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LIST OF SOYDIVISION PROJECTS
(for complete gigs list since 2017, please go here)
L I N T A S(2023)
Lintas // is a residency program focuses on the art creation process as a social and environmentally sustainable practice, which includes creating art that explores and challenges dominant narratives around identity, migration, and social justice, and uses art as a vehicle for community building and activism. In collaboration with Rakarsa Foundation.
audio installation that we’ve made in the A-Leste Residency program in Porto, March 2023. We conducted our Leftover Klangwerk research and workshop format as a method for this residency
ARYATI (2022): “Aryati”, an experimental music theater piece about the transformation of Keroncong music against the backdrop of Indonesian history. The work depicts the decolonization process of keroncong music from 1920 to 1990, from a colonial product to a claimed indigenous cultural heritage (supported by Haupstadtkulturfonds)
Group exhibition part of Aryati Project . Held in Ufersudios, supported by Haupstadtkulturfonds
Kiamat (2022) is a multi-sensory music theater project initiated by Soydivision Kollektiv and L_KW, directed and co-produced by Rabih Beaini of Morphine Records. The latest album by Indonesian experimental music duo Senyawa inspires the piece. Kiamat (Day of Judgement), one of the compositions of the album Alkisah, becomes the central theme of this project (Supported by Musikfonds e.V)
TANAMANTRA is a site specific performance and interactive installation piece inspired by focuses on “Sambal”, an Indonesian chili condiment - catalyst of human and non human. Premiere in Pforzheim PF, re-staging at Documenta Fifteen and Ausufern Festival 2022
Tana Sadji (translating to Land of the Offerings) pivots around the foundational assumptions of a nation and the collective’s speculations towards forming one against the backdrop of an imagined civilization. Hamburger Bahnhof (2022)
MUTATING KINSHIP LAB (2022)
Mutating Kinship Lab, Lab for Asian diaspora artist-led initiatives. In collaboration with Asian Performing Art Lab, supported by Fonds Darstellende Kunste.
“GAUNG – UNVORHERBESTIMMTE RESONANZ “ (2021-2022)- Lecture Performance about Decolonizing encounter of national identity stereotype (premiered in Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, in the framework of Decolonize Frequencies Festival 2021, supported by State of Berlin, Senate Department for Culture and Europe.)
RAMÉ-RAMÉ : Partipatory sonic performance and workshop in cooperation with Standarts Studio Milan and Terraforma Festival Italy (2021)
T_AKUT (2021) : reserach,composition, and sound installation about the transition of colonial power between Netherlands and Japan in Indonesia from 1939-1949 (supported by Musikfonds e.V)
TANI : series of workshop that reflects the trajectory of the ingredient as an archive of relations between plant and human communities, but also articulations of the fantastical interactions between them.
Performance repertoir build upon “Tumpeng” narrative.
Wayang-Kardus (in collaboration with Taring Padi Collective) : series of puppets making and co-creating story telling based on local identity. Wayang kardus is Taring Padi’s signature workshop since 1998. Our collaboration is focus on organizing several workshops in Berlin and few cities in Germany till summer 2022
NUR-HIN (2020, 2021,2022): An annual experimental teater trilogy by soydivision since 2020.
KAUM (2021) : KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival is a project of an Indonesian Diaspora
collective in Berlin "Soydivision". Constructed with an alternative and innovative concept that brings together
performing arts and film together in one platform, the seven-day festival seeks to bring
to represent Indonesian social outsiders and underrepresented issues.
KELA_MIN! : live trans-diciplinary performace between Berlin and Zürich, performed in Das Provisorium Zürich (2019)
EMPATHY SUPPER : multi sensory performative art , food, and activism event.
LOKARASA : Indonesian sould food and culinary goods
LOKASUARA : pop up dedicated to the art of vinyl
AKKULTURASA : annual 2 days event during Berlin Culture Carnaval
BIBITBEBETBOBOT : collective exhibition (2020)
SOYANDZINE : monthly online art zine
L-KW : sister collective focus on sonic activism and empathy in sound art
CITA MERDEKA : festival on Indonesian indepence day
LIKA-LIKU_LUKA : healing workshop and performance dedicated to racism addressed to people with asian background
MATÊNG! : supper club celebrating the richness of archipelago diverse culinary identities
RECALIBRATION : join event from Berlin-based asian collective
RAJAHANAM! : tattoo recidency supporting artist with bipoc and queer background
SOYACINEMA : list of film screening that been orginized by soydivision collective