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1. Hope and fear when entering the campus I remember many mornings when I entered the campus feeling both hope and fear. I don’t think hope is ever one hundred percent hope; it almost always comes with a little uncertainty or fear. On my first day at university, I was excited because studying in Germany…
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Anachronism #01 feat. Irene Trejo (Merma Suelo) — Siento The first episode of Anachronism, a program on ASSOY Radio dedicated to listening to albums in their entirety, features our friend, colleague, and comrade Irene Trejo, also known as Merma Suelo, presenting her latest album Siento. Across eight pieces, Siento unfolds as a fluid composition of…
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Retrospeculative #02 feat. Asarela Dewi The second episode of Retrospeculative on ASSOY Radio features Asarela Dewi — also known among friends and collaborators as Arel — a longtime colleague, comrade, and close collaborator within the sōydivision constellation. Originally from Bandung, Indonesia, Arel arrived in Berlin through an au pair program before continuing their studies at…
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This episode marks the first experiment in exploring television melodrama as a cultural and sonic archive through ASSOY Radio. The idea emerged during a recent morning broadcast, where I began thinking about how television drama—especially from the 1990s—shaped collective memory through its soundtracks. Instead of preparing a fixed playlist, I invited listeners through Instagram and…
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On aired 11.03.2026 Indonesian Sinetron: Melodrama, Morality, and the Architecture of Feeling Hosted by Ariel Orah Before streaming platforms and algorithmic recommendations structured our viewing habits, television operated very differently. Broadcast schedules synchronized daily life. Entire societies watched the same stories at the same time. Evenings were organized around recurring characters, familiar music cues, and…
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Navigating Trust and Suspicion in Diasporic Realities A long-term curatorial process by sōydivision (2025–2027) Where This Begins TRUSPICION did not begin as a neatly framed concept. It began as a low, constant vibration — a grassroots anxiety many of us carry as diasporic bodies trying to stay afloat in Berlin. A feeling that trust is…
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&lainlain Lab &lainlain Lab (read: dan lain lain) is conceived as a space in between.A space for reflection and continuation.A place where looking back becomes a way of moving forward, and where unfinished thoughts are allowed to remain unfinished. This introduction arrives at a significant threshold: sōydivision is approaching its tenth year of practice. Over…
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📍 Novilla : Hasselwerderstraße 22, 12439 Berlin📅 7 March 2026🕕 Doors 18:00 | Shared moments from 19:00 (scroll down for german text) This edition of Tumpeng Tindih takes the form of an open evening by sōydivision, taking place on 7 March 2026 at Novilla. The event marks a soft launch of the second and third…
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(scrolled down for DE text) At the beginning of this year, two incidents of book burning occurred directly in front of the entrance of Novilla, an art space in Berlin-Schöneweide. The first incident took place on 7 January.The second occurred on 4 February. Both targeted the neighborhood book exchange shelf located outside the main entrance…
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V°L_2 21.10.2020 @ Sari Sari Space“Keroncong” Keroncong developed from the Fado of the Portuguese people who came to Indonesia in search of spices in the 1500s. One story relates to the loss of the Portuguese to the Dutch made them being transported to Batavia as prisoners. There, during their labor-free time, they performed their music…