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Short bio 

Ariel William Orah is a Berlin-based Indonesian artist, community catalysator, and cultural practitioner.He was born in Bandung, Indonesia and has been living and working in Berlin, Germany for the past 11 years. His main practices focus on diasporic socially engaged art creation and his research interests include social and climate injustice, as well as the trilogy of identity, memory, and scarcity. 

Orah’s main artistic medium is performance and sound art.Selected works in performing arts includes GAUNG (Ballhaus Naunynstrasse,2021,2022), ARYATI (supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds,Uferstudios, 2022), KIAMAT (supported by Musikfonds e.V.,2022), SCAR-CITY (Ballhaus Naunynstraße,2023), TANA SADJI (Hamburger Bahnhof Gallery, 2022). Orah has released numerous solo albums and performed  under the pseudonym ravenative and is actively involved in various bands and music constellations such as grau&, soydivision ensemble, böseblick ensemble, RANGKĄ,and OKNUM.

For the last five years, Orah’s work centered on a collaborative platform and artist group soydivsion, which he founded in 2017. In addition to his work as an artist, he is also active as a curator and artistic researcher, especially in the field of performing art and sound. Selected curational works includes : NNN Fair 2021 (Rotterdam, 2021), KAUM Performance & Film Festival (Berlin, 2021), Mutating Kinship Lab (Part of German Federal Fonds of Performing Art Program Bundesweit Artist Lab 2022), and CTM Festival Hacklab (Berlin,2022), LINTAS Residency (Bandung,2023). Artistic research project includes :  Transtrauma FM - Traumarama - Leftrauma (2022, 2023), T_AKUT (2021), Memoirama (2022), Sadissonnz (2023).





Long bio

​Ariel William Orah is a Berlin-based Indonesian artist, community catalysator, and cultural practitioner.
He was born in Bandung, Indonesia and has been living and working in Berlin, Germany for the past 11 years. His main practices focus on socially engaged art creation and his research interests include social and climate injustice, as well as the trilogy of identity, memory, and scarcity. Since 2006, Orah has presented his work at many venues, festivals, exhibitions, theater house across Europe, Australia and Asia such CTM Festival Berlin, Klub Katarak Festival for Experimental Musik Hamburg, Dokumenta 15 Kassel, Singapore Biennale, SODAS2123 Vilnius, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin, TCC Århus, Reunion Crystal Palace London, Kampnagel Hamburg, Das Provisarium Zürich, AAFF Cagliari.


Orah’s main artistic medium is performance and sound art. For the last five years, Orah’s work centered on a collaborative platform and artist group soydivsion, which he founded in 2017,  co-founded the empathy-driven sound art collective L-KW, , and non-profit cultural organization Diantara e.V. 

Orah never educated nor graduated from Art School, but his past and current art practice is heavily influenced by his background studies and his experience as an Indonesian diaspora and migrant in Germany. An MA graduate from Steinbeis University Berlin with a major in Sustainability Management, he has also completed a degree in human-centered, empathy and experience-driven design from the School of Design Thinking Potsdam/Stanford and KAOSPILOT Århus.

Orah’s main artistic medium is sound.He works with various music constellations, media, techniques, and formats such as sound performance (as solo and bands with genres across new music, improvisation, electro acoustic, experimental electronic, shoegaze, art-rock),sound art,sound installation,sound workshop,and sound composition and direction for music theater, music for dance piece, and film music

Orah has been involved with sound through bands and electronic music projects since 1997 but his professional music career began in 2006 when he co-founded a progressive art-rock band Vincent Vega and worked as radio DJ in OZ Radio Bandung. The band actively toured Indonesia until his departure to Germany in 2012 and released two albums in 2008 and 2011. His own radio show at OZ Radio “Monday-Mess” was on air from 2006 until 2012. During the this periode, he also co-founded an artist group S.C.A.N.D.A.L (2008-2011) which under subsidiary of UNKL347 released bi-montlhy contemporary art magazine “Still Loving Youth” and been involved in various art exhibitions across Indonesia and South East Asia. 

After he relocated to Germany, Orah has released numerous solo albums and performed  under the pseudonym ravenative and is actively involved in various bands and music constellations such as grau&, soydivision ensemble, böseblick ensemble, RANGKĄ,and OKNUM.

