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Mouth Archives project focuses on how the lives of communities are performed in recipes, anecdotes, jokes, songs, and rhythms. Tenuous and joyful, such living archives are the essence of the project, which will consist of a series of culinary interventions, sound performances, and storytelling evenings, highlighting and bringing together forms of resistance, resilience, togetherness, tenderness, and care in which the mouth is a focal point. It launches with the sound and food performance by Sōydivision, a collaborative platform and artist collective shaped by the lived experiences of the diaspora. Initially composed predominantly of Indonesian diaspora artists in Berlin, its constellation has since expanded to include diasporic artists of the global majority (an emerging, decolonial term that recognizes the lived realities of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities who represent the majority of the world’s population) mostly based in Germany.

Rooted in the complexities of displacement, identity, and cultural hybridity, Sōydivision operates at the intersection of art and activism. 

The performance is part of the project Mund zu Mund | Mouth Archives, curated by Clarissa Aidar, Milena Gehrt and Anastasia Shestak in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig.