Dark Park

A flag rapidly expels an endless stream of black smoke on the site of the world's first major oil find in 1901. Now barren and exhausted, the site in Spindletop, Texas is recreated as a digital simulation. This is a flag for our times.

Nipaluna's ancient shoreline is called back to the surface in a ritual of luwuree smoke and fire.

Ryoji Ikeda’s monumental beacon of light returns to the city to mark a decade of darkness.

Tisna’s latest vision sees a collective of Sundanese artists, instrument builders and alchemists engage in ritual practices based on the celebration carnival, ‘Jajampanan’. Follow a sprawling parade of reimagined traditions to a series of performance ceremonies that tell a different story each night, honouring communal activism in rejection of greed.

Live music, performance, and a place to purge your fears, as the home to this year’s ogoh-ogoh. Food and libations aplenty. Open every night of Dark Park, with free entry.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
―Friedrich Nietzsche

Join us after the procession for the final stage of our collective ritual of renewal, where we’ll release our platypus into flames—and with it, our fears.

Write down your fears and banish them to the belly of our duck-billed platypus ogoh-ogoh—a totem-like sculpture derived from a Balinese Hindu purification ritual and crafted by Balinese artists.