After regularly composing music for theater, dance, and film, Orah also began to conceptualize, compose and direct his own experimental theater music pieces in 2021 with GAUNG, (Ballhaus Naunynstrasse,2021,2022), and follow up by ARYATI (supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds,Uferstudios, 2022), KIAMAT (supported by Musikfonds e.V.,2022), SCAR-CITY (Ballhaus Naunynstraße,Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung,2023)

In addition to his work as an artist, he is also active as a curator and artistic researcher,  especially in the field of sound performing art. His recent curatorial activities include soy&synth (experimental music and food showcase, 2018-present), NNN Fair 2021 (diaspora art festival, Rotterdam, 2021), KAUM Performance & Film Festival (Berlin, 2021), Mutating Kinship Lab (Part of German Federal Fonds of Performing Art Program Bundesweit Artist Lab 2022), and CTM Festival Hacklab (Berlin,2022), LINTAS Residency (Bandung,2023). Artistic research project includes :  Transtrauma FM - Traumarama - Leftrauma (2022, 2023), T_AKUT (2021), Memoirama (2022), Sadissonnz (2023). 

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^V_Theater 

1. "SCARCITY" (2023). Ballhaus Naunynstrasse with the support from Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung. Concept, Directing
2. "KIAMAT" (2022). Supported by Musikfonds e.V. With Rabih Beaini and Soydivision ensemble. Concept, Co-Directing and Performing
​3. “ARYATI” (2022) . With and by Soydivision ensemble. Premiere at Heizhaus Uferstudios Berlin. Supported by Haupstadkulturfonds, Senat Verwaltung für Kultur und Europa. Concept, Directing and performing
4. SONUS ‒ THE SOUND WITHIN US (2021) - with meLê yamomo and Pepe Dayaw, Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Performing
5. GAUNG – UNVORHERBESTIMMTE RESONANZ (2021,2022) - with Bilawa Respati, Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Concept, Co-directing and performing
6.  ​AKIN #02" - ACUD Theater Berlin (2020). Sound design and music composition
7. 
NUR-HIN Trilogy (2020) (ACUD Theater, Motif, Studio DB Berlin). With and by Soydivision collective. Concept, Co-directing and performing
8.  AKIN (2019)" - Theresa Lekkberg, Riako Napitupilu, Samaquias Lorta (Somos Art  House - 2019). Sound design, music composition, scoring
9.  “GÖTZENDÄMMERUNG. POST-FUCK-TISCHE ERGÜSSE ZUM ZEITGESCHEHEN" (2019). Music composition


^V_Artistic research  and Stipendium​
  1. ​
  2. Traumarama, funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V (2023), focus on  tracing a multidirectional social trauma connection between holocaust history in Germany and genocide history in Indonesia.
  3. Sadissonanz, funded by Musikfonds e.V. Focus  on the dissonances created by privileges in diverse collaboration context, sound art project 
  4. Transtrauma FM, funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V (2022). Focus on social trauma in Baltic states, performing art and sound
  5. Leftrauma, funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V (2022). Focus on social trauma in South America, performing art and sound
  6. "Memoirama", mit grau&, funded by den Musikfonds e.V (2022). Focus on de-privatitation of memory and sound art expression
  7. "T_AKUT", mit Soydivision Ensemble, funded by den Musikfonds e.V (2021). Focus on  shared experience in transition of power in Indonesia during WW2 (Netherland, Japan, and Indonesia). Sound art

​^V_Live and Studio Album​​
  1. Memoirama (w/ grau&, 2022, L_KW)
  2. ​The continuous now (als ravenative , 2022, w/ Pedro Oliveira & Morgan Sully. L_KW)
  3. Live at KM28 (w/ Böseblick, 2022)
  4. Kosmos Kompromiss (as ravenative, 2021, L_KW)
  5. Kelana (as ravenative, 2020, L_KW)
  6. "Kelesah" (w/ G H A L I Z), 2019, L_KW
  7. Ironie & Rotation Plasty (w/ grau& Kuntari, 2019, L_KW & Audial Plane)
  8. Götzendämmerung (w/ KUPI&ORAH, 2019, L_KW)
  9. S U A (w/ O K N U M, 2019, L_KW)  
  10. F O R A M I N I F E R A (w/ grau&, 2019, L_KW)
  11. WIM (as ravenative, 2018, L_KW)
  12. Edamame (w/ grau&, 2018, L_KW)
  13. Scarcity (as ravenative, 2017, L_KW)​
  14. Premonition (w/ Vincent Vega, 2011, Vague)
  15. Always Hard to Make a Change, Just Like How to Stay the Same (w/Vincent Vega, 2008, S.C.A.N.D.A.L)

^V_Compilations
  1. Grenzgang (2017, L_KW)
  2. Luftmenschen - VOLUMN#01 : Understanding (2016, L_KW)
  3. PUSH #03 (2014, PUSH STANDART MAGAZINE)
  4. LA Lights Indie Fest #01 (w/ Vincent Vega, FFWD Records, 2007)

^V_Exhibitions and Commissioned Works
  1.  Commisioned  Intervention on Exhibition "STREIT", Museum Kommunikation Berlin (2023)
  2.   Composition for Extended Asia Session 16  :Ext.Asi Archive, part of Islandwide Coverage, Singapore Bienalle (2022)
  3. “Nation, Narration, Narcosis”, w/ Soydivision, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (2022)
  4. HALU, a piece for "Unity" w/Asarela Dewi, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia - 2021
  5. "Bibit, Bebet, Bobot", a group exhibition curated by Soydivision (Sari Sari Space - Berlin - 2020)
  6. "Focus Interference", a piece for E2: A COMMENTARY ON PRODUCTIVITY  (w/Nindya Nareswari, Ladderartspace Melbourne - 2019)
  7. "Failure Frequency #2" (w/ Maximilian Kupi, Dcon Festival - HPI Potsdam -2017)
  8. “Fluorometry” Tanz im August Festival (w/ Luftmenschen, Berlin - 2016)
  9. "Failure Frequency" (For Cocreaid Festival in corporation with Kloster Brandenburg and engagierte-hochschule.org, Illertissen, 2016)
  10. “Co-infection” Karl Marx Hostel - 24 Stunden Neukölln (w/ Luftmenschen, Berlin - 2016)
  11. “Urang Hayang jadi siga maneh” - The Equator by IN/NITIATIVE (Berlin Fashion Weeks, 2015)
  12. “Popsighthings” - Singapore Design Festival (Singapore, 2011)
  13. “Still Loving Youth ‘#02: Types Are Fun” -  SLY (w/S.C.A.N.D.A.L Studio, Bandung ,2010)


^V_Residency 
  1. CTM Music Maker Hacklab (2020)
  2. Aleste Porto, Portugal (2023)
  3. Lintas, Grey Gallery Bandung (2023)

^V_Curatorial Work & Mentorship
    ​
  1. Lintas Residency (2023)
  2. Jendela Sonorama, funded by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V. (2023)
  3. Soy and Synth South by South Sonic Serenade, funded by Musicboard Berlin (2022)
  4. "Bibit, Bebet, Bobot", group exhibition by Soydivision  (2020)
  5. CTM Musik Maker Hacklab (2022)
  6. KAUM - Performance and Film Festival , funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V (2021) 
  7. ​NNN Fair - Non Native Native, Rotterdam (2021)

^V_Film-music scoring
  1. A deeper High by Caroline Schwarz (2018)
  2. Aeon by Maraeike Graf (2016)
  3. Sweater than Life by Caroline Schwarz (2019)​

^V_Selected Performance
  1. Böseblick at Klub Katarakt Festival 2023, Kampnagel Hamburg
  2. Transtrauma FM at Kompresorine Ideas Block and SODAS 2123, Vilnius Lithuania (2022)
  3. “Tanamantra”, Documenta Fifteen - Kassel
  4. “Tumpeng Tindih 2”, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
  5. “Musik Makers Hacklab”, CTM Festival 2020, Radialsystem Berlin
  6. “Subliminal Scarcity”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin
  7. “Kela_Min”, TCC Århus
  8. “Relax, it’s just religion”, Reunion Crystal Palace, London
  9. “Kela_Min”, Das Provisarium Zürich​
​
^V_Advertisement-scoring:
  1. "Noir", Mono-Kollektiv (2018)
  2. “Katalisator” , Altendorfer Studios (2017)
  3. “Caleb´s”, Mood Shoes (2012)

^V_Music Video:
  1. Batas (2020)
  2. HALU (2020)​​
  3. Shane (2007), w/ VIncent Vega​
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^V_Print Matters, Book:
  1. Mutating Kinship (2022)
  2. Waiting in Movement (2018)
  3. Luftmenschen Volumn 00 (2016)
  4. Still Loving Youth ( Volume 01-04, 2008-2010)

^V_Cover Album:
  1. Le Ton Mité ‎– I'm Going To The Store To Get Some Vegetables

^V_Press
  1. Mosaique International Musik Festival 2019
  2. Cece Berlin (2020)
  3. Freundevonfreunden (2019)
  4. Antara Foto - Audialplane LKW showcase Nu-Art (2019)
  5. Esslinger-Zeitung (2019)
  6. The Jakarta Post (2020)
  7. OE Magazine DE (2018)
  8. Artconnect Magazine (2014)
  9. Engagierte Hochschule (2016)
  10. Surrereflexion (2014)
  11. Visual Jalanan (2020)
  12. Somos Art Space (2019)
  13. Arkaoda (2019)
  14. Groove Magazine DE (2022)
  15. DJ Mag (2022)
  16. Resident Advisor (2022)
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Live Performances

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2020

24.09.2020
Shiellerkiez Strassenfest 2020 with Pepe Dayaw, Danilo Tim, Sarah Grenspan

12.09.2020
EWERK Kunstorm Luückenwalde 

10.09.2020
As PRIMITIVA with Nindya Nareswari at Mahji Art Residency in Berlin Art Week 2020

28.08.2020
As PRIMITIVA with Nindya Nareswari at Future Kultur Festival (Indonesia - Online)

14.08.2020
As OKNUM in CITA MERDEKA Tempelhoferfeld Berlin


18.07.2020
Tubuh yang Sakral - Tattoo sound art performance with FRSW Franz at Sari-Sari e.V


27.06.2020
Soy and Synth 25
Sari Sari e.V Berlin


18.06.2020
MSG and Friends (Berlin) - Online Performance


09.05.2020
1DWH Online Festival  (Berlin)


24..04.2020
Extended Asia Online Festival 

28.03.2020
Soy and Synth 30 - Berlin (online)

13.03.2020
Nuart Sculpture Park Bandung
w/ Juan Arminandi, Memeshift, Wildan Indra Sanggara, Dissa Kamanjaya, GURU

10.03.2020
Rubanah Art Space Jakarta
w/ Juan Arminandi, Memeshift, Mahesa Almeida< Firzi O

04.03.2020
Studio Eksotika - Potato Head Bali
w/ Memeshift, Kasymin, Evan Storn

08.02.2020
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Soy&Synth 21 at Motifwein Berlin
w/ Juan Armiandi

02.02.2020
CTM Music Maker Hacklab Finale at Radialsystem

31.01.2020
RECALIBRATION at Studio dB Berlin (Vorspiel Transmediale/CTM)
w/​ soydivision 

25.01.2020
SONIC SEASONING at TOP Trandiciplinary Space (Vorspiel Transmediale/CTM)
w/​ Morgan Sully, Agente Costura, Otolitos, Satie’s h3ir

24.01.2020
Soy&Synth 20 CTM Special Edition at Motifwein Berlin
w/​ Jan_K, Nindya Nareswari, Morgan Sully

17.01.2020
CTM/Transmediale Vorspiel Opening Night at ACUD MACHT NEUE / Acud Theater
w/ soydivision

2019

14-15.12.2019
Empathy Supper at Liane Space Berlin
w/ Dn Aretino, Peer Liening Ewert

27.11.2019
TCC - Århus Danmark
w/ Magnus S. Kjærgaard 

23.11.2019
Soy&Synth 18 at Motifwein Berlin
w/ Theresa Lekkberg, Riako Napitupilu, Samaquias Lorta


26.10.2019
Soy&Synth 17 at Motifwein Berlin
w/ Seretan

19.10.2019
Empathy Supper at Centrifuge Space - Berlin
w/ Nindya Nareswari, Don Aretino, Jan_K 

10.10.2019
Arcaoda - Berlin
w/ The Pool

05.10.2019
Mosaique Internatonalles Music Festival - Lüneburg

28.09.2019
Soy&Synth 16 at Motifwein - Berlin
w/ Alec Danger

15.09.2019
Bilateraliz at Motifwein - Berlin

14.09.2019
L_KW Showcase at Berlin Art Week
w/ Jose Serranno and Gerdus Oosthuisen

30.08.2019
Empathy Supper at Reunion Crystal Palace -  London
w/ Jan_K, Nindya Nareswari

24.08.2019
Soy&Synth 15 at Motifwein - Berlin

w/ Jan_K, Nindya Nareswari

23.08.2019
Badehaus - Berlin
w/ O K N U M

17.08.2019
Borghildur Indriðadóttir Open Studio Performance
w/ Borghildur Indriðadóttir, Adrien Fried, Georg Bütow, Sharleen Leosch, Oscar Bernal, and Stefanía Ólafsdóttir


10.08.2019
Empathy Supper INSULAR at Altendorfer Studios
w/ Peer Liening-Ewert, Nindya Nareswari, Don Aretino​

27.07.2019
soy&synth 14
w/Jose Serrano
​Recordshole, Berlin

24.07.2019
Götzendämmerung Launching Concert
w/Maximilian Kupi
zur Klappe, Berlin

18.07.2019
soy&synth 13
w/Jan K
Ideas Block, Vilnius - Lithuania
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22.06.2019
soy&synth 12
w/ O K N U M 
Motif, Berlin

16.06.2019
48hr Neükölln
Berlin

08.06.2019
Akkuklturasa
w/ Rizal Fischbach 
Berlin Karneval der Kulturen 2019 at Unter Urban Gallery

02.06.2019
w/
Borghildur Indriðadóttir
Empathy Supper  "Subliminal Scarcity"
Kunst Werke Berlin KW

22.05.2019
Soy&Synth 11
w/ Pedro Almiro
Berlin Germany

17.05.2019
Soy&Synth 10
w/ Rizki Resa Utama
Zürich Switzerland

05.05.2019
w/
Borghildur Indriðadóttir
Empathy Supper "Echobeings"
Motif, Berlin Germany

20.04.2019
Soy&Synth 09
w/ Ghaliz
​Berlin Germany

07.04.2019
Empathy Supper "Objectionable Content"
w/ 
Borghildur Indriðadóttir
Motif, Berlin Germany

23.03.2019
Soy&Synth 08 w/ grau&
Berlin Germany

09.02.2019
Soy&Synth 07 w/ Tomy Herseta
Berlin Germany


25.01.2019
Luftstrom 04
Bandung, Indonesia

20.01.2019
w/ Vincent Vega
Bandung, Indonesia

16.01.2019
w/ Jan K, Ffonz, Vayuand, Ricky Virgana
Mondo, Jakarta Indonesia

15.01.2019
w/ Pemuda Sinarmas, Random Brothers
Studio Steve Smith, Jakarta Indonesia

12.01.2019
w/ Lintang Raditya, Rupagangga, Indra Adscum
Yes No Club 36, Oxen Free - Yogyakarta, Indonesia

09.01.2019
w/ Brozio Michael
Studio Eksotika-Bali Indonesia

2018

29.12.2018
w/ Tesla Manaf
Soy&Synth #05, Bandung-Indonesia

08.12.2018
w/ Indra Adscum, Tomy Herseta, Bagvs
Luftstrom 03, Bandung-Indonesia

10.11.2018
w/OKNUM,Bilawa Respati, Jan K
Soy&Synth #04 at Recordhole, Berlin- Germany

20.10.2018
w/Nina Dissing, Madlen Medina
WIM Launch at Zur Klappe, Berlin-Germany

13.10.2018
w/grau&, monokollektiv
Otre at Mozaique Kulturhaus, Lüneburg - Germany


22.09.2018
w/ Jan K
Soy&Synth #03 at Recordhole, Berlin- Germany


04.08.2018
w/grau&
Ausufern 2018 Project in Uferstudios Wedding, Berlin Germany

20.07.2018
w/Nindya Nareswari (ORBA-Orla)
Soy&Synth #02 at Recordhole, Berlin- Germany

30.06.2018
w/grau&
Soy&Synth #01 at Recordhole, Berlin- Germany


22.04.2018
w/grau&, monokollektiv
SPAM at Luftmenschen Studio, Berlin - Germany

13.04.2018
w/grau&, DINA
Junction Bar, Berlin - Germany

12.02.2018
w/grau&
Vetomat GAllery, Berlin - Germany

13.01.2018
w/grau&
Zur Klappe, Berlin - Germany

04.06.2017
w/Max Kupi
PUSH #07, 2OG Gallery, Berlin - Germany

26.08.2016
w/Max Kupi
Bandung Zinefest 2016, Indonesia

11.06.2014
w/Fourphonica
The Equator, Berlin Fashion Week - Germany
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