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Interdisciplinary Arts Collective began in 2017 as a group of musicians, dancers, poets, and visual artists based out of Westminster University in Salt Lake City. Founded by Indigo Cook, IAC’s initial goal was to build a collaborative network between the students in the school’s different art programs and among the wider Salt Lake community - fostering partnerships, play, and experimentation. That sense of collectivity and curiosity has continued on from our early student years into our current iteration as a freelance performance group based in the city, staging our own creative projects and working alongside other artists.

Our work focuses primarily on contemporary performance practices in experimental and avant-garde art. We aim to explore the creative and communicative potential generated by the intersection and subversion of disciplines during artistic processes.

We owe our most significant influences to Fluxus, John Cage, Infrarealism, Pauline Oliveros, and Deep Listening sound practices. Our practice ranges from the performance of contemporary repertoire to the creation of new works and the staging of performance art and sonic experiments.

Past performances include 36 and 38-hour performances of Erik Satie’s Vexations, Fluxconcerts in and around Westminster, a Musicircus held in a local steel fabrication workshop, and shows at the Utah Arts Festival, loveDANCEmore Sunday Series, 801 Salon, the Wild Wild Westside Arts Fest, and the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. You can also catch IAC artists in outside collaborative work, such as Indigo Cook’s ongoing Fluxus project Performance Calendar (2019-present).