The work-stay: Reykjavik Johanna Seelemann and Fiona Raby at Nordic House Linking agricultural futures with design research in her project, Johanna Seelemann met with Fiona Raby, her mentor, at the Nordic House in Reykjavík for a work-stay in early November to explore ideas and possibilities for a seemingly strange new world. →
The Work-Stay: Istanbul Camil Navarro and Ute Wassermann at Salt Galata In mid-November, Navarro and their mentor Ute Wassermann convened in Istanbul for a work-stay at Salt Galata, to continue developing Navarro's work, a sonorous reflection on water-risk issues in Chile. →
THE WORK-STAY: Rome Trà Nguyễn and Theo Eshetu in Rome, Italy In October, Vietnamese theatermaker Trà Nguyễn traveled to meet her mentor, Theo Eshetu—who lives between Rome and Berlin—for a work-stay in the Italian capital. →
THE WORK-STAY: Ishinomaki Mei Liu and Lieko Shiga in Japan In late October, Amsterdam-based Chinese filmmaker Mei Liu traveled to Japan to join her mentor Lieko Shiga for their work-stay. Together, they engaged in productive research in and around Ishinomaki, where Lieko’s studio is located. They also traveled to Tokyo, where they delivered lectures at two universities, and later visited Kyoto to participate in the Kyoto Experiment Festival. →
THE WORK-STAY: Salvador, Bahia Mehdi Dahkan and Alice Ripoll in Bahia, Brazil In mid-October, mentee Mehdi Dahkan joined his mentor Alice Ripoll in Brazil for their work-stay, where they workshopped Dahkan's project, titled KMs of Resistance. The residency in Salvador was primarily focused on the movement and rhythmic elements of the piece, which uses the body to question dominant social constructs in the Maghreb. →
THE WORK-STAY: SANTIAGO AND VALDIVIA Marcela Huerta and Gabeba Baderoon in Chile Marcela Huerta’s project is a poetry-based portrait of the author’s mother, Yolanda Huerta, a refugee of the 1973 Chilean coup. Marcela and her mentor, Gabeba Baderoon, traveled to Chile for the last phase of their collaboration to confront the difficulty of the page, together. →
The Work-Stay: Beirut Mari Kalabegashvili Reflects on Cities as Collages During her work-stay in Beirut, the Tbilisi-based artist discovered unexpected similarities between the Lebanese and Georgian capitals as sites composed of many disparate—and sometimes conflicting—elements. →
The Work-Stay: Kyoto and Osaka Victor Artiga Rodriguez and Yuya Tsukahara Delve Into the Symbolism of Water in Japan Last month, Victor Artiga Rodriguez met with mentor Yuya Tsukahara in Japan for their work-stay in Kyoto and Osaka. →
The Work-Stay: Mexico City Aidan Jason Peters and Irakli Rusadze Explore Mexico City's Rich Art Scene As part of their work-stay, fashion designers Aidan Jason Peters (Klein Muis) and Irakli Rusadze visited Mexico City, where Peters seized the opportunity to explore how local ecologies connect with the main themes of his project: sustainability, local knowledges, and craftsmanship. →
The Work-Stay: Tokyo Carlos Gutiérrez and Greg Fox Connect Past and Future Technologies In early September 2023, Carlos Gutiérrez and Greg Fox met in Tokyo for a ten-day work-stay. During their time in Japan, they've encountered different approaches linking traditional practices and techniques with new technology, and explored the ways in which such connections also resonate with Gutiérrez's project. →
The Work-Stay: São Paulo Gustavo Gomes and Roee Rosen Explore Embodied Practices In September 2023, Gustavo Gomes and his mentor, Roee Rosen, met in São Paulo as part of their concentrated work-stay to further develop Gomes's project Blue Shoe. While there, Gomes also produced and filmed choreographic material with São Paulo-based dancers. →
The Work-Stay: Las Vegas Tom Cassani Challenges Our Willingness to Be Deceived Tom Cassani tests the limits of body-based illusion while mapping new territories in contemporary performance practices. In February, he visited Las Vegas with his mentor Florentina Holzinger to explore the long-running shows in this center of entertainment. →
The Work-Stay: Digital Hamza Baig Portrays a Community with Humor and Drama Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown female superhero for a live-action series. He worked on the show's script with his mentor Daliso Chaponda in concentrated digital sessions. →
The Work-Stay: Beirut Alexis Guillier Explores the Latent Politics of a Film Set Accident Alexis Guillier and his mentor, investigative reporter Alia Ibrahim, met in Beirut in mid-January to deepen his artistic research into the deadly fire that broke out on the set of a film by Lebanese director Gary Garabedian in the late 1960s. →
The Work-Stay: Barcelona Artist Mia Štark Turns Expectations on Their Head Mia Štark and her mentor, artist Ana Prvački, traveled to Barcelona in early December for a concentrated work-stay at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, where they deepened Štark's research into habits of looking and seeing, and how these can be altered and challenged by using the body in unexpected ways. →
The Work-Stay: Berlin Peny Chan Brings the Female Gaze to the Peking Opera Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan and her mentor Rully Shabara met in Berlin in mid-November to work on Chan’s composition, which reimagines the character of the concubine in the Peking opera. →
The Work-Stay: London and Paris Luciana Decker Orozco's Film Narrates Nature's Personhod Bolivian filmmaker Luciana Decker Orozco and her mentor Laura Huertas Millán got together to conceptualize the film's pre-production and reflect on the decolonial practices the work employs. →
The Work-Stay: Rome Iman Jesmi Captures Cities as Sonic and Olfactory Scapes Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi and his mentor Emeka Ogboh traveled to Rome in early March, where they were hosted for a Work-Stay at the MAXXI Museum. →
The Work-Stay: Antananarivo and Bucharest Simona Deaconescu Traces a Dance Epidemic Choreographer Simona Deaconescu and her mentor Mathilde Monnier got together in Bucharest in late March to finetune the performance Ramanenjana, which explores the 1863 “dance epidemic“ in Madagascar. Before meeting in Bucharest, Deaconescu and her dancers spent a nearly month-long work-stay in Antananarivo, Madagascar. →
The Work-Stay: Angoulême Özge Samancı and Ulli Lust at the International Comics Festival Özge Samancı is working on a novel set in mid-90s Istanbul. Through the main characters and plot, she explores what it was like to be a woman in 1990s Turkey, and looks at the roots of today's political situation there. Samancı met with her mentor Ulli Lust at the international comics festival in Angoulême to present the work to industry insiders. →
The Work-Stay: Hamburg Jaya Klara Brekke Imagines a Way Out of Surveillance Capitalism Jaya Klara Brekke is an artist and cryptographic geographer whose work spans technology, academia, and the arts, always focusing on questions of power in emerging decentralized technologies, cryptographic techniques, and data economies. In mid-March, Brekke and her mentor at Forecast, digital policy expert Francesca Bria, met for a work-stay at The New Institute in Hamburg. →
The Work-Stay: New York Luísa Sol Confronts Suburban Utopia Portuguese architect and researcher Luísa Sol and her mentor, architect Tatiana Bilbao, spent a week in New York together as part of their work-stay. →
The Work-Stay: Paris and Marseille Flora Détraz’s Cri de Coeur Flora Détraz and her mentor Sofia Jernberg had planned a two-part work-stay in Paris and Marseille, during which Détraz rehearsed with musicians to first experiment, and then fine-tune her performance piece HURLULA. →
In Conversation Ozoz Sokoh on Food as a Key to a Culture In the days leading up to the fifth Forecast Festival, Sokoh spoke to writer Olamiju Fajemisin about her practice, and why she thinks the transatlantic stories of certain food items belong in museums. →
The Work-Stay: Digital Encounters Connecting through Cooking Andrea Nones-Kobiakov was about to board a plane from Mexico City to Curitiba, Brazil, when she received the message that her work-stay with Manu Buffara, her mentor in the category Cooking for Change, couldn’t take place as planned. What would have been their first physical encounter since the beginning of the fifth edition of Forecast had been ultimately called off. Instead, the two decided to hold a series of digital cooking sessions, open to anyone interested in experimenting with recipes. →
The Work-Stay: Kumasi Deep Collaborations in Ghana Jonathan Reus and his mentor in the Future Traditions in Music category, Du Yun, travelled to Kumasi, Ghana, in early February 2021—after having taken all necessary safety measures—where they were hosted by another Forecast 5 participant, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, at her interdisciplinary residency program pIAR. →
The Work-Stay: Berlin Adéola Ọlágúnjú and Tobias Zielony at radialsystem Ọlágúnjú traveled to Lagos weeks before the work-stay to record sound for her mixed-media work Born Throw Way! In Berlin, she and Zielony planned the installation in situ. →
The Work-Stay: Lulea Only Game in Town in the Belly of the Beast In late February 2021, Only Game in Town and the three performers in their durational piece LD50: The Vorkoster traveled to Lulea, in northern Sweden, for a two-week work-stay with mentor Markus Öhrn in his studio. →
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. →
The Work-Stay: New York Jonas Madden-Connor and Anders Nilsen Explore the Comics Library at Columbia The work-stay is a new element of the Forecast program. Here, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for several days of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. Cartoonist Jonas Madden-Connor and his mentor in the Ink Paper Thought category, Anders Nilsen, were the first tandem to meet for an intensive five days of in-person collaboration. →
