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Asarela Orchidia Dewi

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Filmmaker / Visual Artist
🌐Part of @soydivision.berlin

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𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑨𝑹𝑬𝑳 || Top Surgery Recovery Fundraiser || 1st November || 14.00 - 19.00 || @ SOLID, Gräferstr. 18 || Donation-Based Entry ||

! PROGRAM IS HERE ! Here’s what we have planned for this Sunday ✶ ᴀɴ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀɴᴏᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ɪɴᴅᴏɴᴇꜱɪᴀɴ ǫᴜᴇᴇʀ ꜱʜᴏʀᴛ ꜰɪʟᴍꜱ, ᴄᴏᴍꜰᴏʀᴛɪɴɢ ꜰᴏᴏᴅ, ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛꜱ, ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴀʀᴛ & ᴊᴇᴡᴇʟʟᴇʀʏ ᴘᴏᴘ-ᴜᴘ ꜱᴀʟᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴏᴛꜱ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ✶

𝟭𝟰:𝟬𝟬 — Doors Open

𝟭𝟱:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬 — Round 1 Screening
✶ I Am a Flower by Ariel Victor Arthanto @ariel_victor
✶ Makassar Is a City of Football Fans by Khozy Rizal @khozyrizal
✶ Dear to Me by Mica Tedja @micatedja

𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟴:𝟬𝟬 — Intermission
Time for dinner, dessert, hanging out and browsing some lovely art & jewellery!

Food sliding scale:
Main Course: “Soto Ayam” 10-15 euro
Dessert: “Bubur Ketan Hitam” 3-5 euro

𝟭𝟴:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬 — Round 2 Screening
✶ A Is for Andra by Charmaine Poh @psxcharmaine
✶ A Secret Film 👀
✶ Memori Dia by Asarela Orchidia Dewi @asarela.dewi

Come for the films, stay for the food, bring your friends, and show some love 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑨𝑹𝑬𝑳

All proceeds from donations will help support Arel’s top surgery recovery.

If you cannot make it on day, you can still share some love by spreading the word or donate through paypal ✶ 𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓲𝓷 𝓫𝓲𝓸 ✶

Terima kasih! ❤️

poster designed and illustrated by @ariel_victor, based on image captured by @naeemlaith_

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Arel, 2024

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Esses dias "caminhos das águas" completou a sua 4ª temporada na @ballhaus_naunynstrasse

Celebro todas as pessoas que fazem parte!

Me sinto grata por tudo que se movimenta a partir desses encontros!

📷📽: @ze.de.paiva

Choreography/Concept:Fernanda Costa
Choreography Assistance: Sumona Dhakal
Stage Design:Jaq Lisboa
Light Design:Aslı Atasoy Öner
Video Design:Arel Dewi
Sound Design:Sky Deep
Costume Design:Mathieu Amadou
Make Up:Leila Brunner
By and with: Tiffani Achilleas, Amada Tinoco and Lia Estelle Widmaier
Production management: Leonard Beck
In previous performances: Malika Lamwersiek and Yvonne Sembene

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👽 ONE LAST WEEKEND OF ALI(E/A)NSI

Can’t wait to welcome you back tomorrow for the final weekend of the exhibition.

And when you enter NOVILLA, this is where the journey begins: ALIEN, the first of our five spaces.

Spread across the entrance, staircase and hallway is Asarela Orchidia Dewi’s Rehearsing Becoming (2026), a three-channel video installation accompanied by sound, unfolding simultaneously through the architecture.

The work reflects on the Wilhelminenhof area as a place shaped by generations of arrival. Once an industrial complex connected first to AEG and later VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree (KWO), the site has been crossed by factory workers, forced labourers, contract workers and, today, students.

Beginning with @asarela.dewi own experience of arriving in Berlin as an international student, Rehearsing Becoming brings personal memories into conversation with archival materials and histories embedded in the site. It traces recurring gestures of arriving, adapting, surviving and searching for belonging.

Its three video channels move between historical archives of factories, workers and AEG/KWO materials; Asarela’s personal archive from their student years; and fragmented textual memories and feelings.

It is the first encounter with ALI(E/A)NSI:
ALIEN → ALIENATION → ALIGNMENT → ALLIANCE → AFFINITY

Come experience the journey one last weekend. 👽

ALI(E/A)NSI
📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA
Hasselwerderstr. 22, 12439 Berlin

Final weekend: 11–13 September 2026
Exhibition open 15:00–19:00

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👽 ALI(E/A)NSI RADIO SERIES
EPISODE 1: ALIEN

Thank you to everyone who visited and spent time with us during the second week of ALI(E/A)NSI.

