Kaspar will join creative collaborator Arlon Hall, to discuss the 2023 SALA, City of Adelaide Award-winning exhibition ROCKAMORA, held at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental during SALA 2023.



ROCKAMORA was the first major gallery exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Kaspar Schmidt Mumm expanding the artist’s fascination with puppetry as a tool for social change. Named after his mother’s primary school bully, ‘Rockamora’ is a thug taking a bath in the gallery. By feeding, cleaning and caring for this bully, ROCKAMORA encourages us to empathise with a larger-than-life, misunderstood antagonist as a way to counter harassment, discrimination, and oppression.


Influenced by his mother’s own art therapy programs in hospitals, aged care and community centres, Schmidt Mumm’s practice is based in a belief in the rehabilitative qualities of art.


This exhibition is an outcome of the Porter Street Commission – ACE’s annual award supporting new artwork commissions by South Australian artists. This project was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia.