Improvisation and extended domains within music and art.

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Improvisation and extended domains within music and art.

Newsletter ︎︎︎
Events ︎︎︎
Humus Residency ︎︎︎




MUD is an arts and culture collective supporting trans-disciplinary communities of artistic practice across conventional and unconventional domains.
Hosting monthly performance events that explore extended notions of music, arts, dance and multimedia at Ancient World, Adelaide. This is realised through unique guest curation each month, where we support curators materially and financially to devise and deliver individual and/or group performances.

Broader vision

MUD is an evolving collective that exists to aid cultural and ecological systems through experimental, regenerative and empowering projects. We acknowledge the processes and products of our work as an emergent feature of our socio-ecological reality and continually collaborate with individuals and communities of artistic and ecological practice.

MUD seeks to privilege the soft earth, the fragile stuff, messy and interwoven stuff and to delight in them.
Through our care, be admitted to delightful trouble.

“We need languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless information...”
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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MUD 8

28/10/2021

This month we welcome a local sorceress of sounds, Gabriella Smart as guest curator.

Gabriella presents The Drunes (alongside Stuart Patterson and Daniel Pitman), with guest artist Derek Pascoe. Fearless in breaking boundaries, they listen beyond the immediate to create a synthesis of visceral energy through improvisation.
Guest artist Derek and Gabriella have performed all over the world together; their favourite performances have been in Katowice, Poland; the Z Ward, Adelaide; and the Art Gallery of SA creating sounds from a rusted mattress frame. Stuart, Dan and Gabriella are the Drunes – a trio that began on a whim, and continue to grow through the sheer love of improvisation.

Also Featuring Grace Mensforth on Vocals.

Read more in this month’s Newsletter ︎︎︎







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We acknowledge them
as the custodians of this
wonderful place and will
always try to do our work
in solidarity with the anticolonial
struggle.

Always was, always will be.




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We hold this space on
the unceded land of the
Kaurna people.

We acknowledge them
as the custodians of this
wonderful place and will
always try to do our work
in solidarity with the anticolonial
struggle.

Always was, always will be.