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. →
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 Siegal 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 Mentees Edition 5
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]
Elijah Ndoumbé
Lulu Obermayer
Aude Christel Mgba
Andrea Nones-Kobiakov
Ozoz Sokoh
Joana Moll
PostRational
Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero
Myriam Amroun
Mafalda Rakoš
Only Game in Town
©Martin Falck
Jonathan Reus
Born Throw Way!
©Yelta Köm
Forecast Forum: Mentors and Nominees

The Work-Stay: Istanbul

Caty Enders's Sound Installation at SALT Galata

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: Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo

Parasite 2.0 and Jerszy Seymour Meet Collectives 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. →