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Trà Nguyễn and Theo Eshetu in Rome
Ruth Patir, still from Petah Tikva (2020). Single-channel video, 05:27 minutes
From left: Alice Ripoll, Ute Wassermann, Tomer Heymann, Fiona Raby, Theo Eshetu, Lieko Shiga.

Forecast thanks Mila Teshaieva for her contribution to and engagement with Forecast Mentorships, and her dedication to her applicants and nominees. 

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Revisit: Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

The Bandoneon Returns

Argentinian musicians Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero participated in Forecast 5, in 2020, as nominees in the mentorship field Future Traditions in Music under composer and performer Du Yun. Their project evolved around the layered history of the bandoneon, a German instrument which found its way to Argentina in the nineteenth century, where it became the instrument of choice for folk musicians playing in cabarets and brothels. In the fall of 2022, two years after they conceived the project idea for Forecast, Bercetche and Lebrero released a record and traveled to the German region from which the bandoneon had originated to find out more about its history. →
Iman Jesmi in Rome. Photo: Francesco Daverio Russomanno ©Forecast 2022.
Özge Samancı and Ulli Lust ©Adrien Dournel

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.” →

The Work-Stay: Digital Encounters

Connecting through Cooking

Andrea Nones-Kobiakov was about to board a plane from Mexico City to Curitiba, Brazil, when she received the message that her work-stay with Manu Buffara, her mentor in the category Cooking for Change, couldn’t take place as planned. What would have been their first physical encounter since the beginning of the fifth edition of Forecast had been ultimately called off. Instead, the two decided to hold a series of digital cooking sessions, open to anyone interested in experimenting with recipes. →