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The Collective of Collectives Presents:

Nasty Temple Radio

Listen to the first installment of the show, which will be continued at the fourth Forecast Festival in April. →
Renée Akitelek Mboya

Renée Akitelek Mboya

A Glossary of the Words My Mother Never Taught Me

Parasite 2.0

Parasite 2.0

Nasty Temple

Together with designer Jerszy Seymour, who is their mentor on this project, they are seeking to create a so-called “collective of collectives,” consisting of other practitioners working similarly and which will gather at the Forecast Festival in Berlin. These include the Amsterdam-based Questions Collective, the Berlin duo Sonder, and Assume Vivid Astro Focus from São →

Jonas Madden-Connor

Jonas Madden-Connor

Grave Wounds

Madden-Connor presented the novel’s first chapter at the Forecast Forum in June, 2019; the second chapter will be unveiled at the Forecast Festival in April 2020. Set in Europe during World War II, the story’s protagonist is an African-American GI, Private Oscar Dewcrott. He’s plotting to desert the service. He’s heard about other African-American GIs →

Caty Enders, © Camille Blake

Caty Enders

Forever

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in everything from diet science to genetic engineering—as well as billions in capital flooding longevity startups—we seem to be on the brink of what Silicon Valley calls “disrupting death.” At the same time, life expectancy in the United States actually declined in 2018, with the average American facing record levels of →

Forecast Responds to the Current Crisis

Candidates to Be Announced on April 30 →

Olli Aarni, © promo

Olli Aarni

Ajoittua ja sijaita

Melding field recordings, found objects, electronic feedback, and the traditional Finnish instrument called the kantele, his aim is not to elevate the sense of the everyday to something grander, but rather to dig deeper into the habitual and humdrum. This offers a glimpse of how it feels to be alive in this specific time, space, →

The Work-Stay

Caty Enders in Istanbul

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. →
Sue Montoya

Sue Montoya

Rising Tides

Titled Rising Tides, the project looks at the human costs, policies, and speculations tied to “Miami Forever,” a 400-million dollar bond expected to mitigate the consequences of climate change in the city. With artist Paolo Cirio as her mentor, Montoya works with research to document and represent the strategies employed to allay climate change effects. →

Jerszy Seymour, © Milos Djuric

Jerszy Seymour

Toward Alternative Infrastructures

The Work-Stay

Parasite 2.0 and Jerszy Seymour 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. →
Joe Richman

Joe Richman

Radio as an Empathy Machine

The Work-Stay

Sue Montoya and Paolo Cirio in 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. →
Anders Nilsen

Anders Nilsen

The Seduction of Storytelling

The Work-Stay

Olli Aarni and Okkyung Lee Meet in Reykjavik

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. →
Okkyung Lee

Okkyung Lee

Your Musical DNA

Postponed

The Fourth Forecast Festival Has Been Indefinitely Postponed →

Paolo Cirio

Paolo Cirio

The Ethics of Representing Technology

Content

The Work-Stay

Candice Breitz Hosted Renée Akitelek Mboya at Her Berlin 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.  →
Candice Breitz

Candice Breitz

A Platform for Unheard Voices

Forecast Festival 2020

Save the Date →

Anders Nilsen and Jonas Madden-Connor at Comic Arts Brooklyn fair

The Work-Stay

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. →
Forecast Forum, 7. Juli 2019, Radialsystem, © Camille Blake

The Selected Mentees 2019

Announcing the Six Selected Projects of the Fourth Edition

On the weekend of July 5–7, Forecast and radialsystem invited the public to experience works by the six mentors of its 2019 edition, and 18 multidisciplinary projects by artists, musicians, radio producers, researchers, designers, and cartoonists. →
Portraits Forecast Forum Edition 4

Forecast Forum 2019 at radialsystem

The 18 Candidates Bring Their Concepts to Life

On Saturday and Sunday, during the public days of the Forecast Forum, 18 creative trailblazers and activists—three in each category—bring their concepts to life through various presentations and talks. At the end of the Forecast Forum, each mentor will select one candidate and accompany their concept to realization over the next nine months. Saturday, July →

Forecast Mentors

Meet the Mentors, July 5 at radialsystem

The Six Forecast Mentors on the Themes that Move Them

Each edition of Forecast is different; the six mentors, selected annually, impact the nature and content of every iteration. →

Forecast Forum 2019

The Candidates Have Been Selected! →

Jerszy Seymour: Energy Totem 2, R.I.N

Open Call 2019

Envision New Paths

We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fourth edition is now open. Artists and practitioners working in all creative fields anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply with projects that tackle issues concerning the future, and what can we do to actively shape it. For this edition, Forecast has selected →

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