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Soydivision

Is a performing art collective consisting of Berlin-based Indonesians, positioning itself in the int

Soydivision Berlin is a performing art collective consisting of Berlin-based Indonesians, positioning itself in the intersection of art and activism. As a registered UG, Soydivision makes curated performances, workshops, culinary pop-ups, and discussion sessions. Their diasporic point of views offer an alternative approach to contemporary challenges through art, and invite a new kind of dialogues

and engagement? Soydivision’s activity started with the goal of provoking a discussion about the exploration and expression of identity through performing art and food. The goal originates from the member’s experience both as a foreigner and a long time resident of a country that does not share the same characteristics with the one they came from. This experience forces them to reevaluate their standing in this new society while retaining aspects of their preformed identity. Taking the issues as a starting point, Soydivision experiments and interacts with different people, mediums, and environments to take the problem from an artistic and culinary perspective. From the initial issue of identity, Soydivision Berlin enlarged its interest to the issues of social and environmental injustice. Coming from Indonesia and living abroad gives the member a certain perspective of environmental problems in their home country. However, various of this environmental problems are in connection to the demand of the global industries, leading to the exploitation of natural resources and labors in a non sustainable way. The connection and the critiques thereof became another theme that the members explore in their artistic creations. Their initial contemplation on the expression of identity is now put also in the context of social injustice. To be seen as the other--either abroad or at home--leads to further exploration of strategies to overcome stigmatized stereotypes and bridging the large gap of justice. The strategies, often in the form of cathartic experience, requestioning, or therapeutic healing, become themes of their artistic output or activities.

03/06/2026

🌶️ CATALYZING COEXISTENCE #1
SILATURAHMI (DON’T CALL IT A SYMPOSIUM)

As we continue introducing the splendid souls behind SILATURAHMI, we are delighted to present our dear co-curator 👉🏼 Amuleto Manuela ().

Manuela García Aldana, also known as Amuleto Manuela, is a sound artist, DJ, and curator based in Berlin. Working across dance floors, art institutions, and listening environments, her practice weaves together sound sculpture, immersive soundscapes, collective listening sessions, and genre-defying DJ sets.

Born in what is now known as Colombia, she explores sound as a medium for unlearning, remembering, and reimagining how we inhabit our collective life experience.

She hosts the monthly radio show Music Shrine on Refuge Worldwide, is a researcher and curator at SAVVY Contemporary, and teaches at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (MA Raumstrategien).

Amuleto Manuela’s work has been featured internationally at institutions and festivals including Kunsthaus Dahlem, Brücke-Museum, Ultima Festival (Oslo), Real Jardín Botánico (Madrid), the Listening Biennial at Errant Sound, the Venice Biennale, and the 13th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography in Mali.

As a DJ, she has performed at celebrated festivals such as Fusion, Garbicz, and Melt, as well as at Berlin clubs including Sisyphos, Kater Blau, YAAM, Klunkerkranich, Arkaoda, and Sameheads. Her international sets have reached audiences in Bogotá, São Paulo, Barranquilla, Oslo, Bamako, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, and beyond.

📅 7 June 2026
📍 Novilla, Berlin

03/06/2026

🌶️ CATALYZING COEXISTENCE #1
SILATURAHMI (DON’T CALL IT A SYMPOSIUM)

Over the coming days, we would like to introduce the splendid souls who are helping shape SILATURAHMI 👉🏼 We begin with our dear co-curator, hany tea (.tea) 🌶️

hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and sonic practitioner exploring intersections of diaspora, memory, and the environment through sound, oral history, and storytelling, with a particular focus on collective listening and transgenerational dialogue. Her commitment to these themes also extends to previous work on climate-related migration, disaster displacement, and disaster-risk management.

As the host of Tidal Listening, a radio series on Refuge Worldwide, she brings together artists, researchers, and sound practitioners to reflect on how music, sound, and listening practices grow out of people’s relationships to rivers, deltas, seas, and other water bodies under conditions of environmental change.

hany tea is also a member of Deutsche Asiatinnen Make Noise (DAMN) and the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL), and maintains ongoing collaborations with sōydivision, Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), and the Mental Health Arts Space (MHAS).

For SILATURAHMI, hany joins the curatorial team alongside Amuleto Manuela Garcia and sōydivision in shaping a gathering that approaches coexistence through dialogue, listening, and shared experiences.

📅 7 June 2026
📍 Novilla, Berlin

Photo credit: Youssouf Camara

02/06/2026

🌶️ (((sssouund)))
Part of SILATURAHMI (DON’T CALL IT A SYMPOSIUM), the first chapter of Catalyzing Coexistence.

🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ Duration: 45 minutes

With
Julianne Chua 🌶️
AFSAR Study Group 🌶️ (listening to / sounding embodied archives)

The word “sound” contains multitudes: Sound as in vibration of air; to utter, emit—from the Latin sonus: sonnet, sonogram; consonant, dissonant; unison. Sound as in without injury or decay relates to sund, gesund, gesundheit: safe and sound, of sound mind and body. Sound as in a smaller body of water connected to a sea or an ocean; an inlet deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord; a stretch of water one could swim across: Øresund, Stralsund, Core Sound. Sound as in to fathom, probe, explore the cavity of a body, measure the depth of water: sounding line.

In this collective listening session, we reappropriate surveillance technologies to make and maintain connections across frequencies of sound. Participants are invited to bring a word, a character, a script, an emoji, a note, a posture, an image, a taste, a gaze or a phrase embodying what sound means in any language(s) of their choice. Official definitions or examples from your own dictionary of onomatopoeias—both coexist. Through collective acts of sharing, vocalizing, listening and translating, we reflect on how overheard and misheard words operate along the lines of imposed divisions that shape imagined proximities and distances. Which languages travel? Whose accents mark a border? Together, we will negotiate and multiply meanings of sound—in all their paradoxes.

Gathered fragments from the evening will be interwoven into a sonic archive, with future transmissions on ASSOY Radio and AFSAR Radio Moving Hums.

📍 Novilla, Hasselwerderstraße 22, 12439 Berlin
🎟️ Free admission
👇 RSVP via the registration form in our bio

Catalyzing Coexistence is a year-long curatorial and artistic initiative by sōydivision, developed as part of Trustpiction (2025–2027).

👉 Identity design by 🌶️
👉 Graphic support by

01/06/2026

🌶️ ON LISTENING ACROSS DISTANCE, DIFFERENCE & SOLIDARITIES

Diaspora, Ecological Memory, and Climate Justice

How do migrant and diasporic communities maintain relationships to land, water, and environmental struggle across distance? What remains carried through sound, storytelling, ritual, memory, and embodied practices while living elsewhere?

Gathering by the Spree in Berlin-Oberschöneweide while listening towards waterways in the Philippines and Colombia, this session moves between conversation and artistic contributions shaped by migration, environmental change, and community organising. Through recordings, readings, reflections, and grounding practices, we will reflect on ecological memory: the ways relationships to place, environmental knowledge, and lived experience are carried and transformed across distance.

The session also asks how artistic and cultural practices can articulate climate justice, and how forms of solidarity emerge across different histories, experiences, and ways of belonging.

👉 Elizabeth Gallón Droste
👉 Emily Basa Besa (ALPAS Pilipinas)

Moderated by:
👉 Hany Tea .tea

📅 7 June 2026
📍 Novilla, Hasselwerderstraße 22, 12439 Berlin

Part of SILATURAHMI (DON’T CALL IT A SYMPOSIUM), the first chapter of Catalyzing Coexistence.

Free admission.

RSVP via the registration form in our bio 👇

Catalyzing Coexistence is a year-long curatorial and artistic initiative by sōydivision, developed as part of Trustpiction (2025–2027).

👉🏼 Identity design by 🌶️
👉🏼 Graphic support by

31/05/2026

🌶️ ON FOOD CULTURES, CROSSROADS & STORIES SERVED

Hosting a dinner is a spatial strategy. To cook is to work through memory and inherited knowledge: selecting ingredients, composing a menu, preparing gestures learned from others. Every ingredient carries a story, the hand that planted it, harvested it, transported it; the soil where it grew; the violences embedded in its cultivation and circulation.

Around the table, strangers, friends, and guests gather with different languages, memories, and sonic backgrounds to share the same meal. In that temporary encounter, food becomes a way of negotiating proximity, difference, and care. Reactions emerge through taste, conversation, silence, discomfort, pleasure. Eating together is also a metabolic process: bodies transforming the same matter in different ways.

Within SILAHTURAHMI (DON’T CALL IT A SYMPOSIUM), Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Sarah Hachem, and Amuleto Manuela come together to reflect on food cultures as spaces of encounter, tension, and transmission. Through shared dishes, conversations, and listening, we will think about what it means to gather different histories and bodies around food, and how these encounters reshape the social, sonic, and sensory landscape of a space.

👉 With Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock () and Sarah Hachem ()
👉 Moderated by Amuleto Manuela ()

📅 7 June 2026
📍 Novilla, Berlin

Registration via link in bio.

Catalyzing Coexistence is a year-long curatorial and artistic initiative by sōydivision, developed as part of Trustpiction (2025–2027).

Supported by the IMPACT Förderung of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

👉🏼 Identity design by 🌶️
👉🏼 Graphic support by

30/05/2026

🌶️ CATALYZING COEXISTENCE #1

SILATURAHMI
(DON’T CALL IT A SYMPOSIUM)

📅 7 June 2026
🕒 15:00–20:00
📍 Novilla, Hasselwerderstraße 22, 12439 Berlin

What happens when a symposium is approached less as a platform for expertise and more as an occasion for reconnecting?

The first chapter of Catalyzing Coexistence, SILATURAHMI, takes its name from the Indonesian word silaturahmi, a term commonly used to describe the act of reconnecting, maintaining relationships, and strengthening social bonds through gathering. Here, silaturahmi becomes both a method and a proposition for rethinking what a symposium could be.

Moving away from rigid institutional formats, SILATURAHMI creates space to meet first as people rather than representatives, experts, or fixed identities. Through conversations, collective listening, food-related practices, sound, storytelling, and performances, the gathering reflects on the layered realities of diasporic coexistence in Berlin today.

At the same time, SILATURAHMI does not romanticize togetherness. Different migration histories, political relationships, class positions, access, and forms of belonging coexist within the same social landscape, often uneasily.

What forms of solidarity become possible when we acknowledge complexity rather than seek consensus?

With:

👉🏼 Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock 🌶️
👉🏼 Sarah Hachem 🌶️
👉🏼 Elizabeth Gallón Droste 🌶️
👉🏼 Emily Basa Besa (ALPAS Pilipinas) 🌶️
👉🏼 Julianne Chua 🌶️
👉🏼 AFSAR Study Group (Listening to/Sounding Embodied Archives) 🌶️
👉🏼 Naima Nazir 🌶️

Co-curated by:

👉🏼 Hany Tea 🌶️ .tea
👉🏼 Amuleto Manuela 🌶️

Free admission.

RSVP via the registration form in our bio 👆🏽

Catalyzing Coexistence is a year-long curatorial and artistic initiative by sōydivision, developed as part of Trustpiction (2025–2027).

Supported by the IMPACT Förderung of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

👉🏼 Identity design by 🌶️
👉🏼 Graphic support by

29/05/2026

🌶️ Hey Berlin folks,

After several months of preparation within our two year curatorial framework Trustpiction (2025–2027), we are excited to share a new series of experiments that will unfold from this summer until the end of the year.

We are starting with Catalyzing Coexistence🌶️a year long curatorial and artistic initiative by sōydivision. Situated between organizing, community building, artistic production, research, and public presentation, the project explores how coexistence is practiced, negotiated, challenged, and sometimes even fractured across diasporic and translocal communities.

Rather than romanticizing diversity, solidarity, or the idea of community itself, Catalyzing Coexistence asks difficult questions about the realities of living together. What kinds of tensions, contradictions, exclusions, misunderstandings, and power relations emerge within and between communities? How do different migration histories, political positions, cultural backgrounds, and social realities shape the ways we relate to one another? And what can artistic and collective practices offer in navigating these complexities?

Structured across four interconnected chapters, the project unfolds through gatherings, conversations, workshops, artistic collaborations, and exhibition making. Each chapter builds upon the stories, encounters, and reflections of the previous one, creating an evolving process of collective learning, experimentation, and exchange.

Our first chapter, SILAHTURAHMI, lands on 7 June at Novilla, Berlin. Inspired by the Indonesian practice of maintaining and renewing social ties, the gathering brings together artists, researchers, organizers, and cultural workers for an afternoon of conversations, listening sessions, food, and shared reflections on diaspora, cultural memory, belonging, and solidarity.

More information about the programme and participants will be shared in the coming days. Registration is now open via the link in our bio 🌶️

Catalyzing Coexistence is supported by the IMPACT Förderung of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin.

