Özge Samancı
Evil Eye
Titled Evil Eye, the novel explores the tactics right-wing populist leaders use throughout the world: sowing fear, celebrating binary thinking, “othering” marginalized groups, and using anger and hostility to promote division. Samancı melds humor and suspense as narrative devices to trace the rise of authoritarianism, and combines illustrations and collages to blur the lines between images →
Iman Jesmi
Sensory Souvenir
The artistic, diachronic research will be collected in a sound-and-smell map of the Hanseatic metropole, tracing their transformations throughout the previous century. At the digital Forecast Forum in September 2021, Jesmi premiered an audiovisual documentary work telling stories of people who had been uprooted from their native surroundings to start new lives in unfamiliar environments. →
Flora Détraz
HURLULA
The project’s new title HURLULA is a portmanteau combining the French verbs “hurler” (in English, “hurl”) and “hululer,” which refers to the howls and shrieks of nocturnal animals. As an exploration of a sound that emerges from a primal instinct, HURLULA is the expression of an emotional journey into the depths of the human body. →
Simona Deaconescu
Ramanenjana
The project, with mentoring provided by Mathilde Monnier, melds historical testimonies, choreographic gestures, and sound scenography to create a performative docufiction in which movements generate critical commentary on spoken text. The notion of a “dance epidemic“ first emerged in medieval Europe to denote a phenomenon in which hundreds of people in one geographic area would →
Luísa Sol
Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion
Screen-based images of domestic architecture are omnipresent, and constitute a historical legacy of how the field is represented over time: the dreams and fantasies, but also the stereotypes, discrepancies, inequalities, and segregations. Considering the onscreen image as a space of fiction that’s also a testament to what is omitted, Sol is comprising an atlas of →
