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Russian feminist punk "jail-bait band" Pussy Riot are the latest inclusion on next month's Dark Mofo line-up.
Three members of the collective, including one of the women jailed in 2012, will attend the first Australian screening of the 2015 documentary about the activists, Act and Punishment.
The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with the band, who will later do a guest DJ spot at a festival venue in the city playing "the songs that inspire their revolution".
Three Pussy Riot activists enraged Russian authorities in 2012 staging an anti-Putin protest in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
They were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison but were released under an amnesty.
The film by Evgeny Mitta follows the women after their release from prison and their rising notoriety.
They continued to raise the ire of authorities, again drawing world attention in 2014 when they were horsewhipped and arrested by Cossack militia during the Sochi winter Olympics.
The three members travelling to Hobart include Maria (Masha) Alyokhina, Alexandra (Sasha) Bogino and producer Alexander Cheparukhim.
Alyokhina, one of the original trio jailed for the cathedral protest, has continued anti-Putin protests, again being arrested in 2015 along with 100 others at a central Moscow rally.
She was in Australia last year to appear in a theatre production in Melbourne based on Russian and Ukrainian activists.
Dark Mofo has released more details about the acts secured for next month's festival, which has attracted unprecedented public backlash for a performance which will involve the slaughter of a bull.
More than 21,000 people have signed a petition against the work by Austrian performance artist Hermann Nitsch, but the festival's director says the show will go ahead.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, hobart-7000
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