While we prepare for the exhibition’s final weekend and Saturday’s finissage programme, we are sharing the first episode of the ALI(E/A)NSI Radio Series. This radio piece grew from the exhibition’s curatorial process and the conversations developed for its publication. It is also part of the ASSOY Radio broadcasting programme presented throughout the exhibition.

In ALIEN, Zoé Febvre-Utrilla reflects on Myspace, blogging, K-pop fandom and ASMR: digital spaces that can make us feel less alone, but can also turn intimacy, care and attention into products. For Zoé, affection and criticism can coexist. Being a fan can mean loving something deeply enough to recognise its contradictions.

Arel / Asarela Orchidia Dewi speaks about arriving in Berlin with both hope and fear, navigating education in another language, living without a Plan B, and searching for belonging as a queer diasporic person. Arel also reflects on filmmaking as a language through which their story could finally be understood, and on discovering recognition within diasporic communities such as sōydivision.

Together, these voices ask how alienness is shaped by platforms, language, migration, architecture and the uncertain desire to belong.

Featuring Zoé Febvre-Utrilla and Asarela Orchidia Dewi
Assembled by Ariel William Orah

🎧 Listen here:
https://soydivision.berlin/alie-ansi/alie-ansi-radio-series/

🌶️ FINAL EXHIBITION WEEKEND
Friday to Sunday, 15:00–19:00

Saturday, 12 September

11:00–12:30 and 13:00–14:40
Poetic Bodies: Words to Bridge Community
Collective poetry workshops with Regina Riveros

From 16:00
Finissage programme with expanded cinema and improvised sound by the sōydivision ensemble family, featuring Pedro Oliveira, Juliana Corsi, Tengal, Eiliyas and Kim Vu, as part of a special Soy&Synth constellation.

Come back for the final weekend, listen, spend time with the works and join us for one last gathering. 👽🌶️

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Being part of the ALI(E/A)NSI exhibition project has been the creative highlight of my summer. Thank you Ariel Orah of @soydivision.berlin for inviting me to participate with such an amazing 🌶️🔥group of artists!
ALI(E/A)NSI (read: ALIÄNSI)
"Starting from where we are
ALI(E/A)NSI began from a fairly simple shared feeling: the world is not okay.

Climate collapse, displacement, war, economic precarity, social polarization, ecological grief, housing pressure, rising nationalism and loneliness do not arrive as one coherent crisis. They arrive unevenly, in fragments, and they are experienced differently depending on where we stand, where we have come from, and what kinds of histories we carry.

An exhibition cannot contain all of this, nor should it pretend to. ALI(E/A)NSI does not try to represent a global polycrisis or gather artworks as illustrations of it. The project starts closer to where we are: with a particular house, a neighbourhood, a group of people whose paths have crossed there, and the different realities they bring with them.

This closeness matters. There is a desire here to engage again with lived experience, with the places we inhabit and the people around us, rather than allowing the scale of global crisis to remain abstract and overwhelming. What does coexistence actually look like at the scale of a neighbourhood, an artistic community, a shared building, a conversation? What kinds of relations are possible when people do not necessarily share the same histories, aesthetics, identities or political positions?

In this sense, ALI(E/A)NSI begins with fragments: fragments of memory, migration, artistic research, neighbourhood experience, ecological anxiety, disagreement, suspicion, friendship and hope. The exhibition asks what might happen when these fragments are allowed to encounter one another without being forced into a single story." - Ariel Orah, sōydivision curatorial notes

The exhibition runs through Sept 13
Hosted by @movingpoets Novilla

Exhibition Artists:
Samuel Johnstone
Zoe Febvre-Utrilla
Ariel William Orah
Tatiana Heuman & Florencia Curci
Sebastian Korbs
Asarela Dewi
Pisitakun Kuantalaeng
MyLoan Dinh
Sofia Fernandez

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AMIGUES ADIOS — BISHOP BLACK
STAGE TEXTURES 🌸

DONT MISS THE SHOW! IN BALLHAUS NAUNYNSTR.
@ballhaus_naunynstrasse
EVERY DAY TILL TUESDAY! 🌸

Credits;

Konzept, Text, Regie: Bishop Black
Regiemitarbeit: Laura Alonso
Dramaturgie: Nima Aida Séne
Videodesign: Arel Dewi
Lichtdesign: Shun Perrotta
Kostümbild: Deivid Diniz
Bühnenbild: Omar Sherif
Sounddesign: Ghostpoet
Maske: Nuria de Lario
Sprechtraining: Valerie Renay
Übertitel: Marold Langer-Philippsen
Produktionsleitung: Mohammad Serhan
Produktionsleitungsmitarbeit: Polina Tatsenko
Darsteller*innen: Newroz Çelik, Ari Cottingham, Juan Carlos Cuadrado, Kim Darbouze, George N Roses
Das Projekt ist eine Produktion von Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH, gefördert durch den Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

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I am so happy and grateful for being part of this beautiful project and to have the opportunity to work with such amazing and lovely artists. Come tonight and enjoy with us 20:00 at @ballhaus_naunynstrasse

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@asarela.dewi investigation work traces the memories held by machines, buildings, and repeated gestures of labour. Moving between Schöneweide’s industrial past and the artist’s own working process, the installation asks how a new body enters a place already marked by other hands.

