Journal – Forecast

Open Call 2021

Send Us Your Project Idea

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s sixth edition and call for ideas. →

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. →

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. →

Forecast Forum 2020

Watch the Recording of the Digital Forum

From October 29—31, 2020, the nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition shared their projects with the public in a livestreamed digital event. A recording of the three-day Forum is now available here. →

Forecast Mentees Edition 5

The Selected Mentees 2020

Announcing the Six Projects of Forecast’s Fifth Edition

For the first time since the program’s inauguration in 2015, the Forecast Forum took place digitally rather than as a physical event in Berlin. →

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]

A Project by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]

Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE

Artist and performance curator Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi is a nominee in the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn. She will investigate the relationship between contemporary performance art, rituals and performative artifacts, and organic and inorganic materials. →

Elijah Ndoumbé

A Project by Elijah Ndoumbé

Bienvenue À Ma Table

As a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara, multidisciplinary artist Elijah Ndoumbé’s project for Forecast is a multimedia eating experience for a live audience. →

Lulu Obermayer

A Project by Lulu Obermayer

Frauenliebe und Leben

A nominee in the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Lulu Obermayer engages with female subjectivity, agency, and representation in the context of operas and classical music. →

Aude Christel Mgba

A Project by Aude Christel Mgba

Ne Touche Pas À Mon 237

Curator Aude Christel Mgba is a nominee in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. Her project encompasses an itinerant independent institution, whose first iteration is titled Ne touche pas à MON 237. →

Andrea Nones-Kobiakov

A Project by Andrea Nones-Kobiakov

Whatever That Ground May Be

Artist Andrea Nones-Kobiakov is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara. She works across photography, performance, and site-specific installations to pursue themes that reflect on displacement and comfort through the materiality of food and ingredients. →

Ozoz Sokoh

A Project by Ozoz Sokoh

Coast to Coast: From West Africa to the World

Ozoz Sokoh explores the legacy of West African culinary excellence with a project nominated in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. →

Joana Moll

A Project by Joana Moll

Inanimate Species

Artist and researcher Joana Moll is nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, with a project that examines the correlation between microprocessors and animal extinction. →

A Project by Matthew C. Wilson

Factitious Flora

Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Matthew C. Wilson is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. His proposal investigates, images, and reimagines possible plant formations. →

PostRational

A Project by PostRational

CYBER-WASTE

Nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, PostRational deploys methods of research, speculative fiction, and world-building as critical design tools with which to explore questions outside the realm of conventional design and architecture. →

Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

A Project by Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

Eternal Procession

As nominees in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, musicians Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero propose a project that gives new life to a traditional instrument with a complex history. →

Myriam Amroun

A Project by Myriam Amroun

Programming Rhizome

Myriam Amroun is a cultural practitioner and a curator based in Algiers. She is the artistic director of the cultural organization rhizome, which she cofounded in 2017. Her proposal for Forecast in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh, encompasses a public program on the occasion of rhizome's first physical exhibition space. →

Mafalda Rakoš

A Project by Mafalda Rakoš

Stop & Go—A Hitchhiker's Finger on the Pulse of Time

Mafalda Rakoš is a documentary photographer trained as an anthropologist. She is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony, with a project that delves into the social psychology of Europe’s highway system, with a destination yet to be determined. →

Only Game in Town

A Project by The Only Game in Town

LD50: The Vorkoster

In the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Only Game in Town (Louise Pons and Mirjam Schaal) propose a series of performances in which three fictional nominees will enter the stomach of a living human being: the Vorkoster. →

©Martin Falck

A Project by Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo

MOTHERNIGHT

For her project in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is creating a multichannel video installation that confronts how fertility, eugenics, and class shape the idea of the family based on ethnic belonging. →

Jonathan Reus

A Project by Jonathan Reus

Celestial Fruit on Earthly Ground

As a nominee in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, Jonathan Reus proposes a multidisciplinary project that points at the cultural networks that musical instruments embody. →

Born Throw Way!

A Project by Adéola Ọlágúnjú

Born Throw Way!

Artist Adéola Ọlágúnjú is a nominee in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. Her project explores the subculture, counterculture, and minority variants of loosely organized gangs of young men known as Area Boys in Lagos, Nigeria, and the structures that sustain them. →

A Project by Paula Erstmann

Community Food Lab

Paula Erstmann is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by award-winning chef Manu Buffara. She is part of the sociocultural initiative ZusammenKüche at Dragonerareal, Berlin, a yet undeveloped site for 500 social housing units. There, she proposes to establish a community kitchen that explores the needs of future tenants and neighbors and encourage them to think of food as an aesthetic means of communication and exchange. →

©Yelta Köm

A Project by Yelta Köm

Hide & Seek

Researcher, artist, and architect Yelta Köm is a nominee in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov. His project for Forecast, titled Hide & Seek, looks at mapping technologies, digital image production, and data collection processes to understand how surveillance systems and data-driven structures influence heritage and memory-building, as well as a city‘s appearance. →

Forecast Forum: Mentors and Nominees

Join Our Livestream from October 29–31

The Forecast Forum Goes Digital

The eighteen nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition will share their projects with the public for the first time during three days of live performances, music, films, and lecture performances livestreamed online from their locations around the world. →

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. →

News

The Fifth Edition of Forecast Welcomes a New Nominee →

Forecast’s Fifth Edition Kicks Off with New Format

The Nominees Have Been Selected

The six international mentors have selected 18 projects to accompany in Forecast’s fifth edition. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Forecast has updated its format to decentralize its resources and enable an extended mentoring period for all 18 candidates. →

Forecast Responds to the Current Crisis

Candidates to Be Announced on April 30 →

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. →

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. →