Booklaunch – »IN NOBODY’S SERVICE«

Sisu Satrawaha is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, artist, and curator whose practice moves fluidly across film, installation, performance, and food. Her work engages with themes of anthropology, intercultural relations, and contemporary culture, often drawing from personal and collective narratives. Since 2022, Satrawaha has developed the ongoing project “Have You Eaten?,” which explores the political and emotional landscapes of the Thai female diaspora in Germany. As part of the same project, she created the performance Somtam Manifesto, presented in various contexts, including the Gropius Bau during the closing program of “DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG”, an exhibition by Rirkrit Tiravanija. In 2025, she joins forces with Chōri Collective to create a performance as part of the Live Works Fellowship at Centrale Fies. Natthapong Samakkaew is a visual artist based in Berlin and Krabi. He earned a BA in Illustration from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, in 2018. His dissertation, Move Your Body, explored the representation of people in darkrooms within Berlin’s queer nightlife and received the Best Experiment Award at the university’s annual prize. Natthapong’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at The National Art Center Tokyo (2017), Kunststiftung Halle (2018), Aquamediale 13 Art Festival (2019), BBK Leipzig e.V. (2019), Artburst Berlin (2019), and Projektraum 145 (2019). More recently, his work has been presented at Galerie im Körnerpark (2022), Fluctoplasma Festival (2022), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum as part of Unthaitled (2022), Zemin Berlin (2024), Galerie Wedding (2024), and Schwules Museum in Berlin (2025). Sarnt Utamachote is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. Their works span research in migration, communities, archives, and notions of queerness, shifting between mediums of cinema, visual arts, and writing. They are part of collectives such as un.thai.tled and Cruising Curators. Their ongoing exhibition In Nobody’s Service took place at Galerie Wedding Berlin (2024), Thailand Biennale in Phuket (2025), and Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia’s Dealing In Distance (2026). They have also co-curated exhibition Young Birds From Strange Mountains at Schwules Museum (2025). With SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, they have curated several film programs, such as The past is not another country (in collaboration with German Film Museum Frankfurt), which looks as alternative ways to deal with film archives. They work as a film programmer for XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, Short Film Festival Hamburg, and are a guest programmer for CinemAsia Amsterdam and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2026. They have served as jury for Fantouche, MIXCPH, London Short Film Festival, and more. Currently they are a fellow resident at Braunschweig Projects of HBK (2026-27). Their short film I don’t want to be just a memory (2022–24) had its premiere at the 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded.