 'Carhenge' at Glastonbury Festival, 1987 | |
| Formation | 1984 |
|---|---|
| Type | Theatre group |
| Purpose | Performance art |
| Location | |
| Website | Mutoid Waste Company |
The Mutoid Waste Company are a performance arts group founded in London, England by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler. It started in the early 1980s, emerging from Frestonia's 'Car Breaker Gallery'.[1][2] They are probably best known for their recycled art installations at Glastonbury Festival and refer to themselves as the Mutoids.
Influenced by the film Mad Max and the popular Judge Dredd comics, they specialised in organising illegal free parties in London throughout the 1980s, driven at first by eclectic assortments of fringe music such as psychedelic rock and dub reggae, but then embracing the burgeoning acid house music movement by the late 1980s.
- ^ Tom Vague. "PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 2006 Counter Culture Portobello Psychogeographical History". Portobello Film Festival.
- ^ "Passport to Frestonia: Photo documentation of the 'free state' of Frestonia". Dangerousminds.net. 13 January 2011.