Mudfest10
Originally the Melbourne University Drama Festival, Mudfest is now the largest student arts and culture festival in Australia. It has grown from the small drama festival first staged in 1990 into a significant vibrant multi-arts festival held biennially by Melbourne University’s Student Union.
The Mudfest10 festival ‘Language and Communication’ ran over 10 days and took student art out of the traditional spaces across the University campus and into the surrounding communities. The festival supported emerging artists discovering new directions in visual art, dance and movement, sound installations, theatre, multimedia, creative writing, cabaret, music, comedy and the inevitable collisions that emerge between art forms.
Key festival projects were designed and presented across several art forms. Muddy Shorts, a series of short works, readings, plays, films and happenings was presented at La Mama. Text me, an interactive language and visual art project based on mobile phone technology took place at Federation Square and the State Library of Victoria. Live Clips, a music and dance collaboration and the Muddy Ponds Duck Club, an industrial yet intimate festival club, were created in a configuration of shipping containers.
www.mudfest.org
20 August – 9 September 2007