Full program for Dark Mofo revealed including floating wine bar and all the festival favourites

DARK Mofo visitors will navigate through tunnels under Hobart streets and drink at a floating River Derwent wine bar, as all the details of this year’s event are revealed.

DARK MOFO visitors will navigate through underground tunnels and can drink at a floating River Derwent wine bar this year as part of the winter festival which organisers say will bring a new “scale and quality of its visual arts program”.

All the Dark Mofo favourites return for the seventh year of the event including the Winter Feast, the Nude Solstice Swim, Night Mass, and the Ogoh-Ogoh ritual burning of a monument.

International acts FKA Twigs and Sigur Ros headline music performances over the three week festival which begins on June 6.

English singer-songwriter FKA Twigs will perform at this year’s Dark Mofo. Picture: SUPPLIED

Mike Parr returns after his Macquarie St burial last year, with a new display giving audiences a live video feed of a show which features a blindfolded Parr in an undisclosed location.

He will be navigating a bare gallery space with brush and black paint. The location will later be revealed and open as an exhibition for a short time.

Mike Parr's emergence from beneath Macquarie Street, Hobart, where he stayed for 72 hours as part of the Dark Mofo festival last year. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

Without revealing too much, Dark Mofo organiser Darklab said in a statement it will “open the doors to a new subterranean tunnel leading to exhibition chambers featuring Ai Weiwei, Oliver Beer, Alfredo Jaar and Chris Townend.”

A Mona spokeswoman said further details about the tunnel experience would be revealed at a later time.

New elements of the festival this year will see it put on shows at the former Forestry Tasmania building on Melville St, the Old Hobart Blood Bank and Merchant Store on Collins Street, the former Mercury Building, and the Old Davey St Congregational Church.

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Festivities at the Regatta Grounds, Avalon Theatre, Odeon Theatre, and a floating wine bar on the River Derwent will also be sure to attract the masses.

Dark Mofo associate creative director Hannah Fox said the festival had thrown up one of its most diverse range of events for 2019.

Meagan Streader, Response VII - Partition III. Photo: SAM WHITESIDE

“It seems we have put together the most unlikely program we could have dreamt up — it just evolved that way,” she said.

“Intentionally or otherwise, the artists in our seventh festival have become connected through emerging themes of simulated, mediated and real violence, extinction and the supernatural.

“The music program is huge and layered, reaching from subversive electronic protest music from Sao Paulo, to intricate future-gospel out of Alabama, and Blixa Bargeld returning on a standing invitation to visit the southern isle every year until he dies.”

Associate artistic director Jarrod Rawlins said the program would entice audiences across a range of demographics.

“We need to create an experience of a safe but unexpected nature, something that is not designed to shock you, but is definitely designed to poke gently at your curiosity and life experiences,” he said.

“It is designed to make you wonder, in moments that are unfamiliar, unconventional, and unexpected, combined with moments that are simply beautiful and fun.”

Dark Mofo tickets open on Monday for subscriber presale at 6pm before opening to the public 12pm Tuesday.

For more information visit www.darkmofo.net.au.