The popular light tower art installation Spectra will beam into Hobart's winter night sky once again.
The spectacular column of search lights created by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda shoots beams of light up to 15 kilometres into the sky.
It is returning to Tasmania permanently and will be switched on during this year's Dark Mofo winter festival which runs from June 13-24.
The festival aims to draw visitors to Hobart during the bleak winter months and is known for exploring evocative themes, such as darkness and light, and birth and death.
This year's theme is Time and Incarceration.
Spectra first appeared in 2013 at the inaugural Dark Mofo, the winter version of Mona's festival of music and art.
The installation will now have a permanent home on Mona's (Museum of Old and New Art) Berridale grounds and the lights will be turned back on for the winter solstice on June 21.
It's part of another "extreme, experimental and eclectic" winter festival, according to creative director Leigh Carmichael.
"Dark Mofo is moving towards its sixth iteration, and we've pulled together our most expansive line-up yet, spread over three weekends and presenting more than 750 artists, 22 exhibitions, two opera companies, two theatre companies, one puppet theatre company, one orchestra, and a community choir," he said.
Organisers say the festival will showcase a powerhouse of headliners, including American avante-garde artist Laurie Anderson, Canadian Inuk performer and throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and Grammy Award-winning musician St Vincent.
"It's always difficult to know exactly how the festival will unfold for the audience," Mr Carmichael said.
"We just strive to try and find new ways to experience the darkness, and hope that people will continue to embrace it and enjoy Hobart's longest nights."
The festival is no stranger to controversy, and this year's is likely to continue to provoke.
2018 features a new Prelude weekend from June 7-10.
The highlight, Dark and Dangerous Thoughts, is a weekend-long event exploring literature, film and ideas.
Details are scant at this stage, but speakers at the two-day symposium have been selected because they "live (and sometimes are prepared to die) by their words".
There will also be screenings of Soda_Jerk Terror Nullis, which "has been pretty controversial of late".
New exhibitions will be opened at both Mona and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG).
ZERO at Mona features major artworks from the Zero movement, formed in Dusseldorf in 1957, shown together in Australia for the first time.
A Journey to Freedom at TMAG gathers artists working with sculpture, installation, video, photography and virtual reality to break open ideas of imprisonment.
The 2018 Dark Mofo festival includes returning favourites the Winter Feast, industrial art playground Dark Park and the nude solstice swim.
More than 80,000 tickets were sold to events last year.
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