Mulawali Institute is an interdisciplinary artistic research and performing arts production initiative based in Denpasar, Bali. Founded in 2019, Mulawali creates theatre and performative practices that are critical, responsive, and open, while creating conditions for artists to work, meet, and grow. Through its initiatives, Mulawali offers another way of reading Bali as a social, aesthetic, and political field connected to contemporary global realities.

In practice, Mulawali is building a working environment through a network of associate artists. This network encourages horizontal knowledge exchange and opens space for embodied experiences, situated perspectives, and approaches across theatre, dance, performance art, literature, visual art, and curatorial practice.
Mulawali works experimentally and collaboratively through laboratories and performance production. Its activities include archiving, research, publication, festivals, arts programmes, and alternative learning formats rooted in local histories. Works have emerged from long-term artistic research, including Squatting & Dance (2021), Membaca Sanghyang (2023), and Decolonial Expo & Bali (2025).

With a documentary-speculative approach, each work and programme is understood as an open site of knowledge for reflection, sharing, and growth. Mulawali seeks to build another horizon for knowledge in and through performing arts, grounded in Bali as a layered, situated, intersecting, and not always harmonious lived experience.

Mulawali Institute is an interdisciplinary artistic research and performing arts production initiative based in Denpasar, Bali. Founded in 2019, Mulawali creates theatre and performative practices that are critical, responsive, and open, while creating conditions for artists to work, meet, and grow. Through its initiatives, Mulawali offers another way of reading Bali as a social, aesthetic, and political field connected to contemporary global realities.

In practice, Mulawali is building a working environment through a network of associate artists. This network encourages horizontal knowledge exchange and opens space for embodied experiences, situated perspectives, and approaches across theatre, dance, performance art, literature, visual art, and curatorial practice.
Mulawali works experimentally and collaboratively through laboratories and performance production. Its activities include archiving, research, publication, festivals, arts programmes, and alternative learning formats rooted in local histories. Works have emerged from long-term artistic research, including Squatting & Dance (2021), Membaca Sanghyang (2023), and Decolonial Expo & Bali (2025).

With a documentary-speculative approach, each work and programme is understood as an open site of knowledge for reflection, sharing, and growth. Mulawali seeks to build another horizon for knowledge in and through performing arts, grounded in Bali as a layered, situated, intersecting, and not always harmonious lived experience.

Mulawali Institute is an interdisciplinary artistic research and performing arts production initiative based in Denpasar, Bali. Founded in 2019, Mulawali creates theatre and performative practices that are critical, responsive, and open, while creating conditions for artists to work, meet, and grow. Through its initiatives, Mulawali offers another way of reading Bali as a social, aesthetic, and political field connected to contemporary global realities.

In practice, Mulawali is building a working environment through a network of associate artists. This network encourages horizontal knowledge exchange and opens space for embodied experiences, situated perspectives, and approaches across theatre, dance, performance art, literature, visual art, and curatorial practice.
Mulawali works experimentally and collaboratively through laboratories and performance production. Its activities include archiving, research, publication, festivals, arts programmes, and alternative learning formats rooted in local histories. Works have emerged from long-term artistic research, including Squatting & Dance (2021), Membaca Sanghyang (2023), and Decolonial Expo & Bali (2025).

With a documentary-speculative approach, each work and programme is understood as an open site of knowledge for reflection, sharing, and growth. Mulawali seeks to build another horizon for knowledge in and through performing arts, grounded in Bali as a layered, situated, intersecting, and not always harmonious lived experience.