Making Sound Object Workshop and Concert (Upcoming)
A planned workshop
on making sound-object and group improvisation, followed by a concert, with the
musician/composer Mo’ong Pribadi, Bergen.
Heimwee (Upcoming)
Sound and light installation with the
musician/composer Jelmer de Haan and the lighting designer Nindya Nareswari,
presented at Errant Sound, Berlin, as part of the Project Space Festival Berlin
2026.
Laut Jerebu: Podcast Edition (Upcoming)
A continuation of the
conversation series with the dancer/choreographer jee chen and the scholar
Jelena Golubović on the topic of Bumantara, and on language and cultural
policy.
Thelma and the Vixen
Staged reading with sound accompaniment based on
the short story by the author Nelden Djakababa Gericke, premiered at the
Dealing in Distance Festival in Hanoi.
Dealing in Distance
Group exhibition, performance, and workshop
within the festival Dealing in Distance through Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and
Bali.
River of Shadows
Light installation and performance by and with the
lighting designer and visual artist Emese Csornai, as part of the Reflecting
Light program, Buda Art Centre, Kortrijk.
Asia in Berlin: Curating (Im)material Heritage
Workshop with students
of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin on the shadow puppet collection of the Haus
der Indonesischen Kulturen, followed by a mini exhibition currated by the
students at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen, Berlin.
Album Release: Mo’ong and
Bilawa
New
experimental gamelan music album with the musician/composer Mo’ong Pribadi,
released by Bloxham Tapes.
Korkut Triennale 2025 Lab
Co-currating and co-hosting the
Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab, followed by a public talk and
concert, Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
On Void and Fate
Lecture concert on investigating the idea of void (Suwung) and the work
of Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Part of the Knistern series, Richten25, Berlin.
Nieselregen/Gerimis
An audiovisual
composition based on the novel “Seperti Gerimis Merah di Auschwitz” of the
Indonesian author Triyanto Triwikromo, Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen, Berlin.
Sinta x Dahana
A dance piece based on Shinta’s
Trial of Fire from the epic Ramayana, with the dancer/choreographer Ruben
Reniers, dock11, Berlin.
Encounters & A Thousand Weaverbirds (WIP)
Presentation of work in progres, talk, and improvisatory performance during the
artistic lab of CTM Festival 2025, Radial System, Berlin.
Laut Jerebu in Choreographic Device 4
Conversation and performance
on the choreographic of language, mapping, nationhood, and diaspora in relation
to the construction of identity, with jee chan and Jelena Golubovic, Institute
of Contemporary Art, London.
A Play for the Gods, A Play for No Good(?)
A black shadow play and conceptual performance about invisibility and death,
with the puppeteer Lisa Björkström, Stockholm.
Duet
New compositions for Gamelan and two
performers, with the composer and musician Mo’ong Pribadi, Berlin & Vilnius.
Distant Memories of the Void
Gamelan music
automaton and visual installation at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen, with
Emese Csornai (visual concept) and Adrian Latupeirissa (technologist), Berlin.
TIRAI
A web visual novel and sound
installation telling stories from the time of Japanese occupation in Indonesia.
Part of the Web Sound Art Festival 2024, Online.
Shadows/Echoes
A residency project
exploring mode of story telling, taking inspiration from the tradition of
Wayang shadow puppet and Swedish puppet theater, Stockholm.
Latent Sonorities
Sample pack
recording, composition of new music, and performances using Javanese Gamelan
instrument. With L_KW and Morphine Records, Berlin.
Laut Jerebu
Conversation and performance
closing the end of residency time of the dancer jee chan on language,
constructed identity, and the idea of a Nusantara, with Jelena Golubović, at
the Flutgraben Performances, Berlin.
Of Longing and Fear
A study for a web sound art installation telling
fictitious journals from the time of Japanese occupation time in Indonesia.
Realized as part of the workshop at the Browser Sound Festival, Stuttgart &
Online.
Indigo and Sunshine Yellow
Performative
reading and music performance curated by Gudrun Ingratubun and Nelden Djakababa
Gericke, telling the story of Indigo plants and the history of colonialism.
Traces of Degas
Sound to the video
installation and dance workshop by the dancer/choreographer Ruben Reniers and
videographer Marco Baass at Haus Bastian, Berlin.
AWAL / Beginning
Installative dance performance
with live music about starting over and continuing on. With rubarb dance & art.
Premiere December 2023 at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Berlin.
Dream Sequence
Research on
translating dream sequence in film to the performing art. By and with Silvia
Bennett, Yvonne Sembene, Emese Csornai. Public showing of the work-in-progress
in November 2022, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin.
Woman at the End of Time (work
in progress)
Stipend project on cross implementation of compositional
technique in algorithmic music and Javanese Karawitan to create a new work
based on the novel “Pertempuran Lain Dropadi” by the author Triyanto
Triwikromo. Stipend by Musikfonds.
Keroncong Spektra
Development
grant project in developing music implementing compositional technique of the
Keroncong music and minimalism. With Bintang Manira Manik. Grant by Amarte
Fonds.
Tana Sadji
Durational performance with
participants on the idea of an imagined cultures and its rituals. With Nindya
Nareswari, Rizki Resa Utama, Jan Thedja, and Ariel Orah. Intervention on the
exhibition Nation, Narration, Narcosis. Performed in May 2022 at Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin.
Kiamat
Music performance based on the work of the duo Senyawa, with
LKW, Soydivision Ensemble, Rabih Beaini (Morphine Records). Performed in April
2022 at the Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Berlin.
Aryati
Music theater on the life of Aryati, a
woman from the Tugu village, which is intertwined with the development of the
Keroncong music and Indonesian history. With Soydivision Ensemble. Performed in
March 2022 at the Uferstudios Berlin.
T_AKUT
A stipend project to create new work
with the theme of fear as a shared experience during the Japanese military
occupational time in Indonesia. With Soydivision Ensemble. Stipend by
Musikfonds.
Gaung: Unpredictable Resonance
Concert lecture
on the story of Gamelan from its mythical origin, Indonesian modernism and
beyond. With Ariel Orah. Premiered in October 2022 at the Ballhaus
Naunynstrasse, Berlin.
Requiem Mangongkal Holi
Musical dance
performance with moving images on death rituals in Indonesia and in Europe.
With rubarb dance & art. Premiered in September 2021 at Dock11, Berlin.
La Gran Drama-Tisch
A one day
ritual performance with Soydivision Collective, La Love’s Kitchen, and Nowhere
Kitchen. Performed at Sari-Sari Art Space and Lichtenraderstr. area, Berlin.
Recalibration
Culinary, dance, and music performance with Soydivision
Collective, Nowhere Kitchen, and un.thai.tled. Performed at StudioDB, Berlin.
Nur-hin
Music theater on the theme of leaving
a home country and finding new identity in another country. With Soydivision
Ensemble. Performed at ACUD Theater & Motif Wein, Berlin.