Yesterday the State Government of Tasmania announced funding for Salamanca’s MONA FOMA Festival which will ensure it continues for the next four years.
Salamanca, Tasmania is considered by many to be a mini Greenwich Village, New York. MONA FOMA is an edgy and challenging music and art festival curated by Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes.
MONA FOMA celebrates the collision of music and art where you will experience artists and musicians who push the boundaries of their practice in terms of technique, materials, unexpected collaborations, unusual use of venues, extreme volume (or silence), guerrilla actions and strange colours.
This year has seen finches playing electric guitars, a man using a coffee machine to make music and, a pipe structure capturing tidal waves to produce rhythms plus some of the biggest names in world music.
Business can learn a lot from such deliberate odd-ball collaboration and experimentation. Deliberate off-the-wall collaboration and experimentation can result in very creative outcomes, which in-turn can translate into success (luck) for people and companies alike.