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Mehdi Dahkan

KMs of Resistance

France-based Moroccan choreographer and performer Mehdi Dahkan uses the body to interrogate social constructs prevalent in the Maghreb today. In the piece KMs of Resistance, Mehdi seeks to explore the act of celebrating as a form of protest and resistance. The work draws inspiration from the Chaabi dance gatherings which sparked resistance movements and were →

Johanna Seelemann

Soil Assembly

Based in Germany and Iceland, Johanna Seelemann leads a design studio that explores the mystification of everyday objects and materials.  Her project, titled Soil Assembly (previously De agri cultura), takes a transformative approach to farming through speculative design and other-than-human perspectives. Through this project, Seelemann seeks to find out what might it look like if →

Mei Liu

Homesick for Another World

Amsterdam-based Chinese filmmaker and artist Mei Liu researched the histories of people across China who experienced forced confinement. Now, she seeks paths toward transforming and transcending those experiences.

Forecast Festival: Camil Navarro

Getting in Tune with Ecological Entities

Performer Camil Navarro’s sound project Ecological Assemblages explores the connection between sound and movement and the body’s own hydrological processes. →

Trà Nguyễn

Mother Doesn’t Know Mnemosyne

Trà Nguyễn is a Vietnamese theatermaker whose plays and set designs often resemble installations in which the performers move and act excruciatingly slowly. Nguyễn developed a method called Verbatim Bodies, which posits the emergence of differing characters from a performer’s holding of space, thus allowing for a multitude of narrative possibilities. Her short play evokes →

Forecast Festival: Johanna Seelemann

Soil Searching

In Soil Assembly Johanna Seelemann explores new experimental methods of farming, nutrient production, and tools to build new soil ecosystems. →

Hao Zhou

Correct Me If I’m Wrong

Hailing from southwest China, Hao Zhou explores queer and feminist stories in peripheral spaces. The documentary will follow a family as its members confront their sole male heir’s deviation from expectations. To challenge their contempt, the heir indulges his family’s wish to rid him of everything they hate and fear. In their mountainous town, the →

Forecast Festival: Trà Nguyễn

Mother. Daughter. The Goddess of (Fragmented) Memory

In Mother Doesn’t Know Mnemosyne, Trà Nguyễn delves into the interplay between intergenerational trauma and fragmented recollection, weaving a slow, meditative theatrical experience that embodies the complex legacies of motherhood, memory, and resilience. →

Camil Navarro

Ecological Assemblage

Paris-based Chilean artist Camil Navarro’s practice has its roots in theater, dance, and performance. Navarro’s project stems from an analysis of and a reflection on water-risk issues around the Aconcagua River Basin in Chile. A sonorous assemblage weaves dissonant voices, somatic practices, and the sounds of water and nature into a polyphonic set of autonomous →

Forecast Festival: Liu Mei

Echoes of Darkness

Starting from China’s nationwide lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic, Liu Mei’s research moves between various societies, times, and political struggles to map the underground rhizomes of connected structures of violence and spirituality. →

Ute Wassermann

In her 2015 solo album strange songs for voice and birdcalls (TREADER, UK), for example, she embodies a hybrid vocal persona with swirling, trilling, screeching, sighing, breathing, and vocalizing tone-colors. She extends and renders the voice alien by including the use of bird whistles, lo-fi electronics, resonators, field recordings, and everyday objects. Wassermann’s performances create →

Forecast Festival: Hao Zhou

Correction Through Connection

A multi-layered journey of love and transformation, Correct Me If I’m Wrong explores the intersection of modernity and tradition to navigate personal and familial history while testing social and personal boundaries. →

Tomer Heymann

A Place Beyond Fear

Heymann was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Monterey International Film Festival in Mexico. Several retrospectives have been dedicated to Heymann’s films in New York, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Istanbul. His most recent films include Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, which won the 2019 Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary and →

Forecast Festival: Mehdi Dahkan

Defiant Bodies

Mehdi Dahkan’s choreography KMs of Resistance highlights the body’s ability to codify messages and sidestep constraints. →

Theo Eshetu

Shapes of the Unknown

Eshetu’s works have been shown internationally at film festivals and major exhibitions including the Gwangju Biennale (2020), Shanghai Biennale (2017), Documenta14 in Athens and Kassel (2017), Dak’Art (2016), the Sharjah Biennale (20122), and the Venice Biennale (2011). He currently has works on view in the collections of MoMA, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, →

Lieko Shiga

In 2008, Shiga moved to Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture, where she quickly became involved in the local community. She began documenting the history of this region as well as its rites and customs, and continued producing works related to memories that span generations. Following the devastating natural catastrophe of 2011, Shiga stayed in the region to →

Forecast Festival 9 x LINA

The LINA Fellows' Activations Program at the Forecast Festival

This year, at the ninth Forecast Festival, five fellows of the European architecture platform LINA hosted a rich program of activations proposing viable prototypes for a future human and nonhuman habitat. →

Forecast 9: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2025 Forecast Festival

Forecast 9 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2024-25 edition. From March 14–15, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, five LINA fellows offered workshops and participatory activations relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

Fiona Raby

Paradoxical Imaginings: Ideas and Objects

Raby is a co-author, together with Dunne, of Design Noir (2000, 2021), and Speculative Everything (2013) and her design projects are in several permanent collections including MoMA, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and MAK, Vienna. In 2021, Raby was made a Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) and Life Fellow by the Royal →

Forecast Festival 2025

Book Your Festival Passes

The ninth edition of Forecast culminates in an action-packed Festival on March 14–15, at Radialsystem. →

Alice Ripoll

Open Minded Body

Based in Rio de Janeiro, Ripoll currently directs two dance companies: Cia REC and SUAVE. Both groups stemmed from independently organized collectives or social projects, and became professional touring companies that elaborate and recreate contemporary art. Melding urban dance styles from Brazilian favelas with contemporary dance, theater, and voice research, their work operates at the threshold →

The work-stay: Amsterdam

Hao Zhou and Tomer Heymann at IDFA

In November 2024, the filmmaker Hao Zhou and his mentor, documentarist Tomer Heymann, met in Amsterdam for a condensed work-stay, where they finetuned Zhou's film edit and networked during the IDFA film festival. →

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 her 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. →
Trà Nguyễn and Theo Eshetu in Rome

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. →

FORECAST 9: THE SELECTED MENTEES 2024

The Projects in Forecast’s Ninth Edition Have Been Selected

The 2024-25 edition of Forecast Mentorships enters its concentrated mentoring phase as each mentor has now selected one project to continue to accompany to its completion. →

Forum 9, August 2–4, 2024

Discover Trailblazing Thinkers at the Forecast Forum

Join the weekend-long Forecast Forum in Berlin for a spotlight on thought-provoking experiences conceived by creative thinkers from all over the world. →

FORECAST 9: FORUM PARTICIPANTS AND DATES ANNOUNCED

Discover the Nominated Projects

The six international mentors of Forecast 9 have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in August, where all eighteen nominated ideas will be unveiled. →

FORECAST 9: THE CALL FOR IDEAS HAS ENDED

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 7, 2024 →

From left: Alice Ripoll, Ute Wassermann, Tomer Heymann, Fiona Raby, Theo Eshetu, Lieko Shiga.

Open Call 2024

The Call for Ideas Is Open

We’re happy to announce the six new mentors and call for ideas for the ninth edition of Forecast Mentorships. →

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