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The Collective of Collectives Presents:

Nasty Temple Radio

Listen to the first installment of the show, which will be continued at the fourth Forecast Festival in April. →

News

The Fifth Edition of Forecast Welcomes a New Nominee →

Forecast Responds to the Current Crisis

Candidates to Be Announced on April 30 →

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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. →
Jerszy Seymour: Energy Totem 2, R.I.N

Open Call 2019

Envision New Paths

We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fourth edition is now open. Artists and practitioners working in all creative fields anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply with projects that tackle issues concerning the future, and what can we do to actively shape it. For this edition, Forecast has selected →

Updates 2019

News and Updates for the Coming Year →

Julia E Dyck

Beyond Radio: Frequency Interference

During the Forecast Festival, Montréal-based musician and radio producer Julia E Dyck will invite listeners to immerse themselves in a live sci-fi drama in five acts, which is broadcast from the space-age building of the HKW.

Saverio Cantoni

Living Matter: Organism 518400

Welcome. Make yourself comfortable. What’s a comfort zone? Does your comfort level depend on access to high‑speed WiFi?There is no WiFi here. FORGIVE-US. What brought you here? Did you see the flags? Or maybe you noticed the infrared painting at the entrance? Of course not, how could you? What’s Living Matter? Are you also hearing →

MIIIN

Composition: A Music Report on the Human Species—Beyond Extinction

At the forecast Festival, the Seoul-based musician MIIIN will perform a live score of tracks, titled A Music Report on the Human Species: Beyond Extinction, that sonically depict historical events. →
Omar A. Chowdhury, Augustijn (film still).

Omar A. Chowdhury

Moving Image: Augustijn

Augustijn is the title of a multichannel installation by artist Omar A. Chowdhury, based on his real-life chance encounter with a young Belgian man called Stijn, short for Augustijn, and the relationship the two have developed since then. The charismatic Stijn is a recent convert to Islam, and his devotion comes to the fore when →

Abhijan Toto

Looking: The Exhaustion Project

In the weeks following the Forecast Forum, Kolkata-based curator Abhijan Toto and his mentor, David Elliott, defined the main themes that run through Toto’s ongoing curatorial investigations in The Exhaustion Project. Each of the artists included in the latest iteration of the project devised by Toto, and which will be on view during the Forecast →

Commonplace Studio

Invasive Design: Backchannel Tools

In mid-July, Canadian-born designer Jon Stam, who is one half of the Amsterdam-based practice Commonplace Studio, traveled to the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Applied Arts) in Dresden to work with his mentor Tulga Beyerle, the museum’s director, on ways in which design can invade the collection. →
Logo: Housing the Human

New interdisciplinary collaboration

Housing the Human

Forecast is pleased to announce the kickoff of Housing the Human, a collaborative interdisciplinary project involving leading European institutions and organizations that revolves around the question what might it mean to house the human—today and in the future. →

Open Call 2018

The Call for Proposals Is Closed →

Flora Miranda

Knitting Identities

In just a few days, designer Flora Miranda’s live performance—a fascinating collaboration between the digital realm and the worlds of design and music—will be shared at the Forecast Festival. Visitors may experience the entire process, and gain valuable insights into Miranda’s wholly innovative way of working, which will shape future concepts of creativity. Miranda decided →

Tara Catherine Pandeya

Dance without Borders

Tara Catherine Pandeya is in the midst of final rehearsals for her one-woman show at the Forecast Festival, which draws upon traditional dances to address topical questions of alterity and exclusion. In Raqsistan, The Land of Dance: A Cartography of the Body, she aims to stage physically innovative responses to conflicts heightened in our contemporary →

Liliana Piskorska

Individual Bodies, Public Protest

It’s just a few days until the debut of Liliana Piskorska’s video art piece Public Displays of Affection at the Forecast Festival, which vividly illustrates the physical clash between protestors and police. Examining this contact through the medium of film will allow Festival visitors to engage with a topical issue in an innovative way. Piskorska’s →

Renan Laru-an

Exhibition as Speech, Speech as Exhibition

In the final days before the Forecast Festival, curator Renan Laru-an is working closely with his mentor and his team to solidify his study of dictators’ image production and world-making, captured in his project The Artist and the Social Dreamer. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt auditorium is the heart of his work. Here, visitors →

Mathieu Bujnowskyj

Objects as Triggers

Reflecting on six months of intense collaboration with mentor Philippe Rahm, Mathieu Bujnowskyj shares three key insights.   The Forecast Festival is days away, and architect Mathieu Bujnowskyj is putting the finishing touches on his prototypes before their debut at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. His designs reinterpret three antique furniture typologies. The prototypes →

Stefan Maier

The Strange Institution Comes to Life

Finalizing his new work for Forecast, Stefan Maier explores the connection between contemporary “therapeutic” uses of sound and trends in experimental composition. Implicit relations between composition and sonic “cultures of self-care” are made concrete. →

Flora Miranda

“I See Myself in the Screen”

Flora Miranda has always immersed herself in environments where creativity is paramount, but one element—digital technology—remained inaccessible. Until she began her research for Forecast, that is. “My work so far has always dealt with topics relating to the digital world,” Miranda recounts. “But it was always a fictional, speculative approach, due to a lack of →

Renan Laru-an

A Congress of Dictators

The curator Renan Laru-an started with a fascination for the volatile subject of dictators’ speeches. At the Forecast Forum, his focus was on printed works, reflecting on the question of how to present these speeches in an exhibition. But his close mentoring relationship with Hou Hanru has inspired him to pivot into an intriguing new →

Liliana Piskorska

Transposing the Violence

Liliana Piskorska’s video art project “Public Displays of Affection” originally focused on the tremendous changes Poland has undergone in recent years. In a series of intense discussions with her mentor, video artist Bjørn Melhus, she has begun to look away from the specifics of one nation’s politics to the sheer physicality of “the moment of →

Tara Catherine Pandeya

Enter the Other

Tara Catherine Pandeya’s performance operates at emotional, gender-based, socio-historical, and geographic points of friction. In developing her Forecast project, the artist searches for ways to question borders through dance.  →

Stefan Maier

Feeling Sounds

Stefan Maier’s Forecast project explores the impact of sound on our physicality—how it transforms our nervous systems and gets to our corporeality’s beating heart. His performative installation questions habitual modes of thinking and interacting with music. The discovery of a unique way to physically engage the audience in his music has transformed his plans for →

Mathieu Bujnowskyj

Architecture in the Post-Digital Age

By exploring ways of using architecture to address the needs of a society tethered to digital technologies, Mathieu Bujnowskyj’s partnership with mentor Phillippe Rahm is inciting questions on the discourse of the discipline itself. From WiFi to 3G, from the cloud to our constant attachment to smartphones, everything and everyone is perpetually connected. As part →

The Selected Mentees 2017

The Projects Have Been Selected!

Now that the Forecast Forum at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) has concluded, we are delighted to announce the concepts our mentees will realize with their mentors: The Artist and the Social Dreamer Mentee: Renan Laru-an / Mentor: Hou Hanru Public Displays of Affection Mentee: Liliana Piskorska / Mentor: Bjørn Melhus Fullspectrum Furniture Mentee: →

Future Architecture Platform

Designing the Future of Architecture

The Future Architecture Platform brings together architecture museums, festivals, and organizers from across Europe to communicate topics and questions concerning the future of architecture and cities to a wider audience. For the past year, Forecast has been an associate member of this unique network, which was initiated in 2015 by the Museum of Architecture and →

Open Call 2017

Thank You for Your Submissions! →

Forecast 2015/16

A Look Back to the Future

If you would like to find out more about Forecast as a platform for pioneering ideas, have a look at our website from the first edition (2015/16). The blog entries provide a chronological overview of how Forecast works, from our call for proposals and selection of ideas to realizing these ideas in mentor/mentee duos and →

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