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Isaac Chong Wai, Falling Carefully, (2020)
 Courtesy of Asia Society, Blindspot Gallery and Zilberman.

Revisit: Isaac Chong Wai

Prophetic Performances

Artist Isaac Chong Wai processes societal shifts, global tensions, and collective traumas into multifaceted works that span performance, installation, video, photography, and painting. Capturing Forecast’s cross-disciplinarity, he participated in its second edition in 2017 as a nominee in the Choreography category, with Richard Siegel as mentor, and worked alongside dancers and choreographers as his fellow nominees rather than with visual artists. This opened his performance-art practice to new and perhaps unexpected experimentation. →
Philippe Rahm

Philippe Rahm

Constructed Atmosphere

Mathieu Bujnowsky

Mathieu Bujnowskyj

Fullspectrum Furniture

Bujnowskyj notes that while our domestic routines evolve in uncertain ways, the majority of the buildings that surround us will remain the same. He wants to adapt architecture to tackle the challenges of elements emerging in our current society, such as cloudification, electromagnetic exposure, information overload, and the redefinition of privacy as a result of →

Tara Pandeya

Tara Catherine Pandeya

Raqsistan, The Land of Dance: A Cartography of the Body

Raqsistan, The Land of Dance: A Cartography of the Body is a fictional dance world of Pandeya’s own invention, choreographed using the traditions of ethno-contemporary Central Asian dance. “What are effective ways to express traditional and ethno-contemporary movement in a postmodern framework? How can one execute a harmonious synthesis between dance and technology in performance work? Are →

Liliana Piskorska

Liliana Piskorska

Public Displays of Affection

“This project’s concept is deeply connected with public space and its physical and symbolic demarcations. It questions shifting forms of group and individual communication happening within public space. One of these forms is public assembly—group performativity constantly recreated in new ways and internalized by many as a possible (only) medium of speaking up. It is →

Flora Miranda

Flora Miranda

IT Pieces

“The vision is to create a data visualization app that takes full advantage of the virtual world and materializes user data in the form of luxurious garments. The user’s behavior in virtual space directly influences the product design, creating an interaction between online user activity and the independent design app.”  

Stefan Maier

Stefan Maier

Ambivalent Pleasures – Therapy Management Corp

He grounds implicit relations between contemporary composition and sonic “cultures of self-care.” Maier investigates parallels between, for example, “binaural beat therapies” and LaMonte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music, ASMR and musique concrete, the dramatic recitations of Robert Ashley’s characters and self-help audio books.

Renan Laru-an

Renan Laru-an

The Artist and the Social Dreamer

The Artist and the Social Dreamer, curator Renan Laru-an’s study on exhibition-as-speech and speech-as-exhibition based on the image production and world-making of dictators, will respond to two architectural sites built during the Cold War period—the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 1957 and the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in 1976. They are two buildings →

Max Wolf

Max Wolf

Negotiating between Humans and Machines

Jennifer Walshe

Jennifer Walshe

The Sound of Snow is Crunching Porridge

Richard Siegal

Richard Siegal

Ballet of Confluence

Portrait of Bjørn Melhus, 2016

Bjørn Melhus

Uncover Hidden Realities

Hou Hanru

Hou Hanru

Provocation As Norm

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. →
Stefan Maier and Alan Martín Segal

Revisit: Stefan Maier

Catching Up with Musician Stefan Maier

On September 20, the Canadian musician and former Forecast mentee premiered a new work at Ultima, Oslo’s leading music festival. →

Forecast 2017, summary

The Cycle Starts All Over Again

A brief moment to breathe: In late October 2017, our second edition of Forecast closed with an enormously energetic Forecast Festival. “It was a huge success, and I’m a bit overwhelmed,” joked Forecast founder and artistic director Freo Majer, commenting on the project’s past year and especially the Festival itself. At the event, each of →

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. →

Forecast Festival 2017

Come Join Us

"No matter how vague or bold each idea might be at the beginning, it takes on a physical, tangible shape for the first time at the Forecast Festival." – Freo Majer, Forecast Artistic Director →

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: →

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