“The machines remember before we do.

Different hands.
Different labour.
Same floor.

Perhaps belonging is not being the first to arrive, but leaving a trace among traces already there.”

Part of our ALI(E/A)NSI at Moving Poets NOVILLA.

📍 Hasselwerderstraße 22, 12439 Berlin
🕒 Open this weekend, 15:00–19:00

Investigation work by Asarela Dewi
Photo: Ariel William Orah

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ALI(E/A)NSI — SNEAK PEEK #2 👽🌶️🛸

Installation action in progress.

The aliens are settling in.
Screens flicker, sounds travel, objects shift, cables multiply — and the rooms of NOVILLA slowly become something else.

Testing, activating, adjusting, improvising.
Not quite finished. Already alive.

Come see what it becomes tomorrow.

🌶️👽 VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026 · from 18:00
📍 Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08—13.09.2026

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ALI(E/A)NSI Artist Series [#1] 👽🌶️👽
Asarela Orchidia Dewi - @asarela.dewi

Asarela Orchidia Dewi is an Indonesian artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. They hold a degree in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin.

Drawing from their nomadic upbringing, Asarela finds inspiration in the emotions of alienation and exploration. Their focus lies in exploring queer and diasporic experiences through various mediums such as film, visual art, and performance art.

Since 2018, Asarela has worked closely with sōydivision, collaborating on video installations, performances, and interdisciplinary artistic projects. They also collaborate with Ballhaus Naunynstraße as a visual artist and director.

In 2021, Asarela wrote and directed their debut short film, Memori Dia (Their Memory), which was screened at festivals including the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival and XPOSED Queer Film Festival.

For ALI(E/A)NSI, Asarela presents Rehearsing Becoming, a work that departs from their personal relationship with the HTW Berlin campus in Oberschöneweide, housed within the former industrial complex. Having first encountered these buildings as an international student from Indonesia, Asarela traces questions of arrival, belonging and becoming through a site shaped by different histories of labour, migration and education, bringing personal experience into conversation with the layered histories embedded in the architecture.

👽🌶️👽

ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08.–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA, Berlin-Schöneweide

VERNISSAGE
28.08.2026, from 18:00

Initiated & curated by sōydivision Berlin
Presented with Moving Poets Berlin e.V.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Präsentationen zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst 2026.

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SAVE THE DATE (S) 👽🌶️👽

Finally, we can share our full programme for August and September!

Alongside the ALI(E/A)NSI exhibition, the programme brings together exhibition activations, workshops and performances hosted with our collaborating partners, as well as our signature concert formats EMPATHONIC and sōy&Synth.

🌶️🛸 28.08.2026, from 18:00
VERNISSAGE

Performance by the Moving Poets Ensemble, featuring Dr Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh, Carmen Volpe, Till Schmidt-Rimpler and Tom Dayan, followed by a DJ set and installation activations by participating artists.

🌶️🛸 30.08.2026, 14:00–17:00
WHEN THE ALIEN CAME TO BERLIN

Indonesian shadow-puppet-making workshop with Herlambang Bayu Aji, for children aged 4+ and their families.

Supported by Partnerschaft für Demokratie Schöneweide.

🌶️🛸 06.09.2026
EMPATHONIC, EPISODE 9

Curated by Ariel William Orah and Andrea Goetzke, featuring Zoé Febvre-Utrilla, Tatiana Heuman and Hanumano.

Supported by Musicboard Berlin.

🌶️🛸 12.09.2026
FINISSAGE

Collective poetry workshop with Regina Riveros.

Supported by Partnerschaft für Demokratie Schöneweide.

Followed by sōy&Synth #54: an expanded-cinema and improvised-sound response by the sōydivision Ensemble family to visual materials by Ariel William Orah and Asarela Orchidia Dewi presented in the exhibition.

With Pedro Oliveira, Giuliana Corsi, Tengal Drilon, Eiliyas and Kim Vu.

ALI(E/A)NSI
28.08–13.09.2026
Moving Poets NOVILLA
Berlin-Schöneweide

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