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Improvisation and extended domains within music and art.

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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

MUD Collective
Photo: Liene Bruns

MUD:HUMUS (not Hummus!) is a performance-based artist-in-residence program that offers a unique professional development opportunity for South Australian artists working in emerging and experimental arts to obtain financial support, four weekly performances, mentorship, production of high-quality audio-visual materials and publication of the artist’s work in print and online to the MUD newsletter, website and mailing list.
Program paused during 2023
Keep an eye out next year...





Humus is a program designed for experimental and transdisciplinary, emerging and mid-career artists working with extended practices—those who actively push the boundaries of their respective disciplines—of music, sound art, composition, improvisation, visual art, multimedia and dance.
       
    Like humus, the residency embraces diversity and complexity. It emboldens performers to cross the domains of research and performance and celebrates the novel discoveries that are made. The Humus residency provides a rich platform for artists to develop their practice, audience and career and thrives through the cross-pollination of concepts, culture and community within South Australia.

The successful artist will receive:
︎︎︎ $2000 for the month of September
︎︎︎ Five funded 90-minute Mentorship sessions with an established practitioner relevant to the artist’s discipline/field
︎︎︎Additional funding for accompanying performers
︎︎︎ High-quality audio-visual recording of each performance


If you need more information about the venue, application process or the program please email us




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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.



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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.