
40,000 people so it's just a fantastic
opportunity my favorite thing about this
entire experience is the way that we get
to present the work you're so
unbelievably close there always seems to
be this distance in traditional theatre
so being able to do it so intimately is
just magical you get all these people
coming in from drama or from the
Conservatorium that you just never see
so this kind of overlap is really
interesting there's more ideas coming up
as opposed to kind of working in your
own little echo chamber so I'm really
enjoying that a lot of the practices
that we've been learning in terms of
focus and discipline and understanding
how to like interact with an audience
and how to get them to think have been
really helpful it's just been an amazing
learning experience and also kind of be
around so many other artists a really
cool opportunity and is really rare to
be given that opportunity and have it
count towards your degree it's excellent
to come and actually also to be a part
of it to have that little extra bit on
our resume it's just this amazing
opportunity to really do what we all
love to do as part of the reason I moved
to Tasmania just that that freedom and
I've been to festivals everywhere and
I've never seen such a community spirit
everybody's involved it definitely
inspires creativity we've come to the
right place