Artwork credits :
👉🏼 identity design by
👉🏼 tun

02/05/2026

after a year of postponement due to visa and border regimes that still disproportionately restrict and filter movement from the global majority, we’re finally able to make this happen and bring our beloved repertoire to Canada for the first time 🌶️

on May 10, we’re part of Artseverywhere by , joining the closing event of the festival 👌

hosted by Ariel William Orah 🌶️ in collaboration with Pedro Oliveira 🌶️, with special guest 🌶️ shout to and team for the Invitation and care during the anxious visa drama 🫶🏼

this is the official description of Empathy Supper no. 16 👇🏾

for the closing event of the festival, join Berlin based artists Ariel William Orah and Pedro Oliveira for conversation, food preparation, an improvised concert with Orah, Oliveira and special guest Karen Ng, and a share meal

in an era marked by deepening polarization, economic instability, and the enduring legacies of colonial distrust, how can communities navigate the delicate balance between trust and suspicion? how do historical legacies of colonial control continue to shape contemporary economic and socio political crises? how do diasporic groups construct alternative infrastructures of trust when state institutions and dominant communities treat them with skepticism?

hosted by Berlin based Indonesian artist and community organizer Ariel William Orah, in collaboration with long time colleague Pedro Oliveira, Empathy Supper invites participants into an immersive exploration of these pressing questions through sound, listening, conversation, food preparation, and meal sharing. rooted in the ethos of Sōydivision’s Soy&Synth, Jendela Sonorama, and Empathy Suppers, this event extends an invitation to collectively reflect and engage in improvisation as a method of negotiation, empathy, and resilience

📍 10C, Fourth Floor (accessible by elevator)
🕔 May 10, 17:00–20:00
🎟️ free entry, registration required (link in bio)

02/05/2026

after a year of postponement due to visa and border regimes that still disproportionately restrict and filter movement from the global majority, we’re finally able to make this happen and bring our beloved repertoire to Canada for the first time 🌶️

on May 10, we’re part of ArtEverywhere by , joining the closing event of the festival 👌

hosted by Ariel William Orah 🌶️ in collaboration with Pedro Oliveira 🌶️, with special guest 🌶️ shout to and team for the Invitation and care during the anxious visa drama 🫶🏼

this is the official description of Empathy Supper no. 16 👇🏾

for the closing event of the festival, join Berlin based artists Ariel William Orah and Pedro Oliveira for conversation, food preparation, an improvised concert with Orah, Oliveira and special guest Karen Ng, and a share meal

in an era marked by deepening polarization, economic instability, and the enduring legacies of colonial distrust, how can communities navigate the delicate balance between trust and suspicion? how do historical legacies of colonial control continue to shape contemporary economic and socio political crises? how do diasporic groups construct alternative infrastructures of trust when state institutions and dominant communities treat them with skepticism?

hosted by Berlin based Indonesian artist and community organizer Ariel William Orah, in collaboration with long time colleague Pedro Oliveira, Empathy Supper invites participants into an immersive exploration of these pressing questions through sound, listening, conversation, food preparation, and meal sharing. rooted in the ethos of Sōydivision’s Soy&Synth, Jendela Sonorama, and Empathy Suppers, this event extends an invitation to collectively reflect and engage in improvisation as a method of negotiation, empathy, and resilience

📍 10C, Fourth Floor (accessible by elevator)
🕔 May 10, 17:00–20:00
🎟️ free entry, registration required (link in bio)

27/04/2026

howdy howdy friends in berlin ✊🏽

remember our pinned posts from earlier this year (see our timeline) 🔥📚

👉🏼 the burning books and program booklets in front of Moving Poets Novilla in schöneweide. a place we are connected to, work with, gather in, and where we are also doing our current two-year residency situation.
so for us, this was not some distant headline. it happened right in front of a space we care about.

👉🏼this wednesday we want to turn concern into gathering.together with Music Pool Berlin and Moving Poets, we invite you for an evening of talks, exchange, listening, and thinking together about what the rightward shift means for music scenes, art spaces, friendships, neighborhoods, and alliances.

👉🏼starting off with a panel conversation, moderated by .12.ago from with the artists and , Simon Knop Jacobsen of , and of .

👐🏽 continuing with a participatory mapping / collective cartography session facilitated by . bringing together experiences, examples, concerns, and ideas. pens, paper, thoughts, confusion, contradictions all welcome.

🫶🏼 and later, space to connect, chat over a drink, and hang with a DJ set by .

Shifts to the Right
Questions of Alliances and What to Do in Music Scenes
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
19:00–23:00, 18:30 doors, we begin 19:00
Hasselwerder Villa (Novilla)
Berlin-Schöneweide

come over…

(free with registration via : https://www.musicpoolberlin.net/event/shifts-to-the-right-questions-of-alliances-and-what-to-do-in-music-scenes/ )
🌶️

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Öffnungszeiten

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