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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

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MUD 20

27/10/2022

For MUD in October we have invited the wonderful AVA to take to the space and share their work with us.

AVA is a Persian music band that focuses on Persian traditional (classic) and folk kinds of music. It was formed in 2020 in Adelaide. AVA is comprised of; Tar player Ehsan Shekofteh Zoeram (director of the group), Santour player Peyman Etminan, Tombak-Daf and Cojan player Sharareh Yamini, Violin player Lina Elgameh, and vocalist Nasrin Naderi.




6pm - doors + food!*

7:30pm - Artist discussion with AVA followed by performance.

*FOOD: we will again be slinging hot'n steamy MUD Grub - if you missed it last time, we are now serving delicious nutritious dinners, to keep you all buzzing and lively as the night unfolds. always GF and Vegan friendly. $5 plates.  Available from 6pm. yum. Bring Cash CASH

Accessibility note; this venue, Ancient World, has stairs and is unfortunately not fully accessible.Door price is $15/$10 whichever you can afford. CASH please. If money is ever a problem for you please get in touch and we would happily exchange some volunteer time for a ticket.

Poster artwork by our resident alchemist, Madeleine Larkin.

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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.




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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.