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Saverio Cantoni

Saverio Cantoni

Organism 518400

What defines space? And what defines agency? In his piece Organism 518400, Berlin-based artist Saverio Cantoni creates an environment that becomes activated by everything within it—visitors as well as inanimate objects, material or immaterial. Investigating what constitutes living matter, Cantoni suggests that a wireless network that invisibly delineates space can be considered a subject with →

MIIIN

MIIIN

A Music Report on the Human Species: Beyond Extinction

Electronic musician MIIIN seeks to warn a future intelligent being of the human race’s most perilous mistakes. Her composition includes a series of tracks that will be performed live, each pertaining to an event or catastrophe that has changed the course of history. Arguing that the extinction of the human race is inevitable, the Korean →

Julia E Dyck

Julia E Dyck

Frequency Interference

Omar A Chowdhury

Omar A. Chowdhury

Augustijn

A chance encounter with a blond-haired, blue-eyed Belgian on a train led to Omar A. Chowdhury’s new body of work Augustijn, which revolves around a young man’s conversion to Islam in the post-industrial city of Aalst. The Amsterdam-based artist, who was a Muslim before he became an atheist, constructed a parafiction conflating fabulation and nonfiction →

Portrait of Abhijan Toto

Abhijan Toto

The Exhaustion Project

Kolkata-based curator Abhijan Toto presents a curatorial project that marks the culmination of the series of artistic interrogations titled The Exhaustion Project, in which he probes the relationship between labor, self-care, and the exhausted body with artists Eglė Budvytytė (LT, NL), Alisa Chunchue (TH), Jessika Khazrik (LB), Sarah Naqvi (IN), and Anna Ridler (GB). The →

Commonplace Studio: Jon Stam

Commonplace Studio

Backchannel Tools

Skeptical of mobile apps as a mode to explore museums, or obtrusive digital displays that take the spotlight away from objects on view, the Canadian-Dutch design duo Jon Stam and Simon de Bakker focuses on ambient forms of public mediation in museums. Their Commonplace Studio in Amsterdam seeks to critically pair the benefits of digital →

Peter Meanwell

Peter Meanwell

Beyond Radio

Laura Lima

Laura Lima

Living Matter

Holly Herndon

Holly Herndon

A Paradisiacal Gesture

Omer Fast

Omer Fast

Telling and Retelling

David Elliott

David Elliott

The Necessity of Art

Tulga Beyerle

Tulga Beyerle

Invasive Design

REVISIT: ABHIJAN TOTO

Building Communities through Collective Curating

Curator Abhijan Toto participated in the third edition of Forecast, working with mentor David Elliott, also a curator, toward presenting The Exhaustion Project at the 2018 Forecast Festival. The work probed the relationship between labor, self-care, and the exhausted body to ask whether subversion becomes accessible through communal exhaustion. “We often forget that we’re doing politics with our bodies,” Toto pointed out. “That’s where exhaustion sets in.” →

Updates 2019

News and Updates for the Coming Year →

Artistic Director Freo Majer on the Third Edition of Forecast

Snowball Effect

For the third edition of Forecast, we want­ed to match if not surpass the success of the first two festivals, not merely with different mentors and mentees, but also with new working methods and event formats. Feed­back from former partici­pants and mentors encouraged us to explore and experiment further—as radi­cally as ever, with all the associ­ated risks. →
MIIIN at Forecast Fesitval 2018

Forecast Festival 2018

It's a Wrap!

The third edition of Forecast has come to an end, culminating in the two-day Forecast Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt on October 12–13. The event also marked the close of a fruitful three-year partnership with the HKW; Forecast’s next edition will take place at the new partner institution in Berlin, radialsystem. →
Resolve Design

Collaboration with Future Architecture Platform

RESOLVE: Off Grid

As a member of the European initiative Future Architecture Platform, Forecast has invited the design collective RESOLVE to contribute its participatory project Off Grid to the Forecast Festival. Investigating how migration and division shape our cities, Off Grid presents a moving space that playfully responds to the austere mathematical models explaining human separation. →

Forecast Festival 2018, Program

Immerse Yourself in Six Cutting-Edge Projects

The third edition of the Forecast Festival presents six pioneering projects created and developed by emerging practitioners along with their mentors.

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. →

The Selected Mentees 2018

Congratulations to the Six Mentees of Forecast's Third Edition

From May 7 to May 12, Forecast and Haus der Kulturen der Welt welcomed 18 artists, musicians, producers, and collectives to the Forecast Forum, an intensive four days of workshops with their mentors, followed by two days of public presentations and discussions. →

Living Matter

Working with a Material in an Unpredictable Way

Artist Laura Lima often uses immaterial phenomena and living matter as the basis of her artworks. She also defined the category of her mentorship at Forecast as Living Matter, explaining that “living matter can be an idea, inanimate material; or it can also be fiction, a philosophical matter, an invention, a new possibility of working with a material in an unpredictable way.” →

Moving Image

A Parallel World with Its Own Logic and Contradictions

Artist and filmmaker Omer Fast explains how he chose the three candidates for the Forecast mentorship program out of dozens of applicants: “I understand moving image in the broadest possible way, encompassing everything between live performance and film. The three artists I requested to work with all had strong work; each project can open a →

Beyond Radio

Dealing with Communication and Legibility, Translation, and Displacement

Radio producer and curator Peter Meanwell is the mentor in the category Beyond Radio, which he describes as being “about considering the notion of transmission and broadcast, but freed from the constraints of traditional radio infrastructures.” “We think of radio as the news that comes out of the box in the kitchen,” he adds, “and →

Looking

Not Just about Seeing

Curator David Elliott defined the category of his mentoring at Forecast as Looking. Why? “Looking is an active verb,” he explains. “It’s not just about seeing—it implies a ‘for.’ What is this ‘for’ and what does it have to do with art? This is the subject of my mentorship.” Through art and artistic practices, the →

Composition

Expanding the Idea of What Composition Can Be

For musician and mentor Holly Herndon, the category Composition refers to time-based work either in the form of documentation/recorded media, performance, or a combination thereof. “My primary focus concerns, but is not limited to, sound,” she says. She selected the three projects that will be presented at the Forecast Forum for their ability to reflect →

Invasive Design

Inquiries into Alternative Futures

Design curator and museum director Tulga Beyerle borrowed the term Invasive Design from Robert Stadler, the designer who coined it, to define her mentorship’s topic. “[Invasive Design] describes how design is not always as clear, functional, or positive as it pretends to be” she says. “My particular interest is to ask what design can do →

Forecast Forum 2018, Program

Experience These 18 Projects at the Forecast Forum →

Forecast Forum 2018

Forecast Announces the Candidates for Its 2018 Edition

Forecast is pleased to announce the participants in this year’s edition of the Forecast Forum. A total of 18 projects have been selected out of more than 390 applications from around the world. The six distinguished mentors of Forecast’s third iteration have each chosen three projects that they will accompany in the upcoming months, culminating →

Open Call 2018

The Call for Proposals Is Closed →

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