A Project by Aude Christel Mgba Ne Touche Pas À Mon 237 Curator Aude Christel Mgba is a nominee in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. Her project encompasses an itinerant independent institution, whose first iteration is titled Ne touche pas à MON 237. →
A Project by Andrea Nones-Kobiakov Whatever That Ground May Be Artist Andrea Nones-Kobiakov is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara. She works across photography, performance, and site-specific installations to pursue themes that reflect on displacement and comfort through the materiality of food and ingredients. →
A Project by Ozoz Sokoh Coast to Coast: From West Africa to the World Ozoz Sokoh explores the legacy of West African culinary excellence with a project nominated in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. →
A Project by Joana Moll Inanimate Species Artist and researcher Joana Moll is nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, with a project that examines the correlation between microprocessors and animal extinction. →
A Project by Matthew C. Wilson Factitious Flora Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Matthew C. Wilson is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. His proposal investigates, images, and reimagines possible plant formations. →
A Project by PostRational CYBER-WASTE Nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, PostRational deploys methods of research, speculative fiction, and world-building as critical design tools with which to explore questions outside the realm of conventional design and architecture. →
A Project by Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero Eternal Procession As nominees in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, musicians Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero propose a project that gives new life to a traditional instrument with a complex history. →
A Project by Myriam Amroun Programming Rhizome Myriam Amroun is a cultural practitioner and a curator based in Algiers. She is the artistic director of the cultural organization rhizome, which she cofounded in 2017. Her proposal for Forecast in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh, encompasses a public program on the occasion of rhizome's first physical exhibition space. →
A Project by Mafalda Rakoš Stop & Go—A Hitchhiker's Finger on the Pulse of Time Mafalda Rakoš is a documentary photographer trained as an anthropologist. She is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony, with a project that delves into the social psychology of Europe’s highway system, with a destination yet to be determined. →
A Project by The Only Game in Town LD50: The Vorkoster In the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Only Game in Town (Louise Pons and Mirjam Schaal) propose a series of performances in which three fictional nominees will enter the stomach of a living human being: the Vorkoster. →
A Project by Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo MOTHERNIGHT For her project in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is creating a multichannel video installation that confronts how fertility, eugenics, and class shape the idea of the family based on ethnic belonging. →
A Project by Jonathan Reus Celestial Fruit on Earthly Ground As a nominee in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, Jonathan Reus proposes a multidisciplinary project that points at the cultural networks that musical instruments embody. →
A Project by Adéola Ọlágúnjú Born Throw Way! Artist Adéola Ọlágúnjú is a nominee in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. Her project explores the subculture, counterculture, and minority variants of loosely organized gangs of young men known as Area Boys in Lagos, Nigeria, and the structures that sustain them. →
A Project by Paula Erstmann Community Food Lab Paula Erstmann is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by award-winning chef Manu Buffara. She is part of the sociocultural initiative ZusammenKüche at Dragonerareal, Berlin, a yet undeveloped site for 500 social housing units. There, she proposes to establish a community kitchen that explores the needs of future tenants and neighbors and encourage them to think of food as an aesthetic means of communication and exchange. →
A Project by Yelta Köm Hide & Seek Researcher, artist, and architect Yelta Köm is a nominee in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov. His project for Forecast, titled Hide & Seek, looks at mapping technologies, digital image production, and data collection processes to understand how surveillance systems and data-driven structures influence heritage and memory-building, as well as a city‘s appearance. →
Revisit: Flora Miranda Designer Flora Miranda on the Spirit of Collaboration The Austrian designer is a regular participant at Paris’s haute couture fashion week, but also at art and design exhibitions, as her tech-minded creations straddle the line between the conceptual and the wearable. →
Forecast’s Fifth Edition Kicks Off with New Format The Nominees Have Been Selected The six international mentors have selected 18 projects to accompany in Forecast’s fifth edition. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Forecast has updated its format to decentralize its resources and enable an extended mentoring period for all 18 candidates. →
The Work-Stay: Istanbul Caty Enders's Sound Installation at SALT Galata Science journalist Caty Enders traveled to Istanbul in March for what was meant to be a work-stay with her mentor, Joe Richman, at the contemporary art space SALT Galata. However, as the global spread of the coronavirus became a grave reality, Richman was unable to join, and Enders’s time in Istanbul was cut short. But before returning home to Boston, Enders was able to make the most of her stay and test the immersive sound installation she had planned to present at the fourth Forecast Festival. →
The Work-Stay: Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo Parasite 2.0 and Jerszy Seymour Meet Collectives in Brazil In mid-February, just a couple of weeks before most international travel was stopped, two members of the three-person collective Parasite 2.0 flew from Italy to Brazil for a two-week work-stay in Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo. Goethe-Institut hosted them in both cities, and they met with some of the local collectives working on the intersection of art and activism, focusing on participatory projects: Coletivo Em Silêncio, OPAVIVARÁ!, Esponja, AVAF, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. →
The Work-Stay: Miami Sue Montoya and Paolo Cirio Workshop at the ICA Miami Miami-based artist and researcher Sue Montoya examines how climate change affects Miami-Dade County. She was joined by her mentor, Paolo Cirio, for a weeklong work-stay and a workshop at the ICA Miami in February. →
The Work-Stay: Reykjavik Olli Aarni and Okkyung Lee at the Nordic House In early February 2020, Finnish musician Olli Aarni met up with his mentor, Okkyung Lee, for a work-stay at the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. In this new element of the Forecast program, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for a period of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. →
The Work-Stay: Berlin Candice Breitz Hosted Renée Akitelek Mboya at Her Studio Writer and filmmaker Renée Akitelek Mboya and her mentor in the category Moving Images, artist Candice Breitz, spent two weeks together in Berlin this winter as part of their work-stay. In this new element of the Forecast program, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for a period of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. →
Open Call 2020 Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fifth edition is now open. →
