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Mari Kalabegashvili

If You Catch My Drift

Artist Mari Kalabegashvili is entrenched in Tbilisi’s countercultures. She is a keen observer of these environments, and the visible as well as hidden scars and ruptures that shape them. Her project If You Catch My Drift examines urban environments as extreme playgrounds. Kalabegashvili’s point of departure is the male-dominated scene of automotive vehicle enthusiasts who compete in →

Aidan Jayson Peters

Life of a Garment

Aidan Jayson Peters, aka Klein Muis, is a designer whose research-driven work prioritizes problem-solving in scalable and ecologically responsible manners. Using materials from Johannesburg’s so-called “discard sites” of European clothing to create complete looks, his collection will reflect the clothing items’ journey from the Global North to the Southern hemisphere through photography, texts, and a →

Gustavo Gomes

Blue Shoe—Theater of Apophenia

Cologne-based choreographer, director, and filmmaker Gustavo Gomes proposes a docufiction that focuses on sexual violence against men. Blue Shoe’s script interlaces mythology and interviews with survivors and social workers in Germany. The work deals with the complex thresholds between fantasy, perception, and dissociation while exposing coping mechanisms that survivors develop as adults. The project is a →

Victor Artiga Rodriguez

Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages

Hailing from El Salvador, Victor Artiga Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the convergence of poetry, the body, and digital technologies. Through multimedia installations and performances, he explores new forms of narration that touch upon themes of decolonization, climate crisis, and nostalgia. With his performative project Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages, Artiga Rodriguez seeks to enact an →

Carlos Gutiérrez

Infinite Warp and Weft

Carlos Gutiérrez is a composer, performer, and researcher based in La Paz, Bolivia. His work is influenced by the indigenous music of the Bolivian Highlands and extends to creating instruments, public interventions, and installations that explore tuning systems, the spatialization of sound over long distances, and aural illusions. His project Infinite Warp and Weft entails →

Marcela Huerta

White Horses Always Run Home

Marcela Huerta’s project proposes an intimate, poetic portrait of the author’s mother, Yolanda Huerta, a refugee of the 1973 Chilean coup. The two will participate in somatic practices to find new ways of narrating the histories that have shaped their relationship. They will revisit the geographies of Yolanda’s refugee story: Maipú, the neighborhood where she →

Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon

Voluptuous Silence and Sociality in Poetry

Greg Fox

Greg Fox

Rhythmic Excavation 

Roee Rosen

Roee Rosen

Troubled Humor and Tainted Beauty

In 2010 Rosen created two films, Hilarious and Out, in which a BDSM session becomes a political exorcism. Out premiered at the Venice film festival, where it won the Orizzonti award for best medium-length film. Rosen’s film The Dust Channel was coproduced by documenta 14, where it was exhibited along with two historical text and →

Yuy Tsukahara

Yuya Tsukahara

Post Punk Performance

Irakli Rusadze

Irakli Rusadze

Sartorial Identities

Only two years after its launch, SITUATIONIST was featured as a guest brand at Milan Fashion Week in 2017. The brand began presenting its collections at Paris Fashion Week the following year, and in 2022, Rusadze, who is committed to working sustainably, unveiled a zero-waste collection there.

Mila Teshaieva

From Questions to Images

Forecast Festival: Carlos Gutiérrez

Music for the Head and the Body

In Infinite Warp and Weft, Carlos Gutiérrez highlights the experience of sonic illusions that arrive after an intense, concentrated musical experience. →

Forecast Festival: Marcela Huerta

Siting the Unsayable

On Marcela and Yolanda Huerta’s collaborative poetic experience as a form of bodily reckoning. →

Forecast Festival: Victor Artiga Rodriguez

Thoughts on Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages

In Victor Artiga Rodriguez’s project, kidneys become the metaphorical site of the work and renal relations comprise the conceptual and the choreographic stuff of a piece rooted in interaction and improvisation. →

Forecast Festival: Gustavo Gomes

Desire, Guilt, and the Ability to Connect

Addressing hidden histories of exploitation and suffering, Gustavo Gomes’s work Manhandle promises to accomplish art’s great alchemy of turning private pain into shared healing and transcendence. →

Forecast Festival: Aidan Jason Peters

Designing for a Nascent Cultural Identity

Aidan Jayson Peters’s debut collection highlights the erosion of local craftsmanship as the hidden cost of a global fashion industry. →

Forecast Festival: Mari Kalabegashvili

Drifting on the Border of Public and Private

Mari Kalabegashvili’s project If You Catch My Drift views urban car racing as a gently rebellious means of marking territory, both literally and metaphorically. →

Spring School: Plants in Cityscapes

A Joint Experiment in Informal Education

During the eighth Forecast Festival, Forecast hosted its first-ever Spring School program, in cooperation with Living Summer School and LUMA Arles / Atelier LUMA, on the topic of plants in the urban environment. →

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. →

Forecast Festival 2024

Discover Audacious Contributions by the Mentors and Mentees

Boundary-pushing projects by artists, performers, musicians, and poets get their world premiere at the Forecast Festival following a monthslong collaboration with renowned mentors. →

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. →

FORECAST 8: THE SELECTED MENTEES 2023

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Eighth Edition

Forecast Mentorships for Audacious Minds enters its concentrated mentoring phase as each mentor has now selected one project to continue to accompany to its completion. →

Forum 8, July 14–16, 2023

A Spotlight on 18 New Boundary-Pushing Projects

Join the Forecast Forum in Berlin's Radialsystem for a weekend of thought-provoking experiences conceived by audacious practitioners from all over the world. →

Forecast 8: Forum Participants and Dates Announced

Discover the Nominated Projects

The six international mentors of Forecast 8 have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in July, where all eighteen nominated ideas will be unveiled. →

FORECAST 8: THE CALL FOR IDEAS HAS ENDED

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 9, 2023 →

OPEN CALL 2023

Apply to Forecast 8

We’re happy to announce the six new mentors in Forecast's eighth edition and the call for ideas. →

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