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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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MUD27

27/04/2023

Wow straight back into it. Following our big birthday celebrations last week MUD is heading home. We're locking-in to our familiar last-Thursday-of-the-month next week at dear old Ancient World to host a very special performance with David Moran.

David is an Australian cellist with broad musical interests specialising in the interpretation of exploratory music. He recently completed a Master’s degree at Monash University under the supervision of Prof Cat Hope. David's thesis, which was awarded a H1, focused on the impacts of extended cello techniques on virtuosity.

He also studied at the Australian National Academy of Music under Howard Penny and completed a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours at the University of Adelaide.
He has a longstanding duo with Dr Iran Sanadzadeh and is a regular casual cellist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. David has also appeared on the ABC television program, ArtWorks in a segment on extended technique.

David has invited two incredible performance artists to collaborate in performance, they are Grace Marlow and Cynthia Schwertsik.

$20/$10 on the door. (Whichever you can afford and feels good on the day, your call). CASH please.

Poster artwork by our nearest and dearest, Madeleine Larkin.

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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.