SOY & SYNTH #18
Motif Wein Weserstraße 189 12045 Berlin-Neukölln
Saturday 23.11.2019
Food serve: 19:00 pm - 21:30 pm
Performance: 21:30 pm
Entrance for performance: 5-7 €
Entrance + Food: 10-12 €
more info and reservation : rsvp@soydivision.berlin
Special performance “AKIN” by Theresa Lekberg, Riako Napitupulu and RAVENATIVE
Soy & Synth, is Soydivision's monthly culinary and experimental music performance showcase. Soy, with its very general (some might say western) association with asian identity and its versatility, provides Soydivision with the culinary foundation, while the synthesizer plays an analogous role in the performances. As with all Soydivision events, there will be food inspired by their Indonesian background and their experiences living in Germany in general and Berlin in particular. Food will be available from 19:00 pm to 21:30 pm, follows by special performance afterward.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Akin We are alike. We love, we hurt, we long and we die. We fear the unfamiliar. We are so very similar in our unsimilarities. Meeting the unfamiliar in ourselves the smallest shifts makes us shy away. Experiencing pain life becomes urgent. Be it physical, emotional or psychic eventually the pain becomes unbearable and change inevitable.Down on our knees we all turn to prayer. We come to a stop. We hold hands. We are familiar to this, to the unfamiliar. We are alike in our differences. We belong in our fear of not belonging. Fear of the unfamiliar is what separates and unites us. It shows us our capacity to stay put even if we shiver. It is the sum of our actions and the weighing of the heart. Fear looked in the eye tremble, subsides to a power greater the human mind. A force to be reckoned with, violent and tender, lay us down in grace. I am coming from very very close.
ABOUT THE PERFORMER
THERESA LEKBERG
Theresa Lekberg is a performance artist. She uses different mediums in her art such as film and photography. She uses her body to express the unknown. Creating symbols, ceremony and rite as tools for transgressing the imagined pain of crossing emotional, physical and spiritual barriers into regeneration. Touching the borders of life, death, dream, erotic and sacred, determined to make the unseen seen. Theresa Lekberg is based in Sweden, she is a producer and co-founder of 'Art See Ocean Gallery & Artist in Residence'.
RIAKO NAPITUPULU
Riako Napitupulu, born in Wuppertal and grew up in Düsseldorf, is a german-indonesian-japanese painter, performance artist, art therapist and educator. She moves in diverse cultures and languages between different worlds. Her focus is on participatory art projects in public space. Her topics are about human and social issues as discrimination, intersectionality and belonging. She creates an intimate environment in her performance that transforms the space in a mutual relationship with the audience. Her movements are influenced by a creative intensity and expressive style in Butoh and improvisation dance.
RAVENATIVE
Ariel William Orah is a Berlin-based indonesian artist who explores themes related to identity, memory and scarcity. He fancies the durability of Homo sapiens and the fragility of the machines. He is working with variety of media, ranging from audio and sound sculptures, physical and interactive installations, and moving and/or still images. He co-founded an empathy driven artist collective L-KW, Bandung-based progressive rock band 'Vincent Vega' and indonesian gastronomy initiative SOYDIVISION.BERLIN. Selected works included commissioned installation for 'Tanz im August - Internationales Festival Berlin' (2016), film-music scoring for 'Deeper High' - Germany (2018), solo album 'Scarcity' (2017) and 'WIM' (2018) under alias RAVENATIVE.