Dark Mofo banishing the mid-winter blues with an edgy celebration of the dark

Now in its third year, Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art's winter festival Dark Mofo explores and celebrates the darkest part of the year with large scale public art, theatre, music, cinema and feasting.

This year's line up includes acclaimed performance artist Marina Abramović, Antony and the Johnsons with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and an enormous fire organ manipulated by Dutch artist Bastiaan Maris.

The festival also features the work of avant-garde light and film artist Anthony McCall, with three installations including his Night Ship, plying the dark waters of the River Derwent