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Responding to Mouth Archives’ exploration of the mouth as a site of memory and exchange, Empathy Supper – Berdikari by Ariel Orah and Asarela Dewi (sōydivision) offers a performative and cinematic dining experience rooted in reflection, resilience, and diasporic survival.

Both artists, who migrated to Germany in 2012, use this gathering to revisit a decade of shared diasporic experience – navigating identity, cultural negotiation, and institutional distrust. In the context of today’s overlapping polycrises – economic instability, climate emergency, and the enduring legacies of colonialism – a complex dialectic of trust and suspicion shapes both everyday life and structural systems. Berdikari (Indonesian for “standing on one’s own feet”) becomes a practice of self-reliance and collective care amid uncertainty and exclusion.Through food, sound, and cinematic storytelling, this supper reimagines recipes as living archives and the table as a space for embodied memory. What stories do we carry in our bodies, in our mouths? How do shared meals help us process the tension between trust and suspicion – and how might they support us in co-navigating uncertain futures together?

The event will take place in english language.

Curated by Clarissa Aidar, Milena Gehrt and Anastasia Shestak.

The project is funded by Studentenwerk Leipzig and the Ideas